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He didn't put up great numbers last year which is what I thought would put off bigger clubs. However if Leverkusen have tracked him since his time at Genk then they'll be aware his output was severely stunted.

I looked at a few transfers from various pl clubs and Everton have shifted Godfrey to Atalanta for £12m. Southampton received £10m+ for Alvarez, Mara, Salisu etc (some starters maybe I don’t know?). Wolves and Villa consistently pick up £5m ish for the likes of Sanson/Podence whereas we have two sorts of departure - big money player we don’t want to lose á la Maddison, Barnes, KDH, or they leave on free. We almost never get anything for players we don’t want, Rudkin is spectacularly bad at it. The £200m+ worth of players that have left on frees is testament to it.

Declaration was spot on

Didn't realise Handscomb took 6 catches as WK, good going.

I moved from Freetrade to Trading 212 and much prefer it. The aer on uninvested funds is pretty good too.

We are bad at selling though. Other clubs do manage to shift unwanted players, not always but more frequently than we do. Off the top of my head we've turned down seemingly adequate bids for Praet, Soumare, Iversen, McAteer etc because they didn't match our lofty valuations. Some of those prior to he current PSR regs too. We also don't hawk players out to the right sort of markets either, we've sold 1 player to Saudi (Musa about 8 years ago), none to MLS, very few to Turkey for any money and we didn't;t do any PSR swap deals despite having one forced on us. Good DoFs/Shrewd clubs realise when players aren't going to work out and flog them for a reasonable price quickly or get creative with loan-to-buys. We are hemmed in by his stupid initial mistakes but he doesn't pull enough of the levers avail be to him. He's a stone age director.

Everton were in deep financial shit and they sold loads of players for a sizeable surplus whilst he was there. The remit was keep them whilst the finances were sorted and the stadium was being built - a club legend returning amongst the back drop of a new ground takeover were circumstances Dyche couldnt benefit from. They were often dogshit under Dyche, can’t deny that but he did what they needed him to do. ARRIVALS 24/25 Players Club Transfer sum €50.20m Jake O'Brien Olympique Lyon €19.50m Iliman Ndiaye Marseille €18.00m Tim Iroegbunam Aston Villa €10.70m Jesper Lindstrøm Napoli Loan fee: €2.00m Asmir Begovic QPR free transfer Carlos Alcaraz Flamengo loan transfer Orel Mangala Olympique Lyon loan transfer Armando Broja Chelsea loan transfer Harrison Armstrong Everton U18 - Harry Tyrer Everton U21 - Details DEPARTURES 24/25 Players Club Transfer sum €84.15mI Amadou Onana Aston Villa €59.35m Ben Godfrey Atalanta BC €12.50m Lewis Dobbin Aston Villa €11.80m Neal Maupay Marseille Loan fee: €500k Andy Lonergan Wigan free transfer Harrison Armstrong Derby loan transfer Harry Tyrer Blackpool loan transfer Mason Holgate West Brom loan transfer André Gomes Without Club - Dele Alli Without Club - Billy Crellin Accrington loan transfer

What was nasty about it specifically?

First ton for Budinger, brought it up with a two 6s naturally!

From my own dealings with the club far too many people go on holiday at once after the season ends. The non-sporting people should be taking most of their holiday throughout the season - it's downstream of the feet under the carpet culture and nothing ever gets done. How long have they been 'looking into' the priority points system? About 10 years

