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Ale

Yep. £20k a week is a hell of a pay cut, but still gives him £1m pre tax for a years work. Personally I'd keep for a year on sensible wages. We'll need some maturity in the changing room if the likes of Stu, JWP, KWP, Bednarek, Ely, McCarthy, etc, move on.

That's wrong. I haven't got the screen print to hand, but Rasmus has a shareholding in one or both companies. Dragan does not own 100% of the shareholding.

Purple

All this disappointment about Everton staying up. I hate them, but I'd rather not have them in our league next season.

Yep, but no need to tell him before our last game imo. I'd imagine it'll happen asap afterwards.

Noir

The bloke is deluded if he hasn't worked out that his work is done and that the club will be working on his replacement behind the scenes.

Squad

And a shareholder. Rasmus isn't going anywhere.

Don't be silly. He'll get a pay rise.

That we do agree on, but it doesn't alter the fact that Gibbs-white was a great bit of business by Forest and helped them stay up. Ultimately we were undone by going for quantity over quality, potential over proven, and just trying to be too clever.

And they've sealed premier league safety in that time with Gibbs White being very influential. Seems like £40m well spent to me.

Maybe, but his teams passing was hardly incisive, and there wasn't a whole lot of movement. The opposition mostly let them have the ball. The main concern for me though is how badly set up his team must be to concede do many goals despite having hold of the ball for most of the game.

The thing that I noticed when I watched that goal was the lack of press from the opposition. With a proper press, that goal wouldn't have happened.

And conceded as many as they scored... that's not my way of wanting my team to entertain me.

Is passing around in our own half huffing and puffing for an opening pleasing on the eye? Watch that video of his team goal with the 50 ish passes. The team nearly lost the ball on occasions and had no idea how to break them down until the last pass for goal. If the goal didn't come at the end of it, it would have just been 3 mins of turgid keep ball.

That's not what's being reported. They're saying that we haven't made an approach to Swansea yet. Completely different to sorting out a deal behind the scenes with Martin or his agent, then approaching Swansea.

This looks like a shocker to be honest. As a player he was a solid pro but never achieved anything as such, and has done nothing as manager. His teams score goals, but concede loads too playing what Strachan rightly described as propaganda football - possession for the sake of it. I'd have preferred someone who has experience of getting clubs out of the championship or close to it - seems like another stats based risk.

There's a danger of being blinded by the possession and goals scored stats. Sure, his teams score goals, but I repeat that possession and goals scored are irrelevant if a team concedes as many as it scores. I'm not sure if you're suggesting that Swansea concede lots of goals because of their players. If it is the case, we haven't got better here. We'll have to agree to differ on this.

Agreed. Gao was criticised by many, but in reality all he did 'wrong' was not sink money into the club, and that seems to be cos his government wouldn't allow it. The club was a tight ship under his ownership. Fast forward to now, we've had cash spent but managed to go backwards. This season proves that all that glitters ain't gold.

It's looking that way. So far I can't think of anything of substance that he's said or done.

Thick

Good. That's him gone then.

Lots of possession is pointless if you concede loads of goals when out of possession! If his team scores loads more than it concedes then your point is valid. The reality though is that the goals for AND against are the only relevant stat in football. Looking at that stat, and where Swansea have finished in the league, confirms to me that possession counts for nothing, and suggests that something is fundamentally wrong in how he sets his teams.