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Not sure it excuses the way he always drifts wide from central positions. You're supposed to be playing as a centre forward Jordan, for God's sake stop playing like there are magnets in the corner flags! Him drifting back to those positions has broken down SO many promising attacks while he's played for us - as bad as their end product has been, Stephy and Abdul have had nobody to aim for 99% of the time! I'd go as far as to say he's a bit of an idiot. For a supposedly experienced player, he has absolutely zero football intelligence, besides his usual schtick of falling over on the ball to try to win free kicks. Even that - one of the few things I used to use as part of the mental gymnastics to excuse his shortcomings - is something he's become less and less good at, and he now often falls over, concedes possession and gets his pathetic appeals waved away. So, so glad I'll never personally have to see him play again. But I feel for the suckers travelling to Ewood Park who will likely get one last look at him sulking around the pitch like the asthmatic potato he is. The absolute poster child of our downfall for me, which is quite the accomplishment when sharing the pitch with Faes, Winks and Soumare.

Genuinely think he's been one of our biggest problems since New Years. He had that spell in December with the mad goal against Ipswich when we won a few games and it all went to his head - he's been awful 9/10 times since and loses his head a lot too, surprised he's not been sent off but that probably says more about how weak he's been in the tackle when dueling. His laziness in doing the defensive work certainly helped expose Ricardo's failing legs. Wouldn't be the first time a player's form has fallen off a cliff for us, but it happening at the same time JJ got injured finished us IMO, we all know those two dragged us through the first half of the season and saved Marti's blushes. I guess I don't blame Abdul for that exactly, it's not his fault our appalling transfer business left us with a squad reliant on a loan player and someone coming back from a 12-month injury to carry us. But you could almost see a switch flip once the onus was on him alone to produce the magic moment each game - overplaying, poor decisions, failure to beat his man, and poor discipline and losing his head regularly. Another mentality mouse of a player but one of the few where the pressure was all on him, unfairly, due to the pathetic players around him having the vision of Stevie Wonder in a cupboard. He's one of the few that will do well in a more harmonious squad IMO, but that doesn't negate what a terrible six months he's had. 100% sell for the first reasonable offer. My concern is that, like much of the rest of the squad, he's tanked his value through six months of shit performances on top of his long injury and, of course, now having relegation to the third tier on his CV. I'll be amazed, amazed, if any offers above £10-12 million come in for him, which isn't enough to start addressing our financial black hole when, for all his failures in 2026, he's still seen as one of our big assets. The only thing that I find surprising is that he's only on £10k a week. Which is still barely sustainable in League One, but I guess makes him one of the lower priorities as far as the wage bill goes.

That last automatic spot rests entirely on which QPR decide to turn up against Ipswich. They gave Derby a game at the weekend despite being on the beach, to be fair, anything could happen. A draw would make things very cagey. You'd think Millwall will get the result at home against Oxford. Boro have the toughest fixture away at Hollywoo Sgorioclwb.

"We're up against tough defences that won't lose their shape, and teams set up with a high press and counter, what should we do?" MORE PASSING! "But Jon, every other team for the past ten years has recognised that a target man has its plac-" MORE PASSING! "Jon, Stephy's got past his man twice in the past two seaso-" KEEP THE BALL!!! MORE PASSING!!! IN OUR OWN HALF!!!!

What's Sean 'The Saint' St. Ledger doing nowadays?

I imagine Charlton fans will be assuming similar over Coady, via some mental gymnastics about him being a Wrexham reject to end up there

Can we have a speed trap outside the clubhouse that triggers a lights and sounds show? Should get the punters in. 'It's the Phoenix Club! Pull off into paradise!'

On further reflection I guess 'man does not get shot' is big news in the USA.

Is this Trump shooting thing really still top story across news outlets? Must have been one hell of a slow news weekend, what more is there to discuss? The BBC in particular love, LOVE keeping stuff like this in the news cycle, even if the public lose interest. Still front page and centre of the website, but the top articles list tells you another story. Front pages are always on there, which means nobody is even reading their 24/7 coverage. He's alive and his administration are going to continue f***ing things up for the world, so what? Wake me up when he loses the midterms.

