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Gruesome stuff. The emotional whiplash from winning the semi and walking out for the final to this must be horrendous.

I thought it was quite interesting, same with the one on the fitness testing with Matt Reeves. Considering they've got no new manager or players to show off I reckon the video content they've done so far, with these little peeks behind the curtain, the daily training clips and the interviews with King, has been pretty decent.

More like all of. I wonder if part of the reason some clubs are moving towards simpler designs for their crests is because AI has an easier time with them so they can churn out content quicker and cheaper.

In that case even by recent standards it would be a questionable signing because Keane is right-footed

Come on mate, he's FOREIGN. He might well have been coaching for 20 years, including in this country, this division and against us very recently, but how are we meant to know anything about him? Realistically you'd need to be an obsessive hipster mega-nerd to have any idea about anyone who isn't Sean Dyche or Chris Wilder.

Happily, as long as you're actively in the process of obtaining the Pro Licence - which we know King is - you can still manage in the Premier League, again according to their regulations. I sense this is a waste of time so you crack on.

Not according to the EFL regulations you don't. If we wanted to appoint King we could do so because he has the A Licence, which is what you need to manage in the Championship. Fortunately, because that would be mental, we haven't.

You don't

Theoretically maybe but you could apply that logic to any embargoed club - it's seemingly not stopping Wednesday selling Gassama for example. I think it's infinitely more likely that the lack of outgoings is down to the usual factors like our players being on mega wages relative to their ability and the dynamic duo of Top and JR being too busy trying to appoint a manager than us being placed under some sort of stealth embargo that neither the EFL nor anyone else has bothered to notify us of. Like with the rumours about staff not being paid, I don't believe we wouldn't have heard anything about it from anyone reputable even with how tight-lipped the club are.

Embargoes are to stop you signing players rather than selling them, aren't they? I assume that's why they get called registration embargoes/fee restrictions these days. Given they're meant to be a punishment for not fulfilling financial obligations it would be rather self-defeating to block off one of the main ways clubs can bring money in.

The pictures are awful but I can at least understand why people use them even if the end result is almost always shite. What I don't get at all are the posts that essentially boil down to "I asked AI to tell me what to think about this manager/player/topic" and then delivering it as though, because ChatGPT says it, it's objective fact when the whole point of the forum is to read and engage with other human beings and their thoughts. It's so bleak.

Yes I think that must be it

I think it's probably more the case that people just clicked on the thread to talk about the guy who is apparently the leading candidate and didn't pay too much attention to what is a really weird opening post

I think it's brilliant seeing some people talk about him like he's some obscure hipster choice that no normal person could ever realistically have heard of when not only has he spent the last two seasons in this country and the division we are now in, he's also managed against us twice

Finished Death Stranding last night after about 60 hours, not without its flaws but pretty wonderful stuff on the whole. Very keen to play DS2 but I think for my own sanity I need at least a short break from deliveries so will likely either have a crack at something relatively short from the backlog (your Preys, your Pentiments, your Neon Whites) or start a new Baldur's Gate save now it's had its final update.

Totally buzzing for the new season

Yeah but it's usually something like Eddie Howe going to study Simeone i.e. there has to be someone worth learning something from. I'm not sure Dyche is going to have been in touch asking if he can shadow Andy King (no offence Andy) and even if he did want to do that, the rumour was that he had been at Seagrave before pre-season had started. Unless he just really fancied a tour of the place or was dropping in for a catch up with his old mate Rudkin it seems a reasonable assumption that if he was indeed there it would have been as a candidate for the job.

I think it probably does bode well for his coaching career (to an extent, I know there are a lot of things that determine whether a coach is good or not) that he made it essentially to the very top of the game without being hugely gifted either physically or technically. Must be pretty difficult for a player like that to win three league titles including the Premier League, play in the Champions League and win 50 international caps without a combination of intelligence and lots of hard work.

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Well he's got to get off somewhere hasn't he? Would be more weird if he just stayed on the train for the rest of his life

Maybe he doesn't have the same level of access he used to, I've no idea. Even if that's the case I've still got more faith in a tentative link coming from him than I have in the dozens of "my source, who is definitely real, says it's 100% guaranteed to be [manager name] 👀" we get every day. Realistically with how opaque the club is I'd be surprised if more than a handful of people know for certain whether we've spoken to him (or indeed any candidate) or not, but if Percy doesn't count as a reputable source these days then there aren't going to be many answers to the original question that would prove satisfactory.

From the one after Ruud left, same one in which he said Dyche was unlikely. Didn't offer any guarantees of course but I think it definitely counts as a link from a reputable source

John Percy has done and he's about as reputable as they get when it comes to us

If you can carry it comfortably enough and the delivery isn't going to send you miles out of your way then you might as well. One thing you should always try to pick up is chiral crystals (if you can't collect them yet you'll be able to do an order that changes that very soon) because they're weightless and you will probably want an awful lot of them before too long.

BBC: "The Foxes have been referred to an independent commission after being charged by the Premier League for an alleged profit and sustainability (PSR) breach for the year 2023-24" Sky: "Leicester City have been charged by the Premier League over alleged breaches of the EFL's financial rules for the 2023/24 season" Athletic: "Leicester City have been referred to an independent commission by the Premier League for an alleged breach of the Championship’s profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) for the 2023-24 season" Guardian: "Leicester City face a potential points deduction in the Championship next season after the Premier League charged the club with breaching profitability and sustainability rules. That is one of three alleged breaches relating to the 2023-24 season" As of about a month ago it sounds like we might not have passed