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What the **** happened here 90+ percentiles for tackles and blocks, 5th for interceptions. I appreciate different players have different defensive strengths and weaknesses but that's wild haha.

You can't make everyone happy with any one situation. I'm sure there's probably a couple of people who might be annoyed by the proposed adjustments. I think the positive responses to the suggestions significantly outweigh any complaints, however, and a reasonable amount of posters don't necessarily find Transfer Talk all that fun to navigate at the moment. Mostly though, as I replied to Hank, I do think it's possible to over state how big a change this will really be. If we'd just started adding tier tags with no announcement then a lot of people wouldn't have even noticed and if I hadn't wanted input on establishing a tier list that's probably what would have happened. And, hey, if people don't like it Mark can just turn the feature off and not bring it back next window. No big deal really right?

I mean no shit tbf. Otherwise it'd just be Miquel sat there looking awkward while a whole load of fed up city fans somewhat unfairly take out their frustration on Cooper. I'm amazed they're doing it at all atm tbh.

Looking forward to this @Miquel The Work Geordie no pressure

I agree with a lot of what you've said but we don't really appear to have any "sporting project" (let's be honest, this is a very woolly term) at the moment beyond just "desperately try to survive." This time last year it looked like we did. We were talking extensively about learning lessons, we hired a young manager with a vision, he was talking a lot about building something - probably even used the word project - and we acted quickly to sign a bunch of players to fit his philosophy. That's pretty much the opposite of our situation now isn't it. Whenever we have a change in head coach, too much changes at the club. Systems change, approaches change, the entire transfer philosophy seems to change. We don't seem to succession plan very well at all and we don't seem to have a sporting director or director of football with his own vision but instead one that relies on a head coach coming in with their own preferences. It's not really controversial to say any of that is it.

Last season he came in to the team after months on the side-lines and played as a central 9. We hadn't scored more than 2 in a game in seven games. He immediately scored and assisted in a 4 - 0 win, we then scored 3 goals each in our next 3 games with Daka personally scoring or assisting 5 times in the 4 games. He's got no problem leading the line on his "own." I've had this rant a hundred times, no footballer is ever "lone" and the idea that any modern striker needs to be playing with a striker partner is just moronic. Daka has plenty of other problems, he's by no means perfect, he wasted a hatful of chances in his cameos last year and ended up being dropped again for Vardy who was far more consistent finishing. But actually playing and fitting in to the system wasn't Daka's problem and the team arguably looked more balanced with him starting than any other forward at the club.

They don't give a source for any formal approach, so I think they're probably quoting Alan Nixon. Their sources, if any, will be in the second statement "Standard Sport understands..." which is that Palace would let Ayew and Schlupp go for the right fee. That's not all that surprising.

I would be very very surprised if he makes it in to either Forest or Leicester's first team squads any time in the next two years. Surely a signing for the Unders, possibly even OHL. That said, this isn't far off the sort of player Fatawu was when Sporting picked him up.

This guy apparently. Almost zero presence on the internet.

There comes a point I think you have to accept that this is such a tiny bubble and people online are generally so entrenched anyway that you really aren't going to have much impact on the world by investing your energy in to arguing with people on foxestalk about science, religion, politics or culture wars. If you enjoy it, sure, debate to your hearts content but don't do it out of any kind of sense of moral obligation and definitely don't do it if it's having any negative impact on your mental health at all. I barely touch General Chat these days. I just don't think it's worth my time.

I do think the deduction will be <10pts but I don't see any chance of us escaping one entirely.

I can't be the only one that thinks he's extremely average? Also can't believe he's 25 already. Christ. Thought he was younger than Nelson.

Patson Daka would be just fine playing up front as a central 9. Would he score 20 goals? Probably not. Could we find better? I think we all hope so. But this idea that he can't play on his own up front is one of the daftest bits of rhetoric that certain sections of our fanbase refuse to stop parroting from each other based on pretty much nothing. I imagine Daka and Vardy will almost certainly be in the match day squad come Tottenham with Cannon left out if he's even still here, which he probably won't be given half the Championship seem to want him on loan.

About 8.8 probably, yeah. If we sold him for something like 15m (which would be nearly 18m euros) we'd have just north of 6m in "profit" in this season's books. Meaning you could probably reinvest that in a striker worth 20-30m without taking much of a hit this season. I think his actual value has probably dropped below that though. However much I'm willing to defend him, the truth of the matter is he's had three consecutive seasons managing barely over a 1000 minutes in each. Selling him for 10m or less (which is more likely) would probably be worse than just loaning him out for the season for a half decent fee tbf.

I mean tbf he's just being nice about someone he knows.

Yep I mean look, there's really no shame in losing out to that is there. If that's what we're up against it's not exactly hugely damming that he didn't come here. You've got Paulo Dybala texting you telling you to come sign for his team in the Europa League managed by Danielle de Rossi. Like. I'd ****ing sign.

They also clearly weren't his signings. I doubt he even wanted many of them.

Oh sorry, just seen the Xs. Was gonna say, that's not correct. Actuals are something like 1.03 and 0.99 respectively.

Is that all competitions?

And second only to Vardy for goals and assists per 90 minutes.

Sorry but, respectfully, this is testicles. Sheffield United convinced Cameron Archer and Gustavo Hamer to sign for them last year. Burnley did well. Some highly rated youngsters in Trafford, Odobert and Amdouni. Even Luton picked up Ross Barkley on a great free transfer. All of these clubs were highly likely to go back down, it didn't stop people signing. Archer signed with a buy back clause for Villa, Hamer signed with a release clause, etc. You just have to make the necessary concessions. Leicester City are one of the most followed football clubs on social media globally outside of the Champions League and the Premier League is the most watched league in the world with the highest average wages. Why wouldn't you want to come here and do a season? We've been turned down by one player so far and he had the choice of joining an extremely exciting project in Rome where a legend from his playing days is rebuilding a club that's got the likes of Paulo Dybala, Lorenzo Pellegrini and Leandro Paredes playing for them and is apparently splashing out big style this summer to make a push for the top four. Plus they're in the Europa League which they got to the semis of last year. And as much as we all like implying Rudkin is stupid, we clearly wouldn't have been negotiating that much with Juve if we hadn't had an indication from the player's agent that he was interested and it's been rumoured since that the main reason we lost out is we simply offered the agent a smaller bung than Roma did. So. Yknow.

Incoming 30m bid for Rhian Brewster.

I'd argue we really want two pretty decent 8/10 capable players. It'll never happen but two of O'Riley, Hamer, Hatate and Sara would be cracking. I'm still delusional enough to hope we'll eventually end up back playing a similar shape midfield to last year though, it was so perfect. I know I have to let it go but I can dream. Something like this in possession would immediately rekindle my enthusiasm for the upcoming season regardless of people's doubts about the striker situation. Vardy Mavididi, Sara, Hamer, Fatawu Winks, Ricardo JJ, Vestergaard, Faes Hermansen

Alan Nixon.