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Dyche wouldn’t make my top 10 but this is King Power’s Leicester we’re taking about - we appointed Cooper who is the ersatz/tinpot/heron foods Dyche anyway. Bournemouth/Fulham/Brighton were all promoted into weaker PL seasons, the drawbridge has been pulled up now and there’s basically one or two weak links - there wasn’t in 21-23. Us, Wolves, Palace, Everton, Southampton were soft teams in a way there aren’t now (United maybe lol). He’s had an under-resourced Burnley up twice and had a couple of top ten finishes, admittedly he couldn’t do it now but he’s more likely to keep a team up than ideologues like Martin. The back end of last season was football terrorism. We played anti-football at Plymouth and Millwall, zero threat, zero impetus - it’s not like we’re behind it. Parker and Wilder have shown you don’t have to have 65% possession to go up. Burnley are 4th and Sheff Utd 9th whereas Norwich and Swansea are 2nd and 3rd. Carrick is exactly the sort of touted manager that we’d walk into the trap of appointing; despite his teams being decent they lack the cutting edge an over emphasis on short passing has, with more than good enough players too. If you detach his name, face and demeanour from his record it’s a completely different proposition. Dyche has achieved more than Martin, Cooper, Gary O’Neil, Mowbray - the sort of pool our myopic twats are looking in. He can also manage upwards far better which is what we need. Substance over style is necessary.

I'd prefer coconuts but harder to get in

It’s just snobbery, if we land a successful, progressive manager and they take us up we’re in the same cycle as Leeds, Norwich, Southampton etc - or - they jump ship like Maresca (small chance they stay). For the task at hand he’s a good fit. There’s no point banging on about Fischer, Stephan etc because the club c unts haven’t heard of them.

Dyche could manage upwards better than anybody else which is why he’s what we need.

Donuts

And lower case postcodes

We have historically paid silly money but the cash (or ability to spend it) is drying up now, especially as we won’t make the same level of sales we did last time. We’re in PSR trouble still and at least £15m (more than we spent on any player with more £ available last time) on Gomes plus hefty wages isn’t happening. He’d also have some lower end PL suitors.

We were so lucky under Cooper and still shit. The Forest performance was what we would have had more of and we should have been properly battered in that. We didn’t have a clue. Ruud also doesn’t have a clue and the players aren’t good enough which is the one Cooper had c. £60m of signings which he clearly picked though.

Why would he leave Lille for us? We can’t pay those sort of wages anymore. We couldn’t afford the fee either. Him wanting to play possession football doesn’t mean he can or will. It’s a pretty big risk because the players he had at his disposal with the U21s are just so strong. We need somebody with a strong track record in club management. Enzo didn’t but that was a gamble that paid off - we can’t do that again. Corberan was the right appointment in the summer but we f ucked it with the usual King Power myopia.

Pearson?

We were on 0.8 ppg under Cooper having played 10 man Southampton and Ipswich, two of the worst PL sides ever. He has an abysmal PL record because he’s a shit manager, that the board then appointed another shit manager is immaterial to how shit appointing that shit bastard was.

It’s a British disease. Especially short haul - you don’t need jogging bottoms (especially fatties who don’t jog!) and a neck pillow for an hour fifty flight

The BMA crowd who don’t make any noise apart from clapping relegation are weirdly literal with “we always back the lads” line. Cheerleaders for decline.

Amongst a lot of competition I think the Perez signing was the probably the very worst. £30m spent on an upwardly mobile wide player would have made the difference in 19/20 or 20/21. He was slow, gutless and uncreative - I remember being dead against it at the time. @murphy was as well.

Their confidence was shot from being undercooked in preseason by a shit manager lazily appointed by an incompetent regime. What’s the solution in your opinion? Just persist a bit harder on our downwards trajectory? Just keep a bit more faith?