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It’s not a sure thing. Huddersfield have come down strong and had a perfect start. Teams like Charlton and Peterborough know the league and have started well and then you have the likes of Stockport and Wrexham who just seem intent on going straight through! Birmingham also have Rodgers old mate Davies as manager so he might lose the plot at some point!

Good age and a very good record previously. Sometimes just doesn’t work at a club but he has still posted ok numbers which if he can replicate that will help us enormously. Is it too much to ask that we give him a chance here? Just waiting for him to have a 5 minute cameo coming on for Vardy and getting written off as he hasn’t scored a hat trick in they time

I hope if this is complete, people will realise that sometimes it just doesn’t work out for a player at a particular club but they might come to life with a change. Unfortunately it is unlikely and seems from a lot of the posts on here that he will be written off before he kicks a ball for us….

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Surprised by this. Feels quite early and like he still had a lot to give. I’m sure he would have had offers in the midlands even if in lower leagues. But he obviously feels ready and what a career he has had. I wonder if he plans to go into coaching or management. He definitely has a great football brain and seems an intelligent person. If he wants that and goes for his badges, it’d be great to see him back in some capacity!

Two points of observation from this. 1. We probably dodged a bullet if we were interested in Piroe given they are trying to move him on. 2. Leeds really do have an inflated ego of their standing. What makes them think they can take Sheffield United’s best player off them when they are probably a better side in the same division?

I think it’d be better to keep it but remove those playing in Europe as they are clearly too busy to be arsed. I get what you’re saying and it’s a good idea. But I suppose would punish the ‘also rans’ in the Prem that would lose the chance to win a cup. But definitely the teams in Europe need to be removed from it.

Probably back to Man Utd. They love a bit of business like that!

Spot on. It’s the cup, it should be about seeing other teams. FA Cup 3rd round day is a really exciting day in the calendar due to the upsets over the years. Even looking at the games over the past couple of days, I would sooner watch a Wimbledon v Ipswich, Barnsley v Sheff Utd or Grimsby v Sheff Weds than the likes of Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool against each other. With the FA Cup for example, I lose interest the further into the competition. The only time I have watched a in the semi-final/final stages for years was when it was us.

I thought he would end up in the EFL but for those saying it’s a rubbish move etc, consider the scenario. If he was not on loan and a 20 year old who broke through and took the SPL by storm this season and helps them To finish in the top half and generally has a great year. We get relegated to the Championship and are looking at targets. No doubt his name would be chucked in by a @Ric Flair or others who are very aware of young players coming through and people would be foaming at the mouth for us to go for him. Beauty is he is ours already. Point being, we would be all for a 20 year old who has excelled at that level if they weren’t ours so it is not the level that is the issue but how he does which is down to Sammy.

Ipswich are going to mess this up. Unnecessary number of signings. I never think it’s a good idea for promoted clubs to go mad and bring so many numbers in. You have a core of a good squad who have come up. Same with us, a handful of the right signings would be enough.

I didn’t accuse anyone. I said ‘seems like’. Sorry I didn’t Google it first! And yes maybe not the best wording but you’d think I’d run over that first posters puppy the way they replied to me! Completely unnecessary! Anyway, I’d love to see Fuchs back. For me, whilst all the title winning side are legends, the ones who had the longevity and were around when we won the FA cup (Vardy, Kasper, Wes, Fuchs and Sharkey) have even more elevated status there. After Vardy, I think Fuchs is my favourite and aside from the fact he seems an absolute genuine guy, and for his heroics on the pitch, a big part of this is the sacrifice he made by staying with us so long when his family were so far away. He could have left earlier and genuinely will have missed a lot of his kids childhoods out of love for us club and fans saying as long as he did. So yes, even if poorly worded in part, I just would never have put him down for a return to the UK. It seemed his life for the long term future would be out there. If things have or do change and he ends up back here in the future, that would be great 👍

Oh my god. Literally, all I said in the initial post was that I would be surprised with it being Fuchs given he had expressed for a while before he left that his future was in America. Then people get triggered for some reason and pile on What is so outrageous about what I have said?

Ok, fair. Quite vague though and not saying a timeframe or anything. As I responded to the poster above who doesn’t know how to communicate properly, I was simply surprised that Fuchs, of all our past legends from that side, would be wanting to come back to the UK based on the fact he had to do long distance with his family for so long. However maybe things have changed and his family would want relocate. Who knows!

