Claudio Fannieri

Cannot believe he continues to refuse to change shape and persists with Ayew up front. surely today was an opportunity to go 3-4-3 and get rid of Ayew and Reid and get more intensity into the team. Only pluses for me is Nelson & Page starting and Gray. Aluko and Monga on the bench.

I have a feeling that the points deduction announcement is imminent but I also think he is here as there is a very good chance we are in Steve Cooper territory regards Marti and the relationship with the squad. Let’s be honest the football is dire, results are awful, players look disheartened and we currently sit 14th in the table with the real risk of a points deduction and relegation battle. I think it will be a clear the air, call to arms kind of visit and a very real likelihood that unless we get a massive upturn in both result and performance then Top will sack him to try and reverse the situation.

Without JJ’s quality and Skipps energy and work rate in midfield i genuinely think today could be quite ugly. We will create very little and be powder puff to play through, I would add that both players missing today are effectively our heart beat when they are at it so are we. Would not be shocked if we get turned over 2-0 and it gets very very toxic.

It shows just how far out of his depth Rudkin is as a Director of Football. Any DoF worth his salt or a modicum of experience would be a lot stronger in negotiating contracts and ensure there is some skin in the game for the player to have to perform and for the club to be doing well for all parties to benefit. It will be interesting to see if any of the KPFC massive come on here to defend any of this, at what stage does the penny drop for some.

I listen to the Price of Football podcast every week as a bit of football finance geek I absolute love it, it’s always really interesting and Kieran is very knowledgeable and simplifies a lot of the complexities associated with PSR etc etc so it can be understood by the general football fan. A lot of what he said hasn’t come as shock or surprise to me regards our club as much of it he has already shared and discussed via the pod or on his social media. Hopefully others will have listened and maybe starting to realise just what a mess and how out of their depth Aiyawatt and Rudkin are running this club. The naively of caving into the demands to pay such high basic wages demonstrates the lack of gravitas, respect and business acumen that either possess and its highly likely that most negotiations could probably have been reached at 50 -75% of what was agreed with a heavily performance based add ons included. The mismanagement and negligence to protect their own little empire has led us to where we are now, on the brink of financial collapse and a club in meltdown.

He is currently 6/4 favourite to be the next manager to lose his job but a way to go yet before it would seem to be a reality.

In 23/24 we were paying out 106% of our revenue on wages, that’s before any other running costs and expenditure is taken into account. Its is absolutely business and financial mismanagement to be operating at those levels and explains how we managed to lose over £200m over our last 3 submitted accounts.

I do get that PSR favours the bigger clubs with the highest revenues however this does not offer any excuses or absolve blame from our board who have made some absolute rank bad decisions. - Daka offered £70k per week when he was earning circa £7k per week at RB Salzburg - Offering Soumare £80k per week - Winks £90k per week, Coady 100k per week, - 23/24 paying out 106% of revenue in wages - £25m on Skipp The list goes on and on and on, this has nothing to do with PSR this has been poor decision making.

I remember when Marti first joined the club and he said win, lose or draw the fans will go home proud of the effort and how we tried to play. If I am honest I can barely remember the last time I was proud of a 90 minute performance, it was probably Ruud’s first game in charge at home to West Ham and before that PNE away the night we won the league. This club has failed to muster one meaningful 90 minute performance now for well over 12 months that is disgraceful. Last night was embarrassing, it was literally daylight robbery when we scored that equaliser and when it hit the back of the net I didn’t celebrate and just thought here we go again he lives to fight another few games. I hate what we have become, the football is stale and turgid, we have a largely disinterested and vastly overpaid squad, an owner who is AWOL and DoF who is woefully out of his depth and yet is untouchable. We have lost our CEO and appear to be a rudderless ship. Aside from a handful of players and academy prospects there is little or nothing to feel proud of or connected to and worst of all, because we are no longer premier league, there is little or no media coverage in relation to our demise, the continued PSR breaches/points deduction and our impending financial meltdown.

