Dr. Kucho

What Zelensky should do is get in contact with china. Say to their president, phone your mate Putin and tell him to leave my country within 48 hours. Then say if they leave we can make a deal for the lithium and other elements my country has. China is digging heavily in Africa and would love to go and dig in Ukraine. Russias economy is, if I am correct, very dependent on China and would listen to their president and Trump would lose a huge deal to their main rival. War ended, deal made and Trump fucked.

He should be allowed to bring in a team of people to help him sort this rubbish out. Also bring in a ‘player sales manager’, someone who’s trying to sell our players. Bit like these annoying door to door salesmen 😉

It’s obvious which players I would want to keep as a manager, but they are likely to leave. Would try and persuade Dibling to stay because of his age and it might help his development. In that case try to keep THB, Wellington, Bednarek (good championship defender), Wood, Edwards, Aribo, Dibling and Archer (still young and could learn). Release players out of contract and listen to offers for all other players. Then start building a team with young talent, PL players who are round the age of 30 and if promoted could still do a job in the Premier League and athletic players. Go looking for players in the top 2 leagues here and players who have proved themselves elsewhere. Like the early Liebherr years when we convinced Fonte from the Championship to drop down a league, bought the best players in L1 (Lambert). Go for quality over quantity and keep it simple.

Dragan is the problem, he’s let these charlatans ruin the club and didn’t stop them. When Goa was in charge we weren’t great, but the set up was decent with people in charge who knew what they were doing. In come Sport Republic and now it’s a big mess. Who’s in charge now? Who decided to sack Martin? Who hired Juric? Who did the recruitment prior to Spors joining? Are they experienced ‘football’ people? Dragan let others create this chaos and now hes losing money on his investment.

Good opportunity for Liverpool to rest some players and for fringe players to get a few goals.

I voted 50/50 but want to retract that to 100% Sports Republic. Can you blame the players for not being good enough? You could blame them for not trying or being uninterested. Manning for instance isn’t good enough but does try when he plays. Then the managers, no manager is going to turn down the chance to manage in the Premier League. Can’t blame them for accepting the offer. Could blame them for refusing to change tactics when things aren’t working or we continue to lose. You can blame them for the squad being unfit. When you know you can’t compete on talent, you make sure the players are fitter and stronger then the opposition. Imho it’s 100% Sports Republics fault. They should know to compete in the Premier League you have to pay Premier League prices for players. You can’t go bargain hunting and hope that the players work out. They should have seen early on that Martin wasn’t up to the job, and Juric. I understand his appointment, experienced and know how to organize a defense. Only he knows how to organize it in the Italian league and the Premier League is way faster and different. They should have gone searching for a manager who knows the league and keeps it simple. Now Spors has been hired and he’s done some good work at other clubs, but ultimately doesn’t have experience here. In the crisis we are in they should have gone for a technical director who’s experienced in English football and with a decent track record.

Statistically he did a very good job at Vitesse. Finished fourth in the league and reached the Dutch FA cup final. I don’t know much about the football he had them play and what the fans thought of him (I leave nearer to their arch rivals N.E.C Nijmegen and very few Vitesse fans leave around here). Vitesse did have this dodgy Russian owner called Valery Oyf. There was much speculation that he didn’t have any money himself and that it was all a coverup. The person bankrolling the club was Roman Abramovich and if I remember rightly Chelsea and Vitesse were sold around the same time. Vitesse always had loads of Chelsea loans, so don’t know how much ‘freedom’ Spors had in signing players. Vitesse was eventually sold to this American guy, who made a huge mess of the club. They had a huge amount of points deducted last season, were relegated and had more points deducted again this season. Clubs a mess and the chance is they have to vacate their stadium in a few years (one of the ugliest stadiums around).

When Spors turned up at Vitesse he appointed Thomas Letch, a German unknown to the Eredivisie. Don’t know what he did at Genoa, but can see him go for Rohl for many reasons. Knows the championship, knows the club, they have worked together and he’s doing a decent job at Wednesday. Here he is seen as doing a good job at Vitesse, under the dodgy ownership they had. They renewed his contract but he left once Genoa came knocking.

Turkish isn’t saying we should protest against Spors, his point is that we have accepted poor leadership since Sports Republic gained ownership. They have made mistake after mistake and us fans haven’t let them know what we think about them.

If Potter doesn’t rate we could try to persuade him to join again in the summer. Knows the club, local and he’s not going to get an England call anymore with Bellingham, Palmer etc fighting for the same position.

How did you come to supporting NEC?

If I remember rightly Schneiderlin played a great assist for one of the goals. If that had been a City or Liverpool player doing that the pundits would be going on for ages about it.

This then another year in the Championship. It would have been the same result if we went up a year later with Martin and his tactics and the poor recruitment. Maybe best if we do beat Derby’s record, that could result in Dragen making more drastic changes to this SR scam. Remove more people and recruit others who have got good track records at other clubs. Find someone who says you cannot go cheap in the PL and expect to survive. And don’t be so obsessed with data. Data should be assisting, not leading in recruiting new players.

What might help is to somehow get the national press to report more on SR’s terrible leadership. Blackmore and House aren’t going to ask difficult questions to SR as they could easily lose their contacts within the club. If we end up with the lowest points tally at the end of the season we might get more articles from the press, and SR would laughed at nation wide.

We played good attacking football but sadly it ended in a narrow defeat.

Does Rasmus still do his ‘motivational talks’? Maybe we could pretend to be some local up and coming entrepreneurs and book him for a Q&A. Duckhunter to host the event.

What an absolute helmet.

Juric has just started in the busiest time of the year. He has to implement a new style, tighten up the defense, find a way we can score goals all in a few training sessions around the festive period. Edit: and get the players fitter.

Thinking back of Martin’s sacking, it happened so soon after the match and that’s something you don’t see very often. I wonder if it was decided during the match that he had to go or if Dragan demanded it was done immediately. With Jones I believe it was rumored that he had to get a result against Wolves (and we all know JWP squared the ball instead of hitting the target in the last minute). Even then it was the day after that the news came we sacked Jones. Just thinking back and maybe someone had heard something how it led up to his removal.

Napalm Death, love listening to them whilst training.

Pompey, he wants to stay in the area because of Lucy.

No beard, no fancy hair, doesn’t wear tight jeans, doesn’t vape, he clearly doesn’t the fit the profile. Tell your colleague what he said is bullshit and he’s not ITK.

Don’t know much about Juric’s managerial skills and the football he sets his teams up to play, but read in an article he’s a metal fan and names Carcas and Napalm Death among his favourite bands. Music wise that’s a yes from me.

Don’t know if we were linked, but just popped up on LiveScore that Wolves are to hire Vitor Pereira from Al Shabab.