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I was brought up a rangers fan but in my late teens realised that I didn't want to be associated with a club and fanbase that glorified and revelled in politics, hatred and religious bigotry. Having said that, the prospect of a King Power owned Leicester team, put together and run by Jon Rudkin and managed by Russell Martin has had me listening to the Sash whilst browsing second hand Ulster scarfs all afternoon

Is there still anyone defending the owners? They are running us into the ground.

No. Maresca was pretty big on drilling passing patterns into the team. Those patterns were for short passes and Winks was integral to that. In short, Winks passed short and slow because that's what was demanded of him from the manager. There is no reason to believe he wouldn't play more direct and faster if that's what a new manager would ask of him.

A knowing smile and cheeky wink would be all it took. ....failing that, him sprinting from the pitch, climbing the stand and tea-bagging Top whilst holding strong eye contact the entire time with John Rudkin would suffice.

Fatawu gets injured for a few months and folk forget he ever existed!

That's about 9 yards more than any of our current centre mids excluding Bilal.

Am I missing something or is there a reason that people have decided that it's Winks that is the issue? I'm not saying that he isn't! What I'm saying is do we know for sure because as far as I can see, he hasn't got any previous for acting out but Ruud does have a reported history of clashing with players. There was the whole Okoli thing earlier in the season as well as a few reports about clashes with some players at PSV that led to them going to upper management about him and a section of players being less than sad when he left.. It could well be the case that Winks was being a **** but I'm just wondering if there is a reason we have decided that it DEFINATELY falls on him and not a manager that has shown that he isn't exactly competent.

Wellens vs Leicester next year maybe?

Lovely.

I can't get excited by this prospect in the slightest because there is absolutely NO WAY we can develop him by giving him first team football AND keep him for the next two years. The system is set to favour the big clubs taking these sort of prospects for next to nothing, loaning them out for 4/5 years then selling them for massive profit.

It's bad enough that we are gonna get embarrassed on the pitch, the thought of our "fans" embarrassing us off it too is more than I can handle but you know they will.

If we can go into next season with Mavidi, BEK and Fatawu playing behind a goalscoring striker, it's a decent start.

This is the perfect example of why i walked away from supporting them all those years ago. People always just say "it's a small minority" when talking about the sectarian nonsense but it's not. The club lean into it and always have. This garbage, union jack embroidered home kits, orange away ones etc. They know their fanbase and they know it's not a "small minority."

In a world were Aaron Ramsdale sold for more than that, not once, not twice but 3 TIMES! I think that would be a very low evaluation for Mads.

I could see us going as low as £20m, I think someone would definitely take him at that price and I think we need to. If not him then one of the other two. Who would you rather sell at that price out of those 3? Even then, if that's the sort of price we can get and the sale of other players in the squad isn't going great (and let's face it, that's a real possibility) we may have to sell all 3 for something around that price.

Depending on how bad the financial situation is and if Fatawu leaves, I wouldn't mind Vaclav Cerny. He's 27 and only really had one notable season in the SPFL but he's been very good almost everytime I've saw him play and would be relatively cheap. It could very well be a case of a decent player that we don't need/not quite what we are looking for but like I say, if Fatawu goes and money is tight, he could be a good option to split playing time with Monga. He wouldn't halt his progression but would take the pressure off of playing and performing every week.

We 100% will need to bring in as much cash as possible. We have 3 players that could potentially bring in decent money, him, BEK and Fatawu. Of those 3, I'd rather he went and he's probably most likely to do so.

I'm in the mindset that he NEEDS to go. He's our biggest saleable asset. We can't afford to keep him. Plus, I would much rather him go than BEK or Fatawu. Stolarcyk is good enough to be our first choice.

Naw, I can definately see the appeal. It CAN be a doorway back to a mid table PL but you can always end up getting sacked by a team in the Cypriot league like Neil Lennon too. I think a lot of people outside of Scotland also don't understand the pressure OF managers are under. It's different to how it is in England.

Just watched the movie "Trap" and I'm fully convinced that at some point recently, M night Shyamalan has had a stroke and no-one has noticed. Comically bad. I actually think I love it for how bad it was.

In what world is this true? They had a pretty good Europa run but apart from that... this is the worst top flight Rangers squads in my lifetime. They are so so poor. Even in the Championship, I'm not sure there are more than one or two players I would take from them. Even with the takeover in the near future, we've seen that be a disaster before at Rangers. And the place is absolutely teaming with John Rudkin-esq incompetence.

Hi Mrs. Vardy.

The biggest difference between Rob and Ryan and other rich owners is they have something those others don't and that's fame, and they have used it beautifully in their favour. I see it alot, people discrediting their success by pointing out that Wrexham outspend their rivals massively and that is true but they do that by out earning their rivals massively and all the sponsorship deals and limelight that earns that money is through the fame of the owners. They really do seem like a well run club. Comparing their owners to ours, it's easy to draw comparisons. Rich, don't know all that much about running a club and have other interests and duties elsewhere but the main difference is that their owners have entrusted the day to day running of the club to people that know how to do it and Top has handed over control to a gang of morons.

We don't really have a choice for the next year, do we?

Well.... that's a can of worms of a conversation, right there.