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Ahh for ****s sake I forgot he was Buddhist as well

I was thinking this. He officially signed for them on 2nd July 2024

Same agent as Jesse too

We Will Still finish above you though...

Dean Thornton was retained by Southampton, JTR will leave with Ruud.... interesting to see who that goalkeeping coach will be!

@StriderHiryu can you do your thing when you get a chance? Man plays about 45 different formations depending on which way the wind blows

Our current goalkeeper can't kick a ball and the main one who can is leaving.

I guess the slight issue with this format, if you're in the middle one, is that you can basically throw the towel in as soon as you can't catch the top team

The increasing gap between the Championship and the Prem has meant the top 3/4 often get 90+ points. Sheff Utd had a 2 point deduction this season and finished 3rd and might bow out against Sunderland on Saturday. We're hearing rumours of 6,9,12 points. Lets take 9 or 12 as an example, that would require having the mindset that even winning your fist 5 games might not be enough to not be bottom of the Championship by the time the transfer window closes at the end of August. If you took 12 points of Leeds/Burnley total right now they'd be in the Play Offs and they've had better seasons than we did last time round!

By the way, 100% the PL would have had this ready before Sunday… I’d bet good money we’ve begged them to keep it quiet until today.

They can only advise if they're not as senior as him/susan in the hierachy no? Our last FD was poached by Newcastle....

You've just done me dirty on a teams call!

Scott Parker has done it with Fulham, Bournemouth and Burnley though, not sure many could sniff at that pedigree.... even if he is a boring willy puller

There's teams who have been promoted and relegated who are still managing to be competitive, on the surface they don't appear to have had to shift as many key players as we have either. They've also been faily stable manager wise. Fulham and Bournemouth stand out as never hearing a whisper of PSR breaches. Fulham realised some big recruitment mistakes they'd made when they were yo-yo'ing and changed it. You could throw in those who have struggled to compete too. Southampton can barely string a pass together but you never hear of them getting done by PSR either. Sure it's up and down for them, but structure/recruitment wise you feel they'll stumble across a sellable gem or two. Without fail for the last 3/4 years we are mentioned, that's not the PL/EFL coming after us, that is missmanagement time and time again by people who have been in the job too long. Commercial department that has been here 15 years and can't generate income. Marketing department that have been here 15 year and haven't created an appealing/engaging global brand (all men, no one under 35, no one has been here less than 8 years... and barely a qualification between them all) A glorified PE teacher who has ended up in charge of everything at the club.... somehow. A retail expert CEO who has overseen some of the worst in retail/ecommerce/concourse refreshment income this club has ever seen. Two heads of recruitment in a row who had horrific records with the likes of Leeds, Sunderland, Everton and Southampton. We deserve everything we get. Lets not forget the next chapter in this saga is being investigated for money laundering and illegal advertising.

Sheff Utd got -2. Got shit loads of points, finished 3rd and still might not go up…

Not to mention us changing the accounting period, which now means we probably can’t sack our manager until after pre season starts….

@Phil Mitchell

Interested to see what Enzo does next week. If he sticks with the second team I actually think Betis have a great chance of pipping them to the trophy.

Needs to leave his mate 'and onion' where he is though as we don't need any more stuffings!

To add, Ipswich main issue has been spending £100m and somehow ending up with two of the worst goalkeepers the Premier League has ever seen.

Nigel Pearson spent 3 years fixing Mark Ashtons trasnfer mess at Bristol City.... I imagine someone will have to do something similar with Ipswich once McKenna leaves. Only saving grace might be that he's accidentally built a very good Championship side. Ashton is 'sign everyone and hope for the best' always has been. Ipswich might end up worse off because he's mates with the owner and might be harder to shift!

All good points, I just can't stand him, particularly his laughy jokey defending a rapist stance. Also as a manager I dont think he creates an environment for his players to strive to be better, constantly rolling out "we're the best, no one has been better" etc etc when the tables/results show exact opposite?

Johansen is a good blueprint for this.

If Arsenal had any sence they'd sack of thunderbird willy puller and get Iraola in.

It was more a reference next to his name as the Kirkez one is undecided whereas his is very much a done deal But yes they've done well, could easily get £80m for the two before even thinking about Semenyo.