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Yeah, not far to walk but the hill up to DPI is fairly steep.

Got the rattler to Duffield last weekend, startlingly close to Derby. King William, Dead Poet’s Inn and the Holly Bush are a fantastic trio. Holly Bush is a 9.5/10.

He lives not far from Lutterworth

Not everybody that disagrees with you is a bot . The low-information bores on Facebook are very much real people, they’re just not very clever.

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We halfway house everything. A) Build for the future like you've said, B) Go all out, spend big, take a deduction, balance some of the books with PSR swaps like Golding. There was no discernible strategy there at all, we did neither of those things and we lumbered ourselves with crap experienced players that are somehow less suited to trying to go up.

More likely it'd be suspended until we (if ever) get promoted next time no?

The spending leads you to think the hierarchy thought we'd be fine FFP/PSR wise to then only land Cooper anyway was a failure. Top wants a manager that plays like Man City but Rudkin's lack of agency means we get Cooper, even by Top's own crap yardsticks he just doesn't get enough out of Rudkin. I can only assume he's absolutely stupid/negligent or Rudkin genuinely is in his position for more nefarious reasons.

Classically we just promoted somebody from within to replace him

Serioulsy? We shouldn't be paying that for first most first choice players we sign, let alone back ups.

Just seems needlessly expensive, he's also played as many games in midfield as at left back and his stint there was years ago. Somebody in their mid twenties from the lower championship (or European equivalent) club with a bit of upward mobility left would be a better option than another over 30.

Have you read How to win the Premier League by Graham? You'd like it - covers all of that and analytics in general excellently. I agree leadership is conflated with character at large, we do need better characters but that isn't solved by signing one or two captain-like players. It has to be baked into the recruitment process and it's why I wasn't keen on Soumare, his pressure numbers were available on fbref at the time and he just didn't close people down enough for his position. Back to my original point, no successful club has ever read;;y improved by just dropping in bona fide leaders, it;s the sort of thing pundits value but it's just sort of intangible claptrap mostly. Man City, Liverpool over the past decade have barely had any shouty types, they've emphasised quality mixed with the right attitude.

This would be a braindead move. We need to shift some wide players if anything because we have some really exciting young wingers. So #WelcomeBackJeff2028 it is

Leadership is more or less a myth. "No leaders" is one of those things that teams only lose because of but never win. Liverpool didn't win the league because they out-shouted out-pointed everybody else. That we spent £7m on that dosser Coady is completely symptomatic of the dumb, old hat club we are.

Not watched it for years, can you link it?

We never once bothered with a spurious PSR swap deal with other clubs in the mire, despite having Golding dumped on us. I'd love to see what the day-to-day workflows are like.

The fact we still chased him despite having to wait for him to finish his gardening leave was very KP. We'd just halted all spending through FFP fears (thank goodness that's over) so our next windows were vital. What did we do? Appoint a HoR that couldn't start officially for half a year.

Northern fanbases have sang **** the tories for years

Yeah he will be, but it was more that they keep signing players in non-priority positions. Osimhen is probably available for £50m or so. He might not be perfect but it's worth it at that price rather than jumping up to probably £100m for Gyokeres.

I’m coming around to the idea Arteta has taken Arsenal as far as he can, he’s a talented manager but he’s essentially handpicked a squad that doesn’t score enough - then bemoans the lack of goals. He’s complaining about not having a striker but he almost needlessly signed Caliafiori (sp) and Merino, £70-80m that could have bought a good forward. It’s not as if Zubamemdi is what they’re missing.

The biggest blow for Bournemouth would be losing Iraola. They've been 3rd-6th all season on underlying metrics with quite a few serious injuries too. They also just seem to be soundly ran behind the scenes so I'm sure they'll be fine. Lorient (same ownership) are also top of Ligue 2 and their 18 year old top scorer (22 goals in 30 games) is already on Bournemouth's books.

£7m ish does a lot more for us than 1000 minutes and 3 or 4 goal contributions. Alves looks better than KM technically already and he's 3 years younger. There's also Monga/Evans/Ayew or BDCR too we're not going to be able to shift both of those last two.

He has the Perez problem of that he doesn't have the attributes to play anywhere well. If you move inside his lack of ability with the ball at his feet is a bigger problem. He's a trier and mobile - that's better than some of the dossers we have but if he gets serious minutes next season we're in trouble. He's the most replaceable 'pure profit' (grotesque term) sale we can make. If we can get £6-8m we have to take it. Fatawu, Mavididi and Alves should play the vast majority of minutes on the wings next year.

The occasional schadenfreude on here following his exit is bizarre, he was fantastic for us.