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because Russel Martin is incoming, we are going to start selling a few tarts.

rolling contract would be nice!

Well, his reputation is at an all time low, and it would be some sort of achievement to get us back up and heading in the right direction again, as he will claim so many managers have tried and failed. if he gets a good offer from a high championship team, he’ll take that if he’s got a workable budget.:

just for clarification, I was saying he has an offer from us, and his agent has released this info about other offers so he can get better terms from us.

I would love this to be the case. I’m sure our owners have told some porkies to previous managers over finances available so more fool him if he falls for this one…

yes- this is similar to what I said… he’s got an offer on the table and he wants more

So I’m sure the ‘ advanced negotiations’ info along with the ‘ has other options’ has come from his side. In other words, we are negotiating and he wants to rinse us for every penny he can. Players do it so I suppose we can’t complain..

He’s had a very good career in the championship

My concern about taking so long to appoint a manager is that we will have a similar situation.. we will have the usual gang making the transfers and the manager will have to work with the players we have in place and he won’t be able to get his own players in.same old same old, in other words..

Jay Stansfield in 2024 for £20m Edit. My bad, that was purchased by a league 1 club

leave the skill to the wingers and AM. They’ll do the creating. But what they don’t do is be the ones who get stuck in

im not saying he will play differently im saying the division we are in will be different and more suited to him.

I actually disagree with this. I think he’s going to be exactly what we need in division1. It’s different gravy down there.. teams are going to try and kick us off the park and out muscle us, and we are going to need people who can give it back. Forget about skill and technical ability, the forwards are big lumps, the defenders have more teeth than IQ and if we think we are going to be able to play our way out of the division, we are going to be mistaken. We will have to out muscle, out work and out tackle the opposition. Those might be his only skills, but that’s exactly what we need in division1

‘ for a few years’ id disagree with that. I think Arsenal have shown they are not afraid to have young talent in and around the first team. Chelsea also have a very young team. I don’t think anyone is expecting him to go there and nail down the left wing from day one, though. let’s look at Nyoni. Liverpool signed him from us is September 23 and he started getting first team games March 24. Monga will have a fine career at Arsenal.

I actually think getting away from a toxic environment, being around players who are as good as and in fact better than him, can only be good for his career, and people are absolutely kidding themselves if they think otherwise. He might go out on loan, but he might not. If you’re in and around the first team at Arsenal, you won’t go far..

One of the most difficult things of being a British person in American is that absolutely no one I know, including my American wife is remotely interested in the World Cup. I’ll be watching on my tablet in some coffee shop somewhere with frowns for showing the slightest emotion. Still plenty of oooooooh! s and goooowooon! s, though . Can’t wait!

if we’d have maintained our position, he wouldn’t have played the games he had played for us so far to show the potential he has. Bit of a catch 22 situation, unfortunately.

it does. But top is the sought to waste time and money perusing the deal anyway..

did you see the post I made yesterday about Top and hid delusional think and waiting his time on stuff? It was about that, not me

This would give us the money to make an offer for JJ. Not that he would join us now. But I’m sure we will invest the time trying..Few bigger teams than us with serious interest in him, according to online reports- Atalanta and a Spanish team plus several championship teams..

I actually don’t think it’s a lack of action… I think it’s too much delusional thinking and a lack of realism. I think they spend too long chasing unrealistic targets. If it’s true that Top was contacting Maresca and sounding him out about returning… if he even spent a second following that thought then that’s true David Brent management. Tough choice, but Maresca chose Manchester City instead of us…

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We really don’t need to keep him another season. He’ll end up like that really intelligent kid at school who ended up getting into trouble because they were so bored.