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FYI - Dyche inherited a team for whom Ben Mee played left back. It was the previous manager who moved him there. He played Ben Mee at left back and was forced to play him central, and then it clicked. Just for your information. And I'm a fan of Dyche, and hope he stays - but he got it wrong with Me...

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Dyche thought Ben Mee was a left-back and only put him central when I think it was Duff who got injured. He needs time to spot the obvious but he'll get there.

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bumba wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 10:26 pm
It isn't stating any fact, it could be Dyche going to the shops. Your presuming it's meaning he's going as a fact

Change your thread title.

But... it's worked.

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Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 9:53 pm
Top, we will bounce back again in the unlikely event we go down

More like it!

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:52 pm
one thing we now have that we most certainly didn't until recently is a scouting network abroad. Brentford and Norwich have proved you can get out of the Championship with good cheap buys

This positivity cannot be tolerated.

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Yep also true, though with parachute payments you’d assume we’d be in the top 6 for wages, as well as a favourite to go up, so there should be an attraction there for players. That's what I posted further up. We'll have 'pulling power' - not just wages, but players who want to play in the Premier L...

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:18 pm
Did you choose to ignore the rest of my reply?

The rest of it was pure speculation and offered nothing to back up the first part of your reply, so I chopped it down a bit.

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:13 pm
Why does a new player need to cost £10m? I don’t get that.

No worries. I don't believe it's worth going into a conversation with you so we'll agree to disagree.

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KRBFC wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:54 pm
I think Weghorst, Cornet and Mcneil will be a serious threat under a new manager, a manager who suits their style. Launching it doesn't suit those 3.

We wouldn't launch it in the Championship.

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ClaretPete001 wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:51 pm
Agreed neither have I. In fact, it's not easy to find anything out about relegation clauses.

Let's say - to balance the books, to balance what they would be like, had we stayed up.

Who would you sell?

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I think our reputation has been damaged by the perception that we can just play agricultural football as per Stoke etc, us slightly older Clarets remember brilliant wing play, mobile midfielders etc, we had it for a spell with Defour but not for long enough and didn't enhance our reputation when we...

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Milltown1882 wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:37 pm
A football club is like no other business, significantly more variables.

We were buying players with more debt. But people can follow the finance thread to discuss that.

This seems to be a thread for the most pessimistic people in the country to discuss how badly we'll do next season.

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But we already know the finances, so why are people confused as to what money there is to spend? The money we spend is an investment. Like with any other business.

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KRBFC wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:22 pm
If you want to know how broke we are, Pace said we weren't planning on doing ANY business in the previous January window (before Wood left).

Previous January window? January 2021?

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A significant amount of the money has funded ageing players contracts ie Long for 10 years, Bardsley , Stephens,JBG and not being savvy in the sale of certain players before they were ooc-Brady,Hendrick Brady was never fit enough to play, so a very sensible decision to get him off the wage book, an...

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KRBFC wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:04 pm
£10m to replace Lennon? lol

Well you can't mean less than £10m so fine - £15 million.

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you would expect all those players to be at the top of our pay scale even on new deals - finances will dictate it, can we afford to have those level of contracts on the bench ? I know what you are saying, just not sure if it's viable and we also don't know what those players themselves think. Maybe...

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EarbyClaret wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 5:43 pm
Some people perhaps over-estimate the quality of the Championship.

I agree with this.

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I can see us offering a couple deals but for me we need younger legs in midfield especially But we still need depth. I'd like at least to offer Jay and Lennon a 1 years contract. Pieters too to remain cover for Taylor. Westwood and Cork can add depth if we did bring in a younger central midfielder.

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PremierLeagueClass wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 5:39 pm
And let’s not forget that Dyche has already brought us straight back once before.

And got us promoted twice. A lot of people I can tell have had that wiped from memory.

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Things will need to change and with the OOC players we have the ideal opportunity to do that. I'm thinking though - surely it's best to offer some players a new contract and only have to sign 3-5 new players; than to allow them all to pop off and we need to spend twice as much? I think doing this o...

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if there is some kinda clause in the contract of Dyche, the potential of a ''new manager bounce'' must have crossed minds of the owners. It's the perfect Allardyce script. Dyche already had a very healthy existing contract. Think about it. Would he sign a new one if it meant he could be easily let ...

