honeybradger

There a numerous other clubs across Europe's top leagues outside of the PL that maintainm far better squads than ours whilst spending less on transfers/wages. Yes money helps but an abundance of it is also a hindrance. Where other clubs need to be precious with their spending we can throw £10mil on someone like Okoli in the summer and already be trying to shift him in January. The way you phrased it seems that you believe there are only 2 approaches: 1. Throw around money and see what sticks - the club's approach 2. Buy championship level players for cheap. There is a 3rd option where we take a measured approach to transfers and do due diligence before bringing them in. Where we still buy players in the £10mil-£25mil bracket like we spent on Okoli and Skipp but actually buy good quality players that fit the system that we want to play instead. https://analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2024/12/09/transfer-gurus-royale-union-saint-gilloises-chris-oloughlin/ Feel free to read this article. This is the kind of club we need to be looking towards. Despite their recent success relative to their income they are still committed to spending within their means (bottom 5 in the Belgian League) and still manage to regularly unearth quality players for low transfer fees.

At the time of the FA cup we were massively underperforming off of the pitch, it just took a couple season to fully catch up to us. The relegation wasnt a sudden occurrence of the club being run poorly, it was built towards for many years by the club's mismanagement. For the owners the early indicators of the board not performing have been there for a while, high wage to turnover ratio (indication of improper planning in respect to contracts), players running down contracts (well run clubs regularly evaluate and talk to players on whether they want to leave), inability to sell players (usually means we initially overpaid for them or gave them too high of a wage), players getting frozen out by managers/not fitting the system (Vestergaard, Souttar, Soumare etc means players arent properly scouted with the club's current playstyle in mind). All indicators point towards us sitting alongside the likes of Everton and Man United in terms of how well we are run.

The win changes nothing. We are still barely avoiding FFP sanctions and are looking at a transfer ban if we get relegated. We have no clear transfer strategy, the players we sign do not suit the system that the ownership hires managers to play. New players quickly fall out of favour if they dont perform due to them not being scouted properly. Even if we manage to avoid relegation this season there needs to be major changes at board level. Success on the pitch should not result in us forgetting the incompetency of the people at the top as it will just come back to bite the club later on.

Surely they could buy enough quality with the £50mil to keep them up. Gets a toxic personality out of the dressing room as well.

Wonder how many have scored 10 goals in the league over the age of 37.

While i like the sentiment i dont think that's right. Ruud has 7 points from 10 games, Cooper had 10 points from 12 games, so Ruud has 0.7 ppg and cooper had 0.83. To be clear i still prefer RVN.

we already have been relegated with him 2 seasons ago. Doesnt take away from the fact that that he has been more successful over the last decade as a player than Spurs have as a club.

Hopefully all those ridiculous transfer rumours about us bringing in a goalkeeper to challenge Hermansen die off now. Stolarczyk clearly showed he had something special about him last season and now he is reinforcing that perception this season in the Premier League.

Great block by vardy

Our club is seemingly prioritising a new goalkeeper btw.

I like him more than most but €5mil for an academy graduate who hardly plays for us would be excellent business.

Pereira £13mil Soumare £20mil Daka £20mil Kristiansen £15mil Souttar £15mil Vestergaard £15mil Faes £15mil Coady £8mil Winks £8mil Ayew £5mil Skipp £25mil £150mil of further transfer fees that will leave on a free in the coming years -> loading Half a billion down the drain, John Rudkin strikes again.

Both are strikers that are low on confidence that have lost the faith at their parent club. Not sure what Ferguson has that makes fans think he will fare any better than Edouard. Brighton will probably charge us £15mil as well which is £5mil less than they are rumoured to be buying Tzimas for, who is younger and far better/more talented.

Evan Ferguson signing would be vile . We need to be signing players on the up like Hermansen, El Khannous, Fatawu etc, not another Edouard.

Why do our fans think that Vardy is the one causing problems and pushing for managers to leave? Kasper got the same criticism as well but now we have a thread about how important he was to the club.

Absolutely no one was backing Vestergaard under Rodgers. Everyone was annoyed at him because he was happy sitting around collecting his wages and not making an effort to leave whilst not wanted. Rodgers got pelters because he spent the summer calling up bloody Janick Vestergaard to try and convince him to come here, only to realise almost instantly that he's not good enough at PL level and dropped him. The criticism was more for even thinking he wanted him in the first place.

Fbref says he's very error prone.

Which club? Watford. Any other info? Dont know.

It would be very Leicester to finish below the team with the worst league start in PL history.

Avdullahu - 20 yr old DM, potential Ndidi replacement.

Elias Montiel 19 yr old DM.

Surely if they wanted him they could have got him in the summer.

We are very lucky to be able to make our money back on him. No way is he a £10mil striker.

Gorrotxategi from Real Sociedad on loan at Mirandes

One game where instead of loads of shots on target the opponent skied their chances instead. Anyone with sense looks at the number of chances we were conceding under Cooper and the lack of shots we were creating and sees that we were lucky to get the few points we had under Cooper.