Aleksz

We're in the championship and most probably will be for another year, without a penny to spend due to regs and they will be doing a role that's more limited to recruitment and not a wider encompassing DOF role. You're probably not going to have heard of the new bloke, They've got to go and find the next Ashworth/Monchi/Mitchell and give them a platform. Realistically. EDIT: Wouldn't be surprised if it was someone that was merely a scout here, Rudkin knows and has moved on and will now be looking for a promotion - e.g Ben Wrigglesworth

Think a reality check is needed here

Percy's article says later today on club channels.

Agreed with this, some people will hold him accountable for the signings of Skipp and Ayew for example, but I'd bet my house they were Coopers doing. Too many chefs unfortunately and we'll never know.

"Rudkin moving upstairs" is the best we could have hoped for, Been saying it on here for months. So that's cool, I guess. But on the other hand, they're only going to go and appoint a yes man to answer to Rudkin and Top so... Strategic move, will appease some of the majority they've been losing week by week.

Hot take on the contrary, Prime and fit Jonny Evans made Soyuncu look good at the time.

Probably doesn’t mean a lot considering he left the pitch with his leg in a brace, but hasn’t officially been noted or replaced in the England U21 squad yet. EDIT: Has now.

More good news. Weekly updates inbound - post summarised by WTS below if you can’t be bothered to read:

Fully expecting these to rock up and be another underwhelming top 6 opponent after Cov & Boro. Just a case of whether we manage to be even worse.

Disagree in terms of players, it’s a fantastic group that’s more than capable, the manager might be the biggest obstacle mind.

Yeah you're right, had seen an article suggesting Page was higher but I've since seen on the editor that it isn't the case.

In addition to your post - this bit of research came out this week.

I don’t even get how the bloke wants to be here anymore. He’s been getting abused for about 4/5 years now, and those chants at the weekend have clearly (rightly) struck a nerve, he has to keep a relatively low profile around the club - I can only imagine in the local area. Surely his family are telling him it isn’t worth it anymore? Get out of the limelight and go and look after the Horses and Leuven.

Good as that’s my plan the minute I get cracking

Will be Ricardo LB. Doesn’t seem like he’ll go into midfield though with both Winks and Skipp in there, so not sure how I feel about Ricardo being wide left on his wrong foot.

Anyone got far enough with Leicester or even generally in a save to see if we get a points deduction? Can see in the starting finances we’re well on course to break PSR (lol)

If you’re telling me this Bristol City team is 7th then I say this league still has a lot of levelling out to be done.

Rough maths but think he’d had to make a debut within 4/5 months to beat Ashley Chambers. Not that I’d back Marti to find the balls to do that

You’d have to say Motsi is well on course to become our youngest ever player, not got ages to work with before he passes that deadline though.

You can remove the slowdown lag between menu’s now by the way incase you didn’t know/don’t like that.

That group could win the lot, they'll have the U19 euros should they qualify next summer, and if they do well in that they'll go to the U20 World Cup in 2027. Ridiculous group.

Evans on for the last 10mins for the Eng U17s.

This Luca Williams-Barnett is some player. Is he the one that ripped us up against Spurs the other week?

@Ric Flair Which of the Heskey boys did you link/theorise with us this summer? I like the look of Reigan for the U17s.

Aluko returns for the U20s.