King Claudio

Not sure he'd even want it.

Good episode. One point on the pod really hit home for me — the whole “agents” issue. It barely gets discussed, yet for me it’s one of the biggest frustrations with KPFC. The attitude from some of these players is embarrassing, and the recruitment has been a shambles. We’ve ended up with a string of duds, and somehow we’re the ones paying agents for the privilege. The likes of Wasserman are taking us for idiots In any normal situation, if you kept buying something that turned out to be rubbish, you wouldn’t keep going back to the same shop. But in football, we seem stuck in the same cycle with the same agencies, burning through what little money we have.

21/22 was pretty bad... according to transfer market.com Daka 30m Euros soumare 20m Euros vestegaard 17.5m Euros bertrand - vaguely remember him being in 90k a week.

He was terrible

Remember that crap winger we kept getting on loan from Sunderland. Actually his name was Welsh

I was referring to Ricky Hill. Colin Hill was decent. The first player I saw who was an international 😂

Tough call Pressman or Mcgivern, Hill, Maybury, Hughes, Hamill, Johnson, Lewis, Low, Walsh, Hammond,

Jeez, absolute madness on this thread. Micky Adams did well for us.

So Lincoln go up and we go down (which is a reality with Kong in charge) I can't imagine he'd want to move to us

Surely, even if they announced something tomorrow, they'd likely only be "in the stands" for Southampton. We really need to avoid that scenario for the following game.

I'd counter that by asking what job realistically would he be hoping for? Taking my blue tinted specs off, there aren't many bigger jobs in the championship even consodering three relegated clubs next season. If I were assessing Prob Leicester, Ipswich, Birmingham, Southampton, Sheffield united, Norwich if you take out Cov and Boro plus maybe Wolves and West Ham are the bigger teams and one of those is available now, why wouldn't you jump?

I always thought Mark Davies looked excellent when we signed him from wolves on loan.

I initially thought similar - however id be more inclined to believe it is straight out of the glover playbook- Raid man city and Chelsea for their youngsters. A little lazy but tried and tested. I could also believe we tapped up Maresca to give us a tip off about potential targets which would if true make a mockery of our scouting system.

What has Carsley done that makes people think he would do a decent job? He looked pretty woeful when in charge of England.

It's not a case of being spineless. When someone’s job is to ask questions, they should reflect what people are already discussing, not their own views. If many are raising a concern, bringing it up isn’t bias — it’s simply doing the job. Their personal opinion doesn’t matter, because the question is grounded in public discourse, not individual judgement.

I don't think you can guarantee that. He's a big part of the set up now so I can't imagine it would improve much of at all.

We could have gone for Wilder who wouldn't have had a release clause. Would have been a lot better

He's only training with us. No co-incidence this comes in a week following the rumours of Winks poor attitude in training. If he's an experienced pro with a good attitude, it can only be a good thing that some of this is passed onto the youngsters Similar mindset with the Begovic signing

Another great pod- always enjoy the alert telling me there is a new episode. Interesting that you all believe the crowd would support us if we were three down with young players in the team- of course this is the way it should be. I'm not convinced myself - last night there were quite a few on the pitch and the negativity is back with a bang. It was an atrocious second half.

If they are serious about improving communication, a good start would be to clarify the structure and who's role is what so we know who is accountable.

Can someone explain to me what the point is of having a Technical Director to "take control of recruitment and Scouting" when we have Martyn Glover who's job title is "Head of Senior scouting and recruitment". Rudkin in the background sticking in his worthless two penneth as well At best it's going to be a case of too many chiefs with them all tripping over themselves. Can we please stop creating extra tiers of management to protect people who aren't good enough.

Agreed. Ripped off from Newcastle and doesn't even make sense in our scenario.

None of these inspire much confidence

Great comments from Jord re the manager. Fully agree regarding we need to try and get behind a manager and changing won't have the impact people seem to think it will. I'm still trying to work out the Kylie comment but did make me laugh 🤣

I can't see that another manager would have any more impact. Marginal gains at best. We aren't suddenly going to have a decent striker.