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I saw it from the BBC personally, I don't read the Mail but it seems like both the BBC and Mail have copied Football Insider since nobody wants to reveal a source, the Mail doesn't even mention having a source. Maybe there is inside info somewhere, are Football Insider legit? the website looks like a glorified blog.

I hope so, but this is KPFC so.....

I think the short price is because Cisse said Gerrard couldn't attend his anniversary match for "professional reasons" so I assume that's an interview? either that or it's basically a done deal, but bookies suspended betting straight after Cisse said that so the price seems more on speculation than details, would make sense for Rangers to go for him over RM though.

It could easily be a storm in a teacup, but the source seems to be Football Insider, and their "source" is..... "sources" So we can only hope it's rubbish.

Which is precisely why I said "they are not like for like but Martin has more in common with Enzo than differences" .... Both styles are awful, which is why Chelsea fans are sick of him already. Both Enzo and Russell want to dominate possession for the same reason, to try to convince the opponent to lose shape and press, it's boring, it's sideways, it's negative imo.

I’ve never wanted Ruud Van Nistelrooy to be manager more in my life.

I can’t really understand this. Russell Martin is the closest manager to Enzo in terms of philosophy and style that we could get. I’d have imagined fans would be happy about this on this forum. This is most definitely a step in the Enzo direction. 🤢

I think he will probably get us promoted providing if/when we get a deduction it’s not too big and if we can hold on to half of the squad. But you’re pretty much guaranteed it’s back to square one when we get promoted with a squad that’s been conditioned so heavily to play a single style they are completely unable to change.

I think it’s time to start the Ruud In society…

The fanbase obviously don’t want Martin, but the fans made it completely untenable for RVN to stay. We just knew they were going to do something stupid.

We didn’t mean it Ruud please stay

Yeah, it’s genuinely a good interview and he speaks really well. But about half way through he admits he’s more determined than ever to play his way…. Ruud in.

If fans are genuinely against this, it can be reversed. As long as it’s not confirmed before Bournemouth, the fans can voice it, they won’t listen but atleast voice it on match day.

RVN IN.

Love the way he talks (his interview with lineker was very good) love that he isn’t afraid to play a younger squad and sign younger players, love that he has a clear identity and philosophy and will build the club around that philosophy. Absolutely detest the boring sideways football he offers. Genuinely surprised so many of the Enzo supporters on here aren’t excited by a return to sideways ball. They aren’t like for like obviously but Russell has far more in common with Enzo than he does differences imo. I really hope that all of the talk during his Lineker interview about recognising his mistakes is genuine, and I hope to god him admitting he’s more determined to play his way than ever was a lie. I do quite like RM, but the football…. Genuinely, **** this board.

If true suggests we are likely going to sell Kristiansen or possibly Thomas but Celtic are paying half of his 60k palace wages, even on a free transfer he's going to want 40k a week minimum he's hardly going to want to cut his wages in half, we need to get off of this spending addiction. EDIT: I thought he was 30 for some reason, he's 32. Absolutely not.

I guess it depends how much we need to do to comply really, ideally we want to get rid of of Vestergaard, Kristiansen, Ricardo (😭) Daka, BDCR, Ayew, Winks, Coady, Hermansen for the profit and then look at the names mentioned if we still fall short, my guess would be if we could get those players above off the books (even at a book loss) it would stand us in good stead to keep hold of the likes of BEK/Nelson etc. We only broke PSR by a small amount in 22/23 despite having a wage bill that was £30m above anyone else through player sales and big earners leaving, hopefully we can shift some on. I know they’ve been largely awful this season but I think players like Faes can get a move for a few million somewhere in Europe, and Kristiansen did a good job in Serie A last season. Fingers crossed.

AFAIK although it's the premier league bringing the case against us, because it happened in the championship season they can defer the punishment to them.

Don't get me wrong I completely agree and this scenario is a best case scenario, a lot of it will be down to WHO we can get rid of, if for example we fail to ship out Faes, Daka, Coady etc, we may then be in a position where we are forced to sell players like El Khannouss, Fatawu or Nelson. I'm curious to know how the EFL deal with certain scenarios, say they come in and force us to produce a business plan, and part of that plan is to sell one of the big wage earners like Winks, if we are offered lowball fees for him which would result in us losing money, would the EFL accept us making another book loss to try to achieve wage stability? Or would they say "that's great you got 90k per week off the books, but you still made a book loss so you've breached again here's another deduction" It's a weird merry-go-round, we can't afford to keep these players but because of PSR breaches we can't afford to lose them for a cheap fee if it results in a loss of money on the books.

As bad as this is, part of me can see a small silver lining that the EFL/PL are essentially coming in and forcing us to sell everyone. Even if it means cut price deals I don't care, get these charlatans out of the club. Start again on a sustainable wage budget, build the squad around youth, bring in a competent DOF like Pearson, Puel or someone else who actually have an eye for a player and a direction and isn't afraid to stand up to the club when it's needed. If this means we go into next season with Faes, Winks, Coady, Ndidi, Ayew, BDCR, Vestergaard, Soumare, Daka and Kristiansen off the books, so be it, If it means we go into next season with a wage budget that is not 102% of our revenue, and we have to maybe settle for a mid table season before rebuilding, I would 100% take that scenario over us trying to somehow keep all of these plates spinning and getting deduction after deduction and spiralling to relegation. Nip it in the bud NOW, fix the foundations and rebuild. If we try to keep ANY player who is earning more than 50k a week we deserve every bit of pain we get. Try to build the squad around this: (Monga not in the database, also aware that we may have to sell El Khannouss which, if anything, would probably give us a better chance of keeping Monga) Bench/Match day rotation: Braybrooke, Souttar, Coulibaly, Golding, Mcateer, Evans, Wanya Marcal The missing pieces can be looking at AFFORDABLE loan players, Kroupi at Bournemouth will probably go out on loan again (striker just scored 22 in ligue 2) Is this the most effective way to guarantee promotion again next season? Probably not, but we look like we might not have much choice but it's sustainable and at some point we have to address the issue of our board having a spending addiction.

For gods sake Nige, save us.

Posted by John Morris (Vardys agent) To Jamie, It was a pleasure working with you. I wish you all the best in the future with your beautiful family. Take care, Ruud Van Nistelrooy I’ve always got the impression there is a big mutual respect there and that they got on well.

If Pearsons health permits and he fancies an office job, I know just the role for him…

Kasey had a fantastic start to last season under Enzo but tailed off a bit toward the middle/end of the season and I think as a fan base he's been somewhat written off. However, his attitude in this interview is first class, I keep using the word "foundation" when talking about the next steps of the club, hearing Kasey say "To get my first premier league goal it's what dreams are made of and to do it at this club is a dream come true" This. This right here is the foundation we need to create, building a club full of players who either dreamt of playing for us as a fan, or were honoured to sign for us and wear the shirt when coming from elsewhere. I think the Right Wing position is one we don't need to worry about next season with Fatawu and Kasey there.

Great to see Lloyd Dyer on the pitch too, easy to forget he made over 200 appearances for us as we stabilised out of League 1 toward the premier league.