smudgerfox

“You can’t have clubs going up and down, and getting away with breaches scot-free on the grounds they’ve changed divisions,” What business can cope with the loss of over £100-million revenue overnight? Basically you have four months at most to re-gear the finances- basically selling everything thats not tied down. And that’s sustainability? All you can do is get to the PL and make no effort to stay there - as we saw lsstcseason

I was among those jumping up and down at some of the big decisions - esp the penalty shout - but we have to accept that what’s happened is far easier to establish on tv than in the moment at the ground. The Skipp tackle was just in front of me and my frustration is more with the rules than the ref - you win the ball cleanly without injuring your opponent and you’re punished? Why? Because theoretically you might have injured him…crazy… The rest of it was just frustration with the persistent fouling by Villa as we tried to counter and at set pieces. If the rules had been strictly applied they’d have accumulated two red cards …

Tbf Im not sure that football agents are necessarily the best judges of good character But that said there are probably a number of players for whom the club has proven to be an Old Trafford-style graveyard: Kramaric; Praet; Perez; Soumare; Soyuncu; Benkovic; Cannon; Ward; Souttar; Ghezzal; Vestergaard (almost) ; Silva; Daka; Papa Mendy, to name just a few. Some were never good enough- but some saw their careers wither away and no doubt blame the club for persuading them to join. Add in the Mahrez gentleman’s release clause, fiasco, the Silva fax farce and the shameful treatment of Kasper and its a wonder anyone ever agrees to come.

If Cacedei is any part of the deal Rudkin can have my £25 season ticket card now::::

Who were you hoping for?

who are these preferred candidates?

And did we have a points deduction at the time? Did we have no to little money to sign players at the time? And isn’t managing the richest club in the Championship, with a Premier standard squad, a more attractive opportunity for a young manager than managing a financial basket case shorn of many of its best players in the PL?

Absolutely astonishing response on here. Do you think we have the pick of managers worldwide? Do you think we have the luxury of waiting to identify a manager with a perfect playing style? We need a pragmatic manager. One who gets results. Enough results to get enough points to outweigh a points deduction and keep us up. He kept Forest up when they were such a basket case behind the scenes. Id have preferred Potter but he clearly thinks he’s too good for us and we have a lot to get sorted and we need it sorting asap to give us any sort of chance next season. Cooper isn’t/won’t be perfect but he’s as good as we were ever going to get.

Not really - but some on here do seem to overestimate the attractiveness of the job right now.

You seem to believe we can pick and choose. This is not 2020 - the chance to manage an ambitious, well organised, reasonably generously funded Premier League club. It is an opportunity to gain a little bit of kudos by leading a club, under severe financial constraints, with a points deduction and a stale, ineffective boardroom, and save it from relegation. Not many managers need that on their CV and we have to embrace those who do.

There isn’t going to be a perfect solution and people talking about needing a manager who can restore us to top eight are, not to put too fine a point on it, deluded. At best, we’ll get a pragmatic manager who can build on the Enzo foundations rather than ripping it all up and starting again. We need a manager who can work with next to no money while we get the finances straight and we need someone who has the confidence and experience to withstand the inevitable setbacks we’ll face next season. Cooper has the advantage of having been through that kind of season already, nothing will phase Moyes, Corberan - although I think he’s the best coach - would be operating at a new level. Fans fretting about formations and styles of play really are missing the point.Season 24-25 is about 40+ points. Anything else is a bonus.

It’s Chelsea and they usually get their way. And we should know better than any….completely classless and entitled club

Since the next three year period includes two £90m+ losses plus a Championship season as yet incomplete (as an accounting period) - what do we need to do to comply for the next accounting period? By my estimates we are allowed £35m x 2 + 1 x £13m = £83-million in losses. So even before this season's losses, we need to raise income by £100-million, less the transfer fee for Harvey Barnes? Anyone know if that is the case? If so we can forget signing or re-signing anyone...

Liven up a slightly stale old favourite He’s one of our own he’s one of our own but Hamza Choudhury He’s not driving home

He didn't seem out of position when he cleared three certain goals off the line ffs he seemed to me to be in the perfect position bit seemingly not good enough for you Coach Ricey