orangecity23

Horrible news. Seemed like such a nice guy, 39 is no age at all. Still remember his debut vs Man City in the cup, and how he bagged that goal to immediately win us all over. RIP.

Exactly. I was glad to see us give them a taste of their own medicine for a change. Too many times under Rodgers, we would just sit there with a bemused look on our faces while McgInn basically reffed the game himself with his antics.

Villa fans online seem to be very upset about us being "dirty" or "diving" - yet they all seem to love John McGinn, Ollie Watkins and Emi Martinez. Aren't they aware their entire team is full of shithouses, and they play shithouse cheating tactics all the time? Or is it only upsetting when someone else does it back to them for a change?

You can really see how he managed to have such an appalling away record at Forest. He clearly has no confidence in his ability to set up a team to attack, score goals or keep posession. This mindset of trying to keep things tight is throwing the game away every week. If we posed some threat from the start, there a chance we coud take a lead and defend it, to counter attack against opponents chasing the game. Having Mavididi starting would also have an effect of preventing opposition fullbacks coming forward as much. as they have to keep an eye out for pace on the counter. We've had 4 competitve games now, 3 at home, and not one of them has had us have a go in the first half. Even against Tranmere, we started 3 defensive midfielders. If you have no appetite to attack when you are against a League 2 team at home, then you will never do it.

So Palace have an interest in Iversen, we just sent them 5 million for Ayew and are back in trying to loan Edouard from them, and we still couldn't sort out a deal to get him there? How can we be that bad at negotiating, it boggles the mind.

Rudkin applying the Major Major office visitation policy from Catch-22.

I enjoyed the post game analysis video, thought it was very helpful. I missed the game entirely, so being able to get an in depth idea to how things played out was interesting, especially as the highlights and analysis on Match of the Day etc tend to be so minimal, and most of the pro media stuff tends to spend the bulk of its time slurping the big 6 and ignoring everything else.

Wanya Marcal needs a loan too, you'd think there would have been some interest, he got a few games spotlight last season, scored a goal vs Cardiff and played well against Bournemouth in the cup. Surely there must be someone at Championship or League 1 level who coud do with a winger like that on loan. Signed a new contract last season too, so since he seems nowhere near the first team, needs to be out and playing some games to avoid stagnation.

When Rudkin phones them up for the next bid, he should kick off the call with a classic "Suprise, we are back, Mathfackers"

RIP Sven, sad to see a true gentleman of the game gone.

Only 1 CD in Steve's collection:

We have no strikers fit, too many centre backs - sod it, stick Wout up front. He's already matched 3 of Jordan Ayew's Premier League seasons for goalscoring.

So if that's a two year deal at 5 + 3 million add ons - does that mean 2.5 million of amortisation this year, but (potentially) 5.5 million on next years budget? Ouch. Thats the equivalent of a 22 million quid signing on a 4 year deal. Anyway, nothing we can do about it now. Hope he does well for us, at least its a versatile player for the bench if nothing else.

Spend all day on deadline day on a dud, then it falls through at 11pm leaving us without even the dud.

You can feel it coming, can't you? 33 million on Skipp and Ayew committed, "hopeful of getting 2" more attacking players. Next week it becomes "hopeful of 2 more, might need some departures". Deadline day "Hoping for a loan, as soon as a couple go out on loan". Then run out of time, whoops, never mind, at least we've got Ayew in. that'll sort us out until January, surely we'll sell Soumare then, the last 4 times we tried didn't work but we've got a good feeling this time.

That's the beauty of signing Ayew. Doesn't score any goals, so no chance of putting anyone off

Still scored 2 goals in his time here. Which, according to Wiki, means he managed to match what Ayew managed when he was in the Championship with Villa. Yunus also had a pretty good game against Bournemouth in the cup, so there's a slim chance that if he played a game or 2 against Prem teams this season he might manage to scuff 1 goal in. Which would be enough to match the achievements of Jordan Ayew, who has achieved a one goal prem season on 3 seperate occasions. EDIT: A big part of the reason he couldn't get a game was because we were trying to avoid triggering the obligation to sign him, because we are right up against the wall financially with PSR problems. Which is another reason why we shouldn't be spending 8 million chuffing pounds on a 33 year old striker with awful stats and no resale value.

Based on Wikipedia Goals per Appearance on their LCFC runs vs Ayew at Palace: Shinji = 0.1386 Goals per game Albrighton = 0.0607 goals per game Tete = 0.07 Goals per Game Ayew at Palace = 0.108 Goals per Game - somewhat skewed by a 9 goal season at the beginning of his time there. Look at his stats since 2020/21 season, you get: Ayew 20/21 to now: 0.08 Goals per Game So Ayew is considerably worse than Shinji, barely better than Albrighton (who never had the chance to play as a Striker like Ayew did), about the same as Tete, and, to put it all together, he costs more than all 3 of them combined AND all 3 of them came to Leicester in their 20s, and weren't 33 years old signing a (probable) 3 year deal with zero resale value. I've got no problem with BDCR on a free, sure, hard working, free transfer, no problem. Up to 8 million on a 33 year old is stupid though. We could have had Yunus for less than that, and if the only pros are occasional goal and hard work, he did do both of those things, and would have had some resale value. Could have given him a 4 year deal, so would have been less of a hit on the amortisation as well.

14 appearances for Tete and 1 goal - that's a strike rate about what Jordan Ayew manages in a "good" season

izzett and Elliott both scored goals in the promotion season that was the first at the KP, so if some of those goals were at home they count too. Looking at the History section, I think there's a fair chance Scowcroft is on there too. Tricky Trev got one goal in his first season, so if that was a Filbo goal he's an outside bet too.

Having just finished listening to the latest Who Are You - I'd say that wasn't the equivalent of the Nugent England goal - I felt it was a bit more like this

Interestingly, Spurs fans at the game were chanting about hating Sol Campbell. Must have left them over 20 years ago and they haven't let that go

I think that's just Chris Kavanagh doing his usual Chris Kavanagh things.

Greek stiker Fotis I-a-no-needthiskindoftrouble closing in on deal to complete the acquisition of one shitty stick. Said to be delighted with the purchase, and the ability it will grant him to not touch Leicester City with it. Shitty stick is in high demand though, and top players over Europe are all keen to make a deal for it, in the hopes of keeping Jon Rudkin as far away as humanly possible.

Winning scorer for Southampton has a surname that sounds like the noise your Da makes when sneezing.