cityfanlee23

Once again our transition play is quite good, Soumare, Ndidi, Coady and Bilal have put together some good little plays off of eachother, we just have absolutely nothing upfront.

Poor mistake from Soumare but that has to be the most effort he's ever put into tracking back

The question is, do I make it 3/3 and just not bother to watch the game or even check the stats?

Ralf Rangnick given FULL control as DOF.

ITS RACE WEEK Honestly the last few months F1 has been the only thing I’ve been looking forward to, usually football becomes the focal point of the off season but this time around we’ve had the worst of both worlds. 4am start is a tad early but hopefully we get a nice tight race and not the expect McLaren 1-2 and 2 tenths per lap quicker all race.

We are basically playing the club we have copied the blueprint of only on a speedrun. Leicester City between 2020-2025 are a carbon copy of United post Fergie. Signing overrated players on massive fees and astronomical wages who don't care about the club, don't fit the system and have no sell-on value. Ralf Rangnick warned them, but they didn't listen. Leicester fans have warned KP for multiple years, but they haven't listened.

Super Frank 👀

If we sack today, next match. If we persist, next season.

For the second week in a row I purposely avoided us. My time was far better spent I feel.

Would love to see us take a relatively low gamble on young players like Konstantinos Karetsas or Chemsdine Chalbi. Both young and currently playing in Belgium and widely regarded as potential future stars.

I feel like any transfer of a youth player to another club before they are allowed to sign a permanent contract should come with a 25% sell on clause by default + whatever future compensation is agreed. Plenty of clubs like Man City and Chelsea hoover up the countries best talents and the teams that developed them get a slap in the face when they turn out to be top draw, it's largely the same for Championship clubs hoovering up talent further down the league system also. It would need to be ironed out with finer details but for example if Monga has been with us for x number of years, and is within x years of being eligible for a professional deal, we will get 25% sell on regardless of the compensation. This would massively benefit clubs lower down the table that produce talent. The % could be lower depending on how long the player spent with the original teams academy, and lower depending on how many years before their first pro contract was signed.

If Ruud gave him some minutes it would be a HUGE reason to stay. A direct line to the first team, and possibly more minutes should we go down.

Those book values are far better than I expected they would be, I’d only really be concerned by Kristiansen and Skipp, we could probably get £10m for Kristiansen to be fair.

Problem is, we want a Dyche like figure, but without the 3 year deal, if we are going for that type, quite literally the only managers I can think of are Warnock and Big Sam, I'd take either right now sadly (not Sadly on Warnock I genuinely like him and would love to see him hammering the players)

I can see it now though, Murphy and King somehow keep us up by the skin of their teeth, get a 3 year deal and we are back down the bottom next season

Even if he bucks his ideas up I don't think he's good enough to keep us up. Relegation will cost us hundreds of millions, sacking Ruud now will cost us single digit millions with the chance of someone coming in and getting a flukey bounce.

I'm yet to see any compelling evidence that the EFL will have anything to charge us with, I know they will want to, but I can't see anything they can do unless new info comes out or I've missed something.

He literally does this every match doesn’t he?

I think he would, for all of our problems with the ownership, Wednesday are in a far worse position, for example at the end of the transfer window Chansiri held multi hour meeting with fans where he admitted he had not spoken to Rohl directly since November (whilst they struggled to bring any signings in) He told the fans if they want him to sell up so badly the fans need to find the buyer if not he’s going nowhere, he’s on multiple occasions and under multiple managers not paid the players, infact when Rohl first joined Wednesday there was a dispute where some players had not been paid for a month. Chansiri also told the fans late last year that if they hate him so much he will not put another penny in, and the fans need to repay the club loans each month. Wednesday are in a far worse position than us, have a far worse squad, Rohl has had to rebuild the squad with 14 free transfers and loans, and 4 players costing a total of 5m combined. Our relegated squad is superior to Wednesday and we will be getting parachute payments, we have some great young players and one of the best facilities in world football. Rohl comes here 100% imo, maybe not now, but in summer if we act quick he will.

For the first time in forever I purposely avoided the match, didn't watch it, didn't google the result, I actually forgot the game was on until just now so I'll just say, what an awful performance.

Are coaches allowed to work for both international and club teams though? Managers are and I can’t imagine international coaches have more work to do than a manager, surely he could work with us alongside his role?

Not disagreeing with your point but just to add Cags wasn’t in the squad until Smith, Shakey and Terry came in and we instantly improved. Defensively we are awful but confidence is also at rock bottom, we are bad but we aren’t this bad. I even said defensively we were massively flattered last season, whenever teams attacked us they looked dangerous, a mix of bad finishing and controlling possession flattered our defensive record for sure. Our defence could improve massively though, no doubt in my mind Moyesy would have improved us defensively and offensively, he apparantely didn’t want to come here in the end but i do think Ruud is not addressing the basics.

I’ve never seen a group of players who needed to hear this speech more in my life. Get him in. Id genuinely take him for the rest of the season right now.

Someone else commented earlier that Nigel had mentioned the importance of them scouting players characters, agree with that post from earlier, it looks like we have zero interest in player character anymore.

Massive bias for me on Rohl, but Urs is absolute priority if we can't get Danny.