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Given the lack of footballing nous the owner has we need somebody that won’t have the wool pulled over their eyes by Top & Rudkin. Whelan was sidelined precisely because of the special relationship between the two. For the long term good of the club (if KP aren’t going anywhere) we need a chief exec that can manoeuvre Rudkin away from key decisions. A chief exec used to dealing with PE, shareholders or savvy private owners is a different kettle of fish to dealing with a negligent man child. Simon Wilson at Stockport would be my choice but I couldn’t name many.

We have a paper thin squad already, we can’t bin 6 players off, we have to play some of those dossers.

1-0 Swansea. Our goal line is pretty much nailed on un under 2.5, they're solid defensively but we're just so prone to putting ourselves under pressure.

They’re not but I’d rather have Fatawu, Monga, James et al and come up against defensive teams. Ipswich aren’t struggling (xG wise) and they’re coming up against defensive set ups.

We would probably be no worse off if we had an embargo in the summer of 2024. We’d have been allowed to sign Fatawu but nobody else. BEK - turning a small profit, so not even worked out particularly well Ayew - shit player, overpaid, old Okoli - not terrible but out of favour already Edouard - stupid waste Skipp - £20m+ on him Reid - Old, nothing player Our business is so bad we need to be prevented from doing it by the footballing authorities, pause for a second and think how ridiculous that is

“But but but … points deduction” We didn’t get one and we had our highest net spend ever. It was a characteristically lazy managerial search that usual regime goons defended because of an imagined looming deduction.

We signed him literally because Cooper knew him from his England u17 days, 7 years later. “Oh Jon boyo, Skippy is a good lad like and thas what we need in midfield good lads with experience in the Premier League” £20m without any process or system to follow. Pearson and co had built a working transfer set up a decade prior ffs. A normal, average DoF would have laughed the suggestion out the room.

That was the point I was making. The leagues didn’t make us sign the detritus

Take the Wednesday game out and we have 25 shots on target in 8 games. Joint worst xG/shot in the league, completely crap at making chances. That isn't a player quality issue, Hull aren't struggling to make chances and they have much worse players.

I think Daka is probably too honest, should be going down as if he's slipped a disc

The EFL and PL don't want us to succeed!!!

We don’t have the fullbacks to offer any width though, we’re already too congested at times

Missed loads of pushes in the back on Daka

Pointless player. I absolutely despise Soumare and I’d rather have him on

Needs more minutes before we can judge him properly but so far he’s looking very much like a Jozy Altidore

He’s not had the best of circumstances but he’s making unforced errors now and we’re chronically uncreative. Chalk and cheese with what he said about being aggressive and playing positive football. Like the worst of Rodgers and Puel today which is a hateful combination

Pass selection is braindead at the back

Thought he didn’t offer enough as a 10. Was neat but nowhere involved or incisive enough - we’re really pinning a lot on Ramsey.

He’ll cost us any whiff of promotion with his egregious negativity. Trying to sit back and see out a lead with 25 minutes to go gives the impetus to the opposition. If you take off forward players and you concede, lo and behold you’re chasing the game with worse players.

That's what Sportrac said. 2028 on Trasfermarkt

Souttar and Okoli haven’t looked convincing in their limited minutes. We should be using the time to prep Nelson.

I like him, I think he'll be a pretty decent lower PL keeper but that's about it imo - he's basically the same age as Hermansen.

If he does that I can't get behind him. We're chronically uncreative and picking ever stodgier line ups is just dumb, we won't go up if we can't score more than once a game. We're 18th for xG for, play with an actual striker ffs

His greatest strength is beating players one vs one and you get much less of an opportunity to do that in the middle. I don't think it's good for his development to start messing with his position yet.

We’ve seen what happens when players aren’t committed and their contracts are expiring… the worst PL relegation ever. Rudkin as DoF (and academy director ffs) has used this experience to do precisely nothing differently. Even if Nelson is worse (debatable) than Vestergaard and Faes he at the very least has a medium term future here. Vestergaard is 33 and Faes has about 8 months left on his deal. Any sensible club would have learnt from the monumental ****-ups before and just trusted Nelson from the start of the season. We’ll get to the end of this season, lose Faes on a free, Vestergaard will be 34 the following season leaving our options as Nelson (deal expires 2027), Okoli and Souttar (both e. 2029). There isn’t any forward planning.