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Yes but unfortunately there is only one John Rudkin and WE have him.

I honestly think you are overestimating how badly clubs will want a player who has been dreadful here and will demand MASSIVE wages when they can essentially ters drive him for a year in loan first.

You think we will get £6m for Soumare who is out of contract next summer? At best, we will get him out on loan until then.

That isn't really feasible though.

You are definately mistaken. We done it with Ayoze Perez and Man Utd done it with Alexis Sanchez.

Why wouldn't we be able to loan him out?

100% but thats a completely different discussion and would apply to ANYONE that we gave the job to.

He wasn't so much "sacked" as they replaced him as manager for non-footballing reasons but were so scared that he would go to a competitor, continued to pay him for doing nothing.

The way it ended at QPR is a bit iffy but, IF it is to be believed that QPR have sold him a vision and not kept their end, I can see why he wanted out. That and the way QPR handled it afterwards where they effectively benched him to prevent him getting another job whilst hiring someone else points to them being difficult. Although, if you look at his history, he DOES have previous for jumping ship when the better oppertunity comes calling. He's done it at every club. That's why his average stay at each club so far in his career is about 1.5 year. He does the job he's expected to do then moves on. The only real other reservation i have is the form of his teams. Every team he has been at are streaky to the maximum. They will win 5/6 in a row then not win for the next 5/6 before going on another little run. It's definitely a pattern to keep in mind. Other than that, I'm fairly happy. He's one of the only managers we've been linked with who's career has been on an upward trajectory since it started. Fans seem to like him due to his style of football which I think our squad is suited to and he should have the inside scoop of the Scandinavian market where there is some value for money. He also has experience working under difficult circumstances which is a skill he will need here. For me, it's an interesting appointment but will all depend on how much room and support Top and Rudkin give him to work.

We all knew that sell to buy was going to be the case. I just hope we are able to keep Bilal, Mavididi and Fatawu. They could be a game changer. I imagine Faes will go. Ateast one of Vesty and Coady, probs the latter. Ndidi will go. Hermansen if we can find someone willing to pay £20+. I think maybe Soumare and VK will go on loan but hopefully permanent. Thats got to be around the £40m mark, conservatively. Hopefully that's enough to keep who we want to keep and get 1/2 CM's and 1/2 strikers.

He hasn't reached his potential because he has a Hamstring made of spaghetti. He has been injured for a combined total of about 600 days in the last 4 seasons. Missing about 92 games. ...and that's just his Hamstring injuries.

I just hope Dufkin and Top are open and honest with him. There is nothing wrong with telling him up front "there won't be much money, you might be able to spend on one or two but for the most part, it will be free transfers and loans." I don't think it will chase him away and everyone knows where they stand.

Their jobs in Scandinavia are pretty incomparable. Potter spent 7 years with one club building them to where they went from the Swedish 4th tier to 5th in the top and a European knockout game. Cifuentes spent a total of 4 years at 3 different clubs, in 3 different countries. Achieving what was set out and moving on each time. It's kind of like comparing what Phil Parkinson has done at Wrexham to what Enzo done here.

I mean, the guy has managed close to 280 games. By games managed, he will be our most experienced manager since Dean Smith. Yes, the standard of where he has coached has been varied but for the most part, he's achieved what has been expected of him at every club he's been at, which is why he's one of the only managers that we've been linked with who's career has been on an upward trajectory since it started. I think you are being somewhat dismissive of his job at QPR. Yes ultimately all he did was "survive relegation" but again, that was what he was tasked with doing. All you have to do is look at the general feeling towards him from QPR fans. He's still held in high regards. That's not very common in football, especially by one's who met the bare minimum like your comments suggest.

He really does just follow up on anything Percy says but spins it in his own words to make it seem like his information. Yesterday, Percy said we interviewed O'Neil and Wilder, an hour later, he says O'Neil is the front runner. Today Percy says Cifuentes is in poll to get it, and hour later, he "breaks" the news that talks with O'Neil has stalled and we are talking to Cifuentes. The guy is a fraud.

I'm excited by his knowledge of the Scandinavian market, which seems to provide some good value for money.... assuming we have any.

I can get behind this. This is OK.

Really?! Because I'm getting the idea that it IS Hassenhttl! Or at the very least, his agent.

Like the above poster said, I'm not sure if we can do it to a UK club but we done it with Perez to Betis, so we CAN do it.

It frightens me that I can't tell when someone is joking on here anymore.

I think we will lose Mads, Bilal, Coady and Ndidi on permanent deals, possibly Faes too. VK, Soumare and Winks on loan. I think we will sign 3 players. A back-up GK, a CM and a striker. Two on loan, one on a free transfer.

There isn't any. That much is clear as day. 3 failed managers, 2 relegations, 2 PSR breaches and a decreasing squad quality alongside a wage bill that isn't a fair representation of our ability. All in the last 3 years and not one thing has changed within the structure of those who allowed this to happen. That's why it really doesn't matter who our manager is if those above him are allowed to continue their show of incompetence with impunity.

This IS what Top has been doing though. In my opinion anyway. He's been sitting back and letting the likes of Rudkin and Whelan run the club for him. The only difference is that they are as clueless as him.

The Pedersen situation at SWFC is throwing me. Players are not being paid, notices of players terminating their contracts are going in, the manager is reportedly trying to negotiate his release and then you renew the assistant managers contract? The only sense I can make of it is that he will be head coach. Nothing else really lines up. Ofcourse this doesn't mean that Rohl is coming here but I do believe it suggests some sort of movement.

I feel like this is bait.