He downed tools away at PNE that is unforgivable regardless of his views of other players, the Manager or anything else at the club, he is our highest paid player and supposedly one of the senior leadership team and all he has done this season is embodied the rank bad culture at the club. Just because he can be one of the best in the division when he can be arsed, should in no way be used as an excuse for how he has acted or justification for bringing him back. The biggest frustration I have is the complete inability of our DoF to have been able to set up a deal to get him out the club and off our books.

Let this sink in £201m of losses in our last 3 accounts, with a likely 4th on the horizon, 2 abject relegations, languishing in the bottom half of the Championship, a points deduction on the horizon and a rumoured further PSR breach ……. And this is where we are, what a lesson in mismanagement from Aiyawatt and Rudkin and yet some continue to sing their praises. Unbelievable.

I thought it was telling despite grabbing a last minute equaliser and yet they barely celebrated.

I am clinging to the very faint hope he had to win that game to save his job. But i doubt it. Awful performance that sums up our demise.

That goal has given him the Oxford game in my opinion. Absolutely woeful, disgusting performance.

That goal has probably saved his job yet again, fecking woeful

That is fecking horrific lob sided at the back and retains Ayew as the striker when he offers so little. And on that note 3-1 win incoming 😂😂

Regardless of the debate as to whether capology is a reliable source for individual player wages, what is clear and is 100% verified by the 2023/24 accounts was that the club even then was still spending 106% of our revenue on wages. This is before you take into account any other day to day running costs etc. Absolutely unsustainable for any business to be operating like this.

Cracking pod as always and guest appearance was excellent 👍🏼

I am not sure the KPFC brigade will ever truly recognise the absolute carnage Rudkin and Aiyawatt have presided over and the financial meltdown that has followed. PSR gives people the opportunity to spin all sorts of crap to suit their narrative - 1) Losing £105m over3 years is fine because we are PSR complaint so owners/DoF must be doing a good job 2) As in our case some ignore that we lost £201.6m over 3 years instead spinning that we only breached by a much smaller margin because of ‘permissible losses’ As a club over 3 years we have on average been losing nearly £1.3m per week at what point do people wake up smell the coffee and realise this is not sustainable in any walk of life and sooner rather than later you run out of cash and become insolvent. Well guess what, if we haven’t already run out of cash we are bloody well close to it and I reckon by the end of the season we will have of be on the verge of defaulting on payment of wages or HMRC. I cannot believe how incredibly naive some are to see those numbers and not be a) anger as to the level of incompetence in our boardroom, demanding change and b) concern that our beloved club is quite possibly at risk of entering administration and the threat of our very existence within the next 12 months is a very real possibility.

The revisionism regards Cooper infuriates me he was awful, we were a shambles looked disorganised and largely reliant on moments of magic, the appointment of Cooper after Enzo and then allowing him to have such an influence in recruitment meant we spunked a load of money on some bang average players and largely condemned to us to relegation. Now with the exception of the incomings I would say Marti has some glaring similarities and flaws as Cooper.

The more I think about it, the drop off in the 2nd half of games in which we are leading is very much a tactical decision, get ahead and then 2nd half look to sit back and close the game out, it’s very much out the Puel and Rodgers text book. It clearly isn’t working and by my reckoning that is 11 points we have dropped from winning positions at half time. That is down to the manager being too cautious and not trying to kill the game off. For me he has to go, this is not going to change. Those 11 points which were all avoidable would have us on 48 points and nicely nestled between Boro and Ipswich in 3rd.

Given where we are every signing is going to be a bit of a gamble, just hope we don’t burden ourselves with ridiculous wages. At least at a couple of million and sensible wages if it doesn’t work you should be able to move them on without having to take a financial hit.

Couldn’t agree more, I do not understand why Marti persists with selecting Ayew as a striker, so many times a player with any level of striking instinct would have got on the end of some of the decent crosses and cutbacks instead Ayew is stood scratching his ‘arris next to Nelson and Okoli

Every chance that Liverpool and Tottenham sack their managers later today or tomorrow maybe just maybe we take the opportunity to sack Marti and for it to be pretty much under the radar and go largely unnoticed which would suit our decision makers.

If we sell Abdul in this window I would love to see us bite the bullet and bring Masawanise back from Motherwell he is absolutely flying this season.