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Pretty much sold/let out all their stock after the PY forced closure, not sure if it was related. I know somebody who works for them so next time I see them I'll ask. In better news, the Brew Dog unit had tradesmen in doing something last night, couldn't tell what.

His heart isn’t in the right place otherwise we wouldn’t be this shit. He’s more loyal to acolytes than he is the club or its fans. Bringing a horde of Thai minor celebrities and hangers-on for a tour round the pitch, stealing the limelight from the players, then whacking them on a bus parade proved that it’s a vanity thing. Mince pies or desiccated f ucking coconut doesn’t mean anything, probably not even his idea, I doubt he even foots the bill. Who would want us? We have a big fan base, planning approved for expansion for a relatively decent, new ground, arguably the best training facility in world football, an academy that’s generated £150m+ in sales over the past 5 years. King Power aren’t doing us a favour by owning us.

Man City’s owners aren’t Saudi

I was being flippant. Good teams never win because of leadership, only bad ones lose because through a lack of it.

I’ve not watched MOTD since sometime early in 22/23 pretty much for that reason but I also watch less football generally. A pure highlights show would probably pull in better ratings.

Canal house, The News House, Ye Olde Trip, Kean's Head, Malt Cross, King William, The Bath Inn

Nottingham is miles better for pubs. Probably twice the number of pubs in the city centre and the median pub is better there as well.

They seem to struggle against sides that press them a bit higher. Their away record is 2-4-3, I'd like to see us sit in a mid block and try and break faster than we have, Vardy has been pretty isolated recently, Buonanotte in particular needs to be closer to combine with Vardy.

I can't see MOTD lasting that long tbh (i.e more than 10 years), it's easier than ever to watch the highlights. Plus so much discussion is around VAR/reffing that most analysis is just cursory crap.

Plays like it but we gain in so many other ways like with his 'leadership' and 'organisation'.

Ric made a good point on BSLB that really £3m for a bottom half Serie A defender with 6 months left is a big overpay - and we never shift unwanted players for a decent fee. If we want rid of Okoli/he wants out we have to at the very least break even. Also Vestergaard is 32.5, Coady is almost 32, Faes is seemingly off at some point. That just leaves us with Okoli and Nelson as long term options and I wouldn't trust us to upgrade on Okoli this window.

10-15 goals isn’t enough for a side chasing automatic promotion.

If we go down and we’re relying on Cannon as our striking hope we’re ****ed. We need money now and Sunderland won’t provide that, use their offer as leverage with Sheff United and chuck Hamza in as well in the most PSR efficient way

Everton did a good job on us

And how many players don’t make a leap like that in their careers? 99%? The underlying data most likely would have suggested those players are good even when they weren’t scoring. The data atm says Cannon is a midtable championship striker. I like him and keeping him on loan is a good idea especially as we may need him in the championship next year. But we can’t hold onto players in the hope they have a 1 in a 10000 transformation like Vardy.

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They like him enough seemingly not to loan him out but not to play him for 10 minuets here and there. We need to do what's best for his development, his current purgatory isn't helping. He's also 19 so the last 3/4/5 managers spans back as far 2018. When we're hoping and changing managers they're obviously going to be short terms in their decisions. You might think that's a good reason not to play him, fair enough. In that case loan him out. There absolutely will be teams in L1 or L2 that would take him on loan.

Stoke are shit but 14th for xG for, so he's part of the problem imo. Even in the limited league minutes for us last season (4.8 nineties) he was only at 0.32 xg per 90. I just don't think he's alive enough in the box consistently to get into good positions. I actually quite like him, he's combative and he's great at half chances but that's not the hall mark of player capable of scoring 10+ in the PL.

He's scored 6 non-penalty goals in 22 games, he's not cut out for the PL

Training isn't a game. He needs chances, you can't take one if you only get a token amount of minutes here and there. The worst case scenario is if he starts the odd cup game, he doesn't impress but it increases the likelihood of a better loan. Way better than where we are now.

It's not that simple. Cole Palmer is one of the best players in the world and didn't get enough of a go at Man City. Tony Pulis preferred Alex Pritchard to Serge Gnabry etc

Proximity is something that matters for young players. The successful Barnes and KDH loans were at clubs that were about a 2 hour drive away max. They can see their family, friends, coaches, nutritionists, loan manager (or whatever) more often and it's easier to physically keep tabs on the player. Shipping somebody to Scotland makes sense if it's nailed on they get minutes, in the right sort of set up and there is no equivalent move. Port Vale, Mansfield, Northampton etc would have been better moves for Braybrooke 'a TeAm HaS tO wAnT tHem', I know that but there are about 20 teams that would have fitted the bill.

Yep, the waterside development was completely lacking in scale. The area is completely underutilised and Keepmoat built the 90s estate in Birstall on it.

Leicester try and push housing development onto district councils anyway. https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-cannot-meet-housing-targets-7092437 The city council also think anything above 9 storeys is really tall