Far from my first choice but I'm just about mildly pro-Dyche. I'd have preferred Rohl but Dyche is a better manager than the (shallow) pool of contenders our hierarchy could put together, Gerrard, O'Neill, Carrick et al. The benefits: - Demands hard work, basic but we've had too many soft touch managers so the Winks, Vestergaard situations have happened - Manager rather than head coach, above him people are incompetent so him shouldering some of the responsibility is necessary - Defensively secure, we've not been particularly good defensively for a long time (23/24 it was mostly high possession rather than being good unit that kept us below 1 GPG). - Had an unfancied Burnley side up twice - Can work with a constrained budget - More likely to keep us up if we get there than the standard progressive manger du jour Disadvantages - No track record of working with young players - His sides can struggle to score - Talent ID is flawed - Inflexible tactically - Pally with Rudkin (this is what scares me the most) He's a fairly smart bloke so I personally don't think he's going to come in and consign BEK, Fatawu, Alves, Evans, Monga etc to the scrapheap instantly. Neither Burnley or Everton ever seemed to produce decent players when he was there, it's not like they had underplayed talent that have flourished elsewhere, Tom Cannon was one of Everton's better prospects . He's signed Danjuma, Ndiaye, Lindstrom at Everton so he has moved on from the purely functional winger types. Whatever we do we have to sign players that are of use to Dyche but also the next manager, which was the gigantic and predictable problem with Cooper. So by all means sign a classic Dyche striker but make sure it's a Salech rather than a Kieffer Moore. We go into next season with a pretty high floor but also a low-ish ceiling, I don't think he's capable of a coaching a side into 90+ points at the this stage but ~80 or so is probably about par for where we're at now.

It wasn’t a nasty response

Huddersfield were on the wrong end of a few key decisions in that game. They had a storming run of form I don’t deny that but the original point was he’s not some promotion specialist. He failed to get promoted Swansea with a very good team too.

With what, one lucky play off promotion with Forest? Not having that

We need to sell, he only has a year left and he’s ran his course but OTOH he’s the only striker we have - and I don’t trust us to sign at least two serviceable options

I don't think Daka is that bad tbh it's just he joined at the start of the decline 21/22 - 5 goals, 3 assists in 13 starts 22/23 - 4 goals, 4 assists in 13 starts 23/24 - 7 goals, 5 assists in 15 starts He's been in and out of the side through a variety of different styles under a churn of managers all the while competing with our best ever player.

Good all round player but he's at 0.35 xg per game in Brazil, not convinced he's going to be prolific. Probably a bit Joao Pedro-y

His last La Liga season FBref profile (admittedly small ish sample size) is good too https://fbref.com/en/players/eeba07f8/scout/12202/Luis-Javier-Suarez-Scouting-Report

Luis Javier Suarez. 37 goals and 8 assists in his last 52 nineties for Almeria across the first and second division. They didn't get promoted and we could offer better wages. Powerful runner, dribbles well, holds the ball up and can score with both feet.

I have no idea what that is tbh

Yeah me too nice work @Lako42

Anybody ever stayed in El Campello just outside of Alicante?

I think it's probably unrealistic to expect owners to sell to 'good' owners. Selling a club is difficult and if you have a buyer lined up you sell. Mandaric does have a particularly rotten record though. Funny jumpscare on his wiki page United States Around the same time he had begun using his money to invest in football, Mandarić's passion since childhood (as a young man he had played for Novi Sad). He set up firstly F.C. Lika, then San Jose Earthquakes which played in the United States' first professional league. In 1978, he purchased a North American Soccer League franchise called the Connecticut Bicentennials and moved them to Oakland, California, to play as the Stompers. After one year in the East Bay, the team was moved to Edmonton, Alberta, to become the Drillers.[2] Europe Sceptical about the future of the sport in the U.S., Mandarić looked to European football, initially taking a stake in Belgian team Standard Liège before taking outright ownership of Belgian club R. Charleroi S.C., then French side OGC Nice. Under his ownership the latter club won the 1996–97 Coupe de France but they were also relegated from the French top division.[2] Portsmouth In 1998, Mandarić sold Nice and took over English club Portsmouth in May 1999, to whom he had been introduced by ex-player Preki.

They used to, not so much now. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of directors of football out there who would be an improvement on the incumbent twat. Yet, two of the most cited names on here are Pearson and Puel, this sort of myopia is part of the reason we’re in trouble.

Also what is the obsession with trying to appoint ex-managers as DoFs? Appoint a good director of football with a proven track record in that position, you wouldn't sign a goalkeeper to play in midfield because he's good with his feet.