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You mean Enzo?

This is the reported agreement terms, let’s hope he stays fit as there is an obligation to buy based on appearances:

Yes!

Torino can do *** one. Using Romano to further their cause, it stinks. We either let him go on a free at the end of the season or get our valuation now. Rowett backed him so not accepting that we mistreated him, he clearly got a run in the side.

@Ric Flair See below on Lorenz Hutchinson

Actually, remember at the time that this was rumoured to be one of the signings that Nuno wanted but was overruled on so might not be as clear cut. But wouldn't put it past Rudkin sabotaging things.

If this is true, there is no other reason that Rudkin is criminally negligent and wants the club to suffer.

Agree, this is very much the case. The problem is we've been too much a manager-led club. Have a read of 'How to Win the Premier League' and tells you why our transfer strategy went backwards with Rodgers, he did the same at Liverpool. Glover had one strong window, when Enzo took charge - there was a clear sync between playing style and recruitment, with clear leadership. Before and after, it's been poor to dross - the January window was probably the worst of the lot. He also had good links with agents, which may have made Glover's performance look better. If you look at our targets for the 2024 summer window, there were some class players we were targeting but a lot of them fell through, partially because of the potential points deduction deterring players. So we ended up getting Cooper targets like Skipp and Ayew which was a disaster. Hoping this changes with McCarron.

Looks like this is almost sorted, Romano reposted his message about the deal and TalkSport reporting a fee is agreed.

Interesting that national media are saying this is a coup/fantastic appointment for us, for example Jason Burt at the Telegraph, Alex Crook at Talksport, Nick Mashiter at BBC Sport - not had this amount of support in the press for a managerial decision since Rodgers as the jury was out on Maresca (except fanboy Balague of course). Like many, was disappointed when I first heard the news but open-minded and want this naturally to succeed.

Well worth listening to the When You’re Smiling BBC podcast - really good discussion of the appointment and some interesting background on the club as well. Good job @Loxm

Romano has actually got our manager choices wrong - said Benitez and Potter when we appointed Smith and Cooper (wish he had been right though!). But clearly on this, we’re appointing Martin - too many informed sources are saying this is happening.

I guess that would also rule us out taking action against Chelsea as their breaches were between 2011 and 2018.

Similarly to Nixon, the lower in the leagues we are, the more accurate he gets. He’s more right than not recently, called it first on Richards signing for us in the Jan transfer window.