Wow, this is unnecessarily rude! I love Fuchs, and would like to see him back at the club. I was simply pointing out he wanted to be back in the states with him family so am surprised he’d want to come back to the UK so relatively soon unless his family situation has changed. I’m not claiming to know any of that. Im not sure what is so bad about this view but you seem to have problem with it? Maybe you need to review how you communicate with others?

So the player who was quite clear about wanting to move to the states to be with his family for at least a couple of years before leaving us now wants to come back to the UK? Seems like a click bait story without substance.

You can’t either determine for sure either way when a player is not given a chance but I think it’s fairer to feel they might be good enough than not based on non-existent evident. Unless you are of course negative about everything and write all our players off after about 90 minutes of seeing them play. If he went on loan to Sheffield United and bagged say 20, would he still not be good enough for us in the Championship next season in your view? Besides, and away from Cannon. We know that any striker we bring in will go through exactly the same process of being written off after a couple of games so I ask, what is the point?

Not really sure how people can reach the conclusion he isn’t good enough when he barely played! These people will answer ‘well Enzo then Cooper didn’t fancy him’ but at the same time say how bad Cooper is and how he doesn’t have a clue. So does Cooper have a clue and Cannon isn’t good enough or if Cooper clueless and Cannan could be good player? Personally I think we are 95%+ likely to be in the Championship next season so would get him and some others loan moves there to be ready for our side next year.

Got to disagree here. We got away with a lot defensively due to the lack of quality in many of the strikers and teams we faced. Even from day one, Coventry could have had a hatful if they could have finished. Later in the season we were being taken apart by the likes of Plymouth and Millwall who had figured that all you had to do was put the ball into the channel down our right hand side and have acres of space to punish us. That would have been an absolute bloodbath in this league and the last two games I think we’d have been out of game by half time. I do agree we need a better structure this season but don’t agree it was good last season. There are some positives. We defended set pieces very well on Monday, Fulham had a couple of chances for them yesterday. And scoring from a set piece is something we have been awful at for years so there does seem to be some positives if people are willing to highlight them.

I agree that this thread about Cooper is embarrassing and the guy needs more time. But on the Rodgers thing, that 8th place finish plastered over huge cracks. We were awful from the Autumn in 2021. We were unwatchable back then and I recall speaking to a Newcastle supporting mate when their takeover happened (I think that was in about the October 2021) and said to him I hoped they took Rodgers as we were on the slide and I could see us relegated inside 3 years if we kept him. Turns out I was overly optimistic as it was only 18 months later we went down! So by the time we lost to Forest badly in what, January 2022, we were well on the slide even if the finishing position covered over this.

I mean this is harsh. Set piece goals are as important as any. It takes the build up play to win the corner initially. And what about the goal on Monday was out of nothing? It was good play to win the ball back, ball out to VK, it was a great low cross from him and then a perfect ball from Fatawu to Vardy. Yes, we might have had a lot of shots against us and not been dominant, but to say the goals are from nowhere it way off, for me anyway!

An awful lot of teams have spent obscene amounts. West Ham like what, £150mill? Bournemouth £40mil on that striker alone. Brighton as you say. Forest as always. Ipswich have spent big. Brentford and Fulham also. Some of these teams will have pissed all this money up the wall to finish bottom half or even be in relegation scraps!

You want two for a position really. Buonanotte won’t stay, most definitely a straight loan. So this guy becomes out, and send Alves on loan whilst Buonanotte covers that place in the squad sounds good to me. Better for Alves development.

It’s a balance isn’t it. I get what you’re saying. And yes, of course staying up is what we need. Question marks over cost aside, the Skipp signings seems very smart. Probably more than good enough for where we are at and will add plenty this season but I also think given he has signed knowing our position, he would probably stay if we go down. Ayew I’m not sure. He can probably offer something this season and if we go down. It’s the whole cost and contract length stuff again. By the way, as an aside point, how sad is it that football now is all conversations about wages, contact lengths, transfers fees and PSR rather than just the game.

What if focusing too much on the short term causes a lot more damage long term though? It’s a fine balancing act admittedly. Of course we want to stay up, but as long as the long term future of the club isn’t jeopardised.