Of course, if the manager agrees with that then fair enough. I just like Him to have the players He wants.
Lord no. I spent the first 20 years of my career very much in an operational role. It's only in the last 12 or so that I have ruthlessly exploited* hoi polloi to keep me in champagne and caviar.**
*Overpaid and mollycoddled
** Champagne and lobster
Poverty was a touch hyperbolic, but you know as well as I do that true freedom only exists when one has no financial concerns. I have a well-paid job and I'm very lucky*, but where and how I choose to live is dictated by my earnings and always underpinned by my fear of not earning any more :shrug:
*One makes one's own luck
I thought you were a good Christian, Sir C. True freedom comes only when one is not subject to the vagaries of external things (and, as such, it's a bit of a speculative ideal). But you seem to be admitting this, or you're contradicting yourself with your own anxiety over being at the mercy of Lady Fortuna. 'Ave a word with yourself.