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Don't shoot the messenger but I've got a VERY well-placed source at the club who's told me we've offered someone the job - needless to say I won't be telling you who it is. Well-liked by some key figures on the board but others not so keen, unless they are. Just passing on what I've heard in a way that's really vague and non-committal, which obviously it needs to be in order to protect my source.

Captain and played basically every game he was available for - missed a few through injury shortly before they sold him because they were desperate for money. A fringe player he definitely was not.

Probably not really what he'd be there to do though, despite what the tweet says. As an understudy to/pre-emptive replacement for Damsgaard it might make sense given Carvalho doesn't seem to have made any real impact there

It's a nonsense rehash of what was a nonsense rumour in the first place

Feel for Ange to an extent but I think Frank is a better and more adaptable manager than him and is more likely to be able to build upon the success of winning a trophy. Whenever a successful and/or trophy-winning manager gets sacked you always get people acting like it somehow wipes out that success - they do actually still get to be Europa League winners, Ange doesn't take it with him in the same way we didn't have to cash in our Premier League or FA Cup to sack Ranieri and Rodgers. It's a logical rather than emotional decision which I get doesn't feel good because logic is not the reason people love football.

Ah fair enough, I know we'd been in talks with him during the second half of that season but didn't remember seeing anything about an agreement being reached until it became official. Prime example of why ineffectual DoF + giving manager too much influence over squad building = big problem.

His new contract was announced after Enzo had already left. The second we thought there was any danger whatsoever of Enzo not being here, that contract offer should have been in the shredder.

It absolutely is. His lack of athleticism means there's no danger of him outrunning anyone so might as well make the most of it, let them come to him instead and then hit the deck like a sack of shit. Not necessarily a bad trick to have up your sleeve but unfortunately it's more or less the only one he has.

Assuming you mean Reijnders, he's much more of an attack-minded player than Rodri so I don't expect they're really going to be competing for the same spot. KDB is gone and Bernardo, Gundogan and Kovacic are all in their 30s (and looked about twice as old for much of last season) with the first two of those out of contract next year. I wouldn't agree it's solely a Club World Cup signing at all.

True and no doubt that's played a major part in their decision-making process

Yeah Areola is not very good, camera save merchant. They are supposedly interested in Ramsdale who in my totally unbiased opinion is a worse goalkeeper than Hermansen and I presume would cost at least as much, likely more.

Not a kit but the first Premier League ball of the post-Nike era for people who care about things like that

People seemingly deciding to answer a different question to the one that they were asked i.e. who they think it will be rather than who they want it to be, which does sort of defeat the point of the poll

Am I the only one who finds it weird, to the point of being slightly uncomfortable, that we've got 15-year-olds playing at the top level of professional sport? I'm as excited as anyone by him as a player and I think it's vital for the future of the club that there is a clear, viable pathway from the academy to the first-team. You can also tell from watching him that he's good enough and he's not just been thrown in there as a novelty. I just think of myself and my friends at that age and wonder how on earth it can be a good idea to subject even the most level-headed GCSE student to the insanity that is professional football, with all the money, pressure, scrutiny and everything else it entails. He is a child - instinctively something about it feels wrong to me, and not just that it makes me feel old.

That is an unreal goal. Vitinha is a wonderful player

The strongest evidence for him being the "good talker" he's regularly described as is that he's somehow convinced people he shouldn't be one of the first out of the door. I'm sure he's very nice and a top bloke to have around the place, but in his capacity as a footballer he has contributed almost nothing in his two seasons here and is on a frankly insane wage relative to his ability if reports are to be believed. Much as I'd love to see the back of them as well, at least Faes and Vestergaard are decent enough on the ball to be somewhat useful in a possession-based team if that's the route we're going down. Coady is essentially a cheerleader who excels only at pointing and shouting.

Relegation was confirmed nearly six weeks ago and had been a foregone conclusion for a long time before that. How can they not have discussed the manager's future with him? I think we are all well used to the club doing the absolute bare minimum in basically every department but even by their own low standards this is an exceptional bit of work.

I really like him as well, his podcast with David O'Doherty is brilliant. Even accounting for differing tastes, he's so inoffensive and I've never been entirely sure what it is about him that winds people up.

We've seen him in that league ourselves recently and maybe I'm being harsh but my memory is that he was pretty unremarkable. The feckless nature of our team this season has got people pining for players who charge about, dive into tackles and demonstrate pashun which I accept isn't totally unreasonable.

Sacked by Christmas apparently - presumably the paperwork is just taking a lot longer than expected

I'm not sure that's necessarily the case. To pick a few examples from the opposite end of the spectrum, are managers like Dyche, Allardyce and Pulis really any less wedded to their methods than Enzo or Martin?

I love him. At his best I think he was one of the best full backs in the league, if not the world. If I remember correctly there was a run under Puel where he played three different positions in as many games and was our best player in all of them. I also remember the match thread when he made his debut and, presumably because they'd become used to Simpson being so conservative, some people were absolutely bewildered by how attacking and positive he was.

Arrived at Wednesday as the EFL's youngest manager with them at rock bottom after their worst ever start to a Championship campaign, kept them up and then had them outside contenders for the playoffs for most of this season. Not under the easiest of circumstances either, particularly for someone in their first job in management, with multiple registration embargoes and players not being paid.

It's a plan that recent history tells us a) a significant portion of the fanbase, whether justified or not, will never get behind and b) has a very good chance of unravelling in spectacular fashion upon contact with the Premier League, should it take us that far which is no guarantee. I don't think it's the very worst appointment we could make but it's one I would struggle to muster any enthusiasm for whatsoever and would do very little to dispel either the general feeling of misery around the club or the sense that the people running it do so with as little effort and imagination as possible.