ErwinK1961

Well as DOF, you’d hope he is responsible for most if not all footballing decisions. If he’s not, then what’s the point of his existence and we should be bringing someone in to properly replace Wilcox. If he is, then what qualifications has he got to be heading up football operations at a premier league football club in the first place? Head of performance at the academy at Man City, 6 years ago, hardly seems an adequate base.

6/1 - it means either someone has put a bet on, or bookies amending odds to try and get gullible punters to waste their money on something that is never going to happen.

He was also absolutely shite against Spurs.

Can see him at Brighton.

Odds aren’t worth looking at on new managers until they get heavy odds on.

Röhl feels like it would be a good fit. No logic behind it, just a feeling in my plums. No chance we’re paying that compensation though, so suspect it will be Hjulmand.

He also hardly got a run in his favoured position. It’s hard to come in and out of the team, playing in various positions (CB, RB, CM). I think there’s a very good player in there and his loan will have done him the world of good.

Not sure how many you’ve had, but it’s 11 we’ve got to beat.

He rejoined on 5th December - when they had 5 points from 14 games… after a 5-0 defeat to Burnley… hang on a minute.

It only took £4m to get the pound for pound best manager in Europe here, so £10m does seem far fetched.

Still mental to me that we somehow lost 9-0 twice with a far superior manager and a better squad.

Not this again… is he time sharing with Martin O’Neill?

£70m?! Not a chance in hell. He’ll go for probably half that.

Heard he’s a Farley good coach, but can crumble under pressure.

A return to the super successful Adam Armstrong centre midfield tactic. We’ve got this in the bag.

After the Lazio friendly, I mused that BBD would be a better signing than Delap..

The (valid) point he’s making is we have been limited on what we can spend on our PSR allowance. We had a net spend of c £63m. £35m was spent on keeping two players from the previous year, essentially to stand still. I’m sure the club would have tried to spend a lot more than that if they could. £63m investment into the team (in my opinion) was never going to be enough to keep us up. Ipswich by comparison have a net spend of £104m. They’re probably still going to go down. Forest spent £160m to scrape staying up (and got points deduction in the process). Whether spending more under SR leadership would have made a difference, probably not based on their track record of transfers. But we have been limited on what we can spend, that’s a fact.

Sums up my feelings exactly.

They need to have those bad windows first.

What a weird post. You do know the person you’re responding to joined the forum in 2006? That’s one hell of an inside job if you’re insinuating Russell Martin planted someone on a football forum 18 years before getting the managers job to fight his corner. They’re also saying they are enjoying watching us play, its an opinion, which they’re just as entitled to have as you are yours.

Ramsdale, KWP, THB, Bednarek, Taylor, Downes, Fernandes, Lallana, Dibling, Archer, TP.

Chances are extremely high to be fair.

“Someone like Martin whose actually achieved something”… then naming Robbins who Martin has achieved more than… quality.

Talking about crisp packet wrists, it would be interesting to have seen the reaction for Leicester’s winner, had Bazunu conceded it.