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Maybe I phased that a bit wrong. I meant 'nice' as in a constructive, player improvement, club building kind of way. Rather than a destructive, ego driven, d!ckhead way. Like Russell Martin.

I really want them to succeed. Not just for the good of the club, but because they seem like really nice blokes...

I think he will. Besiktas offer European football, a yearly title fight against city rivals, & (I think at least) offer the salary that he would want. They have been known to offer very high salaries.

Are they signing both, or deal off?

My default memory of Begovic is watching him hunched glumly on the floor of his penalty area after conceding a last minute equaliser (Mahrez free kick v Bournemouth). Poor guy was getting pelted with snowballs from the Kop. Wish I took a video!

Seem to remember those clowns putting Maresca near the bottom the last time we were in the champ.... Won't look it up though. Can't be ar$ed with them.

Oh I wouldn't worry about that. Swedish football people are proper dinosaurs. Seriously they'd make Sam Allardyce look like prime Pep. Even worse than our lot...

I left ten minutes early. I was too hot & thirsty! A lovely day out though.

Isn't selling before you buy normal for relegated clubs? It was almost certainly the case the last time we went down. We didn't make any moves until after we sold Maddison I think...

Okay. I don't hate this...

Yes it is.

I like how the guy hasn't even been appointed yet, & he already has a derogatory nickname!

Probably. Or a disgruntled subcontractor whose invoice hasn't been paid yet...

Seriously, I think we need to forget about this for now. Player salaries is every professional sports club's biggest monthly expenditure, by far. So if the club was having cashflow issues it would be them who wouldn't be getting paid. Not club staff who are on say £20K to £50K p/a. They would probably get laid off instead sadly. Also, due to Ruud's sacking, we've practically found out that payday at LCFC is at the end of the month. If there were staff that have gone unpaid for over a week, it would have surely been leaked to the press by now.

I think his reticence may stem from last season. When Monga, Evans & Aluko were being involved in matchday squads, & he largely wasn't. And felt like an afterthought as a result. Maybe now that he's involved in a full first team pre-season, & doing well, he can perhaps now see that he has a pathway here.

Some very good points here.. Also worth remembering that Dyche would be easily the most expensive of all the managers mentioned so far.

Percy & Dorsett state that it will drag on in to later in the week. Maybe they are trying to give the (difficult) Rohl deal every chance? Massively reading between the lines, I know! (or even clutching at straws...)