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Definitely not true at Everton last season. Look what Moyes did with the same players!

With the squad we have and specifically the type of youth players we have and the whole style of play our youth are developed in from when they first join the club, Sean Dyche is absolutely not the perfect fit. A short term solution that will end in tears as it always has in his management career.

Seagrave today…

I guess there’s no risk with Dyche. He’s absolutely guaranteed to get the sack.

It’s time to bring the ginger Prince back. #MEGGO

Seagrave has played a massive positive part in the development of the best set of youth players we’ve ever had. It’s not the problem. Driving through the saff to a dated, cramped training facility wouldn’t have changed anything. Out failures are down to poor decisions at the top since the tragic death of Vichai, our downturn was because of this and the subsequent mismanagement that has resulted in overpaying wages and reducing player sale opportunities, buying too many poor players, selecting too many poor managers or keeping failed managers on for too long and not having any progression planning when we have had periods of success. Ultimately these failures have pushed us over a PSR threshold that has crippled us. The problem is not a fabulous training facility.

Why is Seagrave being blamed? Out downturn coinciding with the tragic loss of Vichai has everything to do with the management of the club Top down, nothing to do with state of the art training facilities.

other than the development of Monga, Evans, Nelson, Alves etc etc…….Anyone keen to see quality developing youth should be lauding Seagrave and the quality of young players being developed at all age groups.

Seagrave is state of the art, it has all the facilities to maximise the fitness of a player. If fitness is an issue then that’s down to player training and conditioning and is a management issue. Not sure there’s actual any evidence that shows LCFC players are not as fit as opponents. Players can be perfectly fit but demotivated by their own circumstances, their leader and the form of the team.

There’s absolutely no reason why a state of the art training ground should create injury and mentality issues. I’d argue that our major injuries have not occurred at Seagrave and are no worse in comparison than with other clubs, it just feels like it is because it’s our club. As for mentality, that’s everything to do with the transfer policy and the manager in charge. A good transfer policy analyses what a player is like off the pitch, a good people manager minimises issues and moves on those with the wrong mentality. Thats nothing to do with Seagrave. Seagrave is a fantastic facility that is bearing fruit with players like Monga, Evans and Alves.

A well managed club would thrive with a facility like that. Even in our state we’ve started producing top quality youth through it.

Absolutely not. Why would you want to give Notts Forest a facility like that? That would make me 🤮

Being professional is the basic requirement of any person employed to do a job tbf. Dyche wasn’t very effective in his last job at Everton. Moyes utilised the same squad job to be miles better than they were under Dyche.

With no big lump up front, no hard men at the back and with a squad and youth system built around a possession game and players that absolutely don’t fit Dyche’s system, it makes absolutely NO sense to give him the job…. ……So he’ll get the job 🥴

You’ve missed Cooper AND RVN’s fave winger BDCR. If Ruud is still here, he’ll be top of that list. 😢

Whilst I’ll certainly agree that Greenwood is a distinctly underwhelming potential signing, I’d still rather have him than Patson Daka.

Cooper didn’t trust Mavididi and he didn’t trust Fatawu. His preference for BDCR was a massive red flag alongside his treatment of Ricardo. The fact that RVN carried that on AND discarded Buonanotte would suggest that both managers didn’t have the ability to manage players that had a bit of flair and perhaps challenged their manager a bit more off the pitch?

Couldn’t disagree more. Played out of position Lookman was quality. The fault lay with Rodgers who failed to see the talent he had and wasted the available £15m on the panic buy of Vestergaard instead.

We need to try and avoid the merry go round of appointing rinse and repeat failures and that includes recently sacked Dyche, Carrick etc. These aren’t guys who have been unlucky with their sackings, these are guys with recent and long term poor form that can’t be blamed on anyone else. Why will being in charge of Leicester be any different for them?

Purely for the signing of Danny Ward, he should be treated like the defeated Napoleon and exiled to spend the rest of his days on the remote island of St Helena. That’s without even considering what historic French themed punishment he could receive for the signing of bad Mahrez lookalike Ghezzal.

To fill the void the most recent ‘When You’re Smiling’ podcast (admitting they didn’t know what was going on) just gave Matty Fryatt the mic and let him loose with his meandering prose without a pause for almost 20 mins. I ‘surfed’ the full anecdote to its exhausting and fruitless end. Quite a feat.

Hope not. He’s not going to enhance the careers of players like Alves, Monga etc with his style of play. I’m not even sure footballing centre backs like Nelson are what he likes. He generally prefers lumps like Tarkowski.

The only way they’ve been able to shift Turner is this strange game that’s going on between Marinakis and his friend at OL - Textor. Buying these Forest rejects at an inflated price is probably payment for the complaint letter from Forest to UEFA that forces Palace owners to buy Textor out of the shares that he’s been very keen (but unable) to offload for a while. Now Europe is threatened he’ll more likely get the shares sold to the other Palace owners and at a price that he’s happier with.

Are you saying the team he came from were donkeys too? His goal and assist stats weren’t great there either.

For all the great qualities ELK has, he’s absolutely no replacement for Mbuemo. Goals and assists are just not comparable.