Stadt

Eurostar sale on atm

I think for the first time all season we've been unlucky over the past few games. Performances have picked up but results haven't - I'm pretty pessimistic about us generally but I think the idea we just won't win again is a bit silly. Swansea are on the beach and Portsmouth are somehow in worse from than us. We're typically better when teams are more open against us, Millwall and Hull will need results. We're a gutless team and given our record it's hard to back us but it isn't over, we've outshot our last 3 opponents which is the first time we've done that since October-November. That being said, with how futile this era is we'll lose to Portsmouth and Blackburn but pick up a wins when it doesn't matter as much.

Challinor has obviously done well but Stockport are a well ran club and he's benefited in the same way that Brentford managers do. Lommel appointing a load of has beens under McCarron isn't exactly encouraging Name/Date of birth Nat. Appointed End of time in post Time in post Matches PPG Lee Johnson 07/06/1981 01/07/2025 281 days 31 1.71 Lee Johnson 07/06/1981 05/03/2025 30/06/2025 117 days 6 1.50 Ryan Garry 29/09/1983 14/01/2025 04/03/2025 49 days 7 0.14 Steve Bould 16/11/1962 01/07/2022 13/01/2025 927 days 86 1.49 Brian Eastick 27/01/1951 16/02/2022 30/06/2022 134 days 7 2.14

Jon Dahl Tomasson

No sentimentality, no thinking players 'will be good at this level'. Anybody on >= 15k pw has to considered for sale. First priority is the big(get) sales so we have some money in the bank with a relatively strong negotiating position for the following sales. Get Fatawu out first so we have £20m in the bank so we're not desperate come September. Then probably Nelson and Monga if they can bump us up towards the £40m mark in sales. The priorities then have to be the relatively big wages for players that just don't get on the pitch more than 50% of the time. Choudhury, Reid, Kristiansen, Vestergaard, Souttar, Vietes, Coulibaly etc. Then players that play but have just let us down enough times, e.g Mavadidi, Winks, Skipp, Okoli, Thomas (although there will be no takers for him,I'd imagine) - thankfully most will want out which makes our job easier. We have about ~10 players out of contract so we're looking at needing to sign 15 or so players. Alves ST Evans Braybrooke Page DM LB CB Wilson-Brown Aluko Stolarcyzk Would be the basis that we should look to fill around next season. I'm not saying this is the goal but working from a younger hungry while still talented core is what we need, not something with the whiff of rebuild - instead we have to go the whole way. The rest should be 22-28 year olds with a point to prove and 90% of signings need some shelf life, can't be in the position to need to rebuild in 18 months again.

The scouts and analysts probably do a good job largely. They're likely then overruled by any combination of Glover/Rudkin/the manager who want their men or whoever an agent has put in front of them. I doubt the scouts and analysts have pushed for say, Aribo.

What's the timestamp for the Free Chang song? Big fan of the pod but I don't want to bring myself down by listening to earnest Leicester chat for hours

Very on brand complaint but I immensely dislike Pub of the Year nominations for places that ceased to be real pubs years ago. The Griffin does nice food but that’s because it’s a restaurant now, it’s not somewhere you’d go to have a drink.

Still nothing - any idea if he was at the Preston game?

I know one of the co-owners of Parity, good guy - I can vouch for them too. Happy to pass his details on via DM @FoyleFox if you'd like, he'd have a quick no obligation chat over the phone

The club should be horrified at the prospect of reading this. 1) They won't, they'd just think FT is unduly negative 2) Even if they did, they wouldn't do anything 3) If they did it wouldn't even be perfunctory You can be shit on the pitch and nail things off of it, Ryan Murrant gave some good examples on here. Life Under King Power means however shit we are the on pitch, we're worse off the pitch.

£1.192 billion as I understand it

The full seasons with published accounts since he has been chairman. Over £1 billion in revenue and £373m loss in 6 years - and it's only getting worse.

It would have been very similar to what’s panned out. The culture is rotten, we have about a third of the squad leaving on a free in the summer. He’d still have been appointed too late (nor would he want it).

Millwall are doing well because the son that took over as chairman (after his dad died in a crash) immediately made sweeping changes in the boardroom. I don’t think the penny will ever drop for Aiyawatt. You can just imagine an exasperated administrator trying to explain basic concepts to him

I have a feeling McCaron will be good but Lommel are 29 points behind first and although this summer they made a profit in the transfer market, the previous seasons they've spent heavily (relative for the division). 4th place is slightly below par for them given the backing they have and the size of the club

I overdid it bank holiday Sunday so never made it into Sheffield, so similarly I’m not drinking for a few weeks.

He's done more than anyone, with the exception of James to win us points this season. He's been off it for weeks but he gets zero help on the pitch, the RB gets nowhere near him and he's the obvious danger man so gets targeted. 9 goals and 7 assists in this shower of shit is good going.

Should be what we’re offering but the mongas are the club are still in denial. Will they have learnt anything from paying a minimum of what, £20k pw for Arribo in January between now and July

Abysmal

The trouble is we never have an Eckert in the building already. Rudkin would never have the bravery or foresight to recruit a promising U21 manager from abroad. We’ve been behind the curve ever since Pearson and Walsh left. Even if we don’t self-immolate financially we’ll be in League 1 for years under Top and Rudkin because that’s the level of their capabilities. To get Pep, Man City built a Barca/Pep level backroom team and infrastructure. FSG learned from their early mistakes and developed a smart, shrewd and lean operation finished by Klopp. Newcastle very quickly overhauled their backroom operation. Brighton have had numerous employees poached but because the nous and strategic chops come from the owner, they can roll with the punches. Top is thick, we’ve seen that and Rudkin, I think generously, probably has an IQ of about 102. Everything is slow, sclerotic, there is no dynamism or new ideas. As football has changed into aggressive man to man marking it’s killed slow positional play. Even Guardiola is much more direct but Top is wedded to slow build up until it puts in the shit, then we lurch to a reactive manager (Cooper, Rowett).

The portrait of King Bhumibol has

Ramsey has 269 to Edouard’s 29. I don’t want to know what those to 298 minutes have cost us in loan fees, agent fees, wages and treatment fees. It’s a joke.

They often have decent cheap ales on (not Abbott personally)but I’m usually reticent because I don’t think they’re pulled through often enough, depends on the spoons. Had a Burton Ales something or other at the Corn Exchange on Friday and it wasn’t quite quite right but for £2.20 one can hardly complain

Cox is such a reliable handbrake to collapse. Much too short unfortunately.