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Book of condolence outsde the shop toinght for anyone wanting to pay respects

Didn't we replace the finance director a year ago? Has his replacement left too?

If you take away the match winning displays from Abdul and co last season he's our most consistent performer across the season, an absolute class above. The trouble with new managers is that everyone starts from scratch. Even if he doesn't start, Cooper will soon realise his value.

But she's not, she's the CEO. The money person is the Finance Director. There's also a General Counsel, Strategy Director and Operations Director. The finances, strategy and football advice have been shit for the last 3 years at least. To a man, they should all quit if our charges are upheld. They're all culpable in some way.

He's on 5 Live Premier Sunday and he's being pretty candid about Maresca. Paraphrasing..... "Always distant from the players, him and his staff were always sat at different tables to eat, we'd always had coaches like Sadler and Shakey that were a link to the management, Maresca never had that. The talk with him was always football, never about family or other stuff." " I knew when he went into Chelsea that Ben Chilwell would be moving on, he's not a Maresca type of player, he had the same issue with James Justin not being capable of that inverted role" He's also said he's enjoyed no pre-season and hasn't made a decision about where he's going to next.

When Ndidi gets his first 6 week injury of the season in September and Hamza's doing his headless chicken impression tell me we don't need him and doesnt improve us. Missing out on other signings makes no difference to this one.

Make no signings - moan Sign players - moan Ndidi is injury prone, Hamza isnt PL level. We need somebody to do the donkey work in there.

No he was the main boy for McGhee, came in during the summer following relegation, Scott Taylor too IIRC. Corica was one of the ones who had a big fall out with MON and Robbo and he barely played when they came in.

TBF I'm still not convinced Postecoglu will work out for them. They fell away badly in the second half and a lot of those Spurs fans happy will Angeball in August suddenly got tired of conceding silly goals. That said, Son and Johnson could have the night of their lives against our full backs.

The reactions to Cooper remind me a bit of 1996. We'd been playing pretty football under an upcoming manager who jumped ship and was replaced with an ex-Forest guy who many branded clueless. We had Corica playing out of his skin, he was binned off and replaced by a reserve from Chelsea. Things turned out okay IIRC. I'll wait to see a few games before I decide if the Cannon decision is a wrong'un.

Then you do what Chelsea and Villa and Everton have been doing and be clever with your business. If it's a PSR issue then sell an extra youth player. Even if that only raises a few million it's money you didn't have before. Get better sponsorship deals, get better scouting networks, get some loans, some frees and get back to the old model. These are things that top level DOFs do. Ours isn't top level, he's never been approached by another club never been held in the same regard as the Ashworths and Barbers. The likes of Bournemouth, Brighton, Brentford and Fulham are moving their clubs forward with smart dealings on and off the pitch. We're being held back by a guy who is out of his depth and the owner he's accountable to being too weak to fire his Mr Smithers.

Worst in our history is a ridiculous idea, selective memory or recency bias right there. But a lack of positivity for sure, very little to give you hope.

There's been loads of anti-KP threads, 3 or 4 at a time at one point, plenty of discussion in other threads too. The last one about them selling up was started based on a twitter rumour that's been mentioned elsewhere too. Like people say it's Mark's forum he can do what he likes with the place but sometimes it's just housekeeping. All forums on all subjects with decent mods do the same. I'm actually surprised it doesn't happen with more threads given the amount of times new threads are started repeating something that's already been debated to death elsewhere.

A month ago I wasn't panicking. Now I'm panicking. The Jan window is being repeated, old mistakes are being repeated. It's a shit show, no other word for it. We're a horrendously run, circus of a club at boardroom and mid-management level.

"Within touching distance" I'll bet it is. If they ask for £5m we'll probably pay it. Joke.

Pin the tactics on Cooper. But the recruitment and signings are the people above. I can only imagine his reaction when he asked for creativity and they said "we can scramble some coins together for Jordan Ayew"

Just stick it in the general Jamie Vardy thread

Not sure that a) it needed another thread or b) that givemesport should ever be taken seriously as a credible source for football news

The one thing you don't get in the PL is time and if there's a player in the side capable of a snap shot or hitting it on the turn it's Cannon. He's by no no means the finished article but Daka's had 3 seasons. The odd decent finish aside he's been awful. There's zero point going into season four hoping he'll suddenly become clinical. Rather give Cannon a few games to do something and get game time, loaning him out wastes his potential.

Only if you have Fatwah out wide. 50 games and the old boy behind me still couldn't get it right.

Another thread worthy of being AFTV, even being ironic it's not funny .

Birthday shout outs Happy 3rd birthday to the Stadium Expansion. Uncle Jon and Daddy Top love you very much. https://www.lcfc.com/stadiumconsultation?fbclid=IwY2xjawEmmuBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZa9EAhdMa4X1rzF7jMzzV4HIdP4ize65bdPaJxlGCkxBdp8F00oSmtyHQ_aem_GXgqxN1VeEv3FY4KGuPf_Q&lang=en

Remember when we used to moan about no wingers?

Nobody has a clue how much we have or haven't got to spend. 6 months ago we were under embargoes and are still at huge risk of deductions because of our abysmal accounting and nothing has changed since those charges.

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