Honestly expecting them to go in for Fuchs, not because it's in any way the correct appointment off the back of one League Two relegation battle, but purely as a desperate attempt to get fans back onside in the short term with some title win nostalgia. Also would be cheap as he'd more than likely keep King on his coaching team.

I'm up north so playoffs depending it's gonna be most of the Lancashire / Yorkshire clubs for me. Salford, Wednesday (again), Barnsley, Blackpool, Bradford, Bolton. Mate's a Reading fan so will try to make an exception to get down south for that one.

Daily Express by the way, surprised they didn't blame it on Diana, immigration or the weather

Was trying to explain this to Dad yesterday who, while the penny has dropped as far as the playing squad goes after two years of blindly 'backing the lads', seems to think this is what will happen. I had to explain to him that no, we can't just spend freely and get a whole new squad in the third tier. We have a £70 MILLION deficit to make up with projected revenues of £2 million - or at the absolute best, around £11 million which I think was based on winning the league and doing well in all three (!!!) cups. So in a best-case scenario, before we spend a single penny on new players we have to clear out £59 million through transfers and by cutting costs elsewhere, and possibly as high as £68 million. Granted, external revenue will make up a bit of that, but let's be real, companies will hardly be queuing up to throw millions at the exposure third tier football will bring them - not even the dodgiest bitcoin casino known to man would pay what we need. Most of our squad have tanked their own value through their pathetic showing this season which, given they are mostly still on stupid wages of £20k a week upwards, makes them a very tough sell. Some of that churn will happen naturally by wastemen like Ayew, Daka, Faes and (sorry) Ricardo seeing their contracts expire, but that still leaves a bunch of others under contract who we'll need to shift to have any prospect of even servicing our deficit, let alone buying replacements. Vestergaard, Mavididi, Fatawu, Choudhury, Okoli, Skipp, even Winks apparently had a one year extension triggered at some point. If even ONE of the high earners stays that's our league revenue for the year chewed up by them alone - £40k a week comes out to £2.08m in a year. Realistically, even with serious trimming of the fat in the squad our wage bill will continue to be astronomical compared to our income. The chances of making up for it with big transfer fees are highly unlikely - at a push, Fatawu and maybe Monga may attract £10m plus each, but even that's now questionable when you remember that A) our players are now a punchline who were outplayed by the likes of Oxford and Charlton and unlikely to be in high demand and B) as we saw in the recent past when Spurs bought Maddison, relegation usually wipes value off what you can demand for players. So yeah, folks expecting a big rebuild in League One are delusional. We are almost certainly going to see the rump of the team made up of the unsellable remains of our senior squad, with more of the youth promoted out of necessity. I'm not against that at all for the record, if anything it's a year too late, but it won't solve our financial difficulties or be the wholesale bonfire a lot of us want. We will be very lucky to see, for example, a striker come in on anything more than a loan from a Prem's academy, which makes building a long-term spine far harder.

I'd rather have had him this season than Ayew

That'll be him back in April 2027 when a back four of Thomas, Vestergaard, Okoli and Choudhury has us 7 points adrift of safety in League One then

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NO KIERNAN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING

Means we're finishing second bottom, lolllll

I can absolutely see the Prem giving some back handers to the ref in that one. Media darlings or f***ing Millwall, which do you think they'd rather have in their league?

The mere thought that he would earn more sitting on his arse in a year than the club would get in prize money (reported as £2 million for 26/27) sums up how appallingly we've been mismanaged. I wouldn't blame him either for the record. He's not the one who offered the contract... or chose to renew it off the back of one good season in the second tier.

They won't bother if they know where he's from, even the moths are in debt

Pull the other one Nick, I know it's your job but you're part of the problem, this belief that as long as we can pay a good enough lawyer we can get away with blatant financial mismanagement. Last year's verdict probably had Rudkin and co popping champagne and giving each other handies under the mahogany desk. You're enabling criminally stupid people. Making them feel vindicated when escaping deserved punishment.

I want us to go down with 43 or less points, so it's objectively our worst ever season regardless of the deduction (finished on 50 in 1990-91). The players and ownership should have nowhere to hide, no asterisk to cover their shame. So yeah, f*** em, I'll actually be more angry if they win tonight. I want these wasters to be remembered as the worst Leicester side ever.