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I'd prefer coconuts but harder to get in

It’s just snobbery, if we land a successful, progressive manager and they take us up we’re in the same cycle as Leeds, Norwich, Southampton etc - or - they jump ship like Maresca (small chance they stay). For the task at hand he’s a good fit. There’s no point banging on about Fischer, Stephan etc because the club c unts haven’t heard of them.

Dyche could manage upwards better than anybody else which is why he’s what we need.

Donuts

And lower case postcodes

We have historically paid silly money but the cash (or ability to spend it) is drying up now, especially as we won’t make the same level of sales we did last time. We’re in PSR trouble still and at least £15m (more than we spent on any player with more £ available last time) on Gomes plus hefty wages isn’t happening. He’d also have some lower end PL suitors.

We were so lucky under Cooper and still shit. The Forest performance was what we would have had more of and we should have been properly battered in that. We didn’t have a clue. Ruud also doesn’t have a clue and the players aren’t good enough which is the one Cooper had c. £60m of signings which he clearly picked though.

Why would he leave Lille for us? We can’t pay those sort of wages anymore. We couldn’t afford the fee either. Him wanting to play possession football doesn’t mean he can or will. It’s a pretty big risk because the players he had at his disposal with the U21s are just so strong. We need somebody with a strong track record in club management. Enzo didn’t but that was a gamble that paid off - we can’t do that again. Corberan was the right appointment in the summer but we f ucked it with the usual King Power myopia.

Pearson?

We were on 0.8 ppg under Cooper having played 10 man Southampton and Ipswich, two of the worst PL sides ever. He has an abysmal PL record because he’s a shit manager, that the board then appointed another shit manager is immaterial to how shit appointing that shit bastard was.

It’s a British disease. Especially short haul - you don’t need jogging bottoms (especially fatties who don’t jog!) and a neck pillow for an hour fifty flight

The BMA crowd who don’t make any noise apart from clapping relegation are weirdly literal with “we always back the lads” line. Cheerleaders for decline.

Amongst a lot of competition I think the Perez signing was the probably the very worst. £30m spent on an upwardly mobile wide player would have made the difference in 19/20 or 20/21. He was slow, gutless and uncreative - I remember being dead against it at the time. @murphy was as well.

Their confidence was shot from being undercooked in preseason by a shit manager lazily appointed by an incompetent regime. What’s the solution in your opinion? Just persist a bit harder on our downwards trajectory? Just keep a bit more faith?

With our batting depth we shouldn’t really lose a game, should draw at worst. Given the ludicrous points system it might just take us up.

Scriven five-fer

Yeah they were working on parts of it.

Can’t remember if I mentioned it on here but I went to the botanical gardens recently. Very serene and a rare free of charge attraction.

Cricket World Cup final was astonishing. I’d always been a casual cricket fan but that had me hooked. The accidental 6, drawing in 50 overs, the super over - nuts

That is true and pretty much the only foible with EBG

For all of our whining about FFP we never engaged in shitty swap deals, it’s not as if we didn’t know how it worked - we had one forced on us!

Agreed, I think we’re such bad negotiators though which is why our wage bill in particular ballooned. Faes might not have even been on £10k at Reims, probably arrived here on £50k. A stringent club probably lands him on £35k with the right bonuses - figures may be out but principally that seems about right. We’re just a soft touch in the market - the Kristiansen deal in particular was a huge overpay for a teenage left back and it took weeks to do it.

Football attendances have exploded pretty much across all the leagues. Essentially there's no such thing as a stadium too big, only tickets that aren't cheap enough. If Sunderland with a 275k urban area can average 38k in the championship and Derby (250k ish) can average 29k most clubs can add another 10k fairly easily. This is where the zealous safetyism in Britain has completely hampered safe standing. Clubs could quite easily expand the capacity through rail seating but the Government/SSAG shat the bed at even a 1:1.4 ratio

He was good in France and it's not just us who makes dumb deals. We have this sort of exceptionalism on here that nobody would ever buy our bad players, plenty would we're just bad at hawking them out. We managed to flog Musa to Saudi ahead of the curve and then just never proceed to... never use that avenue again. We don't ever ride and ride our winners which is another example of zero strategy.

Junction cafe iirc is a Bochum pub in Berlin but never been myself Also can’t go wrong the goat https://theeuropeanbarguide.com/germany/