Finn Claw II

I don’t think the deals we have done have been that bad - we just haven’t done enough. BDR, Golding, Buonanotte, Okoli - sensible if not exciting. signing Abdul - great news contract for Alvez - great news contracts for Vardy, Vesty and Wilf - all quite understandable. 2 years might have been preferable Yes we’ve lost KDH but as soon as Chelsea bid that was going to happen. If Zaha and one of the strikers had come off, it’d be close to a good window so fine lines.

Just keep Iverson if you want 3 keepers. Seems pointless waste of time to me

Can we just plough up the pitch so no one can actually play football on it. It’d even things up at home at least. That or board up both goals to guarantee 0-0. Mavi to score, no idea as to the result

Turkey and the UK have a double taxation treaty in place so he won’t be taxed twice on the same income. Sounds like his tax situation is pretty complicated (probably image rights etc paid into a separate company). We should pay for some appropriate tax advice (and assume we have). it’s not up to us to offset any loss in income, it’s up to us to make him an offer that we are comfortable with and it’s then up to him to take it or not

He pays UK tax because he would be working and living in the UK. i suspect contractually he is employed by is allso

He’ll smash the Championship….

I’d play Ricardo in any system we play. RCB, RB, REB, CM. Stick him up top on Monday!

I was speaking about this the other day. If we do go down and we have those players coming though, our Championship season should be exciting. Winks, Mads, Abdul, Mavi, Ndiddi probably our most saleable players. Vardy, Iverson, Ward possibly Soumane out of contract.

Luton and Burnley nearly stayed up last season. The bottom 6 or so teams are not Real Madrid. Itt’ll be tough but I think we have enough to be defensively solid. Goals could be a problem but let’s see if we strengthen by the close of the window. at the very least if we do go down, the player contracts are likely to be much better shape.

Paying PL wages in the Prem is fine if they play (I.e. are PL players) and we have good relegation release clauses. Tielemans, Madders, Vardy etc were paid well but were good players. It’s overpaying players that barely make the starting 16 that was a massive mistake.

We complain when we overpay and complain when we don’t get it done. we are interested in a few midfielders so I think we can negotiate from a position of relative strength

We are 2 years past peak contracts with a lot of players gone. Hopefully lessons have been learnt and bar an ever smaller amount of ‘legacy’ contracts we are in much better shape financially. i think Kristianson will play this season. Thomas, Iverson, Nelson and Wanya won’t be on big wages so as much as anything moves benefit their career as much as our finances, One of Coady or Souttar, Soumane are the squad players I’d want to move on to create funds, Ward yes but that will never happen,

Don’t really mind if European teams couldn’t compete on wages. That’s the PL tax all teams pay.

We’ve signed two players for not that much and offered Vestegard a 3 year deal. KDH was sold because we had to, it’s not inspiring but pretty solid. I wanted a squad with a bit to prove and I think we’ll have that or will do

Send him out with an option to recall. As others have said he needs proper game time

Is free and can base his chant around the Bucky O’hare theme tune - on that alone get him in.

We have Mcateer, Alves and Marcel and potentially this signing - I’d say that’s plenty of squad options for our wide players with plenty of youth already

Swaps might be quite clever in that while it’s the net amount that is real money presumably the gross amount counts for KDH in PSL terms while we’ll amortise the Moder payment, so value at £40m / £15m net £25m is the same in real money as £30’m / £5m but may not be in terms of profitability i’m sure you have to show that the transfers are reasonable value but it’s quite subjective

VK mistake aside looked full of energy. If Vesty can play against England, he’ll be fine if used to his strengths in the Prem. England almost to a player were well below their club standards

Good luck to him. I think he’s underrated and Potter was overrated. Obviously the target is simply to stay up and avoid future points deductions. Hopefully he’ll be given enough of a budget to do that. it’ll be unrealistic expectations by our fans if anything that will bring the negativity. i’ll give him top marks for bants if he turns up to his first training session in his old forest head coach garb.

Let’s not pretend we have a bunch of ‘elite’ players so why would they expect an ‘elite’ manager. Enzo showed little if any flexibility - he did what was required but he wasn’t a genius. Our last ‘elite’ manger nearly ruined the club, quite happy to have someone who tries to connect with the club and its fans.

It would be good just to know what the points deduction pre-appeal is. Also if we are going to sell anyone by 30th June, it’s time to get a move on. i don’t really blame any prospective manager wanting to some certainty ahead of committing to the job,

Come to Leicester - FYI we may or may not have a manager who doesn’t play left backs. and yeah we don’t quite hand out those massive contracts anymore. keen?

No chance Potter is going to United (that said, I thought the same about Enzo going to Chelsea). With Poch and Tunchel out of work, I can’t see Potter getting a big club, Everton depending on new owners could be interesting but the Premier League jobs that turn up will be clubs which start badly and are near the bottom.

Iverson would be second choice surely with Ward Third?