Finnegan

Just want to quote you to say the people reacting with laugh emoji are retarded and that this was a pretty fair post. Other that Fatawu being bought, I know we think he's excellent but he's not proven he's worth sufficiently more than what we're paying for him for someone to immediately bid enough that we'd sell. But, yes, his transfer was realistically wrapped up ages ago and will likely be announced when the window opens. And I don't think it's wildly unrealistic that Enzo might want to take Hermansen and Winks to Chelsea. They don't quite have either in their squad at the moment. I imagine Enzo Fernandez is first in line to play the Winks and Lavia might in years to come but neither are quite like for like. They definitely don't have a sweeper keeper and I genuinely think Hermansen will end up at a big six club sooner or later. Don't think they'll want KDH though. Can see the likes of Palmer or Nkunku doing the KDH role with maybe Caicedo being their Ndidi.

WOOOOOO!

If we get a 15 point deduction after appeal I'll eat @Miquel The Work Geordie's pubes.

Certainly doesn't help when the BJP propaganda wing keep peddling the notion to Indian expats and descendants that everything other than the Tories is anti-Indian.

I'm not gonna lie, this week I'm really having a hard time working out who the troglodyte Brexiteers are and who the quippy satirists are.

There's absolutely no chance we get a 15 point deduction after appeal.

Enzo specifically leaving doesn't bother me so much. He wasn't here long enough to get attached and whilst I think he was exactly the right manager to get us promoted, some of the observations that his tactical stubbornness might not help a relegation scrapping team aren't unwarranted. He's probably better suited to Chelsea in the Prem than us. What's deflating is looking at Enzo and his fallout here as a symptom and not an isolated incident. Ipswich have convinced their manager to stay, got him a contract extension, are going in to a third consecutive year of growth and stability. We're looking for our fourth manager in 18 months because the one that got us promoted couldn't get to the door fast enough having had his friends in the media relay his discontent that the club has major problems behind the scenes, is in financial difficulties and hid these things from him. What's deflating is knowing we've got to go back to the drawing board and roll the dice again on managerial recruitment and because we don't have a competent sporting director, the philosophy and system of the team could well end up being reset yet again and we could end up being back to square one on squad building with something as simple as a new manager wanting full backs. What's deflating is that for the last five or six years, any time we've got transfer business to do we've gotten on with it immediately and wrapped it up ASAP and this year we have radio silence besides the odd link to a free transfer or a £3m youngster. All of the signs are pointing towards an extremely conservative summer and a very difficult upcoming season desperately trying to consolidate and what's most deflating of all is that Enzo is leaving to go to a painfully, absurdly volatile situation where there's an extremely high chance he'll be unemployed again before Christmas and it'll have just been a waste.

If only we had a proper sporting director implementing a football philosophy and direction independent of a manager for this very ****ing reason.

There's zero percent chance this is true. He's extended his contract but absolutely guarantee if United come knocking next week there's a clause in it.

Faes

It doesn't break my heart him leaving. What will absolutely break my heart is if he gets sacked before Christmas, goes to one of our bottom half rivals and makes them better than us.

There's a real big distinction between what we have and what we can spend. In a weird way, not being allowed to spend probably isn't hurting the club recover from the debt. We were absolutely thrashed by covid, we're one of the most reliant on match day revenue clubs in the country. Covid hurt us more than most because it came at a time when we were pushing to try and break the top four and then we didn't. We've massively shed the wage bill since then, we made a lot in sales of Maddison and Barnes. Not suggesting we're very healthy financially but I doubt we're in immediate peril. The bigger problem is we still aren't out of the water in terms of FFP and we're not really allowed to spend a great deal.

Chelsea don't have a keeper capable of playing Enzoball tbh.

I mean, if we hire literally any, single manager that wants to play conventional full backs then he isn't going anywhere. He's literally the only left back we employ.

The depressing thing is I guarantee there's a certain element on here that would unironically prefer Big Sam to Maresca.

I mean, it'll definitely be someone between Paul Ince and Antonio Conte.

Leeds think they're getting him

Rudkin.

Don't be daft mun. Fatawu is good, he isn't that good. Chelsea have stockpiled more wingers and attacking midfielders than any club on the planet.

And their Karen wives leave negative Facebook feedback about any restaurant that doesn't do chips.

I'm pretty sure the only people who want David Moyes to manage Leicester get 90% of their football knowledge from the Daily Star and have no idea that the sport is played outside the British Isles.

PTT is a meme literally made up by a dude on foxestalk who put a random Thai company on the shirt.

I'm pretty sure the only other thing I've accused you of being obsessed about is Newcastle and their ownership and given you have you head firmly planted up Amanda Staveley's buttocks I don't think that's completely unreasonable.

Maybe I'm naive but I honestly believe that if Maresca had faith in the long term project here that he'd be staying. Chelsea are frankly a bit barmy and if he'd stayed here and put the time in I think he could be looking at better and more stable jobs. He's spoken passionately about wanting to build something and really work on a project and I think he thought that's what this is. But I also think he got sold a lie and is pissed off about it and largely wants out. Chelsea feels like any port in a storm really. That's not to suggest they aren't a massive club and it isn't a group opportunity in a lot of ways but I just don't think it would have been anywhere near as easy to tempt him if we had a competent sporting director and no pending points deduction blindsiding him.