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Which means he would definitely come here if Leicester and Wednesday can sort it out between them.

£46 traded on the whole market and about as illiquid as it gets. Just because you can back 1.04 doesn't mean he's 25/1, you can also lay Dyche at 50/1, doesn't mean he has a 2% chance. https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/football/market/1.206736370

"we need an experienced manager". That's a euphemism for getting a manager who is a bit meh and has never excelled. No quality manager with experience is coming here, if experience is a prime requisite then it's Dyche, Wilder, etc. Experience is vastly overrated, give me talent over experience every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Logic says I'm probably right, history and the aptitude of our board says you're probably right.

I don't see it like that at all. Why would you pay asking price for a house that's been on the market for 12 months when your estate agent sister tells you that they're dropping the asking price by 10% on Monday? I'm quite at ease that Rohl/Leicester will happen mainly because of the lack of credible options for Rohl and the lack of managerial links for Leicester, we seem ideal for each other at this stage. A few things needed to be flushed out first and Rohl needs to sort his leaving conditions with Sheffield Wednesday first and then everything else will most likely fall into place. If I had to guess everything is more or less sorted with Rohl and Leicester and we're just waiting for Rohl to sort it out with his current club.

The lack of a link to another manager in the last few weeks and the lack of jobs Rohl could go to (he's not knocking the manager job here to be assistant at Brentford) makes me believe that Rohl and Leicester is happening and just needs finalising. I'm still very confident it's going to happen because Rohl and Leicester suit each other and the lack of links elsewhere from both parties suggest both parties are ironing out the details.

I've long suspected everything happen on July 1st for financial reasons, I'm not worried about no progression up to now but I fully expect things to move quickly tomorrow.

I still think Leicester is a big step up from Sheff Wed and a great job for an aspiring manager. We still have mostly the same squad that won it 15 months ago. Some brilliant young players at this level in Hermandsen, Fatawu and El Khannouus who will be amongst the top players in the league in their positions if not the best. Great talent like Nelson, Monga, Alves and Evans coming through and players who excelled last time in the Championship like Vestergaard, Riccardo, Winks, Ndidi and Mavididi. Expensive signings like Daka, Faes, Skipp, etc and another half dozen players who should be at least play off players. No doubt there will be money to spend on a couple of players who walk into the first XI and who Rohl wants but were out of reach in his previous job. If I was an up and coming manager I would be very excited about this job at Leicester.

I'm massively in favour of him because I have a knowledgeable Wednesday mate who rates him very highly and thinks he'll eventually end up at an elite level club like Atletico Madrid. Also if you look at his career path. Up to 21yo he was a lower league player in Germany before retiring for whatever reason. He then gets a job as a: 2010 - Video analyst for Leipzig youth team 2011 - Assistant manager Leipzig youth team 2013 - Assistant manager Leipzig U17 2014 - Video analyst for Leipzig first team 2016 - Assistant manager for Leipzig first team 2018 - Assistant manager for Southampton 2019 - Assistant manager for Bayern Munich 2021 - Assistant manager for Germany 2023 - Manager for Sheffield Wednesday Starting out as a failed lower league footballer who retires from playing at 21 and becoming a video analyst for Leipzig school kids and eventually being assistant manager at Bayern and Germany to Sheff Wed manager means he must have excelled at every role he has had. It's like cleaning the offices at Apple at 20 and 15 years later you're the CEO. I'd much rather have someone who has started from the bottom and had to excel to get this far in the game than an ex player walking into his first job because he's a big name like Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard, etc.

I want the best manager and players we can get and if they leave after a year then take the money and rinse and repeat if possible. Given the choice for a CM would you rather have: a) peak Kante? b) peak Choudhury? I thought that question would be a no brainer but it seems not as some value the longevity of mediocrity over the short bright light of world class. All footballers want to end up at Real Madrid, etc. The only thing that makes them stay loyal is their lack of better options.

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I'd rather sign a manager or player for that matter who ends up at an elite level club at his peak than someone who peaks at Leicester in the Championship. Everyone wants to better themselves in any field if they have the potential to do so, I'd rather have a player or manager who was brilliant here for one season like Kante than a Hamza Choudhury type who is okay but not got the ability to move on to better things.

I've got a footballing knowledgeable friend who is a Sheff Wed fan and he thinks Rohl will go to the very top and end up somewhere like Atletico Madrid. He rates him very highly and says there is zero chance he stays at Wednesday next season and has done a great job with the tools at his disposal. It's a huge YES for me just on that information. Also he has a £5m release clause if he goes to a PL team and a £2.5m release clause to a Championship team. I'd like to think that the lack of Leicester manager news is because this is a done deal and Top will pull the trigger when we officially become a Championship club on the 1st July but who knows?

Those managers are walking a thin line by all accounts, it's just what my Wednesday mate has heard on the rumour mill.

Danny Rohl from Sheffield Wednesday would be my choice. I have an mate who supports Owls who thinks he'll end up and the very highest echelons of the game, already linked with Rangers, Leeds, Palace and Fulham so we'd need them to appoint other managers as they're all ahead of us in the pecking order.

When Schar struck the ball there were three Leicester defenders goal side of Murphy (check out 1:11), when he finished it there wasn't a Leicester defender within about 8 yards of him. Not only are we at a disadvantage ability wise but if the players are not prepared to play with 100% effort then we're going to lose game after game. https://youtu.be/0a4RThKWjio?t=71

Man City to win to nil is 2.2 or 6/5 on Betfair. Doesn't look the worst bet in the world.

Implied relegation chances on Betfair Wolves 3.2% Man City 7.4% ------------------------------------ Ipswich 92% Leicester 96% Southampton >99% So looking at that Man City are more than twice as likely to be relegated as Wolves so therefore our best chance of staying up is not finishing above Wolves but finishing above Ipswich and hoping Man City get relegated via the authorities. There is always hope, the percentages suggest it's far more beneficial to create a gap between Ipswich and ourselves than it is to close the gap on Wolves.

Bringing in Skipp for £20m was ridiculous, signing a player well into his 20's that we all knew everything about. The Tottenham boardroom must have been high fiving each other just like the Liverpool boardroom about Danny Ward (yes I said it before we bought Ward). Paying good money for players well into their 20's who have proved they're not good enough and are at peak value is ridiculous. We know all there is to know about them and they're not good enough, players like Skipp, Ward and Praet while we're at it should only be coming here for nominal fees or on a Bosman, £50m squandered on players who had little room for potential improvement and not good enough to walk in the first XI, we deserve everything we get.

Your missing the same thing as me obviously. McAteer and Thomas are both 23, that's not really young anymore. Neither look like they'll be mid PL players in their careers, take the money and move on.

If the fans on here ran the transfers it would make Rudkin look like a genius. We've just sold a player who can't get in our team for £10m and a profit. When was the last time we sold a squad player for £10m+, have we even ever? It's one of the biggest problems we've faced over the last near on 10 years is that we never sell squad players for decent money and all our transfers are either star players for astronomical fees or expensive deadwood sitting out their contracts. Reading this you would think Tom Cannon is the next Van Basten and not be a lower PL striker at best. There will probably always be a few hundred strikers in the world better than Tom Cannon.

This all day long. Far too many fans aren't happy with us selling anyone who they feel hasn't peaked and could improve. The same ones having kittens about selling Choudhury, George Hurst and thought there was still a player in Praet because of that pass against Brentford. Cannon has potential and can claim to have been harshly treated but if he can't get in the side after 18 months and you get a chance to make a profit on him then take it and don't look back.

Why a four year deal and not a five? Seems strange for a young player arriving for good money, similar to Tielemans.