Now, do you think the problem with Henry was signing him, or playing him out of position and expecting him to adapt quickly and seamlessly to our existing system? No, we shouldn’t have signed a player of whom that doubt existed, but still….

My biggest problem with the ruling three is that they are admitting zero culpability. At some point, the folks in charge have to step in when the employees are getting funky (and “employees” includes the coach). That they didn’t do that makes them share at least some of the culpability, in my estimation.

And I still don’t know why we lost Ribery to Bayern. He would have fit perfectly into our system.

Barcelona beats Fiorentina in the FIFA 08 Offside Cup!

http://www.theoffside.com/tournaments/meet-the-fifa-08-offside-cup-champion-anders-skov-klausen.html
http://games.theoffside.com/video-games/barcelona-is-your-fifa-08-offside-cup-champion.html

Check it out! Show the kid some love!

The only thing I blame those three guys (well, Ingla wasn’t really there last summer so he gets away here) is that they brought in Henry. That was just a marketing transfer and it turned out so wrong. If they would have bought Ribéry with that same amount of money (adding that Ribery’s salary is probably half of Henry’s and that he’s younger), we could be lifting that trophy in Moscow.

The other thing (and the main thing) you can blame them for is that they have been holding on to Rijkaard for too long. It’s understandable but it was nevertheless wrong. The self-discipline just didn’t work anymore in the end.

Of course when they say things about Rijkaard or the players, they in the end also point at themselves cause they are the next persons in that “chain of responsibility”: if you see that the players aren’t doing their job, and the coach cannot handle that, it’s up to Txiki or Ingla to do something about all that.

So I don’t really agree with the comic, but the bli-bla is nevertheless funny.

(tcfkap)