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1938 is calling, it wants it's broken record back.
There was a ceasefire negotiated after the Russian backed breakaway in 2014, Russia couldn't help itself though. It will play the same game if it gets to freeze the conflict again. The West must hold firm and steadfast in it's support of Ukrainian victory. Otherwise you might as well host the negotiations in Munich and use black magic to resurrect Chamberlain to take part.
As an Ex Norwich player I genuinely hope he stays at Ipswich! Club,fans and players bought into his philosophy and backed him to the hilt, I know theirs not much loyalty in football but they deserve to see him manage Ipswich in the Premier League , but I suppose money talks 🤷🏼♂️ https://t.co/SwH8UmFd3b
I personally think he'll stay, at least for now, but take off the blue specs.
McKenna is going to the top of the game. He will be an elite level manager and at some point that will mean leaving us behind because it is simply impossible for Ipswich to ever muster the budget a Man Utd or Man City can provide unless some Billionaire comes in to splash the cash on a vanity project.
Tottenham can generate £540m in revenue. Next year we will maybe generate £150m, but the underlying numbers are that Tottenham can generate £340m without any TV money and we can generate maybe £50m at the moment? Let's say we do loads of ground redevelopment and get Portman Road up to 50,000, we're still likely to be a long way short of Tottenham, a team people mock because they never win anything! Man Utd or Man City will be able to muster even bigger budgets. McKenna is, unfortunately destined to outgrow us one day.
If we look at Brighton, he'd get a better budget, they have better facilities, a better squad, but probably a club operating at close to their ceiling. Their board realise they can't play at the real big boy (top 6ish clubs) table on the same financial footing. They can break in and have good years, but I don't think there is a way for them to stay there and become one of the top clubs, but then that is the same for us.
The reason I don't think he goes and chases that bigger budget with a club that's established in the PL is that this is his project. He has a huge amount of control, he's building the club in a way that he can't do at Brighton. If he went to Brighton he'd trade control over shaping an entire football club for extra budget and I reckon that won't appeal to him.
That same thing is what scares me about United much more than Brighton, because they WANT someone to come in and rebuild the club and I think he'd be bloody good to do it, provided the club got behind him fully like they have here.
Because Managers move much more than players do, they are not as stable and they are not viewed as a commodity to be traded in the same way.
If Brighton sign a player for £10m on a 4 year deal, unless there are exceptional circumstances, he either stays for 4 years or get's sold earlier, potentially for a profit (something Brighton are pretty good at).
If they did the same for a manager, there is greater than 50% chance they end up paying extra to pay him off early, because you can't just stick your manager in the reserves or loan him out to take his wages off the wage bill. You can't sell an underperforming manager!
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