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We want £4,000,000 and no less Marseille, you can stick your £3,895,000 offer up le arse

So many on here were hooked back in after a few not-shit performances earlier on in the season. Surely we finally see the back of the twat

His record is 3-2-17, pretty similar tbh

Doomed when we appointed a manager that his won 3 of his last 17 PL games. Forest fans harping on about him keeping us up when they sacked him because he was taking them down

Like I said he wouldn't make my top 10 but time and time again they've appointed the easiest and laziest choice. Just once we've appointed a manager in a job under these - Rodgers. Every manager had previously worked in English football in some capacity. We've appointed more former + current employees as managers than people in a job or from abroad. The people that appointed Cooper aren't going to land Kjetil Knutsen or somebody of his ilk all of a sudden. There've been hundreds of interesting, good names over the years touted on this board and the only left field choice the club has ever made is Maresca, on an agent's recommendation apparently (entirely believable). I'm advocating for Dyche over the dross like Martin, GO'N, Mowbray not in general. My #1 in the summer was Corberan because he's genuinely the most pragmatic (not Cooper's sham pragmatism) in our sort of bracket. If we'd stayed up or gone down he's have been a good fit. He's smashing it at Valencia but we baulked at £4m compo just to spunk 5x that on Oliver William Skipp (born 16 September 2000).

Dyche wouldn’t make my top 10 but this is King Power’s Leicester we’re taking about - we appointed Cooper who is the ersatz/tinpot/heron foods Dyche anyway. Bournemouth/Fulham/Brighton were all promoted into weaker PL seasons, the drawbridge has been pulled up now and there’s basically one or two weak links - there wasn’t in 21-23. Us, Wolves, Palace, Everton, Southampton were soft teams in a way there aren’t now (United maybe lol). He’s had an under-resourced Burnley up twice and had a couple of top ten finishes, admittedly he couldn’t do it now but he’s more likely to keep a team up than ideologues like Martin. The back end of last season was football terrorism. We played anti-football at Plymouth and Millwall, zero threat, zero impetus - it’s not like we’re beyond it. Parker and Wilder have shown you don’t have to have 65% possession to go up. Burnley are 4th and Sheff Utd 9th whereas Norwich and Swansea are 2nd and 3rd. Carrick is exactly the sort of touted manager that we’d walk into the trap of appointing; despite his teams being decent they lack the cutting edge with an over emphasis on short passing, with tidy enough players too. If you detach his name, face and demeanour from his record it’s a completely different proposition. Dyche has achieved more than Martin, Cooper, Gary O’Neil, Mowbray - the sort of pool our myopic twats are looking in. He can also manage upwards far better which is what we need. Substance over style is necessary.

I'd prefer coconuts but harder to get in

It’s just snobbery, if we land a successful, progressive manager and they take us up we’re in the same cycle as Leeds, Norwich, Southampton etc - or - they jump ship like Maresca (small chance they stay). For the task at hand he’s a good fit. There’s no point banging on about Fischer, Stephan etc because the club c unts haven’t heard of them.

Dyche could manage upwards better than anybody else which is why he’s what we need.

Donuts

And lower case postcodes

We have historically paid silly money but the cash (or ability to spend it) is drying up now, especially as we won’t make the same level of sales we did last time. We’re in PSR trouble still and at least £15m (more than we spent on any player with more £ available last time) on Gomes plus hefty wages isn’t happening. He’d also have some lower end PL suitors.

We were so lucky under Cooper and still shit. The Forest performance was what we would have had more of and we should have been properly battered in that. We didn’t have a clue. Ruud also doesn’t have a clue and the players aren’t good enough which is the one Cooper had c. £60m of signings which he clearly picked though.

Why would he leave Lille for us? We can’t pay those sort of wages anymore. We couldn’t afford the fee either. Him wanting to play possession football doesn’t mean he can or will. It’s a pretty big risk because the players he had at his disposal with the U21s are just so strong. We need somebody with a strong track record in club management. Enzo didn’t but that was a gamble that paid off - we can’t do that again. Corberan was the right appointment in the summer but we f ucked it with the usual King Power myopia.

Pearson?

We were on 0.8 ppg under Cooper having played 10 man Southampton and Ipswich, two of the worst PL sides ever. He has an abysmal PL record because he’s a shit manager, that the board then appointed another shit manager is immaterial to how shit appointing that shit bastard was.

It’s a British disease. Especially short haul - you don’t need jogging bottoms (especially fatties who don’t jog!) and a neck pillow for an hour fifty flight

The BMA crowd who don’t make any noise apart from clapping relegation are weirdly literal with “we always back the lads” line. Cheerleaders for decline.

Amongst a lot of competition I think the Perez signing was the probably the very worst. £30m spent on an upwardly mobile wide player would have made the difference in 19/20 or 20/21. He was slow, gutless and uncreative - I remember being dead against it at the time. @murphy was as well.

Their confidence was shot from being undercooked in preseason by a shit manager lazily appointed by an incompetent regime. What’s the solution in your opinion? Just persist a bit harder on our downwards trajectory? Just keep a bit more faith?

With our batting depth we shouldn’t really lose a game, should draw at worst. Given the ludicrous points system it might just take us up.

Scriven five-fer

Yeah they were working on parts of it.

Can’t remember if I mentioned it on here but I went to the botanical gardens recently. Very serene and a rare free of charge attraction.

Cricket World Cup final was astonishing. I’d always been a casual cricket fan but that had me hooked. The accidental 6, drawing in 50 overs, the super over - nuts