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You can just see him going somewhere like Atalanta and having the same impact as someone like Lookman. Keep hold of him.

You think Sheffield United are signing anyone from Wednesday?

Didn't want to play for us in the PL, no chance now. Just lazy paper talk, we're not signing anyone for £20m.

Tbf Faes looked like a capable defender in the Championship. I'd be up for giving Okoli another crack of the whip, we've only seen him play in a side where literally everyone looked shit and we were getting pumped every week.

You mean you've never heard of Mladzen Crnzvic? He's worked wonders in the Bulgarian third division.

What a city ❤️

We should keep this thread open to be fair, when Russ comes in we can start the speculation about the next bloke, then keep it going in perpetuity.

It'll be Daka up front stinking the joint out, should just let Evans start.

Fair, so that's about 2 out of 10. Can't see them bucking that trend again tbh.

Sorry, but the idea that when he was a Championship manager he built sides full of aging journeymen with no resale value just doesn't hold water. The challenges of building a promotion winning Champ side and a team that can survive in the Premier League are very different and I think it's only fair to judge him based on what he's done when he's been in the Championship previously. The average age of signings he made while Burnley were in the Championship was 25. Not sure if I've missed anyone, but think this is pretty illustrative: Chris Long (20), Michael Keane (21), Sam Vokes (22), Fredrik Ulvestad (22), James Tarkowski (23), Tendayi Darikwa (23), Ashley Barnes (24), Andre Gray (24), Scott Arfield (24), Nick Pope (24), Lukas Jutkiewicz (25), Tom Heaton (26), Jelle Vossen (26), Matthew Lowton (26), George Boyd (28), David Jones (28), Michael Kightly (28), Stephen Ward (29), Dean Marney (29), Matt Taylor (32). Championship-era Burnley also spent about £25 million on signings and earned £65 million from selling them. This was with a club who would have had a much lower budget than ours. What I won't argue with is the lack of flair players on that list - there is a clear tendency to sign players who will function well in a hardworking 4-4-2 side. I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with that. Would he have sanctioned the signing of Fatawu? Maybe not. I think he would have liked Mavididi - a hard working winger - and Hermansen though. I think last summer showed us that the way transfer strategy seems to work is that the club buy some players without the manager's say-so (El Khannouss surely wasn't a Cooper signing if we're honest) but they also take the manager's POV too - which is probably how we've been lumbered with Ayew and BDCR. I like to think that based on that list of players he signed at Burnley we'd at least have a strategy of buying younger players with some headroom to develop and sell. I've been defending him a lot in this thread the past couple of days - I don't actually have a strong opinion on him taking over, and I think there are other options we could explore, I just think there are a lot of myths around him as a manager that actually don't stand up to close inspection, particularly around his time as a Championship manager - which is what we'd be recruiting him for.

Not saying it's the right approach, just putting myself in Rudkin's shoes. I think if the club get £1m from tribunal for the likes of Trey Nyoni, they will see that as a result. As always, until we get rid of these wasters at board level - or bring in a DOF who can give us some kind of actual footballing strategy - it doesn't matter who manages us, there's no clear direction of travel apart from 'try and win games, try to get promoted, try to stay up'.

I think they had an academy transfer between 2018-2020, which seriously hampered them, but at the same time - I don't really blame him if he didn't bring through any prospects there when his remit will have been to do whatever he could to keep them up. I don't think he's ever really been at a club where he either a) had youth prospects worth promoting or b) had the time needed to promote and blood youth players.

This is all well and good mate, but there is no indication whatsoever that it's a priority for the board - in fact I'm sure they view a few PSR boosting tribunal payments as good enough. The cynic in me thinks that the only reason the likes of Evans and Monga are getting minutes now is that they're both off in the summer and the club are trying to boost the payments they'll get now that we're already down. If the club came out and said that this was the clear direction they wanted to take - promote from within, build a young team - then Dyche would be the wrong manager for that, but if their goal is promotion at all costs - which I suspect it is - then his resume as a championship manager is better than a lot of the other names we've been linked with. I'd love us to go heavy on youth, but it's not going to happen with this board and this ownership.

