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No manager has ever really emboldened youth at the club. Which denotes it’s a club/hierarchy probably rather than a managerial one. We should have clear and contractual targets that x% of minutes/minimum of x starts are to be played by academy graduates. I’ve said this quite a few times now but you’d think Rudkin would be overeager to have his life’s work validated by managers who play the kids, instead we appoint any of bin liner.

They stayed up by the skin of their teeth, he knew he wasn’t going to be there for years, he had far too much to do as the manager. I don’t think you can blame him for that particularly. This probably isn’t that accurate as it’s via AI but the age of his signings - Ben Hamer: 36 - Max Lowe: 27 - Yan Valery: 25 - Svante Ingelsson: 26 - Olaf Kobacki: 22 - Jamal Lowe: 30 - Ike Ugbo: 25 - Charlie McNeill: 20 - James Beadle: 20 - Shea Charles: 20 - Ibrahim Cissoko: 21 - Ryo Hatsuse: 27

I think we’ll have about £20m (net) to spend in total

They had **** all money to spend bar Ugbo who’d been on loan there. If he’s overstretched it makes sense to take fewer risks and go for players he knows - mostly in Germany or England. Also Wednesday are just so shoddy that, quite sensibly, he’d have an eye on departing so picking up players pre-peak who’ll mature later on at the cost of not being ready now wouldn’t be sensible. It’d concern me if he wanted to do the same here but there are mitigating circumstances at Wednesday, it’s defensible unlike Ruud’s aversion to youth.

Which I guess is tactical but also a reflection of his ability. He’s like the inverse Kasper

Chelsea paid £25m ish for Jorgensen and Southampton about £20m for Ramsdale recently. We have to hold out for £30m+ given how rare a combination of competent shotstopping and ball playing ability are.

Independent of Rudkin's incompetence we still probably have a 40% hit rate with signings. Was it ever clarified how we ended up with Fatawu?

Nelson Weiper doesn't seem to be linked to anybody atm, contract is up in the summer. 6'3, quick, 5 goals in 10 senior nineties.

He's incredibly composed and his passing ability in the first third is great. His longer range distribution isn't much good - is my reading of him

There's some very bitter people on here. He single-handedly stopped us conceding an embarrassing amount earlier on in the season. Given he was injured earlier on in the season and we have form for playing players through injury it's not surprising he hasn't been at the same level. I'll wish him well.

Doing some reading and at Wednesday he's handling contract extensions, negotiating transfers and booking hotels himself on top all of the coaching duties. Additionally in a few games he's been very direct and played long to Ugbo/Smith, so he's not a short at all costs ideologue. I'd be in favour

Nothing they’ve achieved is based on merit? You can’t actually buy the league as Chelsea and United’s current spending shows. They’ve spent a lot but appointed good managers and bought good players. Essentially every rich club has never done anything meritocratically if you take that strain of thought to its conclusion. Chelsea are worse off spending all this money which is what’s funny about it. If they were 20% leaner they’d be exponentially better - they’re like the deluxe version of us under Sven/KP.

🚨 Broken record alert 🚨 We’d have avoided all of this if the club wasn’t ran negligently

Lots of young Italian, French and Spaniards move here and would equally laud Britain (largely London tbh) as far more interesting than their towns and cities.

Finished, checked out years ago, who would ever want him!! I'm fed up of the histrionics on here like nobody ever buys bad players (even when they're half-decent), all of the shit players can get moves. It's a sort of reverse exceptionalism. Clubs take on busted flushes like Sancho, Rashford, Mount, Ghezzal, Skipp etc all the time.