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I went to little Tokyo for the first time about 6 weeks ago and thought it was great

Is the Hind being done up/taken over? Sir Charles Napier has been gutted and taken on by a big pubco. Stonegate IIRC

I knew this was coming. I'd love to hear Rudkin's thoughts on how we won the league and what went well. Instead the most recent interview he did was about 12 years ago as a youth coach. The media embargo on senior leaders at the club is a big reason why there's zero accountability.

£50m+ net on a manager there’s probably a 50% chance he’s sacked by next season. £50m net but Corberan’s alleged £4m buyout was too much.

This why the Ayew and Reid signings are weird. Mavididi and Fatawu (especially) are fantastic defensively. Even trying to be charitable I just can’t see the logic in starting them

And if they justify axing things on player count then the women's game is surely only going to follow suit in the long run? Except I doubt it because it becomes a big own goal.

No no no. This would make us to threatening and likely to score goals and win games. What we need is more resilience and discipline to stay in games, that's the most important thing.

They're removing weight from the game because of the addition of the women's game. It's bizarre.

Changing móng to disabled is worse than just letting people say it

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Reading Ian Graham’s director of research (head of analysis essentially) at Liverpool’s book. We let Rodgers repeat the same mistakes a decade and arguably doubled down by letting him bring Congerton in. By contrast he’s absolutely glowing about Michael Edwards. Shows the importance of a great overall culture, shrewd owners, the right DoF and being data-driven. Everything we’re not at this point.

I hadn’t even considered that this was one of our biggest net outlays. Fatawu will fetch a lot eventually but the rest, BEK aside maybe, Skipp definitely won’t.

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People would be rightly angry with Rudkin’s role in this mess, he is one of the most culpable people. The appeal is little to do with him, some people will wrongly conflate that I get that but he played a big role in us being charged in the first instance. The people that think replacing Rudkin is a silver bullet are short-sighted but it’s also more likely than a change of ownership. It’s the low hanging fruit at the club. Tempt an astute DoF from a smart club and give them the same authority as Rudkin and we’d be in a better position over the next five years - I’m certain.

Jarvis has his flaws but the club was winless for a long time and still losing money hand over fist. Now we're probably a bit reckless but we have a side that can compete in all 3 formats. What I don't like is the pining for more members then whacking the price up. You do one or the other.

It was an average spell, 26 starts from September to May, 1 assist, no goals obviously. https://fbref.com/en/players/ae59b359/Boubakary-Soumare Nothing ever really stands out about him

Do you think scouts all over the continent are excited to go to their HoR or DoF telling them" look, look there'e a player in there somewhere". Rather than a lazy midfielder that can't attack, defend or play abroad on massive wages. Even the "Trendyol Süper Lig" clubs are too smart for that.

DoFs have agency, some clubs manage to do a much better job of shifting unwanted players than others. Plenty of clubs across the continent did all sorts of PSR swindles this summer, we were involved in one and got... Michael Golding for 5m

He was pretty cagey at Forest. Primarily 3 at the back, sat deep, terrible away form. His PL record from 59 games is 12 - 17 - 30 59 scored and 105 conceded. Now the comforting thing to do is say he had a mental squad at Forest (true) but he went cagey. We had the opposite of an overhaul at Leicester and he's still cagey. We've accumulated the 2nd lowest xG so far only ahead of Ipswich (genuinely difficult fixtures). Villa and Spurs are good sides but they're leaky. In fact Spurs, Villa and Fulham all conceded exactly 61 goals last season. His sides are good for a goal a game, it's not the fixture list, it's just how he manages. It might work better now we don't have a deduction and we can afford to draw more games but when it looked like we'd need 45 points to stay up he was the wrong appointment.

I also want Top and Whelan out so it's not all on Rudkin. If we lost the legal appeal that wouldn't have been Rudkin's fault, obviously. He's a large part of why we had to do it in the first place though. He was DoF when the good stuff happened, true but it was primarily under a different owner in Vichai. Rudkin can take the credit for bringing Rodgers in but we all know how that ended. I don't think anybody thinks he's an all powerful executive but he is the director of football at a football club and the football part has been particularly shoddy recently. So it's a combination of Top and Rudkin making the bad decisions. I think the Rudkin out, Top in brigade are in denial tbh. Top isn't cut out for the role as evidenced by his don't be mean to me statement after we got relegated. We were promised a review after we got relegated and the findings weren't announced, nor do we even know if it happened.

6 weeks/Couple of months ago

Rudkin runs the football side as confirmed by Sam Wallace in the Telegraph in 23. A normal business would have the right checks and balances in place but it’s pretty ckear we don’t run that way. Who on earth would sign off on deals like Ayew & Skipp otherwise? I think Top is negligent at best, Whelan I don’t think has the authority to veto footballing decisions. So with a badly ran footballing arm he has to carry the can for that. Nobody is vetoing anything above him by the looks of things.

If the head of manufacturing at a plant kept making poor decisions messing up production would it not jeopardise the overall financial picture? I also want Top gone so it’s not just Rudkin.