It's fine for us as fans to want this, but there's no suggestion that this is a key part of any new appointment from the board's perspective. Imagine they will have one objective next season - promotion at any cost.

To be honest there's every chance Monga and Evans are both gone by the end of the summer, which is not inconceivable given the rumours that are flying around about both of them already.

It's not like he's never done it though is it? He brought through Dwight McNeill, he developed James Tarkowski, Nick Pope, Ben Mee and Michael Keane who were all young players when he managed them. He turned 24 year old Tarkowski into an England international, 24 year old Nick Pope - still playing in the PL now - he got Ben Mee when he was 23 years old and turned him into a PL defender, but yeah don't let him near 21 year old Ben Nelson I guess. This reductive, snobbish idea that he just shouts a bit and plays shit football is nonsense, especially when examining his very good record as a championship manager. Bring on Richie Wellens (???) instead.

Dyche? Burnley 2016–17: 16th place 2017–18: 7th place 2018–19: 15th place 2019–20: 10th place 2020–21: 17th place 2021–22: Sacked in April; Burnley relegated Everton 2022–23: 17th place, joined mid-season 2023–24: 15th place, despite points deduction

Genuinely don't get this, especially in a Championship context. If you look at his most recent Championship seasons he is impressively consistent: in 15/16 Burnley finished as champions, lost only 5 games, won 26 and scored 72 goals in 13/14 Burnley finished second behind us, lost only 5 games, won 26 and scored 72 goals Direct, attacking 4-4-2 football, tight defensively, lots of goals scored. What's not to like? Yeah, in the Premier League he's often way more pragmatic and defensive - in order to try and stay up (good record of that btw) - but that's not what we're asking of him and it's not the situation we're in?

I genuinely think he'd do a great job of re-establishing basics and standards at the club while keeping us competitive - I think he provided a good platform for Moyes to kick on at Everton. We are in a real mess at the minute, and we need someone to come in with the remit of sorting out a litany of off-the-field issues but while also getting results on the pitch - it's not dissimilar to what Pearson was tasked with after we were relegated to L1. Dyche isn't the long term answer, but I'd feel confident he could command respect of the players, and get results on the pitch. His last two seasons in the Championship, he won the league and finished 2nd behind us - 70+ goals each time, tight defensively. There seems to be a lot of snobbery around him - I expect if he was called Johann Deich or Sandro Dici then the football hipsters would be lapping it up. If he can take us up, keep us up and then we part ways somewhere down the line, wouldn't that be good?

This will be my son's first game. Poor bastard. Can't let him grow up a Leicester fan without ever having seen Jamie Vardy in the flesh though.

I don't even know that it's down to not being able to afford it, it just seems to be something we never do. It's more often than not a one-way investment, as they have no transfer value by and large. I looked it up, King Power have appointed 10 permanent managers and the only times we have paid a club for their manager was Rodgers from Celtic and Pearson from Hull. The two times we've done it, we ended up sacking the manager and paying compensation, so a bit outlay upfront and a big outlay when they're sacked. I would be shocked if they change tack and do it now on the back of paying off RVN, the relegation, and given the financial strife we're in generally.

I hate it, honestly. Just feels like possession for possession's sake - for me, when you have the ball you should be doing something meaningful with it. Guardiola has always had the players to do it positively too, for everyone else it just ends up being passed around defence and midfield, there's no quick transition.

Basically it'll be a freebie, absolutely no way we're paying comp for anyone if we have to pay off Ruud. Last time we took a manager from another club was Rodgers, right? Can't even remember the last one before him.

Ruud had a 100% win rate at United, let's not forget

The Guardiola bubble simply must burst soon, for the good of football in general - it is the most turgid stuff to watch. Get us back to blood and thunder counter-attacking, **** possession - defend hard, attack hard. Nothing archaic about it, just high energy football that actually gets people out of their seats instead of boring them to death. Give it a fancy german or spanish name like contraataque and the foootball hipsters will lap it up.