[Albion] De Zerbi was NOT “sacked”

[Kalimantan Gull]

Sacking someone in football is not the same as sacking someone in real life. So although RDZ was undoubtedly sacked by the club, in a very real sense he was not sacked.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

As you very well know I’m suggesting that if we got 6 million for someone we sacked Bloom has committed literal daylight robbery.

It's not you, it's me. x

 

[JBizzle]

I do think that the majority of those players were coming in whatever and may have actually affected the decision on which manager would be here to welcome them, rather than the other way round

Totally agree. If people think we start the process of buying someone in the summer transfer window on the 1st day of the window, they've been playing too much Football Manager.

It's long been said that we watch players and talk to selling clubs for months and sometimes years before completing a signing.

There's no way Bloom saw De Zerbi leaving and then decided to just go "****it, he's gone now, I'm spending £200m", just as it's unlikely that RDZ didn't know what we were looking to sign. The key bit though, as both Bloom and Barber have said, is that these deals happen at the right time, for the right cost, based on the squad at that time and crucially on the selling clubs position.

 

[albionalba]

it's saying something in the best possible way whilst omitting a detail which takes away the positive spin.

....a statement that would do Humphrey Appleby proud on Yes Minister..............

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Are you suggesting that he wasn't sacked?

I find that hard to believe.

I heard that he was within an inch of being shot and buried in Croydon.