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I don’t think Enzo has an issue with Cannon, it’s just that he’s the 4th out of the 4 strikers in the pecking order.

The “there’s your fairytale!” commentary by Drury was more about Welbeck coming back from injury in his first appearance to score a last-minute winner than it was any supposed judgement about Leicester and Arsenal’s relative stature and title-chasing merit

The club should allow fans to have clappers but only allow fans to pick them up when they leave the ground at full time

It looks to me that Enzo decided Nelson is the Vestergaard backup and Coady is the Faes backup, so I’d bet on Faes-Nelson tomorrow.

What’s a little ironic about these opinions are while they are certainly fair in general, they may not completely apply in this case as the blue card trial was originally something rolled out on a grassroots level. There does seem to be a problem with dissent and abuse in amateur football and until recently, there were few solid platforms and tools for protecting referees. Whether or not this is a crisis in top level senior professional football is probably a subjective opinion, but I can’t stand how often the way players often react to every decision (especially when the “big clubs” play). On top of that, you have managers haranguing fourth officials and I don’t think I need to explain just how absurd that is. The yellow card is a tool that refs should perhaps use more to counter dissent, but I feel like the yellow card’s weight (for dissent and for discouraging “professional fouls”) has dropped a little in recent years in professional football now that teams can make 5 subs per match. My preferred idea (which was suggested to the England and Wales FAs + IFAB but not taken up) is to only allow captains to discuss decisions with referees. I’m not sold on the blue card idea for cynical fouls (much like I’m rarely sold on anything IFAB recommend) but at least in this case I can’t fault them for trying to think creatively to improve the game.

Ayyyyy

Years will pass and I will still think back about the kind of lengths we went through to string this out until 10:59 pm deadline day for a deal the board knew they had no ability to complete 😂 Now it's just a matter of figuring out what’s the funnier* debacle, this or #14 Adrien Silva. *-I’m laughing but I’m angry too, just wanna put that on record.

100%. I also think Enzo’s comments can sometimes be misconstrued with English being his second language. I think the questions about the fans grumbling may have prompted these comments but I’m right with you that he will have had the board’s confidence and ability more in mind with that particular statement. As this relates to the larger discussion here about how the fans have taken or not taken to the football product, all I’ll plead to other fans is that we really need to support Enzo. While some of his English can come across awkwardly (such saying about James Justin, “he has a fever, he’s cold” 😄) , he’s quite clear on every concept he puts across. Everything he said he would do about the way he’d have us play, the way he would manage his team, the way he’d get the squad unified, how he manages individuals, and how he will work to get the fans on board, he’s done. He’s been getting the team to celebrate and show appreciation to the fans, and hems begging the fans all season to understand how he wants to play and see the value in it—and we play great stuff at this level! Enzo Maresca is the only person in club leadership that has been honest to all stakeholders (his players, the board, the fans, and yes to the media even if he has been prickly some times) since he’s been here. I absolutely cannot say that about the board. It would be great if the disgruntled fans could show a little appreciation for what Maresca and the team are doing with more encouragement during the games instead of moaning every time someone makes a heavy touch or checks back.

There is a DMV Foxes group that has had some get-togethers in recent seasons but I don't think they’ve been active this season. https://twitter.com/DMV_Foxes Perhaps this group will pick up again soon! There are definitely a few others in and around DC/northern VA.

I think this approach was for Gil Vicente’s Gabriel Pereira and not the Gabriel Pereira that recently moved from New York City FC to Al Rayyan.

😂 all the extra stuff is great, too. The one smashed West Brom fan stumbling over to the away end with his scarf and the other one not seeing any stewards about so he ran on and started playing with the ball even added so much more comedy to the absurd situation.

Yunus’s was Mahrez at Vicarage Road!

Since there are clear limits related to turnover on what clubs can spend on players, I really wish more transfer fee and wage information was public so that we could all do some North American-style “capology” instead of just being in the dark. Going from thinking we can make a signing or two, to thinking we have to sell a fringe player before we add, to facing a new reality where we have to sell our most productive midfielder to even function let alone do more business in just one month is, frankly, ridiculous. Way to go, City board. 👏

That’s probably why some of this news has got out there 😆 get this story in the press by a reliable source and hope Leicester crack under pressure from KDH and his agent

Not sure why I’m seeing talk in this thread questioning if there’s any truth to this. Ornstein has a very good record. If he’s reporting that there have been inquiries from other clubs and some negotiations, it’s probably because these talks have happened.

You’re right about these not being the same, but they’re different in other ways. I’m happy to be corrected if I’m wrong, but some of the big things with the Man City thing aren’t that they spent X amount of money on their squad, but rather that they made multiple under the table payments to Mancini and to several players. Some of this is ostensibly to avoid reporting money that can count as expenses under FFP but my understanding is Man City’s thing is only part a “reckless spending” thing, and mostly a “paying your employees as if you are a crime syndicate” situation.

Willy must have forgotten he was the fill-in manager for a while in the second half; I don’t know how else to explain those belated substitutions (and somewhat baffling ones: maybe KDH couldn’t go 90 and I didn’t think Yunus was bad today but that doesn’t seem like a way to shore up a 1-0 win with tired legs all over the pitch).

I always thought it was the next FL kit that these Burrda ones were supposed to evoke, 1998-2000

You know what I’m talking about and you know what Enzo Maresca means when he has repeatedly said we need to sell before we buy; this is just arguing over semantics. I’m responding to people in this thread talking about Iversen or Ward going on loan freeing up a squad place for Sensi and I’m saying the manager has made it clear that this is not enough to get him to add to the squad.

It’s not about the room in the squad; it’s about the transfer kitty. Maresca has said a few times that he’s been told recently by the board that we have to sell in order to add to the squad this January.

I would certainly take Enzo’s comments to have a statement of intent in them, but it’s worth noting that the reporter specifically mentioned Sensi’s name in his question so Maresca didn’t just bring this up on his own.

The issues with Sensi this season don’t really seem to be injury-related. Yeah, he had some minor issues earlier this season but he’s just not in Inter’s plans and simply not really being considered for selection.

Sensi wearing the sum of the numbers 420, nice

Cov fans were not nearly as gracious as this when City were in all sorts of trouble back in 2002.

We scored a few very nice goals but I’m happiest with the heart some of the youngsters showed. For me, the problems today (set pieces, leaving massive gaps in the midfield for Millwall to sail through when they won the ball back) was more about positional awareness and I can’t blame a team with that many changes for not always being the most cohesive unit. I know Millwall fans were telling themselves it was a “boring” tie when they drew us but f me, I didn’t believe they’d believe their support would be so vapid until I saw the game and read some comments from folks in the away end. Not that this is my problem, but I feel like Millwall (their team at least) has been getting up for the Cup even in poor seasons for the last 20 years so I thought today would have been something to get up and shout about (or at least get down to The Den?)… apparently not.