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The new contract was lunacy, we held all the cards ffs! Getting 3 years at his age was absolutely daft.

I doubt any of the social media following from Bangladesh has converted into any meaningful revenue. The GDP per capita is about £2300. Instead Anthony and the new commercial shyster can say to the two new legitimate sponsor prospects they speak to a season “oh we have crazy engagement on the socials” and get an extras 0.25% on the deal

Matterface, Drury, Fletcher and Gary Weaver all have the habit of making it about them rather being supplementary to the viewing. I like innocuous commentary so games with say, Joe Speight are more enjoyable because he won’t do anything to wind me up.

What do people expect from a fanzone - they're always shit!

Moaning about our opponents being easy is just ignorant, Mexico at the Azteca is much harder fixture than beating a washed Brazil side but there's just this star****er tendency (mostly from Jocks) England must beat Spain, France, Argentina, Barcelona 2009 and the Harlem globe trotters for it to be legitimate. We had the hardest group by ranking and swatted recent semi-finalists in that. DRC were no mugs and drawing those was by virtue of an expanded world cup, because we.... won our group. Under Southgate we did benefit from kinder draws however.

Pretty much all pubs are struggling but it’s worse in Leicester because most of the population aren’t pub drinkers.

My sense is for a lot of firms it’s a vanity exercise, no way are most front of shirt sponsors granularly tracking. You’ll obviously know more than me but for Walkers it’s fine, not for companies where the return on ad spend is really consequential

My assumption is we’re about -3 net senior players a season on average over the past 5 years, chatGPT backed it up. Eventually Rudkin’s Inability get (any) players in is going to come home to roost and we’ll have a disastrously thin squad. We need the big outgoings sorted early so we have A) cash for working capital and B) we do have a moderate kitty to rebuild. What I can see happening is we dither, maybe sign two or three permanently, drag our feet but get desperate as the window closes and our financial situation hits home. Then we sell Fatawu and Nelson without time to get adequate replacements in. Then the unfavourable loans happen as standard. Martin will then intimate at being lied to like the rest have.

The lack of any serious activity is a huge problem. It’s not even like we’ve sorted the outgoings and we’re just biding our time for incomings. I thought McCarron might help the bandwidth problem but no, slow and sclerotic as usual - get ready for a slew of shit loans on deadline day.

You might be well placed to answer this but do firms actually expect an ROI with football shirt sponsorship? I’d guess it’s from the x% of marketing spend for awareness campaigns. Although gambling I guess you can trace sign ups quite easily for offers but for day duty free or insurance I can’t imagine it moves the needle?

We've made about £150m since 2020 if you include Sowah. That should have been an incredible amount of money to reinvest but instead it's just paid the wages of a bloated, shit squad Rudkin hasn't been bothered or wanted to shift.

In 23/34 Adam Armstrong got 21 G, 13 A under Martin - Evans is a similar profile so there might be green shoots there

If we start BDR upfront we’ll get relegated

We do such a bad job of selling our B and C tier prospects generally. We absolutely could have sold Maswanhise, Iversen, Cartwright and co for a fee or greater fee if we’d managed them better.

He’s not even 60 yet

The most embarrassing thing about these glazing pieces are he’s not really gaining from it, maybe the odd ‘nice’ scoop lands his way but there is no journalism going on.

We’re really short on bodies and physicality- he provides both. Braybrooke couldn’t get in at Dundee, the lack of Falkirk minutes isn’t a stick to beat him with. 200k for him or whatever would be fine if we don’t then spend £850k on an equivalent (older) player to start 11 times instead.

He started off really well, he was decisive early on but drifted after playing for this shitheap - we sapped any life and confidence out of him.

I think it’s a good deal because he’s not ready to perform for 40+ games just yet. Even if it’s 7.5m now it puts us in a stronger negotiating position for say Fatawu

Almost very good but the wyvern motifs are bit Rag N Bone man for my liking. The old Leicester Fosse logo or embossed cinquefoils would have absolutely delivered in the brief. I think it might grow on us

It's not particularly relaxing environment as it's bustling with the volume of tourists and it's even more compact than I expected. It will be mild but probably not warm, in the mid teens I'd guess. The walk up to the fortress is great, if you walk up the back way by the river you save the £15 entry, although you have to make a semi-dicey ascent over a rusty old hand truck and go back through that way to avoid the cost.

Little Club or the Broadway

Won a handsome amount on a lucky 63 team top goalscorer bet, cashed out which I think was wise. TTGS is a great market, the most famous names are almost always overvalued but low goals volumes are common for 80% of the sides so players priced at 5/1 and greater often win. Quinones, Plata, Budemir types were perfect for it. Plus Isidor who went into the tournament priced at 10/1 which was daft, the bookies must not have thought Haiti would score - 105/106 entires have scored over the past 3 tournaments. Also had a couple of singles like with Balogun which should win, Pulisic was the fav presumably because more has been staked on him owing to name recognition but Balogun is a very capable ST.

I hate this so much but can’t stop watching it

Tegernseer, Augustiner, Rothaus as mentioned. Any classic German (particularly Bavarian) brewer you can’t really go wrong with