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assuming El Khannouss leaves, Daisuke Yokota from KAA Gent might be an interesting player for the #10 role He was on loan at Kaiserslautern (team I also follow) in the 2. Bundesliga this past season as he wasn't in the Genk manager's plans, but I was impressed by him. Great dribbling ability and shielded the ball well, and wasn't afraid to press and track back either. Must be something about Japanese attacking midfielders playing in the German second tier, as I wanted Ao Tanaka from Fortuna Düsseldorf before Leeds signed him 😂

Who's running a botnet to rig the BBC match rating polls? 😂

if yours was anything like Everton's 17/18 kit, it would just look like pit stains

"Personal reasons"

He went on strike at Genk to force through the transfer to us, if his agent has told him there's a bid incoming from a top flight team or Rudkin has rejected a bid that BEK's agent thought was fair value I wouldn't be surprised if he's doing it again

That's Bilal leaving

"So-called Premier League charging us with so-called alleged breaches of so-called Proft and Sustainability Rules for a season when we were in the so-called EFL Championship"

Would be a very good appointment imo

The Ajax squad was third-best, he had only one left winger for the first half of the season because two were sold without being replaced, their DoF refused to sign the players he wanted and demanded more attacking football, promised reinforcements in the summer but he didn't get any until the very end of the January window The fact he had them challenging for the title at all is impressive

or Schwarzer I believe

Ranieri's final match as Roma manager, winning 1-0 against Milan currently

I think that RvN's clamour for increased professionalism and higher standards around the club has been a huge turning point for him, and that he's applying himself a lot more as result. Really happy to see his turnaround, this is the player we all saw in him when he was first blooded into the team.

Yes (edit: it might have been Neil Danns actually, couldn't get a good look at who it was. Moore has the same braids as him now 😂) And Nathan Dyer there too

if New York Red Bulls aren't trying to sign him they're missing the opportunity of a lifetime

Refused to let UFS do a tifo today but the club were more than happy to put the "Leicester's Greatest" tifo as one of the closing shots to their Vardy tribute montage

Francesco Farioli seems to be leaving Ajax because their board constantly broke promises to sign players and replace Bergwijn and Forbs. The club hasn't extended the contracts of Klaasen or Pasveer yet either, and are in negotiations to re-sign Dusan Tadic who Farioli doesn't want. I think Ajax had the third-best squad in the division but he got them challenging for the league (and at one point were 9 points clear in first, but they fell off and finished second by one point. In fact they were 9 points behind PSV early in the season too.). I rated what he did at Nice really highly last season too. Think he'd probably go to another top flight club in Italy or France but I'd like him here. https://www.ajaxdaily.com/2025/the-tactical-evolution-of-ajax-amsterdam-under-francesco-farioli/ https://the-footballanalyst.com/francesco-farioli-ajax-tactical-analysis/ https://the-footballanalyst.com/francesco-farioli-ogc-nice-tactical-analysis/

I've said his name before but Luis Castro at USL Dunkerque in Ligue 2 is another - finished 4th in the league and will be in the playoff final tomorrow against Metz for the promotion place put up a great fight against PSG in the cup the other month, and he's formerly Benfica B's manager so knows a thing or two about youth development https://portugoal.net/portuguese-abroad/3777-luis-castro-the-coach-who-conquered-youth-football-with-benfica-now-impressing-in-france

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it's absolutely going to have a big fuching banner of this

Selles not at the level of Rosenior of course, but going just by payroll is vastly oversimplifying things – the quality of Hull's squad is bottom half, the likes of Belloumi, Millar, Hughes, Barry, Gelhardt, Palmer, Coyle, Alzate, Matazo who are among their most valuable players were injured for a good chunk of the season, and he had basically no input on recruitment because the owner thinks he's a savant and keeps interfering. Watford's form dropped off in the second half of the year but Cleverley also had a very middling squad and an injury crisis up front.

Tom Cleverley sacked by Watford (usual Pozzo behaviour) and Ruben Selles about to be sacked by Hull too (Acun is also extremely trigger happy) Not my first choices but they both overperformed with shit squads and would be vastly preferably choices to keeping Ruud on

Lee Hoos?

But then weirdly he was pretty good at penalty shootouts! I think I read that he does/did a lot of pre-match training analysis on other team's takers, which is something Schmeichel didn't believe in doing.