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#WhenTaken #384 (17.03.2025) I scored 824/1000🏅 1️⃣📍2.0K km - 🗓️10 yrs - 🥈135/200 2️⃣📍1.1 km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇193/200 3️⃣📍152 m - 🗓️8 yrs - 🥇189/200 4️⃣📍279 km - 🗓️8 yrs - 🥇180/200 5️⃣📍1.5K km - 🗓️16 yrs - 🥈127/200 https://whentaken.com

I'd like to see this sort of line up next season. Stolarcyzk New RB Souttar Nelson Thomas Skipp New CM Fatawu BEK Alves New ST Braybrooke, Evans, Cartwright, Ali, Joseph et al to get minutes in the cups and off the bench. 4 academy grads and a much younger side is instantly more likeable because they'll try and mostly aren't grossly overpaid.

You can make some allowances for those other sides. This team is expensively assembled and through a lack of ability, legs, desire or will is just abysmal, coached by an abysmal manager part of an abysmal, dysfunctional club.

I don't think Lako meant UFS, well I hope not anyway

We're shit, shit, shot negotiators and I don't think anybody has said that more than I have but it depends on the purchasing club too. Hermansen is a top notch keeper both in terms of shot stopping and with the ball, a rarity and there's plenty of clubs that will be keeping tabs on him. £35m should be the absolute minimum - really a sensible club would get closer to £50m. Onana went for £50m.

Their book value was far higher then - it's not now so we'll accept previously unacceptable bids. We turned down a bid for Soumare perviously. Kristiansen played for a Bologna side that finished 5th in Italy. They're not good enough for the PL but they're more than good enough for the midtable teams in worse leagues. Soumare is a title winner in France. They don't want to play in the championship or be here in general.

Hermansen will go for £35m-ish. Kristiansen and Soumare around £10m each, Okoli and Faes would fetch a fee. We'll make that in salesadn then reinvest in a load of shit. We signed Coady for £7m ish without a manager because we 'lacked leaders', such trite, intangible bullshit only our móng board would fall for..

What comes after apathy? Whatever it is that’s what I’m at. Lifeless club

They’ve made lots of dumb decisions but this will be the worst yet. If they do it’ll be yet another false economy option, oh we can’t spend another £5m on a managerial sacking so we’ll just throw away our best chance of promotion.

It’ll be the making of him. He needs to add goals, has the technique but not the movement and timing yet. Should be targeting 12+ goals and 15+ assists. Fatawu also needs to add more goals - ideally our next manager actually helps develop players rather than constrains them with a system-over-everything approach.

We’ll contrive to get about £36m and pay £11m for Jorgensen or something equally braindead

I don’t think 75% of the championship would lose 4 times to that shambles

They won none of his last 13 games with the foundations of a champions league squad. He’s a crap PL manager - fine, he’s a decent championship one.

And he was at 0.82 ppg with us, there’s a razor thin margin for him to replicate what he did at Forest with us - and he couldn’t do it. All with a squad built to play a totally different style of play too. He’s a crap manager.

How is it irrelevant? If you’re looking to stay up appointing somebody with 52 points from 55 games is huge gamble. Particularly when it looked like we’d have to win more games than usual owing to a potential deduction. He’s a crap PL manager with a record akin to Steve Kean’s and his recruitment has set us back years. It was all fairly predictable.

In 15 years under KP we’ve appointed a manger employed by another club TWICE and one of them was Pearson. Just pure laziness, never have we appointed a manager that hasn’t already worked in England. It’s completely myopic.

We weren’t newly promoted in 22/23 - it works both ways and we f ucked both.

Cooper had a dogshit PPG at Forest, when it looked like we might have a deduction coming it was an even worse appointment because he’s so negative. The board’s usual lazy managerial recruitment costed us in the summer and the same lazy recruitment confirmed relegation with RVN.

1850 is a pretty good number. Far beyond what most surveys get. It’s the club’s duty to make sure people fill it in - it doesn’t feel like they flogged it. They could have texted it out, left cards on the seats, announced it at a home game but that’d require a bit of effort for an answer they’d rather not get. @Sol thewall Bamba how many surveys have they actually done over the years? 3?

I feel sorry for Iversen, we’ve completely ****ed his around for a decade and then refused to sell him when an offer came in

The DoF should have told him Ward wasn’t up to it but he’s too meek. A vole of a man.

Great ball. 2 assists in 300 or so minutes

Finally set up a trading 212 account. Put what I stupidly had sat idling in a current into ETFs.

The back 3 or 4 rows of the Kop stand away right? I have a feeling a few more rows will want to stand now. The common sense solution is to quickly install more safe standing ‘seats’ but I have a feeling the club will spend more (than additional bars) on stewarding making people sit down. On the upside, the new ops director has came across well from what I’ve read - seems a bit more proactive.

The Rutland & Derby didn’t need much of a refurb - if at all, certainly didn’t need this doing to it. Looks terrible in this photo