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That's on the club, Fer Nino didn't do the deal! (wouldn't be any worse)

AZ Aalkmar's sporting director worked in cycling beforehand, he's doing a good job

As time has passed I'm starting to come around to him

Rodgers had some upside but did his best to ruin the club. Cooper was detestable from the get go

No Praet?

Amartey just ultimately wasn’t good enough but was otherwise professional, didn’t moan and was cheap.

Hated the signing because he was expensive and shit but primarily I can’t stand the “he’s such a good leader/talker/personality/pro” bluster, he’s a f ucking blagger.

Tete? He was just out of his depth. Ward (C) Faes Coady (VC) Mills Bertrand Winks Soumare Wise Ayew Beckford Lingard

I’ve probably stuck up for him more than most but West Brom away was the absolute final straw. If you make such juvenile mistakes against mediocre players you’re just a hindrance. Nelson has had a few shakey moments but never cost us like Faes has (early days admittedly, he has his upsides but the errors soon far outweighed the benefits

If Rodgers had just been sacked when we were winless in 7

Seems unlikely there was lots of competition given he went out on loan on deadline day. We just can’t give the club the benefit of doubt in these situations - look at the Edouard deal

I know? I didn't say he was

Yep, it’s like nobody has ver bought a players that’s struggled for their current club before. The Kristiansen example is a great one. More clubs would look at that stint as basis to sign him than not displacing Luke Thomas. Other clubs don’t follow targets like a fan does their own player

How Leicester would it be to negotiate a loan deal without any break clauses in a deal for possibly the most injury prone player in the country? It's like Rudkin doesn't understand we can have our input in deals

On here there is this reverse exceptionalism that our shit players are literally the worst in the whole world and nobody would ever buy them. It's only because we've had a decade of Rudkin we have this Stockholm syndrome. We saw it in the summer, nobody would possibly pay that much for El Khanouss/Justin/Ndidi - they did. We know Faes is shit but that's after years of watching him make mistakes in a poor team. Other club will recruit for specific position/skill set in a certain budget, Monaco will probably have kept tabs on him in France. Or it could be they just haven't done enough due diligence on the deal but with a loan with an option, it's risk free. Bad players get offloaded all the time, it just requires clubs to freeze players, get their agent working hard and alerting the market and the press they're available, it's just we have a beyond useless DoF. CAn't say for certain but I feel as though Monaco would have bought him for £4m now but because we just can't negotiate they've came out of this deal with no downside at all (bar having Faes). I half expect him to do well just Justin, Perez, Tielemans etc have after leaving - even though they were a busted flush towards the end here.

We need a striker on loan. PSV signed Myron Boadu on a year long deal and he's only played 55 league minutes, chance our arm. Had a great stint at Bochum last year.

We’ve had decent draw luck for a while, due some crap

We just haven’t seen enough of the vast majority. Nelson is the only one of this lot we’ve seen play enough to judge.

Bit raw

Castle Rock did neglect it and I say that as a fan of theirs. No reason it couldn’t be Loughborough’s equivalent to the Newhouse in Notts, the lay out is similar.

Most banning orders ever issued from one game iirc

Not a great record anyway but he’s only started 4 games in the FA Cup weirdly

Skipp and James are remarkably similar players tbh. The latter’s injuries cemented his reputation as far better than he actually was. He was neat, tidy and circulated the ball well without being particularly impactful in the final third - just as Skipp does.

A can totally foresee them labouring against us, we’ll concede from the left early doors but the don’t get going. A James or Fatawu screamer gets us back into it before succumbing to a defeat very late on. Worst of all worlds as they win at the death and because it’s not a battering it gives Cifuentes 10 more games, despite not describing it.

Through necessity he’s going to be a mainstay for the next few years and his attitude is first class. The right age too when we have a very young squad going forwards.