Are they the ones who have returned from international duty? My money is on them all making a miraculous recovery before their next Premier League fixture.
Are they the ones who have returned from international duty? My money is on them all making a miraculous recovery before their next Premier League fixture.
Arthur Wedge
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That’s the ones
nickjdavis
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Cardiff City's claim for damages/loss of income over the death of Emiliano Sala has been dismissed...
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Cardiff City damages claim over Emiliano Sala death dismissed
The club, which was claiming £104m in compensation, will now have to fork out about £400,000.
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Aztecs27
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Exactly this.
Orikoru
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I don't even know. I thought at this stage we need a Big Sam type, but even Sam hasn't been in that business for a while has he? I was fine with De Zerbi back when we sacked Frank, but we went down this stupid interim route instead which has put us in even more bother. Outside of him I don't even think there's a sensible option anymore.
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irip
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I wonder if next season they may wait till after the World Cup and see what happens?
Maybe even try for Poch again?
Trouble is who do they get in now to try and keep them up?
Maybe Dyche is the man for that
Orikoru
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Some media outlet said Dyche wasn't interested in a temp/interim role so probably a non-starter. Not even certain it would work anyway as we don't really have the sort of player he would want. You probably just have to give De Zerbi a big contract, and hope he hits the ground running. Sunderland, Brighton, Wolves are the next three games, if he can get 4 or 5 points out of that somehow then we have a chance. Leeds at home in game 36 is massive, probably need to win that. Forest have a pretty similar run-in, maybe slightly tougher fixtures, and a couple of European games to distract them. West Ham have easier fixtures and I can see them getting out of it. All 3 have home games on the final day, and Spurs are against Everton which is the toughest fixture of the three.
Dyche wants an 18 month deal though, and Spurs only want him for 2 months.
PaulMdj
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Depends how desperate the Club are, we only wanted Allardyce for a few months and gave him a much longer contract meaning he knew he’d get a better pay off.
Lucifer MorningStar
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One things for sure Spurs are a complete mess, Dyche doesn’t want it without longer guarantees yet why would you want a manager that was brought in and sacked in the same season by a fellow relegation threatened team.
Di Zerbi wants to hold out as why would he want to manage in the Championship. Other names touted are so far out of date they’d not improve the situation.
I genuinely don’t know where they go with it as at the moment nothing seems like it will improve their fortunes.
Di Zerbi wants to hold out as why would he want to manage in the Championship. Other names touted are so far out of date they’d not improve the situation.
I genuinely don’t know where they go with it as at the moment nothing seems like it will improve their fortunes.
Arthur Wedge
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That’s where there should be imo a rule in place when it comes to missing internationals due to injury
Most of the players were fit for the cup final and then will be fit for the next game
Orikoru
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Seems like we've moved forward in discussions with De Zerbi. I'd imagine you offer him a long contract but with a release clause if he fails to keep them up. One that can be triggered by either party perhaps.
AmandaJR
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Never pick them again.
AmandaJR
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Cardiff City's claim for damages/loss of income over the death of Emiliano Sala has been dismissed...
Cardiff City damages claim over Emiliano Sala death dismissed
The club, which was claiming £104m in compensation, will now have to fork out about £400,000.
Good. Vile behaviour.
Arthur Wedge
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Well as we saw with Ben White i don’t think that would happen but they imo should at the very least not be allowed to play for 7 days minimum after the last international
AmandaJR
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Saka is always doing it? Rice thinks he's first name on the team sheet. Yep miss the next league match to recover.
Lucifer MorningStar
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But what if a Dr says they’re ok to play.
It’s a difficult one as nothing can be proven and if a medical professional states they should be rested who is going to go against that advice just to appease fans.
In fairness Saka is one of the most kicked players in the game. So hardly surprising he’s always carrying knocks and has missed a lot of games for Arsenal. So again comes back to following medical advice. It’s a tough one as we all know players feign injury etc. but that being said if I was in the tile race to win my fist premier league title I’d be doing the same rather than risking myself in a meaningless international that is a mere friendl.
Also Saka is so overrated !!
Arthur Wedge
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When someone is fit to play 3 days before an international, is then out injured for said international and then fit again for the club - that for me is poor
So whilst it’s not black and white I think there can be something put in place
Lucifer MorningStar
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But how do you prove they didn’t sustain a knock in the game 3 days prior or in training in between. If that next club game is 7-10days later then that’s plenty of time
To recover and be fit for your club.
There is nothing that can be put in place sensible enough to caveat that. Nothing can be proven otherwise and to suggest a player can’t recover during that international break window is also not in keeping with what a potential medical decision would state.
IMO nothing will change and really it isn’t that big a deal. There’s to many pointless internationals now anyway, nothing is going to be learned from them and they’re not even entertaining.
PaulMdj
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Surely we aren’t questioning the integrity of top sportsmen?
