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He's probably got a load of sock-puppet accounts to increase engagement and make him look more popular and in-the-know than he actually is. What he seems to have done here is tweet as one of his sock-puppet accounts but forgot to actually switch the account before doing it. It's the Twitter/X...

Oscar Garcia wasn't appointed until well over a month after Poyet was sacked.

Lots of European domestic leagues only finished yesterday - either regular season or play offs - including Italy, Spain and France. There are lots of highly talented managers out there. This is like when you have an annoyingly good looking mate who's just split up with his girlfiend and is...

Star Lizard is still Boom’s, isn’t it??

Calm down everyone. Potter being linked with short odds is probably no more than loads of people putting 2+2 together to make eleventy three. There’s an entire continent worth of management talent for us to choose from, and most domestic competition only just finished this weekend.

Ipswich were heavily reliant on loan players, weren’t they. For Leicester, I guess the fact that they’re a financial shambles has been priced in.

I’m sure the economy will cope, but let’s not pretend the gov are aomehow gifting us an extra day of holiday.

Chelsea also 20s with the major bookies. Palace best price 10-1, for what it’s worth. Betting markets have priced in stuff like having over half a starting 11 injured for a large chunk of the season, as well as being in a strong financial position of 3 consecutive seasons of big profit.

You’re welcome. I just remember that lots of people thought Corbyn was amazing for promising extra bank holidays, forgetting that they have to be paid for and ultimately by loss of earnings to the worker.

If you want an extra day off work, why not just take an extra day of unpaid leave?

Easy to come up with such unicorn policies knowing that you’re not likely to win a seat. It’s why PR is a good thing. These right-wing parties with populist policies would have to face reality if they had a degree of representation in government.

Yes. It doesn’t happen that often to players coming to our club, as we don’t tend to bid for players in situations where we are forcing them to sell so much. A recent example I can think of is Duffy being booed by Blackburn.

No, but it does seem credible he could have been trying to engineer his way out from as long ago as Fulham given them shambles of that game and Lallana’s interview after. Terrible timing seeing as we then had the club going into one of the biggest games in its history.

Bear in mind that loads of European domestic competitions only finished today. Could well see some movement this week.

Interestingly, that hotel transaction is yet to be ratified by the PL as legitimate market value, and neither is the one for the training ground land. And even if the PL accept it, UEFA may not.

We would not have been able to sack him without gross misconduct. If if was Bloom that had wanted to get rid - which is looking dubious right now - he’d have had to offer a settlement of some sort. RDZ wouldn’t have been obligated to accept that settlement.

Judging by the way things have transpired, it seems more than plausible that RDZ asked to be released.

Thanks for this clarification. In the case of sackings, is it normal for a football manager to have a pre-written termination clause in their contracts? I’ve had some experience with ‘sacking’ an employee and the termination agreement had to be thrashed out until both parties were happy with it.

Absolutely not guesswork. He had two years left, so assuming no gross misconduct Bloom could not sack him without a mutually agreed termination agreement. The alternative is to put him on gardening leave until it expires.

Not as f***ing stupid as some of you thought I was, eh?