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If (and it's a big if) our board did this it would be 50% blaming external factors i.e. COVID, 50% crying about people being mean to God-Emperor Top and 0% admitting fault or taking any responsibility for anything

Same thing every time someone decent looks like leaving. Never rated him anyway. Think we're better off without him, actually. Glad he's going. Still, how dare he want to leave? Can't believe he thinks he's better than us. He'd have been better off staying. Definitely don't want him to stay though. Already forgot about him but I hope he fails and ends up back here. BOOOOOO

Jordan Ayew

I'm as anti-penalties as anyone but even I don't have a huge problem with that being given. Can't really be leaning to block goalbound shots with your arms can you?

You'd had enough and were done with football the other day, what changed your mind? You don't seem to enjoy it very much

Recency bias maybe but I reckon Preston was easily as bad as/probably worse than any performance under Enzo. There were definitely a number of games that season where we looked unimaginative with the ball and vulnerable without it but even during the dodgy spell from Feb-April I don't think we were ever collectively and individually as wretched as we were on Saturday.

You'd have thought so, but being able to afford it and the people responsible for our recruitment actually being able to do it are two different things. I'd love to believe that another couple of sales will precipitate a rush of incomings - unfortunately I'm not sure I do, and the thought of first Hermansen, then Fatawu and potentially also BEK being sacrificed to stave off the bailiffs while the likes of Ayew, Vestergaard, Choudhury and co. continue to hoover up god knows how much money every week is sheer misery.

I think they probably prefer to look at slightly larger sample sizes than that

And an extra sprinkling of profit on top with the offers we turned down for Iversen and Thomas, one gone for nothing and the other potentially doing likewise at the end of the season. Rejecting good offers for bad players so there's even more pressure on us to accept bad offers for good players - the Leicester way.

Especially good work from us if he goes to Sunderland and we're stuck with McAteer on the right, who they had an offer rising to £10m turned down for in January

Have you looked in either of their threads?

I don't think they post anymore but there was someone who was absolutely certain we'd be better off without Mahrez because Demarai Gray was more than good enough to replace him, and would also accuse anyone who didn't think Hamza Choudhury was a future England captain of being a racist

We've done quite well to build a squad with so many players who aren't particularly good at any one aspect of the game. Midfielders who don't break up play, create chances or score goals, defenders who are neither solid defensively nor effective going forward, strikers who aren't reliable goal threats but also don't do a great deal else.

Yeah, double figures in eight of his last ten seasons. That one season at Burnley they'd won one game when he left in January and even then I think he ended up their second highest scorer. Didn't work out at Newcastle for whatever reason but since then he's been fantastic.

If so, not a bad thing to be

Wood really is excellent, been scoring consistently for so long now

I think this is right and it's why I disagree with people who think that a spell of being properly shite will do us good because it'll drive away the more apathetic portions of the fanbase. The apathetic fans are exactly that - apathetic. They demonstrably couldn't really care less about who runs us, who the manager and players are and if results or performances are bad. They turn up, queue for their drinks, clap a bit, go home on 85 minutes because that is their routine and it won't change whether we're non-league or Champions League.

Can't remember who but as someone said in the match thread, he's like Harry Kane without being good at literally any of the things Harry Kane is good at. The bit where he made his sole positive contribution in skinning someone and then, instead of cutting it back for a teammate (I think Winks?) to score, doubled back and shot from a basically impossible angle summed him up. Also taking pointless pot shots from distance again, which some people were really pleased about against Wednesday for some reason, and monopolising our set pieces despite being tragic at them and both our goals last week coming when someone else took over. Insists on slowing down every attack he's involved in to his own glacial pace. Useless, selfish waster.

Even if that is the case then I don't think he's the thick **** in the situation because that's not how you say his name

Not the only one but he should be genuinely ashamed of that performance and the club should be equally ashamed that we've started the season with this utter plank as our starting "striker"

Give him the armband

Please get that fat useless whopper off set pieces

Nothing irrational about it

Coady getting absolutely bullied and Ward contorting himself to allow the ball to go through him, business as usual

Capology is generally regarded by football finance types (your Kieran Maguires, your Stefan Borsons) as complete nonsense I think. If we're accepting Winks is on 90k then we're also accepting Fatawu and Mavididi are on 10k each which even accounting for relegation wage drops I think is very unlikely