The General C. Krulak Thread XV

[TheEgo]

Hi General,

Please, please, please can you provide me with some assurances that the 'Balti pies' will be served at the correct temperature this Saturday? nothing worse than a luke warm balti pie.

[Dr Butler]

Hi General,

Please, please, please can you provide me with some assurances that the 'Balti pies' will be served at the correct temperature this Saturday? nothing worse than a luke warm balti pie.

or has floating lava as a filling.........

[The Situation]

Hey General;

You don't have to answer this question if you wish, but do you think Randy knows and understands who the Villa fans want as our next manager i.e. Jol, Moyes, Hiddink, Billic etc...? Do you think his decision will have some degree of input from what the Villa fans want as manager and who we think should be our next manager? To rectify everything that's gone wrong we need an ambitious manager who's going to put things right and make us progress that's why I think it's vital we need to go all out to get someone like Jol's, Hiddenk's or Moyes calibre who is proven at a top level and not someone like Curbishley, Bob Bradley, Southgate etc...

[BILL DE VALL]

General
The recipe for Champions league football CANNOT be to sell your best players over and over again.
especially to prem league rivals.
this makes us a top 4 feeder club ,not acceptable from a BILLIONARE

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

Hey General;

You don't have to answer this question if you wish, but do you think Randy knows and understands who the Villa fans want as our next manager i.e. Jol, Moyes, Hiddink, Billic etc...? Do you think his decision will have some degree of input from what the Villa fans want as manager and who we think should be our next manager? To rectify everything that's gone wrong we need an ambitious manager who's going to put things right and make us progress that's why I think it's vital we need to go all out to get someone like Jol's, Hiddenk's or Moyes calibre who is proven at a top level and not someone like Curbishley, Bob Bradley, Southgate etc...

Everything this board has done has been for the good of Aston Villa. Do you honestly think they won't try and do the same now? I'm sure they don't need telling, and I'm sure they are fully aware of who wants to come and manage Aston Villa.

[ckrulak]

General Krulak here:

1.  I am sorry we are having trouble getting my posts on the site...not sure what is the problem because I sure have spent a good deal of time trying.  Thanks to some of the MODs, we are trying again.

2.  I am not sure what needs to be clarified in my statement.  We have supported Martin for the past 4 years...and are willing to support again.  At the same time, that support has to make sense.  It isn't "all about money" but to think that we can just throw money around...keep players on the wage bill that aren't going to get on the Pitch...and have a successful Club is not reasonable or good business.  Adding players without respect to the total outlay of the Club is the quickest way to get into danger...and this was reiterated many times over the past weeks.  It was NOT a case of spending money...it WAS a case of the weekly wage bill.  This was not a shock to Martin or anyone else...it is just smart business and something that even the wealthest Clubs must watch.

[jibba81]

General
The recipe for Champions league football CANNOT be to sell your best players over and over again.

Might want to ask Lyon, Arsenal and Man Utd about that one.

[The Man With A Stick]

Thanks for taking the time to come on here and keep us posted, General.  Sure it must be bedlam at the moment.

Good luck with the search!

[pablopicasso_10]

to be honest, i dont blame you for not giving him more money to waste on dross like heskey, sidwell, cuellar, harewood, knight, etc...

to buy players like shorey, l young, beye, reo-coker, etc, and then waste them on the sidelines because he didnt trust his own judgement, while our first teamers got knackered, and then have the audacity to whinge about small tired squads, is criminal...

after this, i am glad he has gone... hopefully, we can now start to play players in their correct positions, drop the favourites when they are playing crap, and not resort to hoofing the ball from back to front to a "defensive striker" who simply doesnt score when the opposition invariably work out our only plan of attack and stifle us... not to mention the dilly dallying in the transfer market to waste millions in tranfer fees, agent fees and wages to come up with such gems (sarcasm) like the ginga invisible man but a great ballboy steve sidwell or a striker with triangular rubber shins who doesnt score or do anything in emule ivanhoe heskey, and dross of a similar ilk...

[BILL DE VALL]

General
The recipe for Champions league football CANNOT be to sell your best players over and over again.

Might want to ask Lyon, Arsenal and Man Utd about that one.

are they selling Rooney and Van Persie then?

[Namaste]

General,
Thank you once more for taking the time to post here, we all appreciate it.

We have to move on now and forget about O'Neill and his petulance!

Can we have Martin Jol as manager please?

[David_Nab]

General
The recipe for Champions league football CANNOT be to sell your best players over and over again.

Might want to ask Lyon, Arsenal and Man Utd about that one.

And Spurs who funded thier team building on the back of making big profits on Carrick and Berbatov.

The General and Randy are spot on in my opinion ,MON never used the squad yet had them all on big wages.Beye and L.Youngs  Annual  salary is a 5th of our Annual Matchday income that's madness when both players are kept out of a CB playing in thier position !!

[Chris Smith]

General Krulak here:

1.  I am sorry we are having trouble getting my posts on the site...not sure what is the problem because I sure have spent a good deal of time trying.  Thanks to some of the MODs, we are trying again.

2.  I am not sure what needs to be clarified in my statement.  We have supported Martin for the past 4 years...and are willing to support again.  At the same time, that support has to make sense.  It isn't "all about money" but to think that we can just throw money around...keep players on the wage bill that aren't going to get on the Pitch...and have a successful Club is not reasonable or good business.  Adding players without respect to the total outlay of the Club is the quickest way to get into danger...and this was reiterated many times over the past weeks.  It was NOT a case of spending money...it WAS a case of the weekly wage bill.  This was not a shock to Martin or anyone else...it is just smart business and something that even the wealthest Clubs must watch.

General, thanks for taking the trouble to reply. I'm a simple soul and I like to get things straight and the words "apparently" and "unwilling" had caused me some confusion.

My reading of it then is that the club needed to get players off the wage bill before we signed any additions, that's perfectly understandable. Presumably the new manager, when appointed, will be operating under the same conditions and he's not going to have long to make an assessment of who he wants and who he might sell or is that somebody elses remit?

[Chico Hamilton III]

General, I'd like to apply for the vacancy at Villa Park

Shall I send my CV to Nicky Keye?

I need to come in a bit late on Tuesdays

[villajk]

^^^^

Very funny Chico.  That's you and Chris Jameson made me laugh in the last minute.  Much needed laughs I must say.