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The Championship is either littered with Championship experienced managers or up-and-comers. We’ll probably divert to one of those ways again. Rosenior strikes the perfect balance of having Championship experience, but is also an up-and-comer when it comes to management. Those currently out of work with Championship experience are just so uninspiring, going after someone like Rosenior, Röhl, Manning, Cleverley, would be a little more uplifting. You can either go the assistant route again like we did with Maresca. Supposedly we had interest in Davide Ancelotti in the summer, while Carlos Cuesta(Arsenal), Johnny Heitinga(Liverpool) and Rene Maric(Bayern Munich) have all been linked to Championship clubs in the past year. Going down the overseas route like some Championship clubs have, those out of work atm you’re probably looking at a pool of Philippe Clement, Brian Priske, Mark Van Bommel, Bo Svensson. The thought of Clement scares me as much as the thought of Russell Martin, but I think someone like Brian Priske would be a solid option. Those in work, I’m quite surprised Kjetil Knutsen and Henrik Rydstrom haven’t moved clubs yet, but age wise they certainly don’t come in the up-and-coming bracket. An obscure name of Adrian Siemieniec at Jagiellonia Bialystok in Poland intrigues me, he has done a phenomenal job, but he is probably too obscure for Leicester City.

Draw released for World Championship Qualifiers, few spots still to be filled depending on Wu Yize’s progression in the Tour Championship. Louis Heathcote and Joe O’Connor pitted in the same section together alongside Jackson Page, evil section that. Kaylan Patel from Leicester earned a spot in qualifying by finishing runner-up at the WSF Junior Championship, he takes on Chinese talent Gong Chenzhi in R1. https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/gc-media-assets-v2.gc.wstservices.co.uk/c4bb4970-0b46-11f0-a7df-bf7d755fa910.pdf

I was pro Cooper for that specific reason soon became apparent that he preferred OAPs If Rosenior came and did the same, I’d be making a Rosenior Out thread in pre season.

Strasbourg have the youngest squad in Ligue 1, if that’s one of Rosenior’s key focuses, then I’d have him here in a heartbeat.

Think we’ll be inevitably stuck with a few senior players whether we like it or not, can see the likes of Vestergaard, Coady, Winks, Reid and Ayew all sticking around. But if we can get the likes of Faes, Kristiansen, Daka and Soumare out the door, it will be a start I suppose. Keeping at least one of Hermansen, El Khannouss, Fatawu will also be extremely important. And hopefully Nelson and Alves in particular get consistent game time.

Watched Raducanu’s match against Pegula last night, high quality match throughout, best I’ve seen Raducanu play for a good while. The way she was aggressive and dictating points especially in the second set, was the standard she was producing which led her to the US Open. Conditioning was the only thing that let her down again though, she really needs to work on it.

Rather we delved into the Premier League loan market like we did with Doyle, or target someone like Sampson Dweh who we’ve supposedly been scouting.

Keep an eye on Noah Markmann too, also coming through at Nordsjaelland 👍🏻

That final was a bit tense. Would love to see a Kyren vs Judd World Championship final.

Continues to impress, could be available for £5-6 million, but some Bundesliga big boys might be sniffing around. Received his first Germany U21 call up for the current international break.

Remarkable achievement from Michal Szubarczyk, he won the EBSA U16 and U18 events, now has just earned himself a tour card by reaching the final of the Mens event.

Is it acceptable to say that Kyren Wilson has become good to watch Speeding up his game has done wonders for him. That break of 134 in the decider was one of the best breaks I’ve seen this season.

If Spurs are willing to loan him out for next season…

Different strokes for different folks mate. 100 passes between centre backs and Harry Winks having 100 touches a game isn’t entertaining football imo. Give me an Iraola, high intensity type any day over a controlled possession type manager.

From a football philosophy standpoint, no I wouldn’t. I’d rather we moved away from a possession based style.

Continuity is the perfect word. Maresca’s departure clearly threw a spanner in the works, but we simply didn’t build on what he left. We’ve seen this season what can happen when you veer off course. If Potter didn’t want the job, fair enough, but you then target someone with a similar profile. Cooper being on the list in the first place, as you say, shows zero planning and identity. Just when we started to get back on a positive track with Maresca, yet more mistakes have set us back again, I sincerely hope they don’t actually set us back years, because we’ll quickly turn into another Norwich/Watford.

We dropped the ball, simple as that. Recruitment team often get stick, but our recruitment in the Championship last season was pretty solid. Going into the Premier League for any newly promoted club, I feel it’s extremely important to build a solid spine. We needed a Premier League quality CB, CM & ST, we didn’t get any. Cooper’s obsession with wanting Premier League experience has partly fvcked us over. Wanting a certain profile of player mixed in with what Maresca wanted is a terrible mixture. Some of the crap we’re lumbered with will probably stay with us in the Championship next season, a depressing thought. We have wasted a season due to an incompetent managerial appointment and recruitment. Criminal.

Give me some of this in front of The Kop.

Agreed, especially as there’s numerous avenues for the youngsters to get on tour. For Boiko especially, he has been involved in main tour events as a top-up this season, beat Si Jiahui earlier in the season. He has also been playing the Q Tour against some other ex professionals. It can be cut throat for these youngsters, but there’s some decent talent coming through, especially from Eastern Europe.

The thin hope I have of them going the up-and-coming route is the fact they’ve done it before with Maresca. But as I mentioned in that post, other clubs who’ve had similar trajectories to us recently have gone the safe route. I wouldn’t be surprised if we do the same, but the fear I have is those “safe” options are currently very uninspiring options. Whether Martin, O’Neil, Dyche, Gerrard. They are all unappealing, and are the type of managers who will probably get you so far, then you’ll be forced into another managerial change. I’d love nothing more than drastic change both on and off the pitch. When it comes to on the pitch, I want this possession obsessed pattern to end, while I hope a good chunk of the squad depart in the summer. But I can just see us going round in the same cycle, another possession heavy manager with the likes of Vestergaard and Winks still remaining as the key cogs of the squad.

A return to the tour for Iulian Boiko, well deserved after a few agonising near misses in recent seasons.

Look at Leeds for example, Daniel Farke had been tainted by Premier League failures with Norwich, yet they still appointed him probably because of his promotion history. Same with Parker at Burnley this season tbf. We’ll find ourselves in the exact same boat should we get rid of RVN. Going down the route of a manager with promotion history is of course an option. Like it or not mate, Russell Martin fits the bill and plays the exact brand of football that this board seems to like. If we didn’t have a history of appointing possession based managers, then Russell Martin would be nowhere near my thinking. But we do, and that’s why I’m fearful.

As we’ll more than likely be in the Championship, as I said previously, it wouldn’t surprise me for a couple of reasons. 1) He has a Championship promotion on his CV 2) He plays a possession based style This board appointed Rodgers, Maresca and to an extent RVN, to play a possession based style, as I’ve also said, they were heavily keen on Potter for that exact reason too. If they want to continue down the “Pretty Football” route, who realistically is out there who fits the bill? It’s exactly why Russell Martin springs to a lot of fans minds.

In a weird way, with the type of shit we’ve got ourselves into with this set of players, this club could do with a Dyche type, but someone who just plays more attractive football Call the likes of Scott Parker “boring” all you want, have you seen Burnley’s defence this season 😳 As for Ruud, he has shown us nothing to warrant a go in the Championship.