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  1. Midsblue
    If I “owned” a football club and they were playing at home last Saturday, why would I travel over twice the distance further to watch my dad’s favoured club instead? Especially when my dads favoured club was playing away from home and not exactly two minutes from my door.
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    I’m bored of it now. Only our club can let this drag on like it has. Scholes even looked fed up being asked about it three times in the press conference. Granted he didn’t rule himself out and was very sketchy in the press conference. In that second interview his body language suggested an unease when asked again. Made me chuckle when he called himself an Oldham fan as a kid then corrected it to Man Utd fan. Do you get the impression he’s an Oldham fan but had to play the Man Utd supporter card whilst playing for them, then punditing for them? Hopefully his coaching talks for itself because he doesn’t seem the sort to fire up players .... that’s if he comes here.
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    Sorry I didn’t realised that it applies to non-league. However can the shares now be switched to his wife or something?
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    Still cant understand why it’ll take ten days to appoint. Resolving the Salford conflict of interest isn’t necessary until next season and only if Salford become an EFL team. AL returns to UK tomorrow - Jim White said on Talksport this morning that AL told him via a phone call. Still deciding between the four candidates? No disrespect to the other three but unless one of those is Mourinho then is Askey really a better option? 10 days brings us perilously near to the transfer deadline... hmmm?!
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    Do we know if these signings are affecting the budget for other players or we signing them instead of UK players? If not and these players are improving the team then I see no problem in this. It’ll change when Scholes comes in or will only be signed if Scholes is happy about it. I don’t think for a second that AL is that arrogant to interview Scholes and completely disregard Scholes’ standing in football and dictate recruitment. Had Wellens not had that purple patch, Scholes would have been Manager.
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    Scholes is a completely different dynamic to the managers we’ve acquired of late. Bunn was a OAFC “legend” and I suspect Barry influenced this. Wellens beat Scholes the last time purely due to his purple patch and heart ruled head. Scholes is recognised worldwide in football terms and spoke of fondly by superstar names when discussing English football. AL is football-mad and he’s sees this as a coup for him and our club. Would he jeopardise this? I’m not saying break the bank but I think he’ll support him financially - or secure extra funding - to try and achieve Scholes’ plans. I’m not close to the Man Utd supporters in or around Oldham. However, comparing it to non-league or lower league clubs local to me, the attendances have risen when that club secures a manager or player who played previously for Villa, Blues, Wolves or WBA. When Bob Taylor signed for Tamworth, the attendance increased purely through local WBA fans attending to watch their old idol play. If Scholes stars to succeed I can honestly see Man Utd fans attending to see their idol managing and paying much less than attending Old Trafford. Especially if he secures one or two Man Utd youth or reserve players.
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    Do you think the club should jump on the Sunderland and Man City bandwagon with a behind the scenes documentary once Scholes takes over? Play this right and the club could become Football Manager in reality Some people can’t wait for him to fail. If he does, who cares? He’s the most interesting and exciting candidate we’ll have lined up. Secure some quality from the Prem and fingers crossed we start moving up that table and add a few hundred or more to the gates. Don’t even care if it’s United fans reminiscing
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    I hope it’s agreed and signed. Social media’s now awash with everyone having their view on whether he’d be successful or not, whether he’s a fan or not, suggesting it’ll turn into a nightmare like Neville at Valencia. AL’s back tomorrow but if it’s not signed I see a risk of Scholes pulling out due to all the attention.
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    Now on Sky yellow ticker tape.... fuck me, they said tomorrow. I’ll be camped out in front of the telly now
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    Just on Sky Sports News as Breaking News but not the yellow ticker tape just yet. AL back in country tomorrow and decision being made tomorrow. Scholes is front runner.
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    A few sad they saw Butt with Scholes at the game yesterday. I imagine he’ll bring in coaches he knows. He’ll want to maximise his chances of success hence my feel that there’s more to this story than AL convincing Scholes to take on the managers job.
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    Lets be honest here; we need Scholes more than he needs us. In our current position we cannot attract the type of manager needed to lift us so we need someone who has an affinity with the club and doesn’t need the wage. Scholes ticks both of those boxes. If he is coming then this signals a monumental shift for the club. Scholes is holding all the cards so wouldn’t come here if he had no budget or no say in player recruitment. He doesn’t need the aggro, doesn’t need us blotting his managerial copybook and could easily start much higher like Lampard or Gerrard. My gut feel is that this means AL has demonstrated that he has the funds or someone else is now investing and Scholes in the hot seat was the condition. Scholes is a major attraction to players and football mad - and rich - people. It’ll add to the gate and even more so if he can get us winning and playing attractive football along the way. Having Scholes and Butt coaching means we’ll get decent youth players from the Premier League plus abroad. Clubs will relish them coaching their kids and gaining experience in the lower leagues. Scholes would have done his homework with his contacts before agreeing to this; will you loan me X, Y or Z ? Im giving AL all the credit here but I also think there’s someone else now involved to convince Scholes to manage us at this level.
