Ric Flair

They'll win this

I'm a little confused by his statement that during the international break they've been working on scenarios where we might need to do things differently in certain situations. Was today not one of them when we'd gone 1 behind and had several players having utter stinkers? He talks about us needing a squad to cope with the rigours of the season but the disregard he has of them is clear to see. Its arguably too late now with some of them too, the relationship has likely gone with Coady and Souttar for example.

Rodgers had his philosophies like the next man but he would make changes when things weren't working. Enzo has quite early on set his stall out and won't waiver.

Remember when he made a host of changes when we played them at Carrow Road? Seems a lifetime ago.

I reckon that gets cancelled last minute, things will turn nasty on Monday.

He is liable for failing to inspire and give these players confidence to remain calm under pressure and put the chances away. We've been extremely wasteful all season but what we were very good at was controlling games, we've not done that since the start of February. We've lost the plot and it starts with him, he's got absolutely no answers. His refusal to change anything is honestly one of the most alarming things I've ever seen in 34 years of following football. Don't think I've ever seen stubbornness or cluelessness like this.

Has there been any examples of promotion chasing teams sacking a manager this late on and going up?

It's a huge risk to do so, if we don't go up the whole club will fall apart, if it hasn't done already. Enzo will be gone as well. In normal circumstances he'd not be sacked by most clubs but I think this is a desperate situation and it might need to happen.

The issue is, he's not leading them to put the performances in. Our inability to take our chances has now been a major issue for approaching 2 months and the manner of our play is the responsibility of the manager to inspire the players. They're arguing with one another, they are lethargic and look mentally and physically spent. He's got absolutely no interest in shaking things up either, these players have absolutely no threat to their inclusion and that is absolutely ridiculous from Enzo. We've fallen apart.

We weren't going to but that might have to change after that dog muck.

If we're highly likely to breach PSR already for 2023/24 then sacking him won't be the tipping point. He'd only get a years wages max from it which he surely ain't on much more than £2-2.5m a year.

I don't see his future here past this season anyway, the drop off is staggering. Ordinarily you'd not be genuinely thinking it's time for him to go in normal circumstances but I think he's done here.

We were like this in the 1st half vs Watford after the last international break and then we stepped it up. Blind hope the same happens 2nd half as that was revolting. Players arguing with each other, KDH, Mavididi and Fatawu having stinkers again. Hamza been about our best outfield player.

This is happening

Go on then.....

Training grounds pretty much in Nottingham and all the players live there anyway.

It would have been interesting to see if we'd have used him this season. He's been excellent for their U18 and U21 side but knowing us we'd not have picked him in the U21s let alone our 1st team. Although he would likely be the exception under Enzo.

Probably meet the squad in Bristol, we'll use him if he's in the country.

Yeah it is

There are many things in football that an appeal can lead to a bigger punishment or outcome but not sure on this.

In absence of a international break podcast, I've lost the plot worrying about promotion. See for yersen https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-ric-flair-promotion-rundown

The problem with this is how it accounts for transfers. The positives under PSR are that the transfer fee gets spread over the contrary so spending £100m in a season is only £20m across 5 years in the accounts. The downside is in the future years when you want to sell a player at a loss - it impacts on PSR in the year of sale. It seems pretty scary to apply 70% of revenue to wages, transfers and fees without huge decreases to wages and transfer fees. Take 2021/22 for example, we pulled in around £200m in revenue (off the top of my head) - 70% of that = £140m. Our net spend was £50m + whatever fees on top of that would have left just £90m for wages and yet our wage bill was double that.

I need to read up on UEFAs rules, I don't understand the relevance to player value. If its x % of total revenue allowed to be spent each year why does the value of players have an impact?

The term losing money is the central focus here. Football has ate itself, despite financial limitations there's still immense pressure to keep pushing and pushing an inflated market in tra safer fees and wages and its got to at some point go bang. Removing financial limits doesn't solve this either, if anything it makes it worse. I genuinely don't know what the answer is, in some ways it mirrors the current state of global economies where you're left scratching your head on how this mess is unpicked. We're just robbing Peter to pay Paul day in, day out.

Any changes to PSR rules should encourage academy players to be brought through (not poached from others between the ages of 15-18) and 1st team minutes gives more incentive. Sadly the incentive at the minute is to sell them for pure profit.