Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
The problem I have with that is that it presupposes that seven weeks ago, Ramsey accepted an offer to take over as interim manager and were expected to believe that for six weeks there was no talk between the sides about wages until last weekend when, it seems, Choo met Ramsey’s representatives, made an offer that was much lower than expected and the gap between the sides was so large that there was no way a deal could be done. That seems laughable to me, or it should do, but, with City, they have this habit of always being caught on the hop by events that most people can see coming a mile off (how long before our eventual relegation was it that they were being told things were heading that way? Three years? Four years?).

It’s now being spun that the job is Buckingham’s or Barry Murphy’s, but is it really? Both men have effectively been turned down twice for the City manager’s job and may say thanks, but no thanks which will be the cue for the hierarchy to be caught on the hop again while no doubt wondering why these things always seem to happen to them.
If City offered the job to Ramsey whilst I have no concrete proof of anything, I'd be surprised if it was anything other than generous, given his practically zero experience of managing a football club. Ramsey seems to be someone who has a higher opinion of his playing ability thnt is the case, and no doubt Bellamy is going to have to break it to him - or do a Page and let his ego onto the pitch. Would he have given up the chance of one final tournament with Wales, even as a squad member, to manage a league 1 side ? I'm not sure about that. For me, if he was even considered for the job, it was the wrong road for the club to go down..