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    Absolute bonkers. This bloke won’t accept the role unless he’s got cash to strengthen or given free reign to bring in Man Utd kids.
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    Oddschecker load of bollocks. That link into Sky Bet reverts to 1/20
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    The weird thing is the lack of posts from local media. Normally if it’s sensational but total bollocks then they’re quick to discredit it. Bill Rice has said “watch this space”. Alan Nixon cryptic with his bet post. Why do I get the feeling that people close to Scholes and club are keeping this closely under wraps and therefore more likely to be true than not.
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    Alan Nixon laughed it off a few seconds ago on Twitter. Wouldn’t put 10p on it apparently. 1/20 is mad odds and normally reflecting the bookies knowing something Scholes doesn’t strike me as an idiot and doesn’t need this job so AL must have convinced him somehow that the job is worth it. Either that or he’s seen his pals take managers jobs, fancies a stab and knows it’s a no lose situation as he can blame AL if it goes sour. He could easily get a coaching job at United even he he relegated us
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    Still can’t see it but stranger things have happened at BP
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    Or in Dubai with AL
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    Adam Rooney didn’t. Nor did half of the other players Wellens brought in last year or Dunn before him. I dont think Lang or Surridge had much to do with being domestic players but skilful players.
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    Aside from someone putting £2 on him on SkyBet, is there anything more reliable linking Scholes to the manager’s job? Unless being just a coach appeals to him, do you honestly think he’d take it? I cannot imagine Paul being happy not having money to buy players and the owner/owner’s brother acquiring players anyway. Unless it taps us into Manchester United youth team.
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    Don’t care where we sign them from. Don’t care who buys them. Don’t even care who’s coaching them.....as long as we’re winning. I still get a sense of xenophobia from some of the media because we’ve got a foreign owner who’s buying or loaning foreign players. Comments like “flooding the team”, “basement French leagues” have started to disappear but it’s still around because we’re not following the traditional manager buying players model. AL is a foreign owner but before that he was a foreign football agent who was successful enough to blow millions in buying a football club. Granted he’s hot-headed but perhaps he has insight to acquire a lower-league team who could, one day, return to the multi-millions in Championship/Premier League. Started at the bottom he can acquire affordable talent; playing away from the radar and not asking ridiculous money on wages or fees. We can develop them - and the club - along the way to sell them for a profit and make the club self-sustainable and, dare I say it, profitable too. It may succeed, it may not. However AL is keeping our club alive. Stuff the sycophantic press, ex-players, ex-owners and ex-managers who criticise anyone who challenges the old school way of doing things and refuse to pander to the professional footballer community.
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    Scholes may have been a quality footballer but he won’t be playing for us, will he? I’ll take your Scholes and raise you Hoddle. Brilliant footballer but only showed promise as a coach for England when he had the best players at his disposal. It was often said that when managing Swindon, Wolves and even Chelsea, he became quickly frustrated when the players couldn’t repeat on the pitch what he could do or tried to coach. Imagine Scholes demonstrating pinpoint passing in training then players at our level tried the same but were 10 yards away from their targets? Its not necessarily the coaching but fitness, tactics, mentality and funds to strengthen that’s the key. Give someone like Wild security to continue as manager, a realistic budget to strengthen and time to move us on then that would be my preference. It’s all about personality and teamwork; you can see the camaraderie between the players and Wild in the last few games.
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    Fuck it, can’t be arsed with a tin hat but I’d fully support AL if he opted to move the club to a new location. Granted a smaller stadium but with four decent stands, better facilities etc. AL would then own the club, the stadium, the land and facilities. Choose the right area and we could retain most or all the existing ST base but potentially entice more from a new area based on affordable pricing and a better match day experience. I’d love to stay at BP but two of the four stands need bulldozing. I was even thinking if it was possible to partner with a cinema complex or similar to build around BP with restaurants, pubs etc. In return BP is rebuilt on existing site and became a leisure area with sport facilities. A lot of clubs have done this and those leisure facilities would benefit from match day footfall plus non-match day from surrounding housing. If that’s no possible then replicate this, in partnership with a leisure company, in another area but on a smaller scale and a brand new stadium for OAFC BPs our home but we need to evolve
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    Opinions on Blitz being on the pitch celebrating after the final whistle?! I suspect bring a creditor with that loan still need repaying, he’s got a vetted interest in our fortunes still. Am I right in thinking that him and Corney fell out? If so perhaps he’s taking more of an interest and may consider buying back into the playing side?!
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    Hopefully not Paul Gladon. A striker signed by Wolves when they were throwing money around and a lot of fans I know still question why £1 million was spent to acquire him. He’s struggled at Wolves and only played three games before returning back on loan to Heracles in the Dutch league where he’s struggled since. Wolves have tried to loan him out to Championship teams and below with no interest. Despite being over six foot, he’s lacking the physical presence. Not for me
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