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Oh, I know. I'm not treating as anything other than gossip. Not even got a name attached. Was just a bit out of the blue and the 'already signed' bit was what weirded me out.

No, I don't think so either! Was joking with my mate and he passed it on to the journalist.

Just had a weird message from someone I know in the footy world, who is in regular contact with a well known footy journalist. Says journo is suggesting we've already signed a manager . When I asked who: "He doesn’t know. Said it’s someone out of work & been offered a fortune to come?" The latter bit certainly sounds like us. I suggested Southgate as a pretty much worst case option and journo has come back with 'wow what a good thought'. It is not, in fact, a good thought at all, so I think that shows he is a journalist. I realise the above sounds like pretty bizarre bait but it's true, honest.

You'd like to think it would have forced their hand. But you're still left with a setup that thought it was a good idea to spend nearly all of that £22m buying Oliver Bleeding Skipp. Vardy leaving doesn't fix that. I fear the counterfactual outcome would have been Jordan Ayew signed for £15m

Sticking Fofana (uncaveated!) in with those PL title winners is mental. Read thru his thread on here. He had a handful of world class 90s, but also multiple stretches of being decidedly average for 2 or 3 games at a time. Yes, he looked like Nijinsky (geezer or horse) had taken up football (struggling to think of a more aesthetically easy on the eye player) but that plus others' remonstrations about the level he would have reached (beyond world class?) had he not got injured (reader, he got injured) doesn't move the dial anywhere near enough.

This is a world class exaggeration, parlayed from the many confident assertions at the time that he would go on to be world class.

That's a hell of a benchmark to base a 'problem solved' comment on

Presumably thinks we've won it* and saving him for Friday. * yes, I know

It's like Rowett had a 2pm alarm set. No scoreline was going to alter his pre-planned 'subs on at 70' call

Don't blame you for forgetting Winks is playing

How many touches had Winks had?

Five more and we win

Not arguing there hasn't been 'guidance' in the past, but is there any evidence that even after King left they're dictating that we must lose playing a specific style?

...and at the same time, oppo teams seem to score a goal for every five attacking moves

I'm not being flippant when I say 'being a yes man' will be top of Rudkin's requirement list for any new senior personnel, now more than ever.