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ABK is a distressed sale at this point. If he was a horse he would of been shot. Anything over 5mil and they can have him.

Not been following but has anyone said they wish we were birmingham yet ? If they have please advise username as need to have a chief wet wipe for this season.

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Barcelonasaint's point concerned player fitness, and was supported by his second post. Trolling that it's suddenly about structure willfully misses his point, and is a return to you being a bell end.

I've not followed Infantino's time waster at all but now off to the pub to watch England v France, where all the players _will_ be taking it seriously.

After surprise TP and Sule pennies, any thing's possible. Hoffenheim pulled out of a 12.8 million pound move for him last summer. Most agree that there is talent there. We paid something like 10 million euros for him. At this stage a thing over a couple of million euros is an accounting profit. A sell on would be nice, and get what we can over that couple of million, so that everyone can move on.

Exactly. Teams are in pre-season already, a new manager will want time to implement a style, new tactics. 5 weeks until the new season is still enough time but not ideal compared to everyone else. Leicester may be OK because they have a lot of quality but it doesn't bode well for them. At least we got our house in order in advance.

The manager decides the structure of the squad, what fitness levels are required, recruitment, the tactic etc etc. To sack a manager in late June and not have one in place for the first week of pre-season is clearly not "obviously trying to get in the best shape as possible" as you claimed. What reason have they got for sacking their manager in late June and not having plans in place for the new season? It can't be PSR as they did it before 30th June! Just comes across as a mess and not organised or prepared at all!

All of those are top players at this level. Luton over-achieved the season before when they got promoted. We'll be fine. We could be utterly shit and we'll still finish 6th minimum.

It also looks like their new manager is going to be Wilder. Watch this space I guess.

It was the mention of BBD that threw me! Maybe a pre-season with Still will help, but whether that helps fitness, touch, pace, passing, effort or any other aspect remains to be seen He must have something to have scored a few goals but I certainly haven't seen what it is.

Bit of both, if a new manager comes in and completetly changes the style/shape of the team it will be a detriment to them.

Lots of uncertainty at that place, no idea what their squad will look like come Sept. They will have to sell, and I doubt they'll be able to add anyone. Be interesting to see who the manager will be, but he'll have his own idea of squad setup, style.

I think you will find it is the players that will be the ones playing the football and who's match fitness matters not whoever their manager is!

Think of the money all the sponsors and big corps are making though, it's a winner for them. But I agree with you, it's just a pointless waste of time tournament. Nothing about it is to do with football which is why I've had no interest in it.

His attitude and accountability is shocking. He’ll never fulfil his potential. I’m sure one day he’ll look back and think what might have been.

There is an irony to people saying "Pray for the families" or "God bless the families" when there are casualties due to an Act of God.

If that were true... they'd have a manager in place for the start of preseason... which they don't.

Adams was phenonemal for us last season and we never replaced him. We'd have scored a lot more goals and created a load more if he had stayed. He was a massive miss. Archer will come good for us next season, he looked effective on the counter (his best games were at Man City and Arsenal and the cup game against Liverpool when we deviated away from RussBall...).

He isn't currently comparable in quality because Che Adams has shown he is capable of scoring 9 league goals a season in two top 5 European Leagues. Archer hasn't yet shown he can score a reasonable amount at that higher level.

Getting him off the books is the most important thing. He's still quite young and lots of potential as you say. We should get a few million at least.

So he is comparable with Adams then. That's actually a better goalscoring rate in the league we are actually in.

Almost as impressive as Guido Carrillo's Monaco stats!

A bullying, woman beating fraudster. Time for a change!

I know a lot of people are already writing of leicester because of a possible points deduction plus losing players etc, however they kicked off their preseason today, 1 week ahead of us! The result matters not, apparently thet won 3-1 but no idea who they played. They are obviously trying to get in the best shape as possible for another go at getting promoted first time of asking.