LCFCJohn

He’s got some nerve. Had he played regularly, put in effort and been at least solid, you could understand him thinking this privately (you don’t say it to the media). But given he has contributed less than zero that’s a disgrace. Hopefully this means he is likely to be off. Surely he wouldn’t completely burn his bridges otherwise. Or he is just that thick.

I suspect Spurs will stay up at West Ham’s expense now but if they went down, they will use them. If they stay up, they will as you say, either be in the fold there or another Championship move, to a club, with all respect to Oxford, is a step up and expected to challenge at the right end. Donley did L1 last season with Leyton Orient. Lankshear has also done the Championship to an extent he would not drop down to L1. There’s a lot of unrealistic shouts on this thread to be fair. Ballard, Pierce Charles also. Probably Tolaj as well.

Both look to have quite long contracts so can’t see us affording to buy them. Loan wise, they have already been out to the Championship so it’d be a backwards step to drop back down to L1 for both of them. Think players like this will be out of reach to be fair.

5 year deal signed in 2023, 2 years left. Looks like based on the exchange rate at the time, we paid about £6.5 million, which is £1.3 million per year. So £2.6 million?

I very much doubt they will sack him. The fan love him (I work with a Stockport season ticket holder) and the owner is aligned with the fans. Unless he’s out of contract, the only way he would likely leave is by someone paying compensation for him.

All this talk about would we, wouldn’t we. He is contracted to Newport and it was described as a long term deal when he joined in November. Who says we could even afford/would pay the compensation? The history of the KP ownership has more or less been bargain bucket out of work managers that then have to be paid off pretty quickly. I expect that to continue.

Agreed. The 5th place finishes too. Villa and Newcastle both managed to secure top 4 shortly after we failed twice. It shows it wasn’t an impossible task. And context is vital like what you have provided for the European performance. To blow a 14 point lead in any scenario is a failure. You’ve done the hard work, you just have to grind a few results out and essentially not completely blow up like we did…twice.

3 for Rudkin too! I mean I get Aiyawatt and Rudkin would’ve 2 votes but a third?

Oh Rudkin’s been on and voted!

How do Chelsea spend so much money and yet are so crap domestically! Yes they won the conference league and club World Cup, but they get nowhere near the top of the PL.

Doubt he would. None of them do, apart from Vardy towards Rudkin but even then he’d never say anything about Aiyawatt. Albrighton, Huth and Morgan all the same.

Bit different in that they would only be stuffing themselves up. Chelsea don’t really have anything to play for. I guess Brighton or Brentford might be unhappy. Villa completely disrespected the relegation battle.

Probably. The more generous way to look at it would be that there could be genuine targets who we might have missed out on having to wait but we can make them happen. Feel like you are right though!

Ah maybe not. In fact getting wages off the book is beneficial but the whole loss on PSR has been part of the issue. Either way, it should be easier generally to shift the likes of Vestergaard.

Ah my bad, missed that about Page! I am hopeful he will stay to be fair. Like you, I assume Monga goes. Jakub like others has had a bad season but someone might see him as cheap back up. He won’t cost much being out of contract next year, £500k maybe? But who knows, he might stay but then it’ll be another out the door for free next year. Nelson similar, professional clubs and scouts will base their views on more factors than had a bad run in a toxic team where everyone was awful so like Monga, I don’t factor Nelson into my thoughts on the squad for next season as he is gone in my view. Vestergaard and Skipp, it’s easy to assume we’ll be stuck with them and I tend to have a quite negative outlook on this (could call it realism). But agents will be working. Vestergaard might get a 2 year deal in Europe on lower wages but think it is preferable to L1. Skipp more difficult as there is amortisation to consider whereas we could give away Vestergaard for free fee wise. Maybe someone takes Skipp on loan and covers the year amortisation and wages best case? Probably not, at the least we probably subsidise wages. We definitely need a senior striker. We can’t put that burden on the likes of Hutchinson. Not sure it needs to be 442 if you have wide forwards such as Evans and Alves but I do enjoy the Fryatt/Howard partnership in L1 last time!

