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2 years plus a one year option, 3 years straight off the bat is silly, it’s unlikely we’d be able to sell him for a non-negligible fee. We’re not a standard Championship->L1 team so we have to think are signings upwardly mobile? Chaplin isn’t

The Nags Head in Glenfield too. All ran in exactly the same boilerplate chavvy Karaoke way

0 G, 2 A in something like 20 nineties for Wigan in L1

The first bookmaker to post their relegation odds did so today, couldn’t find a similar thread. To win L1 - 11/4 Promotion - 4/5 Relegation - 50/1 Given administration isn’t absurd, Russell Martin’s ability to underperform and the player turnover I don’t think a 2% implied probability accurately reflects the situation.

God Cifuentes was shit, playing this no hoper to try and change a game. Good luck to him but the national league, maybe L2 is his level.

The loan is actually structured pretty favourably if that tweet is true, maybe McCarron has actually done something

There are some stormers in there though, good to confirm as recently as 2024 people thought we could negotiate favourable terms

Seems like there some cinquefoils then generic fleur de lis patterns, strange

Some faith and an injury free run will prove that he’s far too good for this level and likely the Championship too. He was good in an incredibly poor Cardiff side and injuries aside he just inexplicably didn’t get a chance at Huddersfield. I don’t think 15+ for both goals and assists is an unrealistic target for him, provided we have a fit, senior striker. After relegation in 22/23, I predicted KDH would be Championship POTS, he didn’t actually winner as Summerville did; I feel pretty similarly with Alves here.

He has but at the club he’s been since he was 9, going out on loan at his age to a second completely new environment whilst not an adult yet is a tumultuous time. I think they’ll want a look at him in their own set up first and maybe then loan him out in Jan, when he’ll be about 17 and a half.

I think he’s probably too young to loan out, they’ll have him feature for their PL2 team and play in the league and FA cup games.

Probably a Leicester XI of very peripheral first teamers and U21s. It’s all about fitness at this stage anyway. German clubs often play amateur/semi-pro clubs over the summer

My brother once pointed out Castagne ends up getting absolutely walloped with injuries, clashes of heads, awkward falls all the time

The new contract was lunacy, we held all the cards ffs! Getting 3 years at his age was absolutely daft.

I doubt any of the social media following from Bangladesh has converted into any meaningful revenue. The GDP per capita is about £2300. Instead Anthony and the new commercial shyster can say to the two new legitimate sponsor prospects they speak to a season “oh we have crazy engagement on the socials” and get an extras 0.25% on the deal

Matterface, Drury, Fletcher and Gary Weaver all have the habit of making it about them rather being supplementary to the viewing. I like innocuous commentary so games with say, Joe Speight are more enjoyable because he won’t do anything to wind me up.

What do people expect from a fanzone - they're always shit!

Moaning about our opponents being easy is just ignorant, Mexico at the Azteca is much harder fixture than beating a washed Brazil side but there's just this star****er tendency (mostly from Jocks) England must beat Spain, France, Argentina, Barcelona 2009 and the Harlem globe trotters for it to be legitimate. We had the hardest group by ranking and swatted recent semi-finalists in that. DRC were no mugs and drawing those was by virtue of an expanded world cup, because we.... won our group. Under Southgate we did benefit from kinder draws however.

Pretty much all pubs are struggling but it’s worse in Leicester because most of the population aren’t pub drinkers.

My sense is for a lot of firms it’s a vanity exercise, no way are most front of shirt sponsors granularly tracking. You’ll obviously know more than me but for Walkers it’s fine, not for companies where the return on ad spend is really consequential

My assumption is we’re about -3 net senior players a season on average over the past 5 years, chatGPT backed it up. Eventually Rudkin’s Inability get (any) players in is going to come home to roost and we’ll have a disastrously thin squad. We need the big outgoings sorted early so we have A) cash for working capital and B) we do have a moderate kitty to rebuild. What I can see happening is we dither, maybe sign two or three permanently, drag our feet but get desperate as the window closes and our financial situation hits home. Then we sell Fatawu and Nelson without time to get adequate replacements in. Then the unfavourable loans happen as standard. Martin will then intimate at being lied to like the rest have.

The lack of any serious activity is a huge problem. It’s not even like we’ve sorted the outgoings and we’re just biding our time for incomings. I thought McCarron might help the bandwidth problem but no, slow and sclerotic as usual - get ready for a slew of shit loans on deadline day.

You might be well placed to answer this but do firms actually expect an ROI with football shirt sponsorship? I’d guess it’s from the x% of marketing spend for awareness campaigns. Although gambling I guess you can trace sign ups quite easily for offers but for day duty free or insurance I can’t imagine it moves the needle?

We've made about £150m since 2020 if you include Sowah. That should have been an incredible amount of money to reinvest but instead it's just paid the wages of a bloated, shit squad Rudkin hasn't been bothered or wanted to shift.

In 23/34 Adam Armstrong got 21 G, 13 A under Martin - Evans is a similar profile so there might be green shoots there