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Very good ball winner a few years ago but for an elite level midfielder, his passing has always been woeful. Still a little sad to see him go, nothing but love for the guy. I wish him well!

Daka unlucky there, pass from winks hit the toe of the defender, no time to adjust his body.

As back up to Daka and Ayew, I'm not against this.

I think it's pretty standard. They get up, have breakfast together, light training, tactics meeting, get to the ground nice and early etc. Not staying at a hotel might not be the end of the world, but it is a disruption to the preparation and could be a major distraction if there are unexpected delays. I feel for everyone associated with Wednesday right now. It's an utter disgrace.

I'm very excited with the on-the-pitch prospects... Academy graduates, wingers, new manager, should be great to watch going forward. I'm not very excited with the off-the-pitch situation. There are still massive issues that need sorting out.

Previous convictions absolutely can be adduced in evidence as 'bad character'. It's not common by any stretch, but the prosecution can apply to disclose prior convictions if they deem them relevant to the case. A judge has the final say on whether they can be allowed or not.

It's a good question and I don't know the answer. The impression I get though is that it is a very small circle at the top of our club. In all honesty, the guy needs help but I wonder if he might be one of those guys that thinks they can do it all on their own, or perhaps everything he's touched is such a mess, he feels he has to carry the load on his own because as soon as someone competent came in and uncovered the mess, he'd have to go.

Our big earners won't go anywhere because they're on the biggest contract they'll likely get. The most saleable assets are Mads and BEK. The whole world and his dog know we are desperate for cash and there's every chance we'll accept bargain bin prices in the final days of the window. To make good money, we need to sell academy products but the exciting youth coming through haven't really showcased their talents yet, which realistically leaves Casey, Hamza and Luke Thomas. They will be important for us this season and we'd be reluctant to sell. Didn't Sunderland offer £10m for one of them in January and we turned it down? If anyone comes in with £10m for any of those players we surely should sell and probably just bank the money.

Trying to stay calm right now. Feeling so excited waiting for something official from the club

I'm liking Cifuentes so far. Confident, knows what he wants, some clear direction. This is exactly the type of leadership we lacked last season. There's going to be ups and downs, but I have a good feeling about the trajectory.

Why can't we get him as well? Maybe a job share? Rohl could take the away games, Marti can have the home games and they can split the cup games? Sometimes I think I should write to Top and put my name in the hat for any DoF jobs that might come up!

I have a 16 year old. He can barely understand the implications of his decision making more than about 3 seconds into the future, and bases most of his decisions on information he received in the previous 3 seconds. There's no way I would give him the opportunity to vote in a GE. I'd say the same about his mates and his football team and they are, in the most part, all good, decent kids. But that's the thing, they are most definitely kids.

Don't really mind. Daka probably a good option.

He literally said "Hi" in his post! Why bother saying "Hi" in real life when you can do it online nowadays???

Sounds like there's a chance that this might actually happen. In all seriousness, I wouldn't be surprised if the club haven't dragged this out on purpose. This transfer window is going to be a very quiet one, certainly on the incoming front. We've had more than two weeks of fans getting worked up about the manager situation, we haven't really started moaning about the transfer situation. By the time MC is announced and off to Austria, there'll only be 3 weeks until the actual football starts.

Definitely today, or maybe some other day. It will definitely probably happen though.

I thought it would be an 8am announcement, but now thinking it'll be 9am.

Definitely think the number 9 shirt has to be earned rather than handed out.

No issue with him taking 100k per week from Forest on a 10 year contract and purposefully not adding to his goal tally.

Nobody to score goals? Only so much a manager can do with sub par forwards? Good job we have Daka as our main striker, everything will be fine.

I mean, in a car crash of a season where we had some of the worst performances in the last 10-15 years, we did manage to play well and beat one team 6-2, so yeah, pretty standard that we'd talk to that manager. Should have seen this coming!

They should call it something like HMP Paedophile Playground. Make it something that most aspiring criminals don't want to be associated with.

I think what I was trying to say was that we were living beyond our means for a while. The leadership should have more gently applied the brakes earlier, but didn't, because they don't know what they're doing. Without an external factor such as PSR enforcing a hard stop, I fear we would have continued to a point where we literally ran out of money - fire sales of assets, staff not being paid etc. Our current situation seems to me to be a desperate attempt to comply with PSR rather than nurturing a sustainable business model. Maybe I'm wrong, but I strongly suspect that any business plan we have is based on us being a Premier League club and we are basing our strategy on hope alone. For me, in our current situation, we would push the boat out a bit to get a solid manager in on a 3 year contract. Keep player purchases at a minimum this summer and try to offload two, maybe three players. Keep, if we can, our key players and complement the team with youth. See where we are in January and if we are in touching distance of automatic/play offs, make some investment in the squad then. If we get promoted, great. If we don't then that will be a big set back, but selling 3-4 more players should give us a strong financial advantage over the rest of the field to reinvest in a super competitive playing squad, with a decent manager already in place. My fear is that going with a super cheap manager is a big gamble. I'll be annoyed if we spend over inflated money on fees and wages for mediocre players to play under a mediocre manager. I would rather have a slightly smaller squad with a good manager this season.

Since Rodgers left, people have highlighted a lack of joined up thinking with regards playing styles and the manager picks, but there is a thread between them. We've gone for: Dean Smith - solid Championship manager, poor results in the PL = Cheap Enzo Maresca - Untested in England = Cheap Steve Cooper - solid Championship manager, poor results in the PL = Cheap RvN - Untested in England = Cheap It seems there are four names mentioned in the running for us now. Rohl - promising young manager, no Prem experience, in a desperate situation at Wednesday and wants to leave = Cheap (but has a psycho owner who makes life difficult for everyone) Wilder - solid Championship manager, poor results in the PL = Cheap Dyche - experienced proven track record in Premier League = Expensive GON - No Championship experience, poor results in the PL = Super Cheap The trajectory of the club is plain to see - we're skint. All this PSR stuff is a smoke screen and I think our financial position is worse than we probably think. Poor leadership has gotten us into the mess but I'm beginning to wonder that PSR might actually have rescued us. Without it, who knows where we'd be now.

I did watch the P'Boro game and after spending Saturday afternoon revelling in the prospect of walking the league with a team made of teenagers, I woke up on Sunday and realised that it was the first pre season game, coached by a coach who doesn't want to be our manager yet, at the training ground against League One opposition in what was also their first pre-season friendly where none of our players played more than 45 minutes. So putting that to one side and realising that we have a long hard season ahead of us in a challenging league, I don't get the hate for Dyche. We are a club that has no money to spend on new players, has a potential points deduction coming our way and a player culture that needs a massive shake up. These are big issues that need seriously addressing and Dyche comes with experience of this type of situation - I don't get the hate for him. I hope the kids we have do live up to the "if you're good enough, you're old enough" mantra, and we get a manager that will give them lots of game time, play pretty football, score loads of goals and concede not very many and everything will work out just fine, but the realist in me knows that there are deeper issues at our club that need sorting out. All managers come with risk. Some work out very well, others don't live up to expectations.