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I'm sure everyone at the club will be shocked by this sudden news. Not least, Top and Rudkin who may now begin to consider the possibility of potentially starting to commence thinking about the process of preparing to look for a replacement.

He didn't sulk as far as we can tell, he left because we didn't play a role he thought was suited to him and yes his performance dropped last season but so did everyone's. Are you questioning Vardy's character?

Demanding a higher quality of performance from the players around him when they are contributing to the team slipping into relegation is hardly acting like the manager. It's showing character and a winning mentality. I'd much prefer that in my team than a group of players who are to busy planning their night out to the darts.

I'm not sure i understand the negativity around him... Young player, moved abroad to a much higher standard of league. I feel he done well for a game or two then there were reported issues with a particular group within the squad and his performances dropped in a team full of players who's performance at the time was gash. He then was asked to play a position he wasn't comfortable with under Maresca, declined and made the right call by going out on loan, doing well and increasing his stock again. The truth is, we don't know if he can be succesful here as we've never given him the circumstances to be succesful.

I'm surprised that there hasn't been more links to Carrick. Seems right up our owners street. Young, promising, possession football, decent sized name.

Lol... and he ended up with Portugal whilst you get Poland!

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We've worked so hard to build a reputation of being a half decent team but now that we get the chance to show it, a few bad injuries and a complete lack of a good striker is going to see us struggle to give a good account of ourselves.

Nah. John Lundstrum is a decent player and will be an excellent addition to a top Championship club. Ryan Jack is made of biscuits and is not PL standard even on his best day. Barasic is over-rated due to his good deliveries into the box but is caught in more bad positions than George Michael and Roofe has really REALLY terrible hair.

Hahaha. Yup, that's the one.

Austin Mcphee is who I'd be going for. Set pieces essentially got Scotland to the Euros and Villa have the 4th highest goals from set pieces in the league despite being one of the smallest teams. Whether he'd come or not is a different matter.

An old-school homophobic, sexist chain-smoker who chews cigarette butt's on touchline.... Gerriminn!!!

I think there is a time and place for attractive football. Last season, we really should have been playing good football but this year, I couldn't care less what the football looks like. This year, results matter above all else.

Then they had a falling out, refused to speak to each other and one of them put in a sexual misconduct complaint about the other.

Surely agents do that to use the fear of someone else being interested to leverage their current club into a new contract? But given that the current club and the reportedly interested club are owned by the same people, I'm not sure that would work as they will know if the interest is legit or not...

Aren't you supposed to put a hashtag in front of that?

A bit of premature Maresculation?!

Nah, I'd have Colwill at LCB, Fofana in the middle, James at RCB and Gusto or Cuccarela inverted.

Is he related to the one that coaches in Japan?

Yeah, potentially. Him as the 8, Winks as the 6 and KDH as the 10.

Well... He plays with a double pivot of a 6 and and 8. If Ndidi stayed, him and Winks would be the 6's. That's fine but KDH is the only #8 so we would need one of those. He plays one winger wide and one coming inside to play alongside the #10 (which we would need 2 of). I think that would be OK ideally with Fatawu the former and Mavididi the latter but each would need a backup. The problem comes in defence. Similair to Enzo, the 4 becomes a 3 with one FB tucking in but instead of moving into CM, the other FB takes up the wide space that the winger vacates when he moves inside. I don't think Ricardo's body can cope with that role anymore. Part of the reason he was fairly healthy this year was that he played a role that was more forgiving but if he doesn't play that role and we instead have VK do it on the left (which would be ideal given that I'd prefer Mavididi coming inside) where does Ricardo fit in? JJ would be the preferred RCB for me. Not to mention, he likes a high press which doesn't suit the pace of any of our CBs. Don't get me wrong, I like the sound of the system, I'm just not sure how it fits to our squad. This is ofcourse assuming he would play the same system.

If it was to be RVN, he either needs to adapt from the tactics he used at PSV or we are in for a hell of a rebuild.

Well yeah, but the fact they are stocking on Sunday, I'd bet my left nut that they shirt drops on Monday.

Looks like a young Clay Morrow. Are we finally getting a Sons of Anarchy prequel?!