ForestAreMagic

City have suddenly started buying players again and given Haaland a massive contract. Meanwhile no PSR charges to any club this week. It does seem that City are very confident. I’m sure they’ve got nothing to worry about. They’ll get some mild criticism over their procedures and lack of cooperation, a strongly worded letter and a small fine. I wouldn’t be surprised if the fine is smaller than Forest got for the tweet.

Looks to me that it’s cut and dried - you have a £105m limit. It’s the wording that matters, not the spirit. I’m not as close to this as you are as Leicester fans but if you’re under the £105m I don’t see any way you can be charged.

I wouldn’t worry, we’re obviously not winning it. At the start of the season we’d all have seen about 14th as very good progress. Now we’ve had a good start, it would be great to be top half. Any more than that would be a massive and unexpected bonus. Our fans were probably 50-60pc positive / 40pc negative when you won the league. The local aspect was outweighed by the fact that you were disrupters and we still hate Tottenham after they cheated us in 1991.

After quarter of a century being useless I’d rather we win ugly than lose pretty. But I don’t find our football - defence to scoring a goal in 12 seconds - ugly. I’m obviously biased, but I find it exciting to watch. I suppose the PL as a whole is more exciting if there’s a variety of styles.

yes, and a club our size only needs to mess up a couple of transfer windows and everything falls apart At the moment I think the club knows where we are in the food chain and the recruitment strategy seems to be mainly: - young Latin Americans who will use us as a stepping stone to a bigger club - players with some experience who aren’t getting minutes at a big club (Elanga, CHO, Wood) Maybe this will evolve. The fans would be happy with being an established mid table PL club like in the 80s. Marinakis wants us in Europe every year in my opinion, and that will drive what the club does.

Yes, even if we do well, selling well will continue to be important - to balance out wage rises and transfer fees. Murillo will go in the summer I’d have thought, as we have Morata and Carmel (currently at Oly) as good replacements. Sangare hasn’t worked out too well, so he could leave too. But we’ll need to buy a back-up/replacement for Wood and replace any other leavers. Whilst we get mocked for supposedly being scattergun with transfers, I think the club’s network here is phenomenal. With some high profile exceptions (particularly in our first year back) I think they’ve been exceptional at finding players who can be sold on for a profit. The big worry is if we lose MGW - he’s so important to us he’s almost irreplaceable.

It’s a simple thing, but one thing Nuno has changed is we don’t piss about at the back anymore. That was a problem under Cooper and through most of last season, and it cost us goals. Sels and the central defenders usually launch it. Like someone was saying here yesterday, better to risk losing it in the opponents half than your own penalty area.

If nothing else it’s an opportunity for TAA to experience a different lifestyle and culture. Liverpool fans need to stop being such babies about it. Merseyside isn’t the only place on earth, and Real are the biggest club in the world.

That chanting was disgraceful and the club were right to call it out and apologise. As far as I remember those responsible were banned. There have been no incidents since, to my knowledge, thankfully. Happy to engage. We have 2-3 Leicester fans on our forum and it’s interesting to hear their take on things. (Happy also to come nowhere near your forum if you prefer it to be Leicester only).

Sheffield United have a good chance of getting promoted this year and they were the worst Prem team since Derby. Whoever goes down will have a very good chance of coming back up again.

Agree with your top 5. Also agree it’s impossible for us to come above the top 4 you mention. We’re just enjoying seeing a more competitive side than we’ve had for ages, and we’d be delighted if we could finish in the top half. Hopefully we can get another couple of wins quickly to make relegation very unlikely, then let’s see where we get to.

so are these stupid summer and winter games in Australia, US etc. The clubs complaining about fixture congestion are the clubs causing fixture congestion. They should be ignored.

I think most neutral fans like Southampton, Ipswich and Wolves, but we’d all be happy to see them stranded so the rest of us can relax.

Southampton probably need to think about next season's promotion push rather than staying up. I’m not sure there’s much point in them going to all the expense of replacing the manager. As for Wolves, it must be demoralising seeing all of your best teammates get sold. I’m not sure a new manager could solve that. Maybe someone like Moyes could sort their defence out.

yeah that happened to Forest too - we’d just beaten Man Utd and Newcastle, then the news came in we were being charged and we hardly won another match. I can’t believe City will get the same treatment as us hillbillies from the East Midlands though. They’ll get a bit of criticism of their admin from 10 years ago, with a recognition that things have improved since then. At a push, maybe a small fine and suspended points deduction. As they’re, by their standards, struggling, they’ll probably manage to get their minuscule punishment pushed through this season, when it’s less likely to damage a serious title push.