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It would be a very odd thing to make up entirely. It’s far too specific. It’s probably based in truth, but has been significantly exaggerated and/or presented without important context. This has probably been explained to Percy and he‘s accepted it, hence its removal from the article.

Oh FFS are people actually repeating indykaila bollocks? 😂

From the inside of somebody’s head.

Ange might actually have something to smile about in his post-match interview. I wouldn’t usually count a happy opposition manager as a positive, but i’ve been a bit worried about the bloke lately…😳

It would save us a lot of time in the future if the board just went to the players and asked them if there are any managers out there who they actually WOULD play for. If the answer is that there are none, we can save ourselves a few bob and just let the players decide among themselves how much training they want to do and by how many goals they want to lose each week.

The Sun reported that RvN is unhappy at the lack of transfer activity. Sean from Enderby took this one step further and claimed that RvN is close to quitting. Then several posters on here decided to take it another step further and claim he’s already walked out. Chinese whispers, nothing more. RvN will take the press conference tomorrow and will be in charge on Sunday.

Oh believe me, we can indeed get worse. 😂 The difference between Edouard and those other players you mention is that RvN has very few options in defence. Justin has only been playing because Ricardo is injured and until this week RvN didn’t have another RB to choose from. Now Coulibaly has arrived, I expect Justin to make way. Edouard was only recruited because Daka was injured and we needed a back-up striker. In the event it didn’t take Cooper to realise that he’s absolutely honking and shouldn’t be anywhere near the first team - a judgment that RvN clearly concurs with. Now that Daka is fit again, as poor as he is, Edouard’s position in the squad is completely redundant.

I’m not missing the point. RvN and the coaching staff have seen Edouard at close quarters on the training ground. If he was capable of improving the team, he would be playing. The fact that he’s not even in the squad tells us he must be utterly appalling - and indeed he looked exactly that in his few cameo appearances for us. If your idea of ‘trying something different’ is to play somebody who will make us even worse than we already are, then I’m just glad it’s not you making these decisions.

Well that just shows how bad Edouard must be if he can't get a look in with those players around...

Presumably he's really shit and RvN doesn't want him anywhere near the pitch.

There was no press conference scheduled for today. It was always going to be tomorrow. Ruud will very likely take it as usual.

It's tomorrow.

Strong rumours that he won’t be taking the press conference today 😉

The club chose Enzo because he likes to play a certain way. Then he left and we went with Cooper (apparently against Top's better judgment), whose teams play in a very different way. That didn't work so we went back to an Enzo-style appointment in RVN because his style of play would be more suited to the squad. Now that isn't working, will the club to pivot back to a manager who has more in common with Cooper than Maresca? I just can't see Top going for it. And I suspect Dyche would probably steer clear of our shit show anyway...

The only manager regarded by the bookies as more likely to next leave his job is Postecoglou. Thankfully for Ange we'll arrive on Sunday with a bottle of smelling salts and an adrenaline shot to give his Spurs career a temporary boost before he inevitably gets sacked in a few weeks' time...

The tabloids post more BS stories than the broadsheets, but they also get far more genuine scoops. As Eskay says, it's because they tend to go earlier with stuff they've heard. The problem is, there's no way of telling a BS story from a scoop when they're first published...

The question about whether we're likely to get hit with PSR next season was stupid. That is beyond our control and will either happen or it won't. It's not really an 'opinion' type of question. 14% believe we'll stay up this season?! I need some of the juice they're chugging hooked up to my veins...

Accidental post.

It’s also about what kind of owner he’s capable of being. Leadership isn’t just a matter of will - if it isn’t in you, there’s not much you can do. The fundamental problem we have - as I see it anyway - is that we’ve retained a highly centralised, secretive leadership structure in which all decisions are made by a very small group of people but haven’t bothered to recruit the best people for those roles. A concentrated decision-making structure can work if at least one of those making the decisions has the vision, business acumen, ruthlessness and energy to succeed. We had that with Vichai and reaped the benefits. Since his tragic passing, we’ve retained the same structure but no longer have anybody with the leadership skills and force of personality to make it work. Without Vichai as a driving force, our recruitment has disintegrated into a complete mess, apathy has infected the squad and a stench of decay lingers over the club. While this has been happening, other clubs have worked hard on becoming more professional by recruiting teams of talented, experienced people to lead them - and have overtaken us in the process. Our refusal to change the way we operate and get more talented people in has meant we have stagnated while others are moving forward. I’d love to say that Top will realise all of this soon and do what is necessary, but I’m not convinced he will.

Allowing Schmeichel to leave and not replacing him must be the most criminally negligent decision ever taken by anybody associated with our club (and Lord knows there is some stiff competition for that honour). But keeping him would not have single-handedly solved all of the deep-rooted cultural issues at the club, nor would it have saved us from a PSR charge and likely points deduction last season. We may have avoided relegation, but I’m not convinced we’d be in a radically better position as a club now because our problems go way beyond the decision to let Schmeichel go, however incomprehensible that was.

It reminds me of Pulp Fiction: "The path of the righteous fan is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of incompetent directors of football..."

We are absolutely desperate for a quality DM.

Well that's a daft assumption, if that's the case. The transfer embargo was imposed because the EFL suspected we might breach for 2021-24, but we've just been cleared for that period so that justification no longer exists. They can't impose a transfer embargo for no reason. They might seek to go after us for the 20-23 period but it's very unclear whether they'll be able to do so. Any attempt by them to punish us for that period would, you imagine, be rigorously challenged by our lawyers.

We didn't vote for it.

One of the best. There's nothing like a dose of genuine anger to provide a bit of bite. We all need a bit of catharsis at times like this, and that episode provided it. Sadly I agree with Jake (at least I think It was him) when he said that the club's response to the protest is very unlikely to be a positive one. There is nothing in the way they've treated fans over the past few years to suggest they'll listen or make changes. More likely they'll double-down on their current approach while privately complaining bitterly about what snivelling little ingrates we all are. I hope I'm wrong.