Dan

£20 life under Aiyawatt man. The worst.

Wrexham may have taken their eye off the ball a bit if that is legit. I have been assuming there's a pretty smart operation going on behind the facade. This would be a major red flag - would be enough of an error to put them in relegation contention. Remember they have done this before with Ben Foster.

Faes is not a centre back.

That's genuine good news. I've been unable to get that excited about him because I'm convinced it was just Nyoni all over again. At least we should get some good money for him now when he goes.

People are wedded to the idea of him rather than the reality. It's why the very occasional glimpse of quality is treated as some sort of uptick. He's a bad player. I can forgive signing him. I saw some logic at the time. I can't forgive him still being here - and as I said months ago, his ascent into our team was less that and more our teams descent.

You're just not enlightened enough to see how brilliant he is!

Inevitable that these are the next 'big' relegation in Europe. Wouldn't be surprised if it was this coming season.

No idea where this myth he was good at Sevilla comes from. Looks a very similar output to most of his seasons - a fair few yellow cards, zero productivity going forward, part of a generally poor and declining team. Exactly what we got here. How some people fell for him again I will never know. He's absolutely rubbish.

There's a real tendency in football fans to just think for a silver bullet all of the time and that there is only one issue at a time. Charlatans like Aiyawatt and Rudkin will hide behind this exact thing as it's a convenient cover up for their own incompetence. I do generally agree with the point though - PSR is a scandal and part of the super league by stealth method that has been implemented.

Having started pretty slowly - you could argue that was probably the difference.

I'll believe it when I see it with the PSR delay and it being about supposedly saving money. If I see a genuine change of strategy (or having one at all would be a nice start) then maybe I'll believe it. I've no idea how this lot still get the benefit of the doubt on here from people.

They've both, Rudkin in-particular, done a very good job of protecting their own positions. Tells me it can't really be performance based.

Albania v Serbia later. Now we're talking. Hope it's like the last time.

Southgate will be in charge for Euro 2028 I'm convinced of it.

I knew this would be dire but bloody hell

So so funny.

I'm getting worse and worse for having games on in the background. Think I've seen about four minutes of this.

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Would be a completely dumb move so it's probably true.

Luckily we had the buffer season of 2021/22 where anybody who watched us knew we were shit and he should've been moved on. As ever they did nothing. We even had a very early warning in 2022/23. Alas.

You heard similar chat when they lost Toney. They're a well oiled machine. Three players hit double figures for them last season - incredible really. I like Frank but the record of managers leaving Brentford would worry me a bit. It feels a very well structured club and probably a slightly easier job than it looks - as harsh as that sounds. I do like him though. He deserves a crack.

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Sort of think the opposite, I think we'd know if he was staying. I think they want to change but haven't found who they want yet.

Oh I don't blame the influencers. It's just a very easy sell for Aiyawatt. One of those things that you can make look a lot better than it is. They're probably just assuming we'll walk it again this season. I mean we might but I very much doubt it. The entire club is so lax. It's a very, very easy ride.

A Bloom type is the dream. We're not getting that lucky I don't think. Aiyawatt is utterly hopeless. I didn't expect him to be great, I wasn't expecting miracles. He's bottom 10% without any shadow of a doubt. Truly awful.