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Think they have now divorced and quite difficult to find photos without having her name to hand. Think this is her though:

Still also loaned Florian Balogun to Reims from arsenal after not pulling up any trees on loan at Boro the season before. Next season he was sold to Monaco for £30m. Does seems he gets good output from young players and they move on to bigger things which no doubt appeals to SR. We have plenty of young players to work with.

Looks like he joined the season before. Lens sold a few decent players over the last 12 months.

Feels a good time to randomly bring up Mario Licka’s wife?

Khusanov got a move to Man City after playing under Will Still.

Yes

Pretty sure it was being player of the tournament in the Toulon tournament that brought Mara to our attention. Had good potential on Football Manager as MLG will confirm but he’s never performed at club level to make a league look easy. ‘His Mum is attractive’ was one of the few attributes he had.

Hamer is very good.

Brooks did the same when we were there, cruel injury.

High performance podcast showed him to be a very honest, down to earth, humble yet ambitious coach. Very interesting journey so far and the tactical flexibility is going to be refreshing. He has dealt with players being sold left right and centre and also took on a top flight team with no management experience only to set their club record undefeated run immediately. As other posters have suggested, element of risk with any appointment but this looks like a guy with a track record over the last few years of getting more than the sum of his team’s parts. He’s highly rated by the France football expert and that in itself is encouraging. Getting this done before the season has even finished should assist the massive rebuild at hand. Let’s see what the squad looks like in September. I look forward to conceding a lot less goals, if his Ligue 1 defensive record continues.

Time to update the thread title, here we go.

Is the twist Russ joining Leicester?

There is a cringey footy chant in there somewhere and I’m all for it.

Looking back at the previous season, the only parachute payment club that didn’t get promoted had the manager with the promotion experience… As Ralph once said, if you want a guarantee, buy a washing machine.

Dyche would be a logical appointment in our situation, not sure he’d come though and his football style isn’t widely loved. FWIW, if Rohl is keeping us waiting I’m glad the club are being proactive to get things in place ASAP. Still feels like a risky appointment but he has more experience than many think given his age. Does appear to be highly rated and comes across well. The flexible approach to games appeals given the stubborn tactics we have experienced under the last 6 managers.

Slightly relevant stat on Manchester United: 0.92 - Ruben Amorim has won 24 points in 26 Premier League games, a points per game ratio of 0.92. This is lower than Paul Jewell's Premier League points per game (0.94), who managed 24 winless games at Derby when they finished on 11 points in 2007-08. Relatively speaking, have they had a worse season than us vs expectation?

Some random twitter speculation on Rohl to Saints.

More on Palace interest in Rohl here, Fulham also get a mention. Maybe we should have just paid the release clause in December!

Fulham might lose Silva to Spurs and Palace might lose Glasner to Leipzig, going by recent reports. So they could be looking for replacements. Wonder if McKenna would be of interest to either too?

Maybe selling us now makes some sense, right now we are better value and there is a good chance to go straight back up. If we succeed then great but the value will be higher and less interesting to buyers as survival will still be very challenging. If we fail to go up, that loan and reducing parachute payments will strangle us more and more.