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Which "couple" of players are going to bring in circa £50m ? And £50m doesn't even cover the debt, interest payments and falling revenues More likely any of that £50m will go to paying off MG and JB Somebody mentioned in the main finance thread (forget what it's called), that the debt changes if we...

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Milltown1882 wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 5:00 pm
Have you completely missed our financial situation?

No.

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1. A wonderful new training ground. A genuine legacy. 2. A much improved academy, which will hopefully bear fruit when the next manager arrives, whenever that may be. 3. Alan Pace That's about the top and bottom of it. 4. Pulling power when we shop in the summer transfer window. Players who want to...

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claretandbluesky wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:53 pm
We’ll struggle to keep players.
We’ll need to sell to keep the club afloat.
Dyche will want out.
Think we could we’ll be in a relegation battle unless we can hang on to key players.
We have no Ings

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Wokingclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:47 pm
Big job in the Summer needed.......Dyche will be damaged too, unlike last time

On the other hand he could be extremely confident having promoted us twice before.

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KRBFC wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:33 pm
That was our strongest available team. We also lost to Bournemouth. We are toothless

What does having a lot of players out and playing our strongest side from the players remaining (many out of position), have to do with our chances in the Championship next season?

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If they were to stay you'd think that both Cornet & Weghorst would be a level above the vast majority of other Championship strikers. I fancy Weghorst to stay. Cornet, not sure. I hear he's a £20m release fee and could see someone like Fulham interested. But I do think we need to keep one of Cornet...

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Admittedly Weghorst could have that impact. However we’re playing to the complete opposite of his strengths at the moment so I just can’t see what would change in the Championship. Given our financial situation if we didn’t bounce straight back up it could be extremely worrying times. I think we'll...

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KRBFC wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:14 pm
I look at that Huddersfield home game, against largely a second string. We created nothing

We got beat by Lincoln and stayed in the Premier League.

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Jay Rod scored 22 last time he was in that league, Vydra scored 22 last time. Weghorst scored 1 in 2 in a better league than Champ level. Now this was seasons ago and the former 2 may not resign anyway but your point doesn’t really make sense as neither Mitrovic or Solanke could score in the PL eit...

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Watch it regularly. It’s easy to get dragged down to other teams levels in that league. I strongly disagree. I've watched a lot of games this season and teams in the playoffs are very poor. In fact, Fulham look similar to when they were in the Prem and got relegated - and they are by far and away t...

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Confident we'll come back up top 2. If you think top 10 at best, you don't watch the Championship.

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It’ll be us, Watford and Norwich in the end. Leeds and Everton will have just enough. Leeds have Bamford back and Phillips isn't far behind. 100% staying up. Brentford's win over us means they only need 3-4 more points (if that). 100% staying up. Everton will have more than enough to get the result...

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ElectroClaret wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 3:56 pm
I think we can safely write Norwich off.
Two places to fill.

I wonder who they could be.

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So it's now between Burnley, Watford and Norwich as to which 3 go down.

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Some things are just too predictable.

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You have to laugh or else you'd cry.

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Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 3:21 pm
Carragher needs to make his mind up. Says Chalobah is pulling Murphys shirt, correct but minor, then says he pushes him over as he is actually pulling his hand off the jersey. Chalobah planted his left foot twice and didn’t make contact either time for me.

It's Carragher.

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arise_sir_charge wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 2:53 pm
Why? If we can’t collect any points it makes no difference at all what others do.

Correct.

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I still think Watford will be the team that goes down with us and Norwich.

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We didn’t manage so much as a clear cut chance at home to Norwich, let alone a goal - and they were on a 28 game losing streak in the PL or something mad like that. We've done better against the better sides. Should have been 2 or 3-0 up vs Liverpoo, did well vs Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal. We then col...

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To be fair, Leeds were always winning this one.

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This is going well.

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joey13 wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 1:20 pm
Why can’t Huddersfield and Blackburn both go up ?

He didn't mean it literally. He meant it's highly unlikely.

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Did the poster say by tomorrow? No he said that the thread is pointless because Dyche isn’t leaving. He doesn’t know that, that’s why I said it’s his opinion. This really isn't difficult to understand pal. It really isn't. Engage brain. The subject is: "Dyche going......" Now that is put across as ...

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 10:57 am
In your opinion

That doesn't make any sense. The thread title is put as fact. Then follows on without any facts that he's going.

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Dyche isn't going, so why the thread subject?

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Dyche is the right man to get us out of the Championship.

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