RevidgeBlue

Very much so. I nearly posted "Unfortunately I doubt this will be another fairy tale Souness type solution". We got extremely lucky with that.

We'll be lucky if we get to 40 points with this bloke!

Hopefully Leicester use the same data metrics that we do which all apparently showed Ismael to be by far "the outstanding candidate". Get shut of the useless twonk and 2.5 years compo on top. If Carlsberg did approaches..............

Why do they need him when they've got Sam Gallagher?

Yes, that's a really good point. Outside of those two brief runs his record really is impossibly bad. And the first run of 4 games came from a better team when the pressure was off because it looked at the time as though we'd played ourselves completely out of play off contention and it didn't matter.

I was meaning more they wont spend the going rate on wages more than transfer fees. Also, dont forget they sold Hyam in the last few hours of the summer transfer window which would have been £3m in they weren't necessarily expecting so I dont think they deserve a ticker tape welcome through town for reinvesting that money either!

Absolutely no problem. I freely admit I've been a VERY negative bugger about the Club over the last 5 years or so because other than the glimmers of hope offered by JDT and Eustace I see nothing whatsoever to be positive about! In fact I've been dubbed "The anti chaddy" on here as well which reflects my level of concern about the Club. Imo it's not just a normal case of we've got a poor manager (although we have) and we'll go down and bounce back etc. It's the very existence of the Club that is at stake. We won't be bouncing back like last time it happened and imo if Venky's remain for any length of time the Club dies. It's as simple as that. So for me we have to do SOMETHING, anything to try and get them out. Sitting back and doing or saying nothing simply isn't an option if we want the Club to survive in a meaningful form. And a call for a boycott is a logical and appropriate first step in that process imo.

Thanks for clarifying. Either way it's seems a bonkers rule to me - a reward for bad ownership if you will.

Why is it not the plan though? Because they refuse to spend the money. Why do they refuse to spend the money? Because they are no longer able or willing to. Probably the latter.

For a player the selling Club want £5m for! I mean if the bid was £3m upwards or £3m rising to a max £5m with add ons then you still might not land the player but at least it would come into the category of being a serious offer rather than taking the piss.

You've done that thing again........... Lol. That's not an answer to the question I asked whether you say it or they say it!

Exactly. But the point M-B was making was they're so rich they won't be starved out and I think they could be because they won't go beyond said ceiling any longer.

Isn't there some weird EFL rule whereby they're entitled to 25p in the pound therefore they'd be entitled to expect c£55m?

Bloody well hope not. He's still shit even if he's played slightly better since we switched to 3-5-2.

So then, why won't they pay the going rate for established Championship players anymore?

Nope. And still waiting in vain for this "We usually seem to pull out a win when we really need it" type victory. (Although I appreciate you've changed your mind and now only think we'll beat Wednesday 🙂 )

You keep making a similar point, that one of the problems is Venky's are so rich they don't need to sell and also won't be starved out etc etc...... Well, seemingly, they aren't so FU rich that they are still either able, or perhaps more pertinently, willing, to pay the going rate for established Championship players anymore! So I think further reductions in revenue will be relevant. To me there's clearly a limit to their annual funding that they are not willing to go beyond and it seems to be getting steadily less and less all the time.

Absolutely. It just makes us look ridiculous. Christ, if the IMPROVED bid was £1.5m, what must the first bid have been like? Im surprised other Clubs bother even picking the phone up when we ring.

It's rather more a hope than an expectation in my case on the basis that it's becoming an increasingly odd look for the 2 stooges if they don't act. Ill carry on banging the drum on a daily basis though because I dont want us to go down without a whimper. Imo if we don't get an absolute minimum return of 4 points from the next two home homes our fate will be sealed and I dont think Ismael will get them. Should have gone long ago, but given he didn't the preparatory work should have been done to allow him to be sacked immediately following yesterday's game (where a boycott was being called) and give someone else a chance of getting a decent return from the next 2 games.

Yet a quick scan of the other site will see numerous examples of where you've liked posts from other contributors being extremely abusive towards people who support the call for a boycott or of the organisers in particular.

Irrespective of that he SHOULD still be gone though (and a long time ago) so Id expect anyone with half a brain cell to be saying that rather than "It doesnt matter because we don't operate like a normal Club." It does matter. Massively.

It was never really about numbers for me today. The longest journey begins with a single step as the saying goes. Don't be discouraged and good luck going forward.

Great post, my sentiments entirely.

I did enjoy seeing VVD, the rest of the Liverpool players and Slot complaining bitterly about a non existent foul for Bournemouth's winner as well. Entitled tossers.

Quite so. If the view is that boycotting/ protests etc will make no difference whatsoever, then it doesn't matter in the slightest whether they happen or not does it? Not sure why it's any skin off anyone's nose.