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Mostly fair, albeit a clear PR piece from Balague. Not sure Maresca "kept his counsel" on the January window though. He wasn't overt in his criticism, publicly, but he definitely made it clear he wasn't happy. And that was fair! The suggestion Enzo's style is "not dissimilar" to Pochettino's is a bit of a reach though. It's not dissimilar in that they both coach football teams I suppose 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm presuming you meant "outside the box" 😅? I think you're right though, I doubt it will be someone we expect. I'd be surprised if Corberán was actually under serious consideration, for example. Even more so Steve Cooper or Moyes.

Honestly, I didn't mind Fabrizio before, but this one has really got on my tits with his constant "announcements". I get it's his job, he gets money for engagement etc etc...but honestly I think I'll be more relieved when he stops tweeting about it than us actually announcing Maresca has gone 😅.

Thanks @KlaaZ, appreciate the insight! Sounds like we should probably steer clear of him then. And yet we appear to be negotiating for him 🙄.

So that's where the gold on our latest kit went! Chelsea asset stripping us down to the kit 'n all!

So I get this, but would it not involve unlearning everything the squad learned under Enzo? And mean looking for a very different sort of player. From the bits that have been shared on Corberán I really don't feel he'd "improve" us...which we definitely need to in order to stay up. Maybe others are just seeing something I can't, but I don't *get* Corberán.

If he stays and Enzo leaves, I think they will definitely finish above us. I'd be curious to know if a manager leaving a newly promoted side before the next season has ever worked out well.

I don't really get what people see in Corberán. He plays almost the opposite style to our current approach, doesn't he? So no more inverted full backs, and Winks not being used as the pivot, I'd have thought. Progression via the wings, and not through the middle.

Farioli has gone to Ajax, just FYI.

Surely not 🤨. This would be way too good to be true, surely?!

Well by all accounts De Zerbi wanted to sign more established players rather than wonderkids/potential, which Chelsea may well be more inclined to do now 🤷🏻‍♂️

About halfway through each of their respective matches, and Grønbæk has scored, while Nanasi has got an assist. I WILL MANIFEST THEIR TRANSFERS HERE, GODDAMMIT.

Colleague at work is a Leeds fan. Really lovely guy, as down to earth as anyone you'll care to meet. However, when I mentioned to the others in our team his team were in the play off final, his response was "We're going up!" Is it just me who thinks this is incredibly hubristic? I wouldn't dare state that if we were in that position, but maybe that's just a Leicester thing 😅 Completely baffled me!

Obviously that's not what I'm saying . But Enzo plays a certain way, and discussions around priority targets would be happening between him and Glover. I'm not saying us moulding our entire squad around his specific style of play is 100% a positive, but rowing back on that does set us back a little in summer planning, you'd have thought. Which I don't think we can afford this summer.

FFS, this is not what we needed at all. If Enzo goes, arguably we need to rethink our transfer targets, I'd have thought, when we need to have a very very good summer to hit the ground running with a points deduction. One way or another, consistency and buy in will be key this coming season. No ****ing about.

In fairness to Crawley, their stadium fits 6,134, and they sold 16,000 tickets...that's not too bad!

Ah that's annoying. Where have you seen that link?

They have had a horrendous record of injuries this season. And a few signings (Mahmoud Dahoud, for example) stepped outside their model and...didn't work. De Zerbi wanted more established players (mid-20s, proven) but Brighton as a club hierarchy didn't want to, which sadly does seem to have been proven correct. They are a very well run club, so credit where it's due. They may well run out of steam like we did, but they're far better set up than we are behind the scenes.

That would be such an odd signing, and I do think a loss to us. That come from one of their ITKs I take it?

See, I had almost warmed to the idea of Southampton coming up with us...but then I saw Rishi in the stands. And immediately I am immensely conflicted.

I know very little about him, but if he matches what we're looking for then signing him as second choice and loaning our Jakub to get some more first team experience wouldn't be a terrible idea. Not signing him for £15m though, that's a daft idea given we need to focus on bringing in players for other areas of the pitch.

They have a lot of players out on loan which I'm presuming they are hoping to sell. I'd imagine that's where a good chunk of that money would be made up. And those are decent players rather than our need to get rid of fringe players.

Credit to Leeds and Farke, they've turned up when it matters. Disappointing from Wagner and Norwich. Who ends up facing Leeds will be interesting. Could well be 3rd v 4th!

Absolutely. 6 goals in 8 games this Eliteserien season for Grønbæk now. He's going to start catching a lot of clubs' attention if he isn't already. Nanasi is on 4 goals and 6 assists in his past 5 league games now too.

Update: 50 minutes gone in the game against Tromsø this eve, Grønbæk has already scored twice.