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Graham Potter successfully managed Brighton for several seasons in the PL - they were in the top four when he left. Martin's one attempt at managing in the PL was an unmitigated disaster. They are not remotely comparable.

Why anybody would pay £15 for NOW TV given the quality of streams available is beyond me.

There were deep-rooted problems at the club the last time we got relegated. However, we used the in-built advantage that newly-relegated clubs have effectively, just as Burnley and Sheff Utd are doing this season. For a club of our size, building a squad for promotion is much easier than building one for PL survival. Our summer transfer window was actually pretty good in 2023 because we had the resources to do what we needed to do. We have fewer sellable assets this time but we also likely have a smaller wage bill. If we’re reasonably smart in the transfer market, we will be in the top six next season, and possibly competing for the title. If we recruit a decent DoF and manager, our chances will improve even further.

Cooper was a poor appointment but there was at least some logic in it - he did succeed in keeping Forest up and his stock was stock was still high when he left. Martin was taking Southampton back down in spectacular fashion and has shredded his reputation with his ludicrous obstinacy over tactics, etc. The two situations are not comparable. Besides, if your logic is that the club will appoint Martin because it appointed Cooper, you’re assuming that the board will have learned nothing at all from this season’s farce. While I understand why people might be this cynical, I respectfully disagree. This relegation will inflict further damage on the KP brand and they will want to make sure it doesn’t happen again. They won’t appoint Martin.

It won’t be Russell Martin. The club’s objective will be to return to the PL as soon as possible and stay there this time. Although Martin succeeded in getting promoted with Southampton, his record before he was sacked this season was atrocious. His stubborn refusal to change a system that was comprehensively failing every week suggests he would have zero ability to keep us in the PL if even if he got us there. I can only assume that people suggesting Martin will be our next manager believe that the club will ignore/overlook his spectacular failure with Southampton this season. They won’t. For the first time since KP took over, the club is facing the prospect of a material fall in attendances. Appointing Martin would be a wildly unpopular move at a time when the club desperately needs to convince the fans that things are going to change for the better. It would be a suicidal appointment. It’s not going to happen.

“Muuuuuum, can I sell Leicester?” ”No you can’t! And clean your room before you come down - it looks like a bloody pig sty…”

Not his brand of it, judging from how utterly abysmal Everton were under him.

Not even in jest, mate. Not even in jest 😳

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He doesn’t have any kind of relegation clause.

He’s not going anywhere - his injury has seen to that.

The only one of our better players likely to be sold will be Hermansen. Stolarczyk is ready to slot in. Yes, we need a new striker and a couple of CBs, etc, but overall we already have the basis of a very strong team, .

Literally no point in trying to appoint a new manager now, for the reasons you cite. Very few quality candidates available.

There were certainly plenty of posters predicting we’d either be going straight down to League One or end up ‘mid table at best’ in the Championship. Those of us predicting a swift return to the PL were accused of being deluded. There is a massive gap between the PL and the Championship. This makes it difficult for promoted teams to stay up but it also gives relegated teams an advantage when they go down. Our first 11 next year will be very strong by Championship standards. That doesn’t mean we’ll walk it, but we will be up there. These predictions that we’re in some inexorable death spiral towards the lower divisions are just catastrophizing arising (quite understandably) from depression about our current state.

Highly unlikely Bilal goes.

Two things can be true at the same time. It is definitely true that we have inflicted significant damage upon ourselves by veering away from a model that worked. It is also true that PSR is a crooked fiddle designed to reinforce the status quo and make it very difficult for clubs like ourselves to compete.

For the second consecutive season the three promoted sides are going to be relegated. This suggests that the PL’s crackdown on PSR is beginning to bite.

Our first eleven next season will be comfortably stronger than the large majority of the other teams in the division. We’ll be competing at the top of the table and be there or thereabouts at the end of the season.

The newly-promoted clubs might.

Yay!! The day of the match has arrived - the waiting is finally over, lads!

Interviews with footballers invariably are like this. It’s weird that people are getting so wound up about this one when it’s no different from the rest.

And he would get slaughtered if he said that.

Appointing Cooper in the first place was equally stupid.

We still play at the KP. We still wear blue shirts. Vardy still plays for us. The parallels are uncanny to the point of supernatural 😳