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I’m with you on that one. I think if it wasn’t for Clarke’s injury he would be starting ahead of Tuanzebe, whose lack of passing ability completely isolated Omari today. Half decent defender but not good enough on the ball for me
Same architect, similar size and set up to Bristol’s training centre from the looks of things. I’m sure MA and KMK will put their twist on it to make it even better but looks like a massive massive upgrade to what they’re working with now!
If it’s within the next couple of year I would imagine they’re looking at between £80-£100 million if we’re assuming they’re going to go all out and include new offices, changing rooms, conference facilities, restaurants etc. Cost of materials has massively increased and this would be a very sizeable project. Fingers crossed they ensure the main contractor uses plenty of local contractors to further help the town.
Taken a lad worth £6million who hadn’t played men’s football and turned him into a £20million player in one season. Effectively earning Chelsea £14million alongside paying a big chunk of his wages. He’s also massively contributed to the success of our season so it’s win win for all parties involved but teams will surely be falling over themselves to send their best young players to us next season (assuming KMK is still with us).
I’d much rather see them out of the playoff picture if that’s where we end up. I wouldn’t be anywhere near as concerned about facing Leicester or Southampton in the playoffs as I would Leeds. They’ve got an air of confidence / arrogance about them and, to me, are the best team out of the three relegated clubs by a long way.
There’s actually a lot of opportunity around Portman Road to allow the club to expand in various ways. The bus depot (hadn’t heard anything about this one), the tip is moving so could potentially be purchased, the council are thinking of converting some of their office space into housing so could be an option for the club to take over some of this space for offices. All on top of the old staples site and the practise pitch.
With this development, it’s exactly the kind of thing that Ipswich needs and deserves to help rejuvenate the town, but with so many let downs in the past I just can’t see the council pulling it off without outside motivation / investment.
Anyone heard any whispers? Would be good to see a couple of bands lined up for the summer to bring in some extra revenue. Or do we think the pitch needs another year before it can handle that sort of thing?
Lots of admin - Snuts crossovers in various videos so wonder if they might be one we see at some point?
I never understand why someone doesn’t sit / lay on the penalty spot. It shouldn’t come to that but it happens at every penalty now. Just lay across it and wait for the ref to get control
Isn’t it strange that McKenna has announced these injuries? Would have thought that plays into Plymouths hands slightly with them having a better understanding of who they’ll be facing so just wondering whether one of them might miraculously be backed sooner than anticipated?
Chelsea should be paying us quite frankly! He’s developed incredibly well under McKenna in particular his decision making and end product. Chelsea should be falling over themselves to loan him back to us next season
Would hope that Chelsea will be falling over themselves to loan him back to us next season regardless of what league we’re in. He’s definitely improving now that he’s settled in. Makes me excited to see where Sarmiento and Al-Hamadi are in 5-10 games time once he’s fully up to speed with the way we play.
*Doesnt have to be Jackson, just whoever the latest scapegoat is over the years. One sits near us in section 4 who thinks it’s hilarious to shout ‘that’s it Jackson, run really fast’ every thirty seconds when he’s on the pitch. He’s now turned his attention to Wolfy given that Jackson won’t be getting a lot of game time. ‘You’re fúcking shït wolfy’ is the latest version.
Section 4 SBRL btw, if you’re reading this, shut up you c##t
I can’t see that there’ll be a change in strategy. It’s long been recognised that, due to FFP, player trading is going to be our only route to the top and that remains the case. I think it would be massively naive to break FFP in a January window just because we’ve got a chance of promotion, many other clubs have tried this and almost been destroyed because of it. Our focus is going to be finding the Davis’ of this world and significantly increasing their value, hence why this lad from Wimbledon makes sense. One of McKenna’s greatest strengths is improving players and so we really need to be taking advantage of that.
It’ll be easy to look back if we don’t get promoted and wonder ‘what if’ but we’re never going to compete financially with the teams around us so we’re going to have to make do with unearthing those cheaper gems and letting McKenna work his magic on them. And IMO that’s absolutely what we should be doing
Thanks, that makes sense. So effectively, every club without parachute payments has to be a selling club (“player trading club”) in order to stay within FFP. I suppose that makes McKenna even more valuable, if possible, to the club because he’s going to need to be turning our £1.5million purchases into £15million players consistently if we want to be successful.
I don’t really know the intricacies of FFP but we must either be well within the limits or other clubs in the championship must be ignoring it? Non-parachute payment clubs like Stoke and West Brom, Middlesbrough, who all are paying significantly higher wages than we are, don’t get the attendances that we do and don’t get the shirt sales etc that we’ve been getting, how do they manage to stay within FFP?
It’s a genuine question, I’d never want the club to put themselves at risk and I’m sure we’re using every avenue possible but it just seems strange when you see some of the money and wages chucked around in the championship by clubs with small revenue streams than ours.
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