Ric Flair

Sort of profile of striker that we need. 6ft + and athletic and direct. Very strong scoring record in UEFA Youth league and Kyiv academy. Scored a few for the first team now too.

Will go for decent money even if Alaves get relegated when he returns there from his loan move.

As I've just said, this unique position we are in probably rules out a massive chunk of otherwise likely candidates. The mandate is to have the bravery to build a team around 4-5 emerging academy players and have the philosophy that won't waiver. Almost like Enzo and Brussell in their playing style whatever pressure they come under, but on the nucleus of players they have the belief in developing. Dyche might fancy that, but what evidence could he draw against that's credible?

Cooper and RvN are getting slated for ignoring our academy. Dyche might be a victim of our current position but given this unique nature we are in, the candidate needs to prove bringing through academy players is one, if not their number one priority. He doesn't have that, rightly or wrongly. There's a handful of managers that do that we could realistically attract. I know where I'd be putting my faith.

Sorry I should have expanded. Major add ons overall. High sell on fees which trigger this conveyor belt of thr big teams selling academy players for huge PSR gains. Big add ons for playing x amount of PL games and appearances for England etc. With 14 PL teams voting through shit like this, it should be do-able rather than just the usual mob who benefit.

I'd multi quoted a few posters on here that were fairly well balanced on Dyche and I was going to saying something similar but I've had to untick them as @CosbehFox has absolutely smoked everything. There's very little basis for Sean Dyche at this juncture, not if we want the systematic change that many of us call for, some of the same people who are sympathetic to Sean Dyche. Now, much of that change is outside of just the managers remit and should we get it, the said new men and women ought not to want Sean Dyche so that tells you everything. We have a golden generation of academy players, we've played the long game of our prowess over the last decade as the most successful midlands team this century and we're seeing that with the talent we have developed, not because we invested millions on such players aged 14-17 but recruiting them at a much younger age as we became the trusted club to come to as we were becoming the best. Having the vision to build the most incredible facilities, a decent record of producing Chilwell, Barnes, KDH and a few others and winning trophies at first team level for the size of this club which defies modern football. Sadly this is happening at a time when our club is declining but now more than ever we need to have the bravery to play them. Maybe you can't play as many when fighting for your lives in the PL but by the same token had we not generated over £120m in player sales on Chilwell, Barnes and KDH then this club would be in even more of a dire financial mess than it currently is. We simply have to deliver on what we've built. Buying low and selling high is literally the only way a club like us right now prospers and we have an opportunity of not needing to buy as many new players if we have the faith in using Nelson, Aluko, Alves, Page, Monga, Evans et al. There's others coming too, dismiss the importance of this at your peril and be complicit in our further demise. I've zero tolerance for giving managers the benefit of the doubt on this topic either. Saying Dyche has never had such a group of academy players at his disposal, I just can't bare another manager who phones it in on bringing through academy players. Cooper had a supposed track record of bringing through academy players and then opted to play defensive midfielders in the #10 role in pre-season rather than use it as an exercise to test Alves with our strongest first team players around him. Van Nistelrooy has been equally as bad, even now despite relegation and this farcical notion of looking to the future he's favouring players who won't be here and limited aging players over starting Monga and Evans. I have no interest in more bull shit and it's high time the mandate from the new manager was prioritise bringing through academy players or instant dismissal. If we do the above then it's absolutely wild to consider Sean Dyche would be the standout candidate but here we are.

At the very least put massive % sell on's in favour of the team that developed them.

No brainer he's our LB next season with competition from either Bade Aluko (RB might be where's he better though) or an attacking maverick from South America.

Naaaah, it needs to come against these scrotes.

Just want that 200th goal from Vardy at a point in the game that it's not a consolation. GIVE IT TO ME.

Absolutely revolting that was but enjoyed the battle. Had to walk stretches of it but a learning curve 😂😂😂

Market Bosworth half marathon this morning. Been over the water park in the caravan all weekend and absolutely atrocious prep. Had 8 cans yesterday in the sun, but here we are.

Been meaning to get over and do that, is it as hilly as I'd expect it to be?

Oooh yer bastard!!!

Should pay Sturm Graz scouting department £5m to buy us someone suitable. They're ridiculous at it.

He was my main pick last summer as a diamond in the rough replacement for KDH.

Monga has been with us since he was about 6-7 years old but it is true he comes from Coventry.

We'll soon find out. He will have to notify the club by early June if he is leaving us. Maybe he'll stay next season but still look to not sign a pro deal with us in the summer of 2026.

Jake Evans not even nominated despite being 1 goal behind the top scorer and by far the youngest player at the top of the scoring charts. Similar/better output to Nwaneri last year at the same age I believe who no doubt will have been nominated or even won this last year. Pathetic.

Not so sure there should be too much difference in impact to body, both central midfielders and wingers in modern football would be expected to be box to box.

Tielemans is another who had played over 100 games in his teens.

I read 100 minutes ago week under the age of 16.

Sunningdale Old is the best course I have ever played, mind blowing. Other very good courses: Woburn - love all three courses but Duke's my favourite Ganton (played it for a bargain £30 on the way up to St Andrews to watch The Open in 2015) Woodhall Spa - Hotchkin (horribly hard) Walton Heath - pure class West Hill Emporda and Pal in Spain Sun City - South Africa PGA is far better than Brabazon at The Belfry IMO. Really want to play Saunton this summer, I'm back in North Devon for two weeks in July and drove past it several times last year and it looks spell binding.

Will say hello pal, nice one!

Because quite frankly it's been the blueprint over the last decade To improve our academy to develop players capable of playing at the highest level. We need the bravery for managers to bring them through. It's one of the main reasons for Seagrave. Also, we already have done well at producing Chilwell, Barnes, KDH and others but had we not done so and raised the £120m + in transfer fees and purely profit on them, we'd be in far more fina challenge difficulties than wrong already are. Sadly we've created this mess off the field and whilst I don't enjoy having to develop players to sell, it's the single logical way a club grows long term. Buy low, sell high, re-invest.