Ric Flair

I don't want anything that's seen as a stop gap, I'm not interested in getting promoted again next season if we've no plan to survive and we repeat this over and over. Some will disagree with that or say worry about that when we get there and make the changes as we need to, but we've proven as a club in recent years we aren't proactive enough. We basically need to strike lucky with a manager again but without major changes off the field I don't see it happening successfully and with any longevity either. We're in a period now where we're just going through the motions until it all comes to a head and it will do. We may never get back to anywhere near what we've done but the goal of any future owner needs to be to the best of the rest and have a culture and strategy that fans can relate to. Modern football is tedious and boring as sin enough as it is.

I genuinely can't pick a team, certainly not a defence that deserve to play.

Yes I think he would.

Moyes categorically said he wasn't interested when Cooper was sacked. Respected journalists have reported this.

Him signing for PSG or Real might suit us as we'd keep him until he's 18.

All sorted cheers mate.

Most of us are 75% Brussell at the end of the festive period each year so the club will think they're being popular and clever by appointing Martin. It's definitely happening in 2025.

We probably aren't the right club for an injury prone player to join but I'm very intrigued to see how good he could become if he stayed fit for the next two seasons.

It's impossible to tell. I thought we'd struggle in 2023/24 but whilst we faltered massively down the stretch the gulf in class was evident. Enzo had arrested for a good while this deep routed malaise though so it wouldn't be that surprising if we fell apart at a lower level, we're a mess.

This reminds me of playing Pro Evo back in the day and the controller not letting you change who you pick. WE GO AGAIN 😂😂😂

I see why Bounanotte isn't playing RW but to get both him and Bilal in we have to go to a narrow 4-3-2-1 with attacking full backs or preferably 3-4-2-1 and Bounanotte and El Khannouss given free roles behind Vardy or Daka.

Tete 94th minute winner 👀

If anyone knows on one ticket available then please let me know. There's an international fan over for the week who's contacted me to see if I can help. Nice one

To the naked eye this doesn't appear correct or at the very least obvious. The holding up the ball and winning tactical fouls is the strongest part of his game but even if it's something else defensively that he's supposedly good at than tackles, blocks and clearances then the one major thing it isn't is his ability to track and close down the opposition. He can't get near them and that's a major issue.

Cue Ayew Vardy Reid again tomorrow

Louis Page scored the winner for England U17s tonight vs Netherlands.

Yeah that's my thinking. If I'm still rough then I'm going to not chase a time at all and just get round and take satisfaction of that, but hopefully things improve 🤪

100% where I'm at. I'd love to see us have to carry out what we should already be doing and that the young players recognised we'll give them a chance to build their careers here and stuck by us. If that happened I'd be genuinely so happy as a fan ans couldn't give a flying fcuk if we didn't win anything.

Seems I've joined a few on the scrapheap illness wise. In Bath for half term all week and supposed to be doing the two tunnels half marathon on Sunday but I feel abysmal. This is now the 3rd bout of fever/flu since Christmas. Bizarre. Hopefully it goes as quick as it comes and I can still do it, will piss me off if I don't so I might just force through it anyway.

He can play in the PL for us as well, we'd just need it clearing from the Premier League. Arsenal did this with Nwaneri two years ago.

I do find it odd just how little he's been used. I know it's probably manager preference and we've seen one manager deem a player not good enough in the past and then the next manager immediately use and benefit from those players but right from the off its as if he's been flagged as a player not to be considered. One to add in to the scrap book of a complete disconnect between club, playing identity and manager/s. We are quite something.

This lad has it all by the way, exactly the type of striker we should have looked at last season and this season. Our attempts to fix the mess we are in didnt need to alter much whether we were in the Championship or PL. Most of the signings we were happy with post the 22/23 relegation occurred when we were an ambitious Championship side rather than confirming to the sorry clichés of newly promoted PL sides chucking money about on players that aren't worth it.

Provide saleable assets and them playing in the first team is surely mutually exclusive if the profit you aspire to generate is vast. Bottom line is, we got £50m for Chilwell, £35-40m for Barnes and £30-35m for KDH and yet are on the precipice of the outer limits on PSR. We simply have to have academy development as one of, if not our single biggest priority. Seagrave was surely built for this purpose and we have spent many years working tirelessly behind the scenes building this ethos and we need to carry it through. It's why I respect European teams with a long track record of bringing through academy players and how they buy low and sell high over the juggernauts clubs. That's our only hope.

Directors of Football and I presume Rudkin will be almost exclusively responsible for the negotiation with players but the setting of the entire budget for footballing operations year on year will be a combined process with the CFO, DOF and quite likely the board and even the manager. Rodgers boasted about him driving the increase in renumeration for his squad due to their attempts at realising their ambition and the success they achieved and that's part of the problem we have found ourselves in. We got swept up in success and didn't have a contingency for a wage bill that nearly exceeded our entire revenue if we stopped finishing in the top 6. So whilst Rudkin will have been working within the parameters the club were all largely happy with, when the shit has hit the fan in the last few seasons it's unfathomable when you read in the press we offered Jack Harrison £100k a week 2 years ago, signed (allegedly Conor Coady) on £70k a week in the Championship that's since been bumped up to £100k a week according to John Percy, and deals like Edouard when Palace simply had to get him gone to register Nketiah. This is where I lose sympathy with the club when it's fallen on harder times, a lack of strong decision making to steer our club back to being able to operate flexibly. This is why we need the reset from top to bottom.

Adil Boulbina