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Your mood in 10 words? Cautiously optimistic that we have largely flown under the radar. Where will we finish? 1st How many points will we be deducted? 6 Points Who will be our most important player? Fatawu Who will be top scorer? Daka What are you most excited about? Fatawus return to action What are you most worried about? Scoring goals. Ayew / Daka - could be sensational at this level. Could….. What’s one thing you most want to see this season? Attacking football with no fear. Which player is going to surprise us? Daka Which player do you most want out the door? Kristiansen Which player linked with a move are you most desperate to keep? El Khannous could be a revelation. Will Martí Cifuentes still be the manager this time next year? Yes

What month will the club actually announced he’s at Besiktas now? Before or after he’s played a game for them

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Josh Brownhill would be a great signing, however I’m not sure it’s a sensible long term move.

Yes, this is what separates them really. Stolarkzyk isn’t Iversen bad with the ball at his feet, however he’s not a patch on Hermansen. Either way, they’re both better than Danny Ward!

Hermansen was solid until he got injured. The fee is in the ball park I expected to be honest. He can pass and fits the current role people look for in Goalkeepers. He’s much better at this than Stolarkzyk. However I don’t think we’ll notice a considerable drop off between old school goalkeeping, I.e actually keeping the ball out of the net.

The entire MRI scan for age dating was semi debunked though. I read up on it. Unfortunately it was massively prevalent for years with African based players, so that will forever hold a stigma. I suppose as long as he passes a VO2 max test, that will give everyone an idea on just how fit he actually is. Age is a number that is largely irrelevant. Fitness, dexterity, speed, power etc, can all be measured.

I’d be quite happy if Liverpool fell into the ocean tomorrow. I dislike them more than any other club.

I was maybe asked for my date of birth at signup?

Wait …….. I didn’t need to verify anything to get a Netflix account

What my experience in corporate has taught me, is that everyone writes this drivel. You then employ someone and they’re typically gone within 12 months!

Whose birthday is it today then …..

100% this. Scott Parker and even Steve Sidwell, good players, however not at the level. We are only talking about minor differences here by the way!

With the greatest respect, Vestergaard and Faes will be better than 90% of the defenders in the Championship. In 23/24, we conceded 41 goals in 46 games, the best in the division. Now that’s not exactly Burnley levels last season, however it’ll suffice. We aren’t going to release players, that the fan base don’t like. They’ll be kept around to try and do a job to get us back to the Premier League. Vestergaard will go at the end of the season I’d imagine and for this season, I’d see him being partnered by Okoli.

Looks like this will get done as soon as Wilf passes the medical in Turkey. £8m and a thank you for your services. Follows our other greats in Ghezzel and Amartey to Besiktas!

I only buy them for 6 a side now. No way I’d wear one anywhere else

Does that break any rules though?

I guess because it’s ambiguous, most people likely thought it was some sort of Thailand tourism advert. It likely went over the heads of 80% of people within the stadium. Another portion of people won’t even care what’s going on, or as I think it got alluded to somewhere else, that generally people don’t have the capacity to appreciate conflicts outside of what the media portray (Gaze, Israel, Ukraine) Bit of education for anyone that is semi interested. Like so many wars, it started rooted in religion, around a temple built in the 9th century I believe. The Preah Vihear temple. Borders and ownership have shifted for centuries as various empires etc claimed it, depending who was war mongering within the region at the time. The French undertook colonial mapping of the region in 1907 and draw the temple within Cambodias border. As the temple is significant to Thailand as well as Cambodia, they dispute this. In 1954, as the French left Cambodia, Thailand military went and occupied the temple. In 1963, the International Court of Justice ruled the temple belonged to Cambodia. Thailand didn’t take it well but withdrew troops. Just the temple though and not the are around it, leaving some ambiguity. The 1980s saw the Cambodian civil war, which was between Khmer Rouge and a Vietnamese-backed government. Thailand hosted Khmer Rouge camps along the border with US / Chinese support. 1991ish, saw the Paris Peace Agreements and Cambodian elections, which actually helped the Thailand / Cambodian relationships improve a little. In 2003, false reports that Thai actress claimed a temple called Angkor Wat (if you don’t know it, think Stone Henge of the area) belonged to Thailand. It’s in Cambodia so massive riots kicked off. Sometime in 2008 UNESCO declared Preah Vihear temple a world heritage site, Thailand strongly opposes and it kicks off for the next three years with tensions running high and 100,000 being displaced and 28 people losing their lives. In 2013, the International Court of Justice declares all of the surrounding area of said temple belongs to Cambodia as well. Thailand is annoyed but “legally accepts” the situation. They are however internal tensions from Royalist and Nationalist groups to oppose it. Sometime in July 2025, a phone call between the Thai PM, Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Cambodian strongman Hun Sen is leaked, which triggers outrage, as the Cambodian media portrayed Thailand as manipulative. Thai opposition and military circles accused the PM of compromising national security. After five days of having a pop at each other, Malaysia brokered a ceasefire with help from China and the US. ……. After typing all of that, I still don’t agree with our football club (Top might own it, it isn’t his though) being a bloody megaphone to push the Thailand propaganda and version of their version of events / narrative. We’ve constantly been used for geopolitical messaging about Thailand. King Power have basically been blessed by the Thai royal family for loyalty and we’ve constantly been used a soft messaging service to project propaganda to the world. We are to Thailand, what PSG (Qatar), Newcastle (Saudi Arabia) and Manchester City (UAE) are to those countries. We are, at times a sports washing exercise. We’ve obviously not got the historical financial clout of the other three, so have repeatedly tried to do dodgy stuff to circumvent PSR to keep us within the Premier League, so they have a larger audience to project to. It’s crippled us though. This is why we’ve overspent etc, we’ve tried to buy ownership to the club and flunked. If King Power were to fall over due to not supporting this though back at home, we’d be in worlds of pain. They’re already on rocky ground as some of the stuff that got brushed under the carpet previously like the monopoly claims or claims of corruption, won’t go away so easily if they fall out with whichever regime is in charge of Thailand. My opinion is, If you scratch the surface, they aren’t really that interested in the football club. They’ve tried to enough for us to get by. They struck lucky with success in the Premier League and FA Cup. PSR became a convenient excuse for us not to spend and they just want us to be amongst those top 20 clubs so they can promote soft messages about Thailand, so they maintain favour back at home for King Power. I COME BACK TO MY ORIGINAL POST THOUGH. Politics should have no place in football.

Also on KDH, I’m not surprised he’s moving on after a season. He is a solid Premier League midfielder and will have a good career. To break into that Chelsea team is difficult for elite players though. They’re finally pushing back to the level of Manchester City it would seem.

I’d assumed it was all sorted “behind the scenes” at this point. It’ll be interesting how he gets on long term.

Yes, I really liked the last series.

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If Maddison has done his ACL that’s rough. His career has been so injury prone.

If it was good enough for Nugent!