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Stopped there before changing trains once, it’s excellent.

There’d be plenty of takers in France now with what he’d cost but I have a feeling we never proactively try to sell players. You never really hear the press briefed trying to drum interest.

It’s a concern and you can’t really give them the benefit of the doubt - but it’s likely it’ll be fine by the start of the season

We'd never have appointed him if didn't beat us twice. That's how facile, how shallow the managerial recruitment is under our board. I'm not joking that Foxestalk via committee could make better decisions.

No but with the exceptions of Ndidi, Choudhury & Ward very few players would have been around long enough to establish that kind of relationship with Top.

He does a bit, similar face shape and hair

I think Vardy going probably kills the player power off. No longer a direct line to the owner if they don’t like the manager.

Miffed at Percy finally sticking the boot in when the club's incompetence is affecting him. Although I do feel a slight pang of sympathy for RVN after reading it.

Can't really pay any attention to that because they've tagged him with the wrong template and the sample size is so small. He profiles like a Mavididi replacement imo but that's probably a bit of a leap.

Some of those are loans. Seems like a bit of a late bloomer where he hasn't been given much of a chance, then he's had a run of games scored a few then another team has signed him. He's played up front, out wide and at wingback for Luton this season. If the fee was sub £4m I wouldn't mind this deal - provided he takes Ayew/BDR's squad places.

Fixture changes catch me off guard occasionally when I used to do that

Are there any calendar fixture syncs yet?

March onwards looks very kind

Shows you just how incompetent our owner and board are

2-0 home loss to Sheffield Wednesday opening day

We paid £7m each for Coady and Cannon. Ndidi with 220 apps and a mainstay in an FA cup winning/CL chasing side isn't worth half of that apparently. Only on FT our shit players good and our good players shit.

The DM market is crap and getting worse though. It didn't;t strike me that Ndidi was really agitating to leave on a free as there weren't loads of rumours - which is what normally happens as agents get on the phone to news outlets. If you need a PL standard DM then £9m for this is a bargain https://fbref.com/en/players/6b47c5db/Wilfred-Ndidi

Leicester Wrexham is the biggest game in the division for neutrals watching. Really wouldn’t be surprised if we were away there first

It’s completely one way too. To help build anticipation (and future ideas) they could run an LCFC kit World Cup, actually get people to engage with it. But it’s just tired and sameu because nobody above ever drives any accountability. Whelan is supposed to be a good businesswoman but she has exactly the same supine instincts as Top.

He didn't put up great numbers last year which is what I thought would put off bigger clubs. However if Leverkusen have tracked him since his time at Genk then they'll be aware his output was severely stunted.

I looked at a few transfers from various pl clubs and Everton have shifted Godfrey to Atalanta for £12m. Southampton received £10m+ for Alvarez, Mara, Salisu etc (some starters maybe I don’t know?). Wolves and Villa consistently pick up £5m ish for the likes of Sanson/Podence whereas we have two sorts of departure - big money player we don’t want to lose á la Maddison, Barnes, KDH, or they leave on free. We almost never get anything for players we don’t want, Rudkin is spectacularly bad at it. The £200m+ worth of players that have left on frees is testament to it.

Declaration was spot on

Didn't realise Handscomb took 6 catches as WK, good going.

I moved from Freetrade to Trading 212 and much prefer it. The aer on uninvested funds is pretty good too.

We are bad at selling though. Other clubs do manage to shift unwanted players, not always but more frequently than we do. Off the top of my head we've turned down seemingly adequate bids for Praet, Soumare, Iversen, McAteer etc because they didn't match our lofty valuations. Some of those prior to he current PSR regs too. We also don't hawk players out to the right sort of markets either, we've sold 1 player to Saudi (Musa about 8 years ago), none to MLS, very few to Turkey for any money and we didn't;t do any PSR swap deals despite having one forced on us. Good DoFs/Shrewd clubs realise when players aren't going to work out and flog them for a reasonable price quickly or get creative with loan-to-buys. We are hemmed in by his stupid initial mistakes but he doesn't pull enough of the levers avail be to him. He's a stone age director.