Ric Flair

Do football clubs get audited because if they do, the findings from the signing of Tom Cannon to back up those of Patson Daka and Iheanacho should be enough to report major failings in our operations. All three of them are forwards who excel in a front two and yet we seldom deploy such a system. Patson Daka's entire impressive career at Salzburg was in a 4-2-2-2 with another striker and the flashes of brilliance for us came in a front two as well. No shit. Tom Cannon was signed on the back of a solid half a season on loan at Preston where you guessed it, he played in a front two and got 9 goals in 20 games. His skill set / weaknesses are clear to see that they are boosted by playing with another striker to create space for him to come alive in the box, rather than do it himself. Iheanacho, whilst his Man City form might not have shown him to have played in a front two, his good performances at Leicester almost exclusively were in a front two, both in 2019/20 and 2020/21 when he single handedly tried to keep us in the top 4 and fire us to Wembley. Despite all of this we don't ever do the due diligence to see whether our managers favour such a system and yet we still sign strikers for that way of playing. Infuriating.

Aasgaard will reach PL level, very good.

And you will hear us. From Monday we'll be back every week.

Recording Monday night. Apologies for the absence. Talking openly though, there's some of us on the pod that are close to jacking it in with the club. That's how disillusioned some of our fanbase are. Just need the season to start but this is as uninterested I've been as a fan for quite some time. Just struggling to relate to what's going on. I don't actually like what we stand for.

The uncomfortable thing is though it pretty much was Ward, even taking in to consideration any other area that underperformed alongside him. Iversen came in and we were still pretty crap but points per game total was enough over a season to keep us up. The only difference was bringing Iversen in and Rodgers going. It's harrowing just how crap we could have been and still stayed up and yet we were somehow worse and that's Brendan's fault unequivocally.

When you say transfer budget, what you mean is the amortised fees for the year. Paying the agent another £2m is not £10m to the amortised budget for the year, but just the equivalent of agreeing to pay £10m but over 5 years. Personally if we've missed out on him for £2m sniffs on the books in 24/25 it's a real shame. There's probably a but more to it.

Don't think so and the longer it goes on the more we are likely to get because he's destined to make it at the very top. Very frustrating really, he'd likely have been in our 1st team last season aged just 16 which would have been unheard of for us but such is his talent. Think there's more where he came from as well, our academy is starting to bear fruit of the previous decades hard work.

Yet managers in such scenarios seldom last, nor have the confidence and monetary to field a promotion push. If we're as crap as I fear we might he'll be long gone.

Isn't Fatawu a similar age to Alves and Golding? 😂

Walking in a Jon Rudkin wonderland.

That's so pleasing to hear. He is going to really get an opportunity at Wigan who have a great manager and some really talented young players. Thelo Aasgaard being the one I've been monitoring most.

Why not try one of your creative midfielders from the academy/who you've signed Steve? I don't think I've been less enthused about a new manager for a long while.

Just smashed 1 min 47 seconds off my 5k PB of the year. That's what Steve Cooper-ball does to a man.

I like seeing both wingers stay wide and then cut in when they get the ball, Mavididi is too far inside so far, he is far more devastating taking players on in space and diagonally attacking the goal with the ball.

I'm not talking about loads, he's not even started one of them in an area that's so weak that it's a perfect opportunity to try one of them. Like Maresca did with McAteer out wide last pre-season when we were still evidently going to strengthen. The outcome, he forced his way in to being a 1st team regular.

Cooper is not living up to his reputation of bringing through academy/young players. If he hasn't the bravery to start Alves, Braybrooke or Golding in a meaningless pre-season game in an area we are horrifyingly weak in then when will he? Making it very difficult to get behind him so far.

That is a horrid midfield trio.

Chesterfield is even further away from Sicily than Leicester is, so it's been done to piss them off.

Great stuff. Now if we can get loans for several more of them I'll be happy (keep back Alves and Braybrooke though please)

Will be interesting to see if this now propels him ahead of Hermansen in the Denmark national team. Mads has had to play 3rd fiddle already.

Sell them McAteer for £10m and buy Sara for £30m + add ons

Zan Vipotnik on a free from Bordeaux

This would be a very good piece of business but the fee is surely £25-30m minimum.

Look at it another way. Why on earth would a perceived gambling sponsor be willing to pay tens of millions of pounds to be on the front of a football clubs shirts? They aren't doing it out the goodness of their own hearts. This is an industry where there have been parliament papers written that confirm upwards of 60% of the industry revenue is generated from just 5% of gamblers seen as problem (compulsive) gamblers. So when the industry is earning billions from addicts, why on earth would they of their own free will stop coining that in? It has to be controlled elsewhere. These companies need to be dealt with more harshly for their tactics they use on honing in on that gravy train. I've experienced it, the stuff they do is no different to a drug dealer manipulating their hopeless clients, except one is illegal and the other are given pretty much free reign to devastate lives. I have absolutely no interest in seeing gambling banned by the way, just because a small % of gamblers have rhe ability to ruin their lives and their families around them doesn't mean that the rest of the recreational gamblers shouldn't be allowed to enjoy it as a past time but quite simply controls have to be put in place to stop preying on the small % that generate the majority of the revenue. That could be done, and it should.

Interestingly FFP in League One is far more relaxed and is based on wages to turnover ratio and nothing to do with transfer fees. Also cash injections from owners can count towards revenue for this. We should be offering Wrexham the chance to buy him for £2.5m and we subsidise his wages for 12 months and get him as far away from here as possible.