Les-TA-Jon

I have gone on a huge Warhammer kick the last year or so...

So £6m plus? Seems a bit optimistic

Obviously a sale was inevitable. Classic Foxestalk revisionism going on though - as soon as we lose a player it suddenly becomes 'he was never any good anyway' Clearly, tricky to evaluate given our back to back relegations, general malaise of the club and that he did down tools a little towards the end of the season, but we probably won't have a player as good as him on our books again for several years...

Souttar has 2 years left on his LCFC contract. 2028.

11K this morning (my biggest ever distance) and took 4 mins off my 10K PB! As someone who was totally inactive and started Couch to 5K in March 2025 I’m pleased with myself!

How do we know?

Negative 1000 Football literacy

We have 5 competitive fixtures before the window closes. Will probably be some involvement for some of the wantaway/need to sell players.

Let's just wait and see. The squad is going to be massively different by the time the window shuts. The club and the key decision makers are still in shambles, so yes, it's safer right now to assume that everything we do/players we sign are 'bad' until proven otherwise. But ultimately any kind of prediction right now is entirely pointless, when we don't even know what the team/squad will look like

Our mental valuations continue then. I'm all for us being firm and trying to extract as much money out of sales as possible, but this seems totally unrealistic to me?

I think last year I got in my head - 'I've been running for a year now and I should be able to do X,Y or Z pace' And I was running too fast on most of my runs. Leaving me tired, poor recovery and not really building endurance. The main thing I've done for the last 4 months is completely forget about pace and focus on deliberately slow running. I used to do 06:00-06:30 min Km. Now I'm trying to do 07:00-07:30 min Km. Or another way to think of it is just in terms of effort levels. So most of my running is trying to do an 'I can do this all day' or '4/10 effort' pace. So for the last few months I've done: Monday - 5K at easy pace Weds - Intervals (currently 5 min warm up run, then 1 min 'faster', 1 min 'slower' to recover x6 reps - but I need to move to something more progressive) Fri - 'Long run' at easy pace - adding 0.5K each week. So I spent the last 10 weeks building back up to 10K. Here and there I treated the Monday 5K as an opportunity to try for more of a PB pace (i.e closer to 06:00 min Km) to try and hit sub-30

Shaved 52 seconds off my 5K PB this morning and got my first ever sub-30 mins, which feels like a huge win psychologically!

5 weeks until the first competitive game. 6 weeks until the first league game. 8 weeks until the window closes. And we have what? Multiple first teamers who need to be sold because we can't afford them/they're crap/they're toxic/they want to leave/we need cashflow And the squad is missing: A decent goalkeeper Defenders who can defend Goal scoring midfielders 2 centre forwards How good RM is or not is largely irrelevant right now unless we actually do the business in the transfer window.

Been a good stretch of consistent running over the last 15 weeks. Much more focused on 'easy' and 'slow' running - and really feeling the benefits. Did my 4th 10K ever this morning (70mins) and was never out of breath or anything. I'm 36 and had been inactive my entire life, before I started Couch to 5K back in March 2025, so I'm happy with my progress.

You seriously thinking we should have been able to get what would be something like the 11th largest fee ever for a teenager, when he's barely played, hardly played in the PL and we're a L1 side with little leverage?