Finnegan

I love how brave all the wannabe itks are saying they've heard it's Russell Martin when John Percy pretty much stated as such ages ago.

In fairness, he's from the West Mids and had his longest spell as a player at Wolves. I can see why he wanted to go there.

Surely he'll wait for a Championship job at a more stable club. There's no way his stock has dropped far enough that he needs League One and no way our combination of reputation and financial situation is good enough to attract his level of coach to drop. Can see us being naive enough to waste time on him but can't see it ever happening. Plus, it honestly wouldn't surprise me if Topkin think Martin is genuinely a better catch.

What a way to celebrate returning to the Premier League.

Tbf I could believe it, he's about your height

**** that he's a corrupt brexiteer ****. The only difference between him and the rest is he at least had a vague, vague shred of something resembling charisma. Being more generally palatable than Boris and Truss is barely an achievement. If anyone in that lineup could even vaguely pass as a human being it'd be May and even then that's extremely generous.

I'm hearing that it's going to be Mickey Adams, he wants another crack at it now that our financial situation is even worse.

That is unbelievably shit.

Yeah a pro like you would never **** up that easily.

Tbf I'd rather Ric took the job, fed the entire squad ouzo and Fray Bentos, signed exclusively mazy wingers and dropped the average age of the team to 19 than have to suffer Russell ****ing Martin.

@Manwell Pablo doesn't

I was about to make a glib comment about being in the minority even having an opinion about Peterborough then realised we're in the same ****ing league.

That was deliberately shit to make a point. The fact you were entertained by it says it all.

Not sure what you're talking atrout

FISH LOL

There's one of these articles written about every coach in the world through the eyes of a briefly optimistic football hipster that was convinced said coach was an incredible visionary who believed in the perfect mix of control, use of space, high pressing, counter attacking, fast direct attacks but also knowing how to build from the back. I can find you articles about Cooper, Ruud and Cifuentes that will all say the same.

I'll enter if you organise a Don't Hire Russell Martin protest at the ground.

It's be very naive to think that all of the money we make on sales will be available for new players.

He's actually got that hanging over his fireplace.

I mean the whole list could be Half Man Half Biscuit tbf. God's Footballer is such a ****ing dirge. Can't believe @Bellend Sebastian isn't bemoaning the absence of Another Sunny Day.

I feel this was pretty inevitable before they even won and probably would be whoever was PM, in fairness. The own goal was whoever at Labour HQ decided the campaign message in the last election should be that Labour would fix the economy at all let alone within weeks of them taking office. They were getting in with a sizeable majority anyway because the country was just rightfully fed up of Boris and his cabinet of corrupt and incompetent Brexiteer yes-men that had ****ed the country on Leave and COVID. Labour didn't need to and shouldn't have really said much other than "we're not them." But they made unrealistic promises to fix pretty much everything and gave the opposition all the ammunition they've needed for pretty much Starmer's whole term to date. Not that I particularly think he's a sensational PM but I do think he'd have looked a lot better with much different expectations. The country is ****ed, it'll take generations to fix, nobody is doing it overnight.

The book value loss in year doesn't really matter in the same way this year. Buying a player for £15m, getting almost no play time out of him and selling him for £3m is all round terrible, mind.

It'll be the opposite. I know everyone wants it to have sell on fees and other bonuses that match his perceived potential. But the club will be desperate to generate as much money now as possible. It'll be hugely front loaded towards the biggest fee we can get now.

And his traitor mate Stephen.

Oh god I absolutely don't think he's going to be amazing and solve all our problems. I wouldn't even describe myself as cautiously optimistic anymore. I just think even a club with as poor footballing intelligence as us must surely now realise Martin is shit.