wardyfox86

Stolarcyk, Skipp, Winks, Coady, Ndidi, JJ, Vestergaard, Daka will probably stay. None have proven themselves good enough or ready to play top flight football yet but would help form a handy Championship side. I wouldn't lose sleep on any of them leaving though. Fatawu and El Khannouss I'd be disappointed to lose, I'd hope being young they'd give us a season in the Championship. Faes, Mavididi, Kristiansen, Mads, Soumare, Okoli we'll actively try to sell but their stock won't be high (Mads maybe, but his stats won't look good in an RvN side shipping goals for fun) Unlike 2 seasons ago, where we did actually have some players that were better than the Championship. This season, aside from 1 or 2, the players that think they're better than the club are probably the 1's who's exit will be celebrated the most.

Enlighten me as to why a group of players that have, now twice, been proven incapable of PL level football would think that a) they're better than us and b) somebody better would want to buy them?

Even if there was the threat of an embargo, there's the possibility of us getting our business done early (unlikely with us) There's a significant amount of time between the final game of the season and actually being relegated to the EFL. I'm pretty sure we can operate in the market as normal whilst still technically a PL club. As for players wanting to leave. Almost all of them have proven they aren't good enough for PL football, so if they think they're better than us and want to leave, let them. I want some new players to get behind anyway, fallen out of love with the majority of our squad.

Ruud being terrible does not make sacking Cooper the wrong decision. They just got his replacement SO wrong.

Does it matter?? They won't bring in the right manager next. The list of better options was as long as my arm when we sacked Cooper and RvN wasn't on it. I'm not even angry at him, a competent board just wouldn't have hired him.

I don't really find happiness in other people's pain, but if there's 1 thing that would slightly soften our impending relegation, it'd be United following us round the U-bend

There's just no way 2 of the 3 teams above us go down. You look at them in most games and think they're in with a chance if getting points. Just doesn't happen currently with us and Soton.

Stolarcyk Coulibaly Coady Nelson Justin Skipp El Khannouss Mavididi Alves Fatawu Probably Vardy That's a decent enough 11 with plenty of sellable assets left out. Plus I'd assume, should relegation be confirmed early, we could get a bit of business done before we're officially an EFL club even if there was a risk of an embargo. Personally I can't see what the EFL can do, that the PL couldn't. Especially not "record numbers" because their feelings got hurt. The punishment still has to fit the crime.

But every aspect of what you're saying is based on what other people would think if Forest won it. Would it take away from your personal opinion of our achievement? I'll make it clear, I'm not exactly cheering them on but I don't really care either way.

I don't find joy in other people's misery. And I don't find misery in other people's joy. I only care what we do.

Good luck to them I say. Will not change the way I feel/felt about our success. I'm not interested in comparisons about which is the better achievement, whether it dilutes other fans' opinion on our success or whatever else a Forest title would bring.

It's the most obvious "sign him now and loan him back to them" I've seen. Surely if his trajectory is only upwards we should be sanctioning this deal as swiftly as possible. Low fee with a hefty sell-on % The same thing we should have done with Mandela Keita, baffling.

Would love to see Dobey or Bunting win it this year. Littler's time will come. He was ticking along nicely against The Asp though, can't see past him.

I had Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink left over but I didn't think that sounded like a real footballer

Oops, I didn't list 1 RB there I saw "realistic right backs" and read "realistic players" My bad

Ransford Konigsdorffer Nicolo Tresoldi Pascal Klemens Finn Jeltsch Marton Dardai All in Germany's 2nd Tier, for the future but could do a job now.

Edit: Need to ready the whole tweet.

These young players running down their contracts at Ajax, aren't doing so so they can rock up at the mighty Leicester. He'll have far better options, on far better wages come the summer, unfortunately.

The league is in danger of becoming a closed shop of 17 teams, the gap will continue to widen unless a promoted team can relegate 1 of the weaker Prem teams. Look at the teams that'll come up when us 3 go down, Leeds aside you just know they won't be able to attract the kind of player that'll keep them up. Yet teams like Wolves are struggling in 17th, littered with internationals. Good luck to those coming up, somebody needs to flush a couple of these turds for the good of the pyramid. Edit: (already alluded to by @SouthStandUpperTier@SouthStandUpperTier)

It's not about the quality of player, it's now the likeliness of it happening. I could put out a list of: Foden - Loan Alphonso Davies - 10m Fofana - 40m Maddison - 10m Dias - 100m They'd all improve us but it's still a terrible list.

Like somebody said above, him and Boselli please. £20m well spent, not huge wages and would probably hang around 1 season if we go down.

You're right. I'll just clap along and quietly think "gee, wouldn't it be nice if the people paid hansomly to run this club, knew what they were doing" I shall not call for Ruud, he was the wrong choice but that's not his fault. The club needs selling, we settle into mediocre Championship under this rabble.

He was never going to come in and instantly make this batch of competition winners better. There are at least 8 players in this starting lineup that have no right to earn a living in the PL at the moment, and we aren't replacing all of them in January. We needed a manager that could make us better than the sum of our parts, Ruud isn't that man. He gets a free pass from me this season, we're going down, he won't get sacked so we'll just see what happens in the summer. We're hard to support with this board running things.

Honking. Yes, the squad isn't great, but there are better players sitting on our bench. Don't see how we win this.