Good morning, TSFers! It’s an eventful morning in the Premier League — Michael Carrick is out at Manchester United and Pierre Sage is out at Crystal Palace. Carrick getting the ‘ole heave ho has taken the spotlight off Sage’s tumultuous time in charge of Palace. The Palace players, like the United ones, seem to have straight up quit on the manager en route to a spot at the bottom of the table, forcing the club to get rid of the Frenchman.
It’s also an eventful morning in the business world — Jensen
Huang has resigned from Nvidia. If you hadn’t heard about Mr. Huang, the former Nvidia CEO admitted to an affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy.
Mauricio Pochettino looks to be Carrick’s replacement at United and the club will have to pay U.S. Soccer $10M to get the manager out of his contract with the federation. I guess that’s an acceptable expense for Jim Ratcliffe. Not those 150-200 regular club employees the club made redundant least year, though.
It doesn’t come as a surprise. Nor are Arsenal any different. A week after making Mikel Arteta the highest paid manager in the world, Arsenal made 60 employees redundant. It’s grim. As I said in CF yesterday, the people that control the levers of power do not care about the backs they step on to reach their heights.
Man, I really thought a CF that started with the Jensen Huang honeypot saga would have gone in a funnier direction. That story is hilarious. Also quite bad for the short term stock market and a genuine national security concern. But really funny, too. Authors who write deep, complex spy thrillers are probably furious right now. They build so much intrigue into their stories only to have the simplest, dumbest things eclipse them in real life.
