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I can see him going to a mid table Ligue 1 side in the north of France on a free transfer when his deal here runs out.

We've got a couple of players I can see leaving the club and doing OK at teams in Europe's top seven or so leagues. People can laugh all they want but Faes, Okoli, Kristiansen, Daka (yes really) and Mavididi probably all do pretty well with a fresh start somewhere else. I reckon even Soumare under the right circumstances, Sevilla was definitely above his level but that's not saying much. If not in Italy, Germany or Spain then you could see most of that lot thriving at least in Portugal, the Netherlands, Turkey, France, Belgium, etc.

Might not be up to us.

Holy shit, Myron Boadu still exists. That's a flash from the FM past. Probably do OK in the Championship to be fair but why only a 1 year contract? Fitness concerns? He someone else that'd take six months to actually be ready to play? Completely irrelevant, anyway, we've probably never heard of him and with Carranza flopping, Rudkin probably won't be ready to take another "risk" for a few years. It'll be EFL experience or nothing, thank you very much.

What odds can I get on them not even vaguely considering the option

We have some weird fans.

Time for everyone's favourite catchphrase: lazy journalism.

Do they normally wish former players a happy birthday? Love the guy, he's pretty much my favourite ever player. But he's gone. ****ing loads of genuinely important stuff to be mad at the club for and people care about this?

Yeah, I don't really get it. It's just genetic hating something popular isn't it really. And before I'm accused of bias, they're north Welsh, they're disgusting.

Tbh usually when I see people blaming Seagrave it is people blaming the owners. They use it as an example of bad decision making by the club. Whereas, personally, I think it's one of the best things they've done.

Blaming Seagrave for our problems is just brain dead sheep talk. People parroting mouth breathers on Facebook. Such a weird fixation.

How are blogs still a thing.

I'll defend Martinelli. In fact, I think the opposition manager defending Martinelli said it better than I could. He obviously thought Bradley was time wasting which is a pretty reasonable assumption. As soon as he actually calmed down and realised, he was mortified and went and apologised and by all accounts was very sweet about it. Slot is right, the wider problem is the time wasting and play acting of footballers in general. The fact it was such a reasonable assumption for him to think Bradley was time wasting is the bigger problem.

Gotta love the fans voting for their combined team of the series on the BBC with 6/11 England players haha.

One thing I do think and I've said this before when people are arguing with @urban.spaceman for some reason, the two things aren't mutually exclusive. It's true that the club has been terribly run with some awful decision making and it's also true that the rules are not fair and were very specifically designed to keep clubs like us in our place and the big six in "theirs." You can and should be mad at both things.

Can you not just **** off again for another few years?

Streets are trying so hard to forget.

Showing your age there pal

Try doing that living on a hill in Yorkshire. Every tree outside is pretty much sideways. Bitter.

That's about 1m more than we'll be spending.

I think the only point of argument I'd inject anywhere is that the longer time goes on, the less I think we should use the term "Rudkin" and more just "King Power", to be honest. I very much based the maths on his tenure as DoF but I increasingly believe his actually day job doesn't really match his title. I don't really think the expectations of him are comparable to what is expected of Txiki Begiristain, Monchi, Leonardo, Comolli or whoever else. A lot of the decision making we're deriding was the work of Rodgers, Cooper and co' which is an institutional and structural failure of the club as a business. Essentially, I think our club is so badly run that we don't really know who actually has true accountability for anything so ultimately the buck just has to keep passing upwards until you get to the Top (see what I did there.) Don't take that as a defence of Rudkin per se, I just think it's less "the cost of Rudkin" and more "the cost of having no adequate footballing infrastructure." It sounds pedantic but it's probably an important distinction.

As awful as it might be, Okoli is probably our most competent defender at the moment. Granted, that seems to change week by week when they take it in turns making horrific mistakes. Unless we're selling him for much needed profit or his wages are significantly higher than Vestergaard and Faes (which I doubt), he wouldn't be top of my list of people to get rid of, to be honest. Mid to long term, absolutely, I think he's crap. But now? Eh.

There you go, that was it. So ~126m loss on players we sold, another ~254m on ones that walked out for free and to add to your list of pending ones that are about to walk out for free, Bouba cost us another 20 odd, Vestergaard we'll probably be stuck with for another year and that's another 15m. What I didn't bother calculating because the data isn't reliable is the cost in wages over that time for players that don't actually play. So that's either cases like Soyuncu, Vestergaard, Daka, Soumare, etc where handsomely paid footballers are peripheral squad members or even frozen out entirely or even cases where a player has been loaned out to clubs repeatedly (eg Praet, Slimani, etc) who won't be paying anywhere near their full wage. I know every club will have stories like this. A certain percentage of transfers always fail. But the volume of money we've pissed away over the last 5-10 years is ****ing tragic.

I've just seen a reddit thread about a guy who was deeply confused because he had slow, long term carbon monoxide poisoning. I think you might need a CO detector.

The problem for Trump isn't that he "visited the island", the problem for Trump is he was a major co-conspirator and trafficker who is almost certainly the most heavily named pedophile in the evidence of Epstein's operation. They were extremely close friends and confidants. If the full thing is leaked, he'll lose his base and be in genuine danger of prosecution, for real this time. They 100% want Venezuelan oil, even ****ing Murdoch owned Sky News haven't bothered hiding how much the Americans want and need the heavy crude there, but the timing is definitely about the file release. Pretty sure Maduro was taken the exact day Bondi was supposed to disclose the last batch, no? They're never subtle.