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Mavididi getting ready already

I need a sick reaction

He looked about as excited as we all sound at watching this.

Maresca is watching …..

I wondered if he’d been advised to play more as a defensive fullback. He’s hardly pushed forward at all.

Both teams are woeful.

He really needs someone (Ricardo) to go on the outside as an option. He’s very predictable.

Fatawu has been very poor so far.

How far behind are you?

What is Fatawu doing?

I’m not convinced these are great either. Norwich have the ball but haven’t exactly done a lot with it,

Like we’re managed by Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Just because Fatawu shouts for the ball, Skipp doesn’t need to attempt to give it to him. Terrible decision making.

I was just thinking the same thing. I know we’ve had loads of rain, however it looks to be struggling with the number of games being played on it.

What is the goalkeeper doing with that Winks shot

Yes, quite a few have been one season wonders and we’ve been linked to half of them! Akpom, Vdyra, McCormack, Gray, Graham, Cureton, Ellington, Piroe, Armstrong etc It’s a funny game though, as Jack Marriott is posting a great goals per minute ratio in League 1 this season. He dint exactly set the world alight at Wrexham. Sometimes it’s just about being in the right place at the right time.

Sorry Doctor, I was more thinking of they put them into League 1.

Just a thought. If the Manchester City decision is imminent and happens this season. If they get relegated to the Championship or even League One as punishment. Does that mean that each league would only need to relegated two places and not three? Also whoever finishes 3rd would get automatics in the Championship? With playoffs being 4th to 7th then? As four would need promoting and not three?

The Championship don’t record that stat unfortunately. Thats what I was looking for this morning.

We don’t play “launch it” football though. With the right players, ball retention will always work out better than giving it the opposition, for it to then come straight back at us. Football at the top level, isn’t a basketball game. Launch it works when you’ve got great hold up players and combative midfielders. We just don’t have those either. So we’d be conceding the ball by smashing it long every time, rather than trying to play a ball into Winks and Skipp. I can see Vestergaard coming back in once fit. Or we need a complete change in system and go three at the back then just focus on out scoring the opposition. We sure aren’t keeping a clean sheet anytime soon.

All those followers and nothing!

I think we need to try and accommodate them all. Rowett has used a version of a 3-4-1-2 / 3-4-2-1 formation when he was at previous clubs. We need Winks as much for his ball retention ability as we need Skipp for his work rate. I could see them all being shoe horned in something like this ….

Reality is that neither are truly ideal. Looking at the stats makes for interesting reading.

Yes, no one really understands them in depth in reality. The amount of things that are and aren’t included is silly. A bit of creative accounting and you’re around them simply undermines the entire thing. Then you have Man City with 115 odd charges, covering 54 charges of financial reporting, 14 charges of manager and player pay 12 charges of UEFA and PSR compliance 35 for non cooperation These stem between 2009 through to 2017/2018, so would have potentially impacted not just us, but the butterfly effect of them financially doping so to speak outside of the rules could start a massive chain of events for legal challenges left, right and centre. I mean, how many teams have missed Champions League money in that period due to them finishing higher? You can’t even begin to put a an estimation on the consequential losses that this has caused to the wider football community if they are found guilty. It won’t just be about stripping them of titles and docking points, then relegating them. It is a litigation nightmare waiting to happen if the are found guilty, as by not dealing with it swiftly and it dragging on for years it could be one of the biggest legal cases of all time. If the Premier League and UEFA have any sense, they’ll have agreed a solution and outcome to this. It’s a multi billion legal war waiting to happen in reality. If they find them innocent (which at this point may be the lesser of two evils), then ourselves, Forest, Everton etc can then go after them for impacting our ability to grow for owner investment. Not that I believe we’d have bothered. Can you imagine the fall out if they are found guilty? Titles stripped and goes to the team in 2nd place. 2011/12 - Aguuuerrro. Title goes to Man U. 2013/14 - Gerrard slip. Title goes to Liverpool. 2017/18 - Title goes to Man U. Teams that missed Champions League (worth £50 - £100m per season) 2011 - Tottenham 2012 - Newcastle 2013 - Tottenham 2014 - Everton 2015 - Tottenham 2016 - Man U 2017 - Arsenal 2018 - Chelsea Then the relegated teams from the league each year. This is where it gets really messy. 09 - Hull, Burnley, Portsmouth 10 - Birmingham, Blackpool, West Ham 11 - Bolton, Blackburn, Wolves 12 - Wigan, Reading, QPR 13 - Norwich, Fulham, Cardiff 14 - Hull, Burnley, QPR 15 - Newcastle, Norwich, Villa 16 - Hull, Middlesbrough, Sunderland 17 - Swansea, Stoke, West Brom Some of those have never recovered from that, how do you put a price on it? Ultimately it then seems incredibly harsh to hammer ourselves, Everton and Forest for earlier periods when in reality, this should have been dealt with first. The cynical person might say until now, PSR deductions haven’t relegated a team. I wonder if the Premier League / EFL want that on them if we go down, with this mess all up in the air. We ourselves could issue a massive legal war over this. Can you imagine how Trump would be handling all of this if he owned a club in the Premier League. People would be getting sued for multi billion dollars based on defamation of character alone. Never mind the impact of what it’s could potentially have done. This is even before you throw in the impact of what Chelsea have done as well. Albeit they’re complying and self reported a lot of the stuff they found, so are likely just to be hit with massive fines.

