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Why are their players so bitter, it's a fuching friendly!

West Ham have also been credibly linked with 2 other keepers. It's very possible that Hermansen is not their number one choice.

Why are you all moaning about the lineup? Abdul can beat them all 1v11!!!

To hell with your "stats" and "objective facts", I'm working on vibes only here

I didn't care for his attitude last season, but he was the best defender in the Championship the year before... It's really hard to know what to do with him. (Yeah, yeah, put him in the bin, ha ha)

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Ndidi also got 5 assists in both of the last two seasons, which is pretty good considering that's not his role in the team.

GERRIMINNNNN

Yeah, I can't really disagree with any of that. I really like Daka as a player, but you're completey right about his Leicester career.

I'm about as strong of a Daka apologist you'll find who's name doesn't begin with an F, but even I don't think that Daka is well suited to the system we will be looking at playing. We need someone good with their feet, who can hold up play, and who can rotate with the wingers.

I don't believe that he has a release clause. Both Daily Mail and BBC Leicester have claimed that inquiries for ~£20m have been rebuffed, and that we're asking for a "much more" than that (according to Adam Whitty from BBC WYS). I think our valuation for him is far too high for any club to be willing to pay for him based on his lacklustre performance looking at his stats. We know he will improve, and we know he looks good. But scouts will be looking at highlights, and random sections from games, and mostly those poor stats. Why would they pay £30m+ for him?

Except he didn't improve our chances of staying up, did he? I'm going to keep saying it because it's important. 2 goals 3 assists 2000+ minutes That's fine for a b2b CM, but he was supposed to be the 10, the playmaker. Madders got 10g and 9a in the previous relegation season playing the same role. Obviously there's a big difference in the stages of their careers, so it's unfair to directly compare them, but it all adds to my point that he has not demonstrated that he's at the level that a lot on here are thinking. He may well go, he may stay. I hope he stays, I think a year in the Championship is exactly what he needs to step up in his career. But he certainly is not above the Championship right now. He is not at a PL level, last year proved it.

Man, LCFC will be a great team to start on in FM26. It's basically a blank slate...

Yeah but we can operate on 40% of the typical work force by using AI to improve efficiency

Marti after watching the squad for 10 minutes and realising what he's signed up to...

You've heard of the term "negotiation", right? Who said that without the clause he wouldn't have come? There's other sweeteners out there, and he was relatively unknown at the time, from a bottom half Ligue 1 side.

Also, I thought we stopped putting in release clauses after Kante?

I still think that we are grossly overestimating how much interest there will be for a player that only got 2 goals and 3 assists despite playing over 2000 minutes in the PL last season. We can all see he has potential, but he's not even close to achieving it yet, and so why should anyone take the risk of paying out over £20m for a player that is currently only potential? And that's assuming there is a release clause, because if not, Rudkin will be holding him hostage for a small fortune that no one would think of paying. I do think this is nothing but agent talk. Reminds me of when Tielemans was linked with every club in the world every summer window, yet we never received a genuine bid for him. I could be wrong, but I'm just seeing smoke from a smoke machine, not an actual fire.

Our second Algerian?

Did anyone pick up on them not proofreading the headline in the announcement?

If Dorsett says this is happening then it must be true. It's not like he'd just go around repeating every random twitter rumour he sees in different words, is it?

They were sacked and replaced by AI to save money. Unfortunately the team of expert Prompt Engineers that Rudkin is paying 6 figure salaries to are too busy with their coke parties to tell ChatGPT to do anything.

#CifuentesOut

Dorsett using your posts as a source doesn't make either of you reliable ITKs

Just get it over with and announce Gerrard! We all know it's coming!