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Yesterday 11:16 am  #1


Luigi Capuano Interview

With Scott Burns.


 

 

Yesterday 3:02 pm  #2


Re: Luigi Capuano Interview

Answers some of the doubters about the chairman bleeding the club.  Good interview all round and keeps the fans up to date on the clubs aims and intentions.

 

Yesterday 6:50 pm  #3


Re: Luigi Capuano Interview

stucam wrote:

Answers some of the doubters about the chairman bleeding the club.  Good interview all round and keeps the fans up to date on the clubs aims and intentions.

 
Agree.

I've not seen Luigi interviewed at length before so it was interesting to see how he would do over 45 minutes.

A few things that stood out for me.

First of all it was encouraging and positive.

But can any Scottish football interview survive without the constant use of the phrase in terms of? Does my head in.

Basically saying what we know about youths going down south for the money, and saying if they're good enough for the first team they will get the opportunity.

4 Scouts eh? Some elements of live scouting? Who knew. Would love a bit more detail on that.

Positive to hear about the Chairman's engagement and commitment and intriguing to hear he stepped in to get the Zidane Iqbal deal done.
Reinvesting transfer fees, aye I'm certain we have been, but the missing phrase most likely was all off the transfer fees. (But I must admit I don't mind the idea of Mr Ogren getting some of his investment back)

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Yesterday 7:19 pm  #4


Re: Luigi Capuano Interview

You would expect Luigi to talk positively about the club however overall it sounds like UTD are a well run club with everybody pulling in the same direction.
But should I believe any of that as ive read on here that the club is a basket case run by incompetent fools.

 

Yesterday 7:37 pm  #5


Re: Luigi Capuano Interview

Stillliving wrote:

You would expect Luigi to talk positively about the club however overall it sounds like UTD are a well run club with everybody pulling in the same direction.
But should I believe any of that as ive read on here that the club is a basket case run by incompetent fools.

 
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Today 12:36 am  #6


Re: Luigi Capuano Interview

redford_must_score wrote:

But can any Scottish football interview survive without the constant use of the phrase in terms of? Does my head in. 

I'll add in a couple of football based gripes as well, then general a sport example...

Almost every coach/manager/owner when talking about the team says "At the Football Club, to the Football Club, for the Football Club!" and so on.

What's wrong with just saying United, Dundee, Celtic, Cowdenbeath or just 'The Club' ? a very minor annoyance, but it's annoying, to me anyway.
................

"Mbappe becomes the highest scorer in World Cup history overtaking Miroslav Klose!"
"Well, let me correct you, Marta from the Brazil women's team has scored 17, so that's one more than Klose!"

Fuck off!
.............

Then the sports one.....

Andy Murray is being interviewed after a match and he's a male tennis player, so it's questions being asked about men's tennis......

Interviewer "Andy, you were the first player to do x, how does that feel?"

Murray "Ackshullllllyyyyyyy, Gabriel Sabatini back in 1987, did blah, blah, blah!"

In the context of the interview, it's glaringly obvious that we're only referencing the men's game, nobody needs to know....
 


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Today 2:20 am  #7


Re: Luigi Capuano Interview

Stillliving wrote:

But should I believe any of that as ive read on here that the club is a basket case run by incompetent fools.

50% of your posts always include a wee snidey dig at others.

But whatever is your release, i guess.


 

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Today 2:37 am  #8


Re: Luigi Capuano Interview

I thought the interview was pretty good from Capuano and he was honest. It was also good to hear from him talk extensively about United after all this time.

Very good to hear we have 4 scouts appointed to scout potential new signings and our recruitment is not just based on data. That was my main takeaway from the interview. 

I do have to laugh every time they suggest 'the Chairman stepped in' regarding a player signing though.

What they really mean is he agreed to up the playing budget. Years ago this wasn't mentioned.

One other thing i didn't like was Capuano mentioning that 'they' the Utd hierarchy made a 'collective' decision that the club would adopt a 'possession' based game. Now i have actually heard Goodwin himself mention this in post-match interviews. That he's disappointed in our possession stats or that we could have 'controlled the game better'.

Liam Fox used to say similar actually. 

I don't think the fans care about this at all. I certainly don't. Just that we want to win matches.

 

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