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They’ve got 1 point in their last 17 games. If you don’t win this, you should be automatically relegated.

KP could buy it and lease it back to the club. Again, not ideal at all and keeps them invested for longer. See Chelsea and their various sales, although those are to bend FFP rules rather than keep them in business. On a more optimistic view, there are plenty of property investors who will throw their money into it to make an easy return. Problem for you would be the longer term consequence and cost of buying it back.

I assume it was a close call between your current username and OptimisticFox?

Surely you could sell the training ground and lease it back long before administration is a possibility? Far from ideal, obviously, but would make little sense to fold the whole club with a £100m+ asset sitting on the books. Likely impact of relegation would be cheap fire sales to get wages off the books. Based on performances this season, I’m not sure you’ll miss them. May set you back a couple of years but every opportunity to get financially stable and reset.

It would never go directly to them. Even if the club had borrowed 100% of the parachute payment, the money will go into the club and then the club is responsible for repaying the loan to the bank. If you take a loan out with Barclays based on your income, your employer doesn’t pay Barclays direct on your behalf.

Fatawu strikes me as a player that if you lost 6-1, but he scored the goal and it was a wonder strike, he’d go home happy.

It’s both a good but also bad point. Any point away from home for a relegation threatened side against a top 2 hopeful will always be a good point. I understand there was some battle, running and fight shown, for the first time in a while, which is positive. Only conceded 1 goal despite intense pressure and that’s good for a side leaking goals. No ground lost on WBA, Portsmouth and Blackburn despite having the toughest game on paper. However, draws are no good at this stage. Draw every game until the end of the season and you go down. Being 1-0 up and not converting it to 3 points is ultimately 2 dropped. They were also totally dominant for 45 minutes which will cause tiredness but also not help morale and confidence. Ground lost on Charlton, they’re basically not going to be caught now. It’s a very “meh” outcome, not great, not terrible. Proof will be in the pudding against a poor Bristol City team midweek. The draw is no good if it’s followed up with another or defeat, it becomes a better result with another 3 points following it up.

The one difference from Ashley is we were never at risk of administration. He was too interested in selling off our assets to himself on the cheap to allow us to go bust. He only ever let the club spend its money (club generated money, he put **** all in) when we were relegated, to get straight back up to the PL gravy train and tread water. Sadly, your ownership either does not give a toss about administration or are too thick to see it heading towards them. The only way it’ll get better is a change of ownership. Rebrands like this and the invisible learning review from your previous PL relegation prove Top has zero intention of learning or changing. You can either sit and watch him bounce you from disaster to disaster before you ultimately become the next Sheffield Wednesday or you can collectively take action to force change.

Yes, but all of those appointments are: 1. Cheap. 2. Utterly grateful for a job they have been overpromoted to and therefore most likely to be a yes man (or woman). 3. A ‘structure’ for you to blame and shout at rather than the ownership. Reminds me of when Ashley promoted Lee Charnley to director for us. Lee was the club secretary before Ashley joined. Was also the cheapest football director employed in the PL at the time. Sounds just like your new CEO.

Correct. Did one beating Qarabag this week and have done for Bromley, Wimbledon etc. It started off as a celebration as Howe got his first win (as we were incredible shite and on the way down at that point), I think as a togetherness morale type thing. It’s just carried on and never stopped.

We didn’t do it just because it was them, we’ve done it since Howe came in. Every win is accompanied by a group photo. Usually in the dressing room but the win at Sunderland presented an impromptu opportunity to do it with the fans behind the goal.

His decision making on jobs has been dreadful since leaving us. He would have been a fantastic appointment 5 years ago in this situation but his stock has fallen dramatically after the last 4 jobs. He would definitely sort your defence out. We were the most organised and drilled I have ever seen us under Rafa. It was never particularly exciting but seeing the structures in our play was quite impressive.

Time after time after time there are hundreds of examples of people doing okay in Scotland and failing to replicate it in England. Winning the league once with Rangers in 3 years is the English equivalent of finishing top 10 with Man City and calling it a success. The fella on here trying to suggest Gerrard would be a better pick than Rowett can only be based on player Gerrard and the “name” rather than his abilities as a manager as he’s been shown to be an appalling manager. That’s even before you move onto the hilarity of the suggestion Gerrard could attract “better name” players to Leicester in the Championship. What big name Championship level players could Gerrard bring in on his own name that Leicester couldn’t attract on their own standing?

Before I send a DM were you the one buying drinks or falling out the kebab house?

This will be the biggest issue. He could have just had 4 relatively kind fixtures to settle in but he’s now got 5 difficult ones. Any opportunity to build morale and confidence based on some early wins is now much more unlikely. He will need to get the defence organised sharpish. That’s much easier in an Oxford team built to be the minnows defending for their lives rather than a Leicester team built to hold possession.

I mean clapping and cheering them has worked so far and that’s why they are *checks notes*, 22nd in the league. Oh, wait…

Maybe his dog awful performances have some form of correlation to his decisions to go to the pub or gym with his mates, rather than putting hours in down the training ground or doing conditioning work? But what does that say about the club as a whole if he is knowingly spending his time doing this but still being picked? Any manager worth his salt would have him banished from the squad. The fact several managers have been and gone and he’s not, talks volumes about what is accepted at the club. I know National League North clubs who wouldn’t put up with that.

I said it a couple of weeks ago but as they clearly have no plan and never had one when sacking Marti, this is the most obvious Warnock appointment until the end of the season I have ever seen. He’d keep you up at a canter, gives you the rest of the season to plan ahead for next season. Every week that passes, his ability to come in and keep you up reduces. The rest of the names linked are either ridiculously shite (Gerrard/Martin) or completely unproven and as much as a risk as keeping King on. When Rafa came into us initially, we bought him in a game or two late to save us. Similar to you with Smith when you went down in the PL. You’re on track to repeat that right now, imo.

Aye. Hoseasons is terrible!

It’s not. Worth pointing out the settlement sacked managers get is on the contingency that they do not get another job. If Dyche gets a job within a set period of time, his settlement finishes (it’s not usually a one-off payment but a payment over x months or years depending on contract length). Unless you are offering him a similar wage to what he was on at Forest, he would be losing tens of thousands of pounds each week to put himself at risk of relegation to League One and his reputation decreasing even more. That’s why managers like Potter waited so long before a new job after Chelsea, because he was financially laughing his head off.

Have you ever thought with going something like?… Ward (emergency signing) Thomas Thomas Thomas Thomas Thomas Winks Thomas Thomas Thomas Ayew

Schoolboy error. Plastic bottles have some use, should’ve been your season ticket.

I never like dinosaur managers of the past but **** me, with nobody clearly lined up, how easy would it be to bring Warnock or Mowbray in on a short contract to the end of the season? Both would keep you up at a canter and then you can have time to get a longer term plan together. It’s just complete negligence to sit on their hands at this stage.

Odds on managers are very volatile and change when even small sums are placed on it. One person putting £20 on at 33/1 would be enough to bring that to 16/1. It’s also the most bent and easy to manipulate of all markets. Sky Sports News put a rumour for x manager to join, suddenly SkyBet take in a number of bets on that manager, never for it to be seen as a rumour again.

I mean, sure if we start ignoring jobs because he was a disaster at them, he’s a fantastic manager and he’ll win you promotion this season.