This one is obvious. Sometimes we have missed out on obvious free transfers because we have had to clear out others and positions are stacked. Centre mid, particularly defensive but all over really, is quite a light position. James is going, Winks should go but his replacement is Braybrooke. Page as a youngster but he’s more attacking. There’s definitely scope to make Collins happen asap. Well you ideally need the manager in place of course….

Places like the Facebook pages are exactly the same with the opposite viewpoint though. Also I don’t think it’s critical to point out it’s rather bizarre to have a number of people saying Aiyawatt in but Rudkin out as there is a clear link that is basic to understand there. Rowett and Glover are fair enough and it’s perfectly understandable that a small number of people will want to give Rowett a chance or don’t necessarily put the issues as Glover’s door and don’t mind giving him a chance. I like you put all 4 out but you’ll always get different opinions.

Just on Rowett, even if you discard the results and ultimately relegation, he has not proven in any way he is the right guy to build around the youth players which we need next season so he definitely has to go for me. And I’m someone who was ok with him coming in and backed him.

No Page? GK - suspect Stolarcryk will go. Will be cheap for someone. Full backs suspect you are right although would be good if we could move Thomas on. Centre backs - I don’t believe either will be here. I’m quietly confident with a year left, Vestergaard will finally move. His agent will be working on it. And Nelson, I’m unsure where this belief he is staying comes from. He has already proven himself before this season at Championship level, has 1 year left, cheap and young. Clubs would be fools not to pick him up cheaply. Centre midfield is a conundrum. Depends if we play 2 or 3 and on Braybrooke. If 2, what you have out could be right and maybe Page as the 10. If we play 3, with 8’s, Page is the obvious choice on the left. If Braybrooke could be the right hand side, Skipp can sit in the middle if we don’t move him or go for Archie Collins from Peterborough on a free. If Braybrooke sit central, we need someone on the right. Evans once he gets up to speed and Alves as wide forwards looks good. Definitely need a striker but with Hutchinson very much included.

@Bausor28, bet you’d have laughed at the idea we would struggle this season as well yeah?

It’s interesting enough to see that 19 people have voted to keep Aiyawatt they haven’t also voted Rudkin to stay! On your point, I guess it’s where you put the line between youth prospect and who it’s worth naming specifically. If it’s been around the first team or out on loan; Page Aluko Braybooke Are the obvious 3. Joseph Evans Are the next 2. Monga not mentioned as assuming he will go. Silko Thomas? Souttar I’d be happy to see stay. I don’t dislike Skipp but he’s been part of the back to back relegations in the only 2 years he’s been here (as opposed to at least having the promotion season as some form of positivity) so I’d hope he could be moved on. Nobody else I’d keep if it was possible.

I work with a Stockport season ticket holder and apparently he’s been really good but a loss obviously from his main position!

Looks like Sheffield Wednesday are now going to start on 0 points rather than any further deduction. Plus new owners in and they will be able to put a squad together. This doesn’t bode well for us whatever our ambitions might be. With 4 relegation spots, the priority has to be avoiding a further relegation. Having another team in disarray and a deduction might have helped.

It’s unrealistic we will move every single player we would like to. Fortunately, many of them are 2027 contract ends so ones like Faes, Reid, Vestergaard and Winks with the extra year that has come out, we might be able to get rid of and Nelson, Stolarcryk etc will fetch fees. Thomas is one that thanks to the stupid contract extension, with increased wages apparently, will be hard to shift without hugely covering wages. But he does need to go as much as anyone. Whilst he might technically be sufficient, he will get bullied and honestly, he just doesn’t have the mentality to be a professional footballer. People sometimes just end up in the wrong profession for their capabilities and that is the case here. Kristiansen is another big problem with too long left on his deal.

Must be. It’s the whole ‘he just needs to get rid of Rudkin and we’ll be fine’ mentality. Rudkin stays whilst Aiyawatt does. The shit culture is set by Aiyawatt. Voting to keep Aiyawatt is a vote for no change.