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2024/25 Sean Dyche

Lob said:
A very good article by The Esk tbh. Hard to disagree with anything he has written here. Worth reading even if you don't like the guy. Obviously the Dychettes wont like it at all.

theesk.org

What happens when dogs no longer like the dog food

There’s a tale told in most business schools around the world – it concerns a pet food company that stagnates. Despite numerous attempts at different marketing, branding, sales strategi…
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Did he just call us dogs?
 
Rudolf Hucker said:
Leaving Branthwaite on the bench is a sacking offence on its own.

He is by far our best player & the club (business) most valuable asset by probably £40M….

If I were Branthwaite, I’d have told the ginger gym teacher to ram it & want away in Jan.

If I were the the owners, I would rid the club of this Mike Basset chancer with immediate effect.
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You wouldnt find Saliba playing his way back in at Arsenal
You wouldnt find Van Dijk playing his way back in at Liverpool.
They go with their best players.
Posted a few weeks ago that Michael Keane had his foot in the Dyche door now and we knew what that meant. Branthwaite wasnt getting back in the side for a while.
 

blueblood said:
Hi tactics and team selections are just baffling. Calvert-Lewin is most likely to score from crosses into the box for him to get on the end of. We didn't do that last week until he was taken off, and didn't do it yesterday, until he was taken off. We've invested in a technically gifted number 10 in Ndiaye that we've been crying out for, and he's shoved him out to the left wing. Meanwhile, McNeil, who is left footed and can cross a ball, has been moved in to play number 10. Despite having Lindstrom and Ndiaye on the pitch yesterday, the main tactic was to launch the ball up the middle of the pitch. The extent of his tactical genius to get us a goal is to send a centre back to play up front to try and cause a bit of chaos. He's also leaving our best player on the bench because he has a weird obsession with Michael Keane. Branthwaite's presence changes how we play. He's our quickest defender by a mile and enables the back 4 to squeeze further up the pitch. He needs to be replaced before it's too late.
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I thought he should be given a chance, he has had it. He is right about mentality...his is suspect. How demotivating must it be to get orders to launch it forward and get back. It is saying to the team you are not capable of any more. The squad is better than he is. Get rid now.
 

blue to the bone said:
My point is there are 3 or 4 managers currently constantly been mentioned as been under pressure for weeks now .
He's not. Not a mention tonight anywhere.
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It’s possibly being skewed by the fact no one really expects anything to happen until we have the new owner in. Once they are official I think he goes straight up around the favourites for the sack 🤷‍♂️
 
blueboy72 said:
Really what like, is getting relegated not that important
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Suppose it depends if you actually think we will get relegated given 1. We aren't in the relegation zone and 2. Dyche had these bad runs last season and we finished absolutely miles clear of the drop. Dyche is crap but we're not near in danger of the drop as it stands. We could easily appoint a manager in the vein of Russel Martin or Mckenna who whilst palying nicer stuff get worse results.

If he is to be sacked and then replaced who is making the decisions? Is it the current owner - who we all know is crap and will botch the appointment, the prospective new owner who has already dropped out of buying us once already and is about the 4th suitor to be at this stage of buying us- who has already got one managerial sacking disastrously wrong this season or Is it the DoF who is supposed to be calling the shots but only has 6 months left on his contract as it stands and could easily be out of the door as soon as the new owners come in?

Same goes for the new guy in once you've decided to sack Dyche. Either you let a fella choose who doesn't even own the club and should have no influence until its done, or you risk him sacking the new manager to get their guy in in 6 months time anyway. Or the sale falls through and you've appointed a manager to appease an American car salesman. And if you let Thelwell choose its the same dance where he could be out the door soon after and the owner could want a new style of play.

Is the guy that we appoint in November going to be the same number 1 target we would like to go for in the summer? Probably not. Dyche got the job in the first place because everyone else turned us down, there will be a lot better candidates if we wait. If the absolute number 1 target is Sarri or Potter then fine, but if we would be eyeing someone else up we should wait.

Will it take us over FFP thresholds? Do we even have the cash flow for it? It will cost 8 million to sack him, that's a new manager coming in having to finish 4 places above Dyche to make a 'profit' I'm not certain there's 4 places of improvement to be had with this squad without drastic investment.
 
EFC_FRANCIS said:
Will it take us over FFP thresholds? Do we even have the cash flow for it? It will cost 8 million to sack him, that's a new manager coming in having to finish 4 places above Dyche to make a 'profit' I'm not certain there's 4 places of improvement to be had with this squad without drastic investment.
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It got 48 points which would’ve finished 12th last season so I’m not sure how you’ve worked that one out.
 

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