Jacnah

Ive been involved, at a senior level, in a number of commercial aquistions, both from a buyer perspective and seller. This is exactly how 'discovery' is undertaken, per my experience and as far as I am aware that experience was the norm.

Thats good...respect!

I think hes a liability and my heart sank when i saw his name. Still wouldnt boo him during a game though. I dont know why he hasnt been moved on tbh...suspect hes on to much money and isnt getting any offers near it.

No. Its on the fans who do it. No one else. They are entitled to do what they want, but booing your own players before a ball is kicked is NOT about supporting the club, only adds to the pressure on the team and indivdual players and makes success harder. Blaming it on the club is a twisted logic at best even when a) i get that the relationship between club and fans is as bad as its been for a very long time and b) some players just get under your skin

That point about Oxford being an outlier or a pattern is key. To early to say - he needs time. Bad culture inherited, decent players sold, no money to buy quality, A lot of young promising but not proven yet players. This doesnt miraculously change overnight. It is a messageboard afterall and everyone is entitled to their opinions, but my opinion is that too many on here driven by their own emotions and biases calling for his head before he had even started. Lets see how things are around christmas. Changing now is just a roll of the dice without any reasonable increase in probability of success because of the underlying context

ok on a VPN via US as well

haha..nailed on. That said we need a perfromance more than we need a win

lots of negatives recently. Bar a goal there was lots to like and appreciate in that half. Well done troops

FWIW - i think loss of connection is a broader football thing. Money is everything now; almost all connection to locality has gradually been eroded and has to be confected; glory isnt the goal but profit is; supporters are now 'fans' and 'customers' to be exploited and finally social media amplfies the good and the bad This disconnect can be disguised when a team is doing well - everyone is happy, players are lauded etc etc. As soon as the good time cycle comes to an end though, the cracks suddenly become more visble. In other words, results are everything because the baseline now IS disconnect. I think, Sub conciously, being a 'fan' or 'customer' as opposed to supporter makes people less tolerant of poor performance - and perhaps it should Just my opinions of course

Yes hopefully....... and then given a chance to develop playing competitive football

I wasnt suggesting he was a bad player, just that sensation conjours up a once in a generational talent.

He has qualities and potential for sure, but, I'm not sure I'd call Page a 'teenage sensation'. Rather than purely negative, another way of looking at the situation is that (a)the youth pipeline has been a source of revenue when we desperately need it and that its a symptom of issues over at least 5-6 years and (b) if those symptoms hadnt arisen and we were still competeing in the Premier League then these young lads would probably not have had a chance at trhe club anyway

can i watch this on a vpn regardless of where I am? Sorry if this is either a dim question or one thats been asked before....

Its all water under the bridge now, but the fact that some (most?) senior players didnt like it doesnt mean Puel wasnt right. In hindsight I'd say the club leadership got to close to the players and this acted to undermine managers trying ti implement necessary change. Understandable and maybe even really important to the success we had for a while after 2016. In the long run though it came home to roost

if 'the 'people above' undermined the manager then they made his position, in the long run, untenable. Much as I love Vardy, this comment is evidence that many rumours about some players in the squad were true. A strategic mistake and not just in hindsight.