S-Clarke

Where is the proof that the club confirmed it to the Echo? Have you seen the official OS release stating our interest? Until that point it's a rumour. #MLGMode (sorry, couldn't resist)

I've not seen any links to this guy, this is the first one. I've always thought he's out of our range, and even after that post...I'm probably still inclined to believe he's out of our range. He's being talked about at upwards of £15-20m, clearly a really good player but destined for better than us. The club already have Bree and Suguwara at RB, so we don't have a gap to fill as it stands. (which feels weird to say as we've just lost KWP). I'd hope Suguwara will be top at Championship level.

The transfer fee and his freed up wages will be much more useful to us than any on pitch output we 'may' have got. I'm not sure why people are sad to see him go, he was utter dog shite.

Probably the most unrealistic shout yet. It's not like Everton didn't want him to stay. He's injury prone for sure, but he's certainly upper PL quality and we're not on his radar, neither is he on ours. Cheap would also equate to more than Ramsdale is getting paid. He'll get picked up by a prem team without breaking much sweat.

I'd say that level is probably as far as he'll ever progress, just doesn't have the physical attributes to handle the rigours of top level football.

I personally thought that one was one of our worst efforts. Wasn't a fan of the black, never have been on our klits.

I don't really care about Rohl anymore - I'm over that. Let them get on with it. I don't think there are such things as first/second choices either, it's whoever fits best at the moment. Rohl didn't. I'm perfectly content with how we've ended up at this point. I'd be more nervous if we were in July and still had no manager in post. Leicester have a lot of work and a lot of uncertainties to move through before they can start prepping for next season, whilst we're already at that stage.

He doesn't have a choice with the built in extension clause, it's baked into his current deal that we reserve the right to execute a 1 year extension whenever we want. There's nothing stopping us doing that, he can't reject that. My guess is that the club are trying to negotiate an entirely new deal, but we do still have that 1 year extension up our sleeve if he doesn't which we can execute at any point and still retain value on him.

Thank goodness, feels one of the longest sagas. He was a weird player, some uncharacteristic moments of skill in some games, but if we're honest he was a truly horrendous footballer and will almost certainly not be missed.

I think Delap, Tuanzebe and Burgess were all expected (later two because of their contracts). If I was Burnley, I wouldn't be exactly ecstatic with that calibre of signing though. They're only going one way with Parker at the helm to boot!

He's got one heck of a chip on his shoulder, that's for sure.

Got to hand it to them, £25m back from Onuachu and Sulemena is like winning the lottery, twice. That is some big funds, unexpected, in our laps. We haven't even made our 'easy' sales yet. If this is the level we've got for those, you can certainly expect us to hold out for mental fees for Fernandes and Dibling.

All these 'Heat' or 'Cold' weather alerts do is provide the NHS with a level of protection when they miss targets or can't deal with overcrowded a&es. Trusts avoid the normal 'fines' they'd get for target missing as we're under a 'alert'. Similar happens when Hospitals declare major incidents, it's just to protect themselves and enable extra funds for more resources and such. These aren't anything for us to pay attention to really.

Looked shocking, it clearly out of control - so something was off, everyone seems to be saying jammed accelerator. If that is the case, the driver has done well to avoid hitting anything substantial. That could have been so much worse, could have careered head on into other cars if it was at a busier time of day, into buildings or took out pedestrians. That girl on that video - if she was a few mins later to wherever she was off to, she'd have been walking on the stretch it drove over.

For real? I think that looks horrendous. Kit's are very subjective, one persons good is another persons bad. The club will never be able to get this right across 90% of the fan base, it will always divide.

Is it really? When we came down he had 2 years left, there was no way he'd sign in the Championship as he was going to see where we are. Respect to him for sticking around that year in a level way below him. He only had 1 year left upon promotion and I think in his mind he wanted to see how things settled, if we were pushing mid-table/upper table come October/November I reckon you'd have seen a new deal announcement. I'm one for calling out the club on all sorts of shit over the last few years, but it's silly to think we haven't tried to keep him - but the timings have all favoured KWP's really, and at the end of the day it's his call and he played it how he felt was best for his career. We didn't just sit there and forget to offer him a deal, believe me.

Hollywood FC for the first game. They'll build this up like it's some sort of Superbowl game. Wrexham will be right up for this. It's an enormous banana skin that we could easily lose fairly comfortably if our mind isn't on it. So much will change between now and then though, hard to say what team we'll put out.

Simon Rusk was actually promoted to the first team coaching setup when Juric was in charge, possibly to fill the void left by some of Martin's coaches. At a guess, he was Calderwoods replacement. So he didn't really have an U21 job to return to. I don't think he's been scapegoated, it was just a common point to part ways.

Yeah, very soon. Always very soon. The last I heard on the Toys R Us one is that the 'last plans' are being torn up as they're not viable, or something. How they've left that Toys R Us site is an embarrassment really, shows us up as a right old dump as soon as you get off the train. They've tried to polish a turd by investing into new train station frontage, but ignoring what it overlooks. (and don't forget the eyesore of the grey concrete buildings on the other side..!)

On paper they still have the players, but I think once they sort out their manager direction they'll start moving a few on. They simply have to financially. It all feels quite quiet at the moment, I'm still fully expecting ourselves to lose a really big chunk of our quality too - but we have the flexibility of being able to act in advance for a change, whereas Leicester will have to sell first.

Good mix if you look at it on paper. Lallana with high level playing experience, knows the lower leagues too. Trollope with lots of experience in the lower leagues, Championship, L1 etc. Knows his way around the EFL. Then Still with more of a continental experience background to bring to the table. If it all meshes together it could be quite fruitful, as we have a bit of everything in the setup.

The whole situation at Leicester feels a bit odd, it's like they're just frozen in time unable to do anything. They're not able to buy, they're not selling, they've got a manager who they don't want. Pre-season starts in a week or so and they're no where near. It's a weird situation. Good for us for sure.

They are very valid points, I guess Rusk took the fall as he was the 'focal point' towards the end of the season - much the same way as Juric and Russell (obviously much more reason to dump Russell). I think Carl Martin seems highly regarded, but like you say it's hard to see that translated - but how much was it allowed to be translated last year? It was a pretty toxic setup for anyone, and I'm not sure any coach in world football would have come out smelling of roses.

That early? I had it finished in September 2024 myself. We've had a year of Friendlies, we should be fighting fit!

I dunno, I think most of us have gotten the Rohl thing out of our system. We've gone with a pretty solid choice ourselves in my eyes. If we'd missed out on Rohl and appointed Rusk I'd be more inclined to agree with you, but I don't see there being much of a meltdown.