Finnegan

Would everyone just **** off with this already. It's not going to happen. You don't even want it, I promise you. If any of you give the first **** at all about Andy King and his coaching career then shut the **** up about him and let him learn the ropes at a normal, healthy career pace.

I don't think this is true in the absolute slightest. Martin went for Rangers because Martin went for Rangers, if we were genuinely interested in him he opted against it. The board didn't drop their interest because of fans' opinions. The fans never wanted Cooper, the fans never wanted Ruud, the fans never wanted Smith, the fans never wanted Puel, most of the fans had never even heard of or considered Enzo Maresca. Rohl is just an example of the one actually slightly realistic candidate who both the board will show an interest in and the fans can actually show some enthusiasm for. The fans are only really clamouring for him because they've been told that he's a likely appointment and he isn't awful.

Have you been paying attention at all in the last 10 years? If there's one thing we all know for certain, it's that the club NEVER knows "exactly what they're doing."

Our situation is nothing like theirs.

I really hate the early 00s piping throwback design on this year's Adidas.

It will likely remain hot until he's either appointed or Percy / Tanner confirm that we're close to hiring somebody else. It's pretty much the main thing anyone's going to want to talk about until we've got a manager in place which should be days away at most really.

I don't think anyone believes we'll get Rohl for nothing.

Augsburg and Wolfsburg both now recruited? Ha shows how much attention I've been paying.

I do think we probably have previous, recently even, for waiting too long for an unsure manager to make up his mind (Potter, for example.) But, as much as we like to think the club are entirely useless, I can't imagine we'd have gotten to this point in pre-season and be waiting for Rohl if we hadn't had assurance from him he wanted the move. That doesn't mean a last minute swoop from the Bundesliga isn't still possible but we must have had some indication from him or his agent. Even with Potter last year, we'd given up and opted for Cooper by June 20th.

Look, the situation isn't ideal, in the perfect world we'd be better run and wouldn't even be in this position. But given we are where we are, a couple of days isn't going to be the end of the world for us. If we were less wasteful with money we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place, so being a bit prudent and letting Wednesday take the hit is an improvement. It also makes it increasingly likely we ARE actually waiting for Rohl. If it was Dyche or O'Neil or someone else, we'd have had them in pretty much immediately following Ruud's departure, which is nice.

****ing hell, awful. Literally just got married, devastating for his family.

At which point I assume you held off, hoping for a shot with Eiður Guðjohnsen, but he just never showed up?

Shame you didn't respect their privacy by taking a series of camera phone photos of them from multiple angles and uploading them to FoxesTalk.

If (IF) we have a verbal agreement in place with either Rohl or his agent to come here, I'd much rather we wait for a couple of days for him to resolve his exit from Wednesday? If it's the difference between paying several million or maybe a few hundred thousand quid, surely that's worth waiting a day or two? Obviously if the players have been back for weeks then we'd be getting a bit antsy but they've literally just started training and will predominantly be doing fitness work that anyone could coach right now. Don't think, in reality, we're really missing all that much at the moment, it just seems far more drastic than it is because we're all on the edge of our seats waiting for the news with nothing to fill the void on here. Being honest, we (as in FoxesTalk) do this all the time.

Erm, if Enzo Maresca was the young, highly regarded, up and coming manager in the image of Pep Guardiola then Danny Rohl is these things but for Hansi Flick. Only Maresca's first stint in senior management was a bit of a flop at Parma where as Rohl has managed to get a batshit Wednesday with a terrible squad to stabilise at this level. One of the biggest criticisms from our fans over the last 5-10 years has been that we've continually moved towards playing football that is too patient, too slow and often too passive. The expectation that has people excited is that Rohl will want a team that's extremely fit, presses hard and knows when to go direct, being less patient in possession and somewhat less afraid of risk. It is worth establishing that the Germany side he worked on with Flick did have some issues when it comes to breaking down teams and playing too slowly. It's also worth saying that his Wednesday loved the dreaded Mid Block, which is one of the most turgid ways to defend and is how Ruud plays. So we'll have to see what he does here. Mostly, let's be honest, the biggest excitement with Rohl is that he isn't Dyche or O'Neil. We could do a lot, lot worse.

Do they want Vestergaard and Faes for no extra cost?

Nice to know we aren't the most insane fans in the country. Danny Rohl's next job isn't going back to being an assistant.

... errrmmmm.. mods?

That figures. Every other year Barca do a good one followed by a shit one. Last year's was great. Due a shite effort.

Michael Fassbender's first step in to football management?

THIS IS WHAT THE BRUTUS LIKES

#captionthis

Enzo: I want to work with a small squad, we have too many players. Boehly:

Fatawu and Mavididi as starting wingers playing Rohl's brand of football, oh please. 🤞

This place gets increasingly surreal.