Finnegan

Erm, might have a problem there.

THEY'RE BOTH SHIT FFS

I'm starting to think you might actually BE Oscar Garcia.

Erm

That's not how an embargo works so, basically, no it doesn't. We just can't register footballers with the EFL but given our next registration period is for the Premier League that doesn't really matter. Essentially, we aren't really under an embargo now.

All 34.

If the best we can do is Steve Cooper then people need sacking. ... starting with Steve Cooper.

Admin sort it

As ever.

Hell no, he's ****ing terrible. He had literally one purple patch season in Serie A and has been useless ever since. He scored one league goal this year, he scored 8 league goals the year before. I'm not even ****ing bothering trying to explain this to FoxesTalk but he is statistically, objectively, worse than Patson Daka. In his last three seasons at Roma he's managed 0.42 goals a game and 0.54 G+A/90 combined. His average career, top flight goals in a season is 9 and he's had the luxury of playing for Roma and Chelsea. He's absolutely not "a natural goal scorer". He's literally a meme in Italy.

Mark I promise you next season you're going to have to finally admit Mavididi is a decent player.

I wouldn't consider any of those to be "broken players" (Rodgers terminology.) I also think Winks and Mavididi could yet turn out to be profit makers given we got both immensely cheap.

**** no. That's not our philosophy at all. That's Rodgers philosophy and it's what has financially crippled the club. The "classic mentality we often have with players" is buy affordable young talent whose value is almost certainly trending upwards.

Lets be extremely clear about this, the second Leeds take a penny of Red Bull money and put Red Bull branding on their white kits - they will immediately be known as RB Leeds whether the fans like it or not. Franchise FC isn't an official name but it doesn't stop the entire country calling MK Dons that.

This is what I was referring to about getting his old self back at Roma. Frank Lampard and John Terry would have run through walls for The Special One. There's a great, typically Zlatan, quote from Ibra where he says something like "Guardiola made me a house cat but Mourinho made me feel like a lion." Fostering togetherness, a siege mentality and a win at all cost spirit was definitely his greatest strength. But somewhere between his first and second spells at Chelsea he lost it. I genuinely believe he lost a lot of his spirit, I know his dad got very ill during this time and I'm not sure if he's still alive but it seemed to have a significant impact on Mourinho as a personality. He got a lot more bitter and a lot less cheeky. The net result was that cluster **** with the medical staff at Chelsea and Eva Carneiro or what you saw at United, chucking his players under the bus, turning on his own squad, openly bullying Luke Shaw. It was difficult to watch. Clearly he wasn't right. He didn't seem to get any of his old self back until he got to Roma where they genuinely loved him. But even then, I stick to what I said about football moving on and the tactics in the sport going through significant revolution. It's not enough to be an upmarket Tony Pulis anymore, you need to be smart. Ironically, largely because people like Mourinho have done so well modernising defensive tactics and organisation, you need to have good methods these days to break down a stubborn side and the irony is he doesn't. He's literally a victim of his own success. Mourinho football now is dour, unproductive, slow, boring and ultimately doomed to mediocrity.

In fairness, Jose Mourinho's career goes only one of two directions now really. He either retires or he takes increasingly worse jobs until he is just managing mid table and bottom half teams with no chance of European qualification. He's done at the highest level. The tactical revolutions brought on across Europe by pioneers like Guardiola and Klopp have completely exposed Mourinho's short comings. Even though he seemed to get back a little bit of his old self at Roma, the football they played was largely horrific and could only take them so far at the higher end of the league. I'm not being funny when I say I wouldn't want him here. I would much, much rather we take a punt on another up and coming coach a la Enzo.

This always happens. It's because nobody knows and idiots are just lumping on at any rumour.

Are there still people in 2024 that think Jose Mourinho would be a good or exciting appointment? If ever any manager in my lifetime has ever truly jumped the shark it's Mourinho. The difference between Jose now and "The Special One" is like the difference between Pep Guardiola and Mickey Adams. Edit: I'm not wishing my life away I've just been playing a lot or battlefield lately and my auto correct got confused.

For a brief second I thought you were describing the manager not the source and was about to jump off a bridge as we appoint Lenny.

Unfortunately Wymsey that is in the eye of the beholder. There's people on here that would act like Neil Warnock is a pleasant surprise.

RVN wasn't really universally adored at PSV and I don't think the style of football would really be what Top is after. He also had significant problems with his dressing room, pretty much the opposite of Enzo.

Only WBA player I was particularly impressed with was Mikey Johnston tbf and wasn't he on loan?

Stop it now. Have we not suffered enough.

Not quite Euros but we don't have a general international football thread I don't think? Jason Koumas' son getting his first Wales senior call up makes me both unbelievably happy and feel unbelievably old