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'We'll walk your dog for you, we'll walk your dog for you'

If it's true, he's a multi-millionaire for crying out loud. He can hire a bleeding dog sitter.

decent first half from the fullbacks to be fair literally nothing else to say, we're painful to watch

Those travelling to West Ham tonight can save themselves a lot of hassle by turning around and leaving now.

Rudkin is waiting to get spades in the ground 14 seconds after planning permission expires

That Saliba clearance could well be the difference for them making UCL, game saving tackle and probably cost the splinter dicks two vital points. Looks a good draw on paper but in reality it's two dropped.

a last minute scuffed goal off andy king's shin isn't exactly putting them to the sword, but point taken can we bring him off the bench if it gets to 80 mins and we're still in it? 🥺

We could do our bit for world peace by offering to sell him the club and letting him turn Seagrave into a hotel / golf resort. It practically is already, must be far less effort than where his current focus lies. All he has to do is slap a new sign on it and call it a day. Imagine him in a room negotiating with Rudkin. Art of the deal, innit?

Considering Enzo is currently the devil incarnate according to a lot of Chelsea fans, he's got them back into the UCL spaces.

Fair enough, if he's had an injury prone season. Still shouldn't be on the books past this summer though.

True, but i think it's the decision to offer someone a two year extension literally weeks after they were dropped from the squad and deemed surplus / of questionable attitude that's the main thing to focus on. Would have been around the same time Enzo was being told we couldn't sign Sensi, doubt he was happy with what was undoubtedly a decision taken by higher ups. Bears repeating that he decided to name a second substitute goalkeeper ahead of him, and he didn't feature again in the second half of the season, so something had seriously soured. A year with a view to sell in the summer would have been far wiser, if the verdict at that point was already that he didn't have a future for us. Or just let him go if the wages were as low as suggested - no real loss rather than clogging up our books with uninspiring 'assets'. He's played three games this season for what it's worth. Even Braybrooke managed seven for Dundee by the time he was recalled, and that was considered a failure of a loan, but Marcal is still out in the Netherlands.

Marcal is contracted until 2026? Good lord, he was at best a squad player at Championship level and was dropped by Maresca in favour of having two keepers on the bench with questions around attitude. Completely missed that he'd been given an extension weeks later and he's been a bit-part on loan at a second division Dutch side this year. Even when it was good under Enzo it seems we learned nothing about handing bloated contracts out like sweets. By all rights he should have been one of those due to have to find a new club this summer.

Thing is, this Premier League, or at least the bottom half of it, is also probably the worst it's been quality-wise in 20 years. And yet we're still sat here wondering if we'll be caught by a team flirting with Derby's record. We're bad. Really bad. Worse than two years ago. Yeah the gap is big and growing, but clubs in as dire a position as our own don't always bounce back in the way we did in 23-24. I doubt we have a Luton-style second relegation on the cards, but I don't think anyone here would be surprised to see us rooted in mid-table and obsessing all season over how 'two good weeks' could see us push for sixth.

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Be interesting to see if any of the shysters who couldn't wait for loans elsewhere can get away with it again after a second relegation. Soumare, Kristiansen, looking at you two in particular.

Between the (wo)man marking, pace to the goal-line and ball control, I am convinced that this parrot would be an upgrade on any of our centre-backs

winneet

love this man in both a platonic and religious way

I saw an AI slop article today saying he's already walked and we're getting a 'perfect fit' for a replacement... Gary O' Neil. 😂

You don't need to hope. We always phone in an absolute abortion of a performance at Bournemouth.

Bit cathartic, this 😌

Seriously though, next season for me will not be about an immediate return. If anything, coming straight up just meant the clear-out which Enzo started was incomplete, and we're still stuck with journeymen and charlatans. Including some that we've mindlessly decided to add under Cooper. I want to see the spine of this squad completely refreshed and a focus on youth, preferably with academy players like Alves, Nelson, and (if they're ready) Monga and Evans playing prominent roles. I hope that, as a fanbase, we would accept that a young squad may need time to learn and gel. I still think it was a really stupid decision to let Cannon go - regardless of whether he's not 'Prem Quality' he scores goals in the second tier and is proving a good foil for Brereton-Diaz at Sheff Utd. We are potentially going to go into next year with Daka as our first choice striker, supported by a youth player and nobody else. That will be our Achilles Heel - a lack of goals from our strikers and an over reliance on them from other parts of the pitch. Much is said of the need for a leader. We have none right now. I'd hope that one of Nelson or Souttar would be able to grow into such a role, assuming the latter would be willing to stay after being cast out in favour of wastemen like Faes. One thing's for sure - if the playing squad doesn't change dramatically, we're in for a world of pain next season, because if this lot can't motivate themselves to fight for Premier League status they sure as hell aren't going to suddenly find the graft needed to storm the second tier.

It should be shouted from the rooftops that Fulham paid about as much for Emile Smith Rowe as we did for Oliver Skipp. The mask is at least off now - the media are acutely aware of the incompetent way our club is run. The mouth-breather narrative has weirdly shifted to the 'yOu dESErvE iT fOR hOUnDIng OUt coOpEr' argument now, because they can't feasibly claim we're lucky to have the ownership we do anymore. It's public knowledge that they couldn't run a bath at this point.

What I'd give to see Faes forced to run up the gravel pits in Wanlip for hours.

Nice of the ex-Forest pair to decide to finally show up and do us a favour. Shame it's all irrelevant while Wolves have Cunha. We have something that's spent similarly but which I couldn't possibly repeat here.