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You'd imagine Fatawu, Faes and Vestergaard at least need to have been sold/moved on before we can bring anyone in, joining Winks, Monga, El Khannous, Daka, Ayew, Kristiansen in moving off the books. Monga, Elk and Fatawu should generate the £40m income needed on their own and the rest of the outgoings should rid us of the highest earners / deadest wood My major concern after that is the horrribly ragged squad it leaves us with. Goalie - Fine and League One or above standard. Full back - unproven right back, ok left back but zero cover. Centre Back - no idea who will be left and how motivated they will be. A real issue. If we have Nelson, Okoli, Gray at start of season and expect to play passing football we are headed for disaster. Centre Mid - relative strength with Choudhury, Skipp, Chaplin, Page, Braybrooke. Actually it is a massive imbalance towards centre mids in the squad. Wingers: Mavididi, Alves and then some youth prospects including Evans. No strength or depth above league one quality. Strikers: None. Hutchinson, Opoku etc would be 4th or 5th choice in a proper League One winning squad so we have the exact same issue we had last year with no goals in the squad. So conservatively we need 3 defenders, 2 wingers and 2 strikers in the next 3 weeks to have even a passable league one squad, which is never going to happen given how late our sales business is likely to be. I can see us struggling early in the League against bigger physical teams who know the league. Bullying Stola at corners, and the same for Braybrooke, Alves, Aluko + whoever we have up front. Worrying times.

Fatawu must be worth £20m + if Monga is £10m. Based on his highlight reel alone a Turkish side would lump on him. Halfway line goals, cut in and hit the top corner, beating his man inside and outside. With the right manager and team he will thrive massively...

Ings can only get better. D:Ream

neither should be suspended. but if one were to be it should be Balogun's as it wasn't a red. As it stands though, the only reason it has been suspended is because trump has pictures of Infantino getting his end away at Mar a Lago. Or so someone said somewhere.

I think: Administration Sell the club Drain the swamp Avoid League Two despite playing a young side. Get promoted second year in League One Win the championship with a young side Qualify for Europe managed by Eddie Howe in 29/30 Eddie Howe leaves to manage England England win th 2030 World Cup and 2032 Euros

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You did it so well that it was already in the original post.

Thankyou for your time on this matter.

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A weird schadenfreude part of me wants us to go to League Two. If only to be bought by Elon Musk, rise through the divisions and win the 2031 premier league with Vardbot (which is basically jamie vardy's brain with a StarLink implant and bionic legs) up front. I feel an AI / Robotics themed XI thread coming up...

If Russell Martin becomes manager that's the final nail for me. A manager who has been proven to be a total Shithouse employed by a pair with Shit for Brains to manage a squad that's been proven to be absolute Shite. We will have basically created a Trifecta of Turd, an Event horizon of Excrement, a Pyramid of Poo, a Faculty of Faeces, a Smorgasbord of Shite, Melange of Merde, a Sequence of Stools, a Generosity of Guano. A bag. Of Wank.

Tommy Wright left wing

Danish Iranian Jamaican German Austrian French Swedish Algerian Turkish Scottish English as Fook now name that team

Diary remindee: Get the League Two thread ready to go for late August....

they write 'don't drink' on bottles of bleach.....

as they are now League Onanists.....

some of the players should be sponsored by willy pullers...

i can't imagine a scenario where nearly all of that 17 i listed aren't moved on. Including Vestergaard. He isn't going to play League One he's played World Cups, Euros etc so will want out for sure...

Squad of 26 Goalkeepers: NEW Stolarzcyk Bausor Defenders: Aluko Nelson Lascelles Souttar Gray Wilson-Brown Thomas NEW NEW DCM: Skipp Braybrooke Choudhury Cartwright Briggs AM: Joseph Page NEW Alves Monga Strikers: NEW NEW Hutchinson Evans BUY/LOAN (6): Goalkeeper, 2 Defenders, Attacking midfielder, 2 Strikers Lascelles will work in League One. Souttar could do with getting 6th months under his belt and can leave in Jan. SELL/RELEASE/SMOTHER WITH A PILLOW: (17) Generate circa £50m largely off Fatawu, Elk and Faes: Ayew, Opoku, Coulibaly, Daka Mavididi, Fatawu, El Khannous, Faes Winks, Kristiansen, Soumare, Decordova Reid, Vestergaard, Okoli, Ricardo, Begovic Vieites

How the hell jake cooper wasnt sent off is an absolute scandal. i think the worst tackle ive ever seen that didnt receive a red card.

I think we will be 30 to 50% home grown in the squad, 25% experience and 25% punts on League One up and coming. Goalies: Stolarczyk + someone like Forster or retain Begovic Experience: Tavernier, Ashley Barnes, James Milner type characters. Potentially keep on Lascelles and Souttar if the latter will take a pay cut Home grown: Nelson, Aluko, Page, L.Thomas (eughh), Braybrooke, Briggs, Cartwright, Alves, Evans, Hutchinson, New punts: Kone, Jatta, Rush (Borehamwood - literally anystriker we will absolutely get rid of / sell Skipp, Winks, Choudhury, Ricardo, Daka, Vestergaard, Faes, Okoli, BEK, Fatawu, Mavididi, Monga, Ayew, BDR, Mukasa, Ramsey, James, Richards- which is 18 players out the door!

Just woke up again. OK. Lets operate both at a massive loss, with 10,000 fans in a 32000 facility and end up wound up and playing out of anstey nomads.

For 100 years of our existence we were at a smaller facility, which suited the fact our core fan base is max 20,000 of hardcore football supporting locals. Since moving to the Walkers / King Power we've tried to move in to the 30k, then 40k seater stadia which means we have more day trippers, families, corporates and tourists in to pad out. When we are in top 10 of the prem that's fine. Although we still needed clappers to ensure certain parts of the stadiume were actually engaged in creating an atmosphere. This has disappeared, and does disappear when we are playing shit or in the champ/leauge one for any period. I think we should consider drastic options ie selling KP, changing the configuration, to mean we can focus on 20,000 core fans again. I wouldn't be averse to us selling the KP and going to a 10,000 capacity set up at Seagrave if it enabled us to rightsize our operation, survive as a club and build back up again properly. The necessity for the KP to be in the city centre no long exists as the fan base is not concentrated in that area but spread across leicestershire, so having a smaller stadia at Seagrave wouldn't be a massive issue for me.

Sell Seagrave to Forest. Get Top out the country. Get Pearson back in and get rid of absolutely every one in the clib.

guesstimate on attendance. surely not over 15000?