DJ Barry Hammond

Scrabble traditionalists are shaking their heads at these comments. (Originally nouns were not allowed)

It’s on their list - so you should be sorted.

The one I gave you last time should work - they’re pretty good.

Can I just check, is that “boooooooooooooo” or “Woooooooooout?”

I don’t think he’s physically matured enough yet. His time will come but maybe not right away.

He’s unhappy with the foundations.

Looks like he’s going to QPR.

That and he didn’t make the bench!

Are we? King, Chilwell, Barnes, KDH, Thomas, Hamza, Heskey(!), Piper, Jakub, Scottish Cup winner Conrad Logan!

Easy to say in hindsight, but everyone on these boards was encouraging the club to take the gamble at the time and dreaming of permanently challenging the traditional status quo. Ultimately, I think whatever was done (take the risk and try and keep the band together while adding a new bass player or appreciate your one hit wonder and accept that your lead singer and guitarist are going and you’ll go back to playing the local clubs like you used to) a similar sort of fall out that we have now would have happened.

That pass is a Vestagaard speciality, hence Enzo liking him when he was here… and it looks like Marti’s drawn the same opinion.

I don’t think that’s correct - Maresca liked the direct ball into the front man too.

The other plausible scenario that would also prompt a reduction in spending is King Power working towards an exit from the club. You keep finding debt, it just increases your equity conversion.

I think football culture overall needs to get out of this reactive ‘heaven and hell’ rating of players performances. And it should be noted “Boooing” the players you dislike creates the sort of atmosphere that makes the players you do actually like think twice about whether they want to continue playing for the club.

Reality is, if the fans want King Power out, as they have been so vocal on, that logically means reduced spending and working towards break even rather than underpinning ‘allowable losses.’ Perhaps King Power are doing the ground work towards an exit?

Another potential factor is perhaps they were able to give him better assurances over game time. I reckon QPR will be a good move for him.

The other thing is even if you do sign someone, you’ve got to get them in, settled, become part of the group and they don’t have 6-8 weeks worth of Marti coaching them how he wants them to play. That’s not to say we don’t get someone in if we think they’ll work… but certainly in midfield I’d want to see someone come in before anyone went out.

This is the key part that’s missing from the pieces of Marti’s puzzle. Present a significant arial threat in the box and defences then have to defend against the cross - stretching a defence and giving you more gaps in and around the penalty area for your clever players like Bilal who can find pockets of space. Ayew did the other bit of receiving from back to front and laying off to start moves well enough - but he’s never going to be a significant box threat against 2/3 centrehalfs.

They were clearly “boooos.” The ‘collective’ opinion on him in here helps identify that.

I accused you of hyperbole not delusion @Dames

Delusion and hyperbole.

That’ll be because they have a 19 year old Portuguese forward called… Bruno Fernandes. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/bruno-fernandes/leistungsdaten/spieler/1099501

Has no-one spotted a couple of impressive things from today? 1.) Set-pieces (Ayew aside) These were decent today. More than decent, we scored from two and created chances from others. 2.) We were getting players in the box when we got the ball wide - 3’s and 4’s waiting for the ball in - and quite often that included one of our fullbacks. As a base to build a season on these are good signs.

And there’s a cup game on Tuesday! Some people 😣

It’s not through balls really - it’s the pass that cuts out the midfield into the front man that takes the oppositions press/midfield out of the game. He’s so good at it - and it changes the tempo of our play because we bypass the midfield pivots.