This statement is 100% accurate. Whilst we all think (along with 99.9% of the football community of English football) that are PSR is a stupid rule, we knew the rules and still decided to somehow allow our wage bill to be more than our income. Unless you’re pumping money in from somewhere else, that is just shooting yourself in the foot. All I can think (to which we’ll never know the answer) was that we were going to get further external income though advertising, sponsorship, TV Revenue etc and it just hasn’t materialised. If they’d have had any sense; they would have capitalised on getting some form of TV series like “All or nothing”, “This is Wrexham” etc. We haven’t commercialised our rise to be a big club in the slightest and that is just bonkers. Let’s be honest, even if it was In-house and cost £30, loads of us would have watched it. If we use the matrix of social media following (assumed Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok) as a benchmark mark of popularity for a football club, we would be 30th in World Football. When you consider that, our failings are even deeper than we all maybe discredit our offpitch commercial performance team. Rank Club Country Total (M) FB (M) IG (M) X (M) TT (M) YT (M) 1 Real Madrid Spain 473.7 129.3 180.0 91.5 62.4 10.5 2 Barcelona Spain 427.4 120.0 142.1 86.6 57.2 21.5 3 Man United England 233.6 85.1 66.1 44.8 29.3 8.3 4 PSG France 199.4 53.1 64.4 25.5 47.4 9.0 5 Man City England 179.5 54.9 56.3 28.9 31.2 8.2 6 Juventus Italy 174.9 47.5 60.0 17.7 39.8 9.9 7 Liverpool England 166.7 51.7 48.2 31.6 25.0 10.2 8 Chelsea England 152.9 56.5 42.6 29.2 18.7 5.9 9 B. Munich Germany 149.1 62.7 44.1 18.4 26.5 4.8 10 Arsenal England 114.1 45.8 31.6 23.3 11.1 4.3 11 Tottenham England 108.1 25.1 18.2 22.4 40.6 4.1 12 Atlético Madrid Spain 80.2 18.6 17.9 8.8 32.1 2.8 13 AC Milan Italy 78.3 29.0 17.5 9.1 21.3 1.4 14 Inter Milan Italy 70.2 33.4 13.2 6.5 15.6 1.5 15 Al-Nassr Saudi 62.0 4.5 28.5 16.5 12.0 0.5 16 Flamengo Brazil 60.5 15.2 21.8 10.5 10.2 2.8 17 B. Dortmund Germany 60.2 17.4 20.9 12.1 8.2 1.6 18 Al-Ahly Egypt 57.7 16.1 12.5 19.6 8.5 1.0 19 Galatasaray Turkey 53.7 11.2 16.5 17.4 7.1 1.5 20 AS Roma Italy 41.8 10.4 8.2 4.5 17.3 1.4 21 Corinthians Brazil 41.6 11.5 14.1 7.9 6.5 1.6 22 Fenerbahçe Turkey 39.1 9.8 11.5 14.3 2.5 1.0 23 Inter Miami USA 38.4 5.2 17.3 4.5 10.8 0.6 24 Al-Hilal Saudi 37.7 4.8 12.1 14.3 5.5 1.0 25 Persib Bandung Indonesia 33.1 11.5 8.2 4.5 8.0 0.9 26 Club América Mexico 30.3 12.1 6.5 5.5 5.2 1.0 27 Boca Juniors Argentina 30.3 9.2 9.8 5.5 4.8 1.0 28 River Plate Argentina 29.6 9.6 8.8 5.8 4.2 1.2 29 Ajax Holland 26.9 5.2 8.9 2.1 9.9 0.8 30 Leicester City England 24.5 9.5 7.8 2.8 3.5 0.9 If you consider this, as the benchmark for what is a big club now. We’d be 7th in England with 24.5m followers, albeit we are way of the greedy six. Shocker I know. By comparison, Forest have 4.5m followers. In fact to take this a step further, we have more than Forest, Leeds, Brentford, Brighton and the Hollywood Darlings Wrexham combined. People bang on about Celtic and Rangers joining the English League system. They’ve got 18m combined! It is a bit tongue in cheek but if we have a target audience that is clearly following us, we haven’t engaged with them to leverage our success and really capitalise on our “brand”. I think this is because they push King Power largely and not Leicester City, which in reality, no one outside of football really cares about. “We’ve got a bigger social media following than you, you’ll never sing that”. Is maybe something we can sing at all of League One next season. The current 24 clubs total 15.5m followers, some 9m short of us! Rant and being over dramatic over. You get my point though.