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They might be waiting a while

I said it sounded like a White House statement from the current administration and then he started literally throwing around "fake news" He's so ****ing batshit. I'd genuinely be mortified if that's what was running our club.

Tbh Ayew might be a bit too fancy and exotic for Sean.

The more serious the Awoniyi injury is, the more outrageous it actually is that the Pirate Lord is using it shamelessly as an excuse for flipping out at Nuno for costing him millions in Champions League money he was hoping to skim from Forest.

He's not talking about sporting quality though. He means Warsaw, Athens, Gent, Copenhagen, etc are cracking cities and a good away trip. It might be a poor footballing competition and a shameless UEFA money spinner but it's a good excuse to go away (where finances permit) to some fun places and see clubs that aren't massive.

This is Donald Trump levels of complete and total unhinged bullshit. Not just the lies to save face but turning the lie in to some absolute suck-fest of cult-of-personality worship "this is what real leadership looks like", are you joking? And people think our owners are self-interested because Top holds up the odd trophy. **** me.

The ground has four stands. Has there ever been conversation about having the "official" Tifo one end and yours the other? Logistically wouldn't cause too many issues would it?

I mean they kinda have to be tbf, they're more brands than clubs.

Unironically an actually good album. Sort of.

Appointing a proper director of football (which we should do) would make hiring Dyche make even less, practically zero, sense. He's very much "a manager", which I don't think we should be appointing anyway.

Shame cos this seasons Barca kit is an absolute banger

Credit where it's due, Big Sam Vokes making all of Belgium cry was peak football.

Aye, like I said, I full accept I'm being intensely hyperbolic, I always am. But I maintain what I've said, regardless of the fact I'd rather use razor blades for contact lenses than watch Dycheball, I also don't want him anywhere near our rebuild. I mean look at this: I'm sorry both of you, that list just makes me ****ing sad. Even the 25 year olds are 40 at heart.

Pearson was part of a three man team that built a squad and club that won the Premier League for next to **** all while Dyche filled out his squad with Lukas Jutkiewicz and Marvin Sordell and went straight back down.

But Michael Keane and Dwight McNeil aren't particularly footballers I'd want anywhere near Leicester. Maybe that's a tad harsh with Keane but McNeil is the absolute epitome of Dyche isn't he? The one, standout youth player than Sean Dyche has developed. He's slow, he's in something like the 50th percentile for take ons and 28th (lol) for carries, he's got no idea where the goal is and his one undeniable strength is he can whip a cross in like it's 1997. Look, I ****ing loved Steve Guppy, he was one of my all time favourite Leicester players but time moves on. Even Sharky stopped being productive pretty much the moment after he bagged against Sevilla. People's idea of "uncomplicated" and "pragmatic" is for us to play energetic, high pressing, counter attacking football. You want to do that with a twenty foot tall donkey centre forward and a one legged throw back winger whose number one talent is crossing? Look, I get it, I'm being intensely hyperbolic but come on. I just cannot see a single argument for Dyche other than traits that hundreds of other viable managers have. I get it if you're some Brexit football "fan" whose football knowledge comes exclusively from The Sun but it genuinely blows my mind that you and @Stadt are so vocally in favour of him.

Firstly, I wouldn't describe Steven Defour as profoundly technically fantastic, secondly you paid nearly ten million and he left on a free transfer three years later. I think that's a pretty ****ing good example of what I'm talking about.

Sean Dyche is a strange manager. He's sort of stuck in a paradoxical loop. He's one of the best in the country at what he's good at, so naturally he rises towards the top of the football pyramid and gets his shot at Premier League football. He's now got himself a reputation and an ambition that's going to price him out of the reach of most Football League clubs and you can't blame him for wanting Premier League gigs. But the problem is that what he's good at is min-maxing a small, provincial, Football League budget and making it competitive. The clubs he manages are always going to have a ceiling because of his own limitations, that's why he thrives at clubs that already have a very low one. He's efficient at working within those confines. If he rocked up at somewhere like Preston tomorrow, it wouldn't surprise me to see them promoted in a season or two. But Preston can't afford him, we can. The problem for us is that our financial ills are short term, our ceiling is temporary. We know where our actual ceiling is, we comfortably have the raw materials to be a Best of the Rest club, top of the Other 14. Whilst we've got no divine right to be there and the competition has heated up, we also know without doubt that's attainable for us and at very least we should be thinking about top flight mid table and a push for Conference League. We might have our hands tied somewhat now (albeit those restraints loosen every year we spend conservatively) but our commercial income, the backing of our owners and our match day revenue provides Many Pound Notes™. Someone earlier in the thread made the point that Dyche will tank the value of our squad, they're not wrong. I don't doubt he'd spend a small budget efficiently if we don't have much to rebuild with this summer but he'd also sign a lot of players with no resellable value and extremely limited potential to play any other football than Sean Dyche football which has extremely limited ceiling in the Premier League. Whilst we cannot be arrogant and complacent, we also cannot afford to lack any ambition at all. Last time we dropped to this level we picked up Fatawu and Hermansen, assets we'll almost certainly profit from. Can anyone say with a straight face they think Dyche would have approved those signings? No, he'll sign a bunch of 30 year old, "safe" journeymen with limited technical ability and no resale value and he'll kill the long term value of the squad. Something that could take generations to recover. You think Cooper was bad for Ayew and BDCR? They've got Dyche written all over them. The two absolutely constant arguments for Dyche are that the squad needs an overhaul of character and that the fans want more uncomplicated football. That's fine, I don't fundamentally disagree, we can aspire for those things. We should. But there are tens of thousands of managers / head coaches plying their trade in the world, if you think Sean Dyche is the only one that doesn't play Tiki Taka and does value hard working footballers, I've got a bridge to sell you. And no, I'm not a snob, I don't care if our football isn't like watching Barcelona and I don't care if we don't sign some Football Hipster, textbook German vogue head coach. But I DO want to be entertained at least to some degree when I watch Leicester and frankly the thought of watching a Dyche managed City makes me want to self harm.

Unfortunately the other 14 are probably all shitting themselves about the players THEY steal, including Monga.

Honestly I don't think that's enough, for me. What if Monga goes on to be a generational talent and plays 500 games got Man City without leaving? We get nothing for producing a player of that quality? I know he's a dubious example because we apparently stole him from elsewhere but then **** us too for that. It doesn't make it OK. Honestly, the current rules are shocking for this. I appreciate you can't have literal children signing professional contracts or taking them down to major obligations but you also can't let the biggest clubs just take the youth players they want for basically free. The current tribunal fees are an absolute joke and so is the fact you can stall them for years.

I'm amazed they've still not hired you for the Mercury.

If they wanted to (and they don't) they could fix it really easily. Just make the tribunal fees realistically representative of what a club can get out of a player when they're given time to develop him. You want to take Monga or Evans off us? Fine no worries but we made 30-40m off KDH, Barnes and Chilwell so that's what Monga is worth to us. By all means sign him on a contract uncontested but we get 30m compensation instead of the pathetic 3 or whatever. Oh and you can't use amortisation because it's not a transfer fee so you need to pay that all this season for FFP. And you DO have to pay it immediately, not in five years time after six different courts and appeals, and you get a transfer embargo until its paid. There you go. Problem solved.

He'll probably sign his first professional contract with someone else. It's a stupid hypothetical anyway but the answer is objectively Vardy.

What absolute melts have voted Monga ffs

He's got a decent reputation in Germany but I'd be surprised if he's done enough as a head coach to get any of those three jobs tbh.

We deserve Castore