The boy Linacre

Brilliant, overwhelmed with excitement already Either Summer 24 window revisited or Steve Walsh type scouting, I genuinely have no clue which one. As I know nothing about this guy. But in the absence of any other purchases he better be Leo Messi at his prime to keep us up.

Sorry, actually don’t care. The ownership don’t. That squad of players aren’t Premier League as tonight showed, I think aside from Wout that’s our best available team, & we huffed & puffed & fell apart. Thats not going to change against a better team. Sorry

Love it, does the job, listen to the occasional interview, miss the managers you hate, listen to the punditry on the red card or offside, miss the rest, 7 mins per game, whats not to like. Occasional bit of comedy, job done. Kelly Somers, should have some involvement, she has done a couple recently and she is decent at it too. Youth policy.

PSR's off the agenda now Lets crack on now. sadly the fact the reinforcements aren't in for Palace & Fulham, that MAY be a disastrous mistake. We need at least 4, we have 1 incoming. Gamble.....if we don't we won't stay up, that group of players isn't good enough, we particularly need to stop the ball going in our net

Isn't that pretty poor business?? So hopefully we'll get rid now. But if we don't its in his interests to make sure we go down, or get beaten in a match, how as a business would you commit to that with an employee? A reduced fee means he likely can negotiate a bigger pay packet as they haven't spent on the fee. Quality decision??????

At least 4 players and get rid of Wout, Edouard and Hamza in Jan

His overriding issue is he thinks he's better than he is. We don't think he's that good and he could be. Neither did that Belgian journo last Autumn when he got rinsed after various calamities. Do the hard yards mate, you ALWAYS learning and getting better or you'd be Rio Ferdinand, or Franco Baresi, Cannavaro or Chiellini & you patently aren't. You may fire us to a 2nd relegation in 3 years. Says it all: "He made his debut for the club in a 6–2 defeat against Tottenham Hotspur on 17 September."

Yeah Forest got 4 for £36m breach, rumour has it ours is £12m, so a 1/3, & round it down

If it’s £40 again, might be another deterrent & its United it’ll be on TV

Didn’t it look like Raya was going early, so he made it look easy for the last 3 takers

TBH It'll be all decided Monday/Tuesday IF we aren't liable/culpable we can bring in the 4 players we need, purchases or loans, RVN will stay and we have every chance of staying up IF we are found guilty, presume we will get a points deduction, if I was RVN I would walk, the hierarchy mismanaged and probably lied to him and we are down, no players or manager of any note would would come here. I just hope they can count OR they have been stupid beyond the extreme.

"Rodgers panicked bringing in Bertrand & Vesty when Fofana was injured". He got injured against Villareal 5th Aug 2021, out for much of the season, Bertrand had joined the week before, Vesty joined 8 days later. "We are definitely light in the area," said Rodgers, who confirmed the club had a small list of players identified as potential signings. He came back against Rennes 17th March in the Conference League They were 2 of the worst purchases, from a team we had beaten 9-0.

I would say we set the tone for 5-6 years from 2015 with the sale of Mahrez, Kante, Drinkwater, Maguire, Fofana et al, but then we gambled when chasing the ECL spot & Rodgers panicked bringing in Bertrand & Vesty when Fofana was injured, when we never needed them AND they weren’t good enough on £60k+ per week. We were stuck with that, made further repeated poor purchases on high salary and long contracts & we’re stuck with that the season we we went down, where Rodgers had spat the dummy & players like Tielemens were on the way out. We took those salaries into the championship & the stupidly rewarded mediocre players Hamza, Vesty & Ward with expensive contracts. Just mistake after mistake post the FA Cup win.They have to change their approach/model it is well broken currently. They’re chucking good money after bad coz they’re panicking, Skipp & Edouard. And carrying these leftovers coz of the length on contracts.

Apparently this is what RVN said today: Speaking in Thursday’s presser, van Nistelrooy admitted that the club are working day and night to sign players and he hopes they can announce something soon. “We’re in the middle of the process,” the Leicester boss said on January signings. “It’s clear where we want to strengthen. We’re working on that day and night. I feel a strong responsibility to get the right players in. “It’s a delicate process. It takes time. It requires a lot of effort and work to bring in the right players. “Those are the profiles we have been talking about with recruitment and the people responsible for signing these players. It started in December and hopefully we can present something soon.” What December 31st??? And if we are in the middle of the process then the signings will be after Palace & Fulham at H

NO fan would have offered those contracts if they had been running the financial side of the playing side. How come we all see it and they don't, same with the unrequired Skipp purchase. Why lengthy contracts when you are performing well at a lower level after failing at the top level. As much as the length is actually the offer, they should have been advantageous to us AND if they didn't like them they could walk, which they may have done. It isn't the difference, all 3 are in the club and we are STILL 2nd bottom. They all failed repeatedly!! Vesty has been much better last and this season but has made 22 PL apps, BUT we know what the fans think of Ward, and Hamza just isn't a PL starter, 51 apps in 5 PL seasons, many many subs. Stupidity

Do we all presume, as there has been no activity that NOTHING will happen before the PSR results?? Is that next week? 13th?

Can Lewis win the 8th title he was denied? The clock is not his friend......

Swap + cash with Skipp, we actually need shot of that as much as we need KDH. Thats up there with the worst purchase in recent times. That money should have been kept in the pocket for now, We've played 20 games, he's started and player 90mins 4 times, at £20m you'd expect him to be an ever present, he's appeared 6 time as well for less than 45 mins. Bringing KDH for £5m-£10m would bring somebody REALLY challenging for a midfield spot. Takes the next Bertrand/Hamza off the books, i.e. hefty contract, lot of years, back up player NO CHANCE would buy that though

It’s possible and would be annoying BUT it’s really competitive in there with Arsenal, Manc if the come back to form, Newcastle, perhaps Chelsea will come again, Villa, think they will be 4th or 5th which will be ECL Liverpool are very good & deep, the gap needs bridging. When we won everybody else was primarily off it, Liverpool Aren’t

Thoughts on the Tennis 2025 year? Is the Men’s tour going to be dominated by Sinner? Will Alcaraz match him? How far can Draper reach? What can he achieve? Will Novak win a 25th slam OR has Father Time caught him up? What about the women’s tour? Will Sabalenka dominate? Has Boulter reached her peak? Can Radacanu stay constantly fit & get back into the top 20?? Thoughts? Aussie Open starts on Sunday

Presume Rudkin et al are back from holiday like the rest of the UK or will they be taking more time off as it’s holidays across Europe today? As they look like they haven’t spotted we’re now 2nd bottom, have lost 5 games in a row & can’t defend. And one of our main competitors have already done loan business. Nothing like being proactive. Possibly our biggest 2 home league games of the season within the next 10 days where we MUST get 6pts, do they know??

I actually think his decision making is poor, when, to pass, shoot or take them on, he more often than not picks the wrong one, he’s got confidence issues & drifts in and out of games too much. If he ditched the short adjustment thing, he’d be more productive

Actually with that team, why have I paid to go??!!

Yep binge watched BD over 2 night, 4.5 hrs 1st night, rest the 2nd, superb, totally recommend it. Need some “proper” comedy suggestions whilst recovering from my trip to Villa yesterday And us buying nobody for weeks on end Day of the Jackal next few weeks

Rumours say we have offered him to AS Monaco, any truth? I have a soft spot for him but to offload some of his £75k per week and maybe even some fee would be brilliant