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I think it also has a knock on effect on our youth players progression, increasingly a reduced number of loan placings available for progression opportunities as our loan places increasingly being used as a glorified storage facility for deadwood who we can't shift.

Its a missed opportunity for the owners to have built a little goodwill between themselves and supporters, many owners that make mistakes and shoot themselves in the foot so to speak, however ours seem to shoot themselves in both feet on a regular basis.

"As I hope you understand the club needs to have revenue in order to compete," No sh1t Sherlock but obviously not that important that you can apparently do without Shirt sponsorship deals revenue for the past few years and have made zero progress on the biggest revenue problem - stadium redevelopment.

A very sad day and can only echo the sentiments of so many on here. RIP Ken.

No idea why they needed a stretcher - with what he'd taken he could of just "pogo'd" off

No idea why he was on the plane to begin with so no big loss in my opinion, in his usefulness or contribution to this team its a bit like us having Stamford the Lion getting injured.

Spot on imo, personally will be really sad to see him go if it was to happen.

While I agree that can't expect to pay massive amount on 34 year old 8m is a Toal p1ss take, these dkheads just never get it right. Why not go in at a respectable offer that, even if deemed a little low at least may keep you in the conversation with negotiations even if eventually can't agree. we just don't seem to be a serious club any more in more or less anything that we do, they never seem to get the balance right.

Rude of me to exclude our apparent new arrivals so, on first appearances: Marco Palestra - Curtains (Ed Sheehan) Valentin Barco - The Laughing Gnome (David Bowie) Emmanuel Emegha - Return to Sender (Elvis Presley)

Enzo Fernandez - It should have been me (Yvonne Fair)

Robert Sanchez - Over my shoulder (Mike & the mechanics) or Living in a box (Living in a box) Josh Acheampong - Train in Vain (The Clash) Mikhailo Mudryk - Sorted for E's and Wizz (Blur) Jamie Gittins - You ain't seen nothing yet (Bachman Turner Overdrive) Liam Delap - Pretty Vacant (sex pistols) Alehandro Garnach - Every Day Hurts (Sad Cafe Malo Gusto - Pony Time (Chubby checker) Any of our up and coming summer transfer signings - Schools Out (Alice Cooper)

Reece James - Pulling Mussels (from a shell) Squeeze

Tend to think that the whole initial appointment had red flags given that there was a clause in the contract stating that EM had to notify Chelsea if he was approached by City, kind of suggests that they were half expecting an approach at some point along the line maybe the length of contract was in their minds some kind of insurance policy against that happening/ really don't know but all a bit strange. Was personally never taken with his style of football on the entertainment front, nor his refusal to try something new for weeks on end when what he was going with clearly wasn't working. Can never see his style of football working with anything but an already elite group of players but whether they would enjoy playing that type of micromanaged "football by numbers" who knows. I do think that EM engineered his own exit given the City interest hence the outburst that the club didn't support him for Atlanta game (injured players etc?) Any way at the end of the day personally wasn't sad to see him go despite the CL and WCC successes, don't in anyway agree that he was the sole reason for our disastrous final league position, in my book that goes down to Blue and their decision to replace him with LR lol. Yes was certainly disruptive but we still had the opportunity to finish top 4. beating Villa should have been a springboard to push on with a real attempt at achieving that goal having narrowed the points gap and with some decent fixtures to come so no excuses in my book.

Top half of the draw looks brutal