Drain the Swamp

Not surprising, as you'd probably get a carbon copy of what happened at Wolves. Stay up by the skin of their teeth, mass exodus of players in the summer with horrid recruitment to replace them and then an atrocious second season before he's sacked and the merry-go-round starts again.

FWIW, I think he's been dining out on overachievements at Burnley for years. His time at Everton and Forest, frankly, show he's nowhere near Premier League level these days. If we have aspirations of getting back there in three or four years, he's not the one.

De Zerbi and Frank are similar in the sense that they looked excellent at clubs with top notch recruitment, but struggled afterwards. The poor quality of Forest's recruitment this season is a big part of why they've seriously declined.

He's in luck!

I'm torn on Dyche, even if he would come here. Which I doubt. Yes, we'd show a lot more fight and probably do so overnight. He'd absolutely achieve the short-term goal of keeping us in the Championship this season. The problem is that I suspect he'd keep us in it for some time to come as well, because I'm not sure he's the project manager the club needs to completely and utterly rebuild a destroyed team. We need a forward-thinking manager who'll get us playing aggressively from the off, bring in our tranche of talented youngsters and find hungry bargains in the transfer market. Hassenhutl, yes. Skubala, yes. Dyche? He'd cost considerably more than both and I'm not sure he's as close a fit as either. I worry he'd smack of short-termism. Everyone who knew of Dyche thought he'd thrive at Forest with his past there, probably the best squad he'd ever worked with after some fairly modest ones at Burnley and then-skint Everton and it's ended similarly to how his team at Goodison ended.

If it doesn't happen this season, it'll happen next. No way they comply with PSR for a start. Nuno had only just been given a new contract before being sacked, Ange will have been on big money and now Dyche. That's just managerial appointments. Then the amount they spent in the summer with very few who've actually improved them, the bonuses and pay rises they handed out to the players from last season to ward off bigger clubs and to attempt to lock in European football. They're relegation battlers with Europa League expenses, and we know for ourselves how that ends. Plus you'd have to question who goes there with all of this hanging over them as Marinakis may not be able to back them too much over the summer, the likes of Anderson, Gibbs-White and Murillo will leave and he gets through managers at a rate of knots. Similar to the way that Wolves sold Cunha, Ait-Nouri and now Strand Larsen with little to replace them, but with the added pressure of an owner who sacks at will. Different problems to us, yes. Similar outcome in the long-run.

West Ham will get out of it, I think. They're really battling and look a bit like Forest did when he first took over from Cooper. Not much in the way of quality, but you can see they're giving it a go and not chucking in the towel. That can be enough when you're up against similarly poor sides who aren't showing the same mettle, as Forest, Palace and Spurs aren't. Leeds will also be fine barring a drop-off; they dominated Forest last week.

They'll catch Forest in the next couple of weeks, I suspect. They've definitely got a bit more about them lately.

Like us, the manager isn't the problem. Like us, the problem is the owner and his right-hand man. Like us, they got carried away by a successful season (longer in our case admittedly) and spent far more money than they should on average players and holding on to players who clearly wanted to leave. Like us, it'll end in tears.

The luckiest club in European football. It'll run out eventually, but it's frustrating until it does. Especially given it's coincided with our collapse.

With their wage bill, they're probably two or three years behind us if they drop.

The only Frank who'd consider us is Frank Spencer. It'll be someone unemployed or someone from League One.

Skubala? Significant local ties.

The thing is that I actually think Hassenhutl would be an accidentally good appointment and an example of falling up.

But worth it for the amount of players it could produce and money it could save on transfer fees. Nelson, Aluko, Page, Silko, Monga, Braybrooke, Alves, Evans and Hutchinson cost not a bean between them.

Managers will look at where they think they'll be at the end of a 3-4 year contract. It doesn't feel like it right now, but most managers would expect Leicester to be higher in the pyramid come 2030 than Blackburn.

100% agree. I actually think this makes us more saleable than the new stand would have been, which would have just left us with a liability that had more empty seats than Jeffrey Epstein's funeral. Seagrave will produce tens of millions of pounds worth of talent regularly who can either form the nucleus of our squads or form saleable assets, which is not something that can yet be said of expanding the ground to 42k.

Going down makes it less likely he sells. We're basically at the '08 Mandaric stage now where we need a decent manager and a couple of successful seasons to rebuild the club's value until it's worth his while selling. If we get to be a top 8 Championship club again with a manageable wage bill, Aiyawatt will have buyers.

ITKs are often saying that it's not that we're skint, but that the then looming points deduction meant we couldn't spend. With that now settled and our finances looking better since the last PSR window, as well as significant wages off the bill, could it be that we actually have money to spend in the summer? It'd make a difference.

Whoever comes will need to be a project manager. Stay up or go down, the team this time next year will have, at best, three or four of those who started in last night's debacle. That might actually be attractive to someone who looks at the current crop and, rightly, thinks they're too shit to save. Get the appalling wage bill down, get some money in for saleable assets, the points deduction done and dusted and some cheap, hungry young players in to replace the Ayew, Daka, Faes et al dross. This is where Hassenhutl would fit. He's developed young players before, has little to no interest in big money signings and has contacts in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 where bargains may actually be found.

If Hassenhutl is strict, wants high energy play and is all in all a bit of a bastard, I'll have him. The first 45 minutes showed what aggressive play before the team turned into a rabble of cucks after the break.

3-4 soon.

Feels like Liverpool at home when we were in danger of relegation, had just sacked Ranieri and everyone hated us for it. Then an excellent performance out of nowhere.

Just put my daughter to bed and we're two up. Not sure if I've accidentally time travelled to 2020.

Sadler and Stowell all over again.