Channons Windmill

Cleverley was always going to be sacked if Watford didn’t get promoted - didn’t do a bad job at Watford but can’t see he’ll ever be a manager at a higher level.

My source on this is 100% reliable - as I mentioned previously, I’m involved in the acquisition of a different EFL club at present so it’s pretty easy to find out what is for sale (almost everything),,,

Merely validating what had been written to date…

I heard the club was for sale yesterday - I’m currently involved with the purchase of another EFL club so get to hear these things reliably…

And no mention of Sam Allardyce either. I thought that was still mandatory?

I had a brief chat with Mauricio Pochettino yesterday. Can confirm he’s not interested in returning. In fact, he laughed.

Tony Funnell was a weird one, scored 8 in 17 for us and looked a real prospect, yet ended up playing over 300 times for Poole Town Back to Steves - Williams, then Moran, for me, Can we manage at Steve XI though? GK - Middleton, RB - Baker, LB……

A client of mine in Bodo really rates Grønbæk, described him as by far their best player whilst he was there - part of that time I think included playing in Europe. He thinks he’ll do well with us..

Guaranteed to beat the traffic though…

My wife is Canadian and a relatively new convert to football (luckily for me she truly loves going to games) - we’ve been to see the Saints quite a few times and she has a 100% losing record. We somehow managed to even pick games last season (Bristol City and Cardiff away, Millwall at home) that we lost. Watching the Millwall game she really enjoyed the noise their fans made so, as we’re only five stops from South Bermondsey on the train, she’s now decided she’s a Millwall fan. Can’t really disagree with her, though the football is pretty poor so there’s zero expectation on the field and the people who sit around us are all very entertaining so another potential Saints lost..

Can we also have a Favourite XI? Not necessarily the best XI… Niemi Dennis. VVD. Wright. Holmes D.Wallace. MLT. Williams. Bale Channon. Keegan

I was in a conference today discussing the value of football clubs and it amazed me to see how valuable a PL club is - based on the data shown, both Fulham and Brighton were in the top 30 worldwide, with Boscombe not far behind. The cost of relegation from the PL gets bigger and bigger…. I would have thought SR would be a little more proactive in protecting their investment, especially if the cost of a redundancy payment is the issue (and surely these contracts are performance related?).

I’m (for the first time ever) ITK on this one - as it stands today, it won’t be Potter… he has his heart set on other bigger jobs

Though Potter is very keen to get back into management, he seems to be waiting for the MU job….

Can we agree in advance how to pronounce Bijlow? Consensus online is “bay-lo”….