Ric Flair

They won't even have returned to pre-season after 44 days under Enzo 😂😂😂

I think our wage bill for 2024/25 will be a good 35-40% less (possibly even more) than it was in 2022/23 due to the sheer number of high earners that have left. I'd hope we've been signing new players at much lower than the average £94k a week we'd seemingly gotten to. If the average is more like £55-60k then we are on the right road but it needs to come down further.

Very good prospect with a pretty low release clause. Oscar Zambrano would be a cheaper and more realistic target for us. As @Tommy Fresh has highlighted to us many times, he is tailor made for a top European league imminently.

I more meant that in the year since we were last there we'll have removed the high wages of many players. Renegotiated wages (if they stay) for Vardy, Ndidi and Vestergaard and all new signings need to be on much more sensible wages. Those still on a big whack like Justin, Ricardo, Daka, Soumare, KDH etc I'd be looking to move on if needs be and properly clear the decks to free up our wage bill.

If it is as bad as some of us fear then we really need to completely clear the decks. I'd much rather us focus as being an ambitious and dynamic EFL team than a punch drunk PL team. Wages around £30k a week for players who are very much on the up from Scandinavia, Holland, Belgium, Japan, South America etc and the lower leagues of England. @coolhandfox thinks the wage bill next season should be hugely different to what it was and we have a fair amount to play with. Suppose it all depends what we need to come in at in 24/25 not to breach, we might need to turn a profit somehow.

Spell binding words from the absolute donny.

A masterclass would be nearly every signing being PL standard. They're way off.

Wouldn't make any difference to PSR. PSR is financial accounting and not cash flow.

Rubbish

Correct. Manager gone and Lewis Ferguson has got a lengthy injury. Kirkzee will probably go this summer too.

Enzo went on record saying Yunus wasn't quick or strong enough to play out wide and he had to move him inside (a position he's not played very often before) - indication he wasn't the 1 v 1 type winger that Enzo commands. Tom Cannon he barely played, really bizarre signing. We needed another option out wide that could potentially play up front, we got a striker who's previous strong spell at Preston was in a front two and we didn't play a front two very often even when chasing games. Enzo said on numerous occasions that Coady and Doyle were too slow which meant they couldn't play with Vestergaard. Really odd that we signed not one but two defenders who were slow when Maresca repeatedly said we needed more pace in the back line. Only a year ago had they gone and paid way over the odds for a backs to the wall CB in Harry Souttar despite Top demanding our managers play like Man City and not surprisingly the said managers quickly didn't use him. We sign more players unsuited to possession based football than do, it's somewhat odd. Nearly all strikers we've signed in recent years have come from clubs or their vood form with us is where they've excelled in a front two (Iheanacho, Daka, Cannon). And we wonder why we struggle to find a striker who can challenge Vardy and we recruit managers who seldom play 2 up front.

Because administration in 2024/25 will not supercede the breach from 2022/23. It would be another 9 on top of it, but I suppose if it meant our owners walked away and took Rudkin with them then it would be something to consider.

Until we scored more like, which I think was about 15 mins. Those 15 mins were an onslaught though.

We aren't on the new fast track rules, if the PL do try and do this then I wonder if we'll further dig our heels in. Although fast tracking probably refers more to doing in year rather than the time it takes to reach the verdict on this. I still doubt we'll know for sure until late autumn time.

Bologna have a €15m option on him and aren't interested at that price despite him having a very good season. We'll be lucky to break even on him (got about £10m left on his amortised value)

A masterclass requires far more than giving a manager the tools to return to somewhere we should never have left in the first place. Any masterclass in my eyes would be to have a squad and manager that means we've somehow not lost much ground from 2021/22. Very difficult but not impossible. PSR will hinder that but that's largely at the door of the said people who are being praised for the last 12 months righting of wrongs. Not for me Clive. I rate our transfer business of the last 12 months nothing more than about a 7/10 but that changes if some of them go on to be PL quality. There's still a significant disconnect between board/recruitment/management in player identification for the roles required. Nearly half of our signings were deemed not suited to Maresca pretty quickly.

To make £10m on Kristiansen we'd need to sell for £20m-ish

Doubt it. The release clauses are usually fixed or track with the wages of the manager. Ours in the past have tended to be around 1-2 years salary.

Hahahaa imagine qualifying for the Champions League and a player having been very successful for you all season and you have the audacity to try and reduce the option price by half. Get to fcuk

I think we do. Getting promoted was par for the course with the squad we already had. We had no business being in the Championship. Sure we could still have plummeted as the mindset and malaise under Rodgers had broken beyond repair but this wasn't a capability issue. We have made what appears to be some good signings (Hermansen, Mavididi, Winks, Fatawu) but if most of them are crap at PL level then it's no masterclass at all.

Any compensation would be spread over the length of the managers contract, so initially it would make very little dent to PSR for 2023/24 unless the compensation is similar to that of Maresca's. Corberan for example is supposedly £2-3m which would be as less as £1m for 23/24 if he joined before the end of June. Maresca going still likely requires us to sell at least one of KDH, Hermansen, Justin or another player we can clear £15m + million in accounting profit.

Pascal Jansen is an interesting one He was Arne Slot's (my favourite manager in recent years) assistant at AZ Alkmaar and then took over from him in 2020. He was there for 4 years. Finished 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 4th and got to the Semi finals of the Conference League the year we did as well. Nothing hugely special but his track record with developing young players is excellent.

Eduardo Macia was just as influential as Puel, he was our head of recruitment. Puel can be reasonably assessed to have suggested Ricardo and possibly Tielemans but for many years our signings are a collective effort and recommended to our managers.

Now if they released that basketball top as an actual football kit like Cameroon did in 2002 then they'd get my respect.

I'd be extremely surprised if Corberan wouldn't come here. His release clause isn't huge, he's represented by the agent that is forever involved with Leicester. If it's true he's not coming here then it'll be because we don't want him for some reason. We should want him though.