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You want to be in that meeting, find out who's the boss or not

Well when Ward is picked for tomorrow's starting line up, will Claude explain that he's 'just trying out options' and that 'there's no problem between me and Kasper - he'd have been disciplined if there was'?

I love it how The Schmeichels are completely innocent in all this. Puel basically gets insulted on live TV by Kaspers dad and he still gets stick for it.

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I reckon what PS said was pretty poor; if it came from KS then it's fairly disgraceful. I suppose it fills some sensational column inches. I'll still be interested to see if Claude goes for one of his famed experiments, if he doesn't is he reacting differently to the Vardy episode?

No one in their right mind wants to see the club airing its dirty laundry in public. Puel sent a clear message to JV last week and you’d expect that. He would have started Iheanacho but we all know that you might as well play with 10 men, so he obviously feels Gray is his only other option. If we had a decent second striker then it would be fairly straightforward.

I expect Kasper to start - depends on how the conversation has gone behind closed doors. Whether he starts or not - expect Puel to get absolutely slated either way by our completely balanced fan base

I'm not particularly fussed about it, just curious. If KS has wound up his dad and indicated that everything would be fine provided the club got a decent manager in, that is far worse than what Vardy did.

So why wouldn't Claude send a clear message to Kasper in the same way?

I think better of Kasper Schmeichel than to deliberately undermine the manager by getting his dad to do his dirty work. His career has been all about trying to step out of his father’s shadow and stand for himself rather than hiding behind him. That scenario just doesn’t ring true to me.

What does ring true is that he might have moaned about the situation to his family, believing it would be kept amongst themselves. I don’t think he deserves criticism for that. Everyone needs someone to sound off to when they’re feeling frustrated about life. That Peter should sound off about it was, frankly, a gaffe. It was stupid, and he should have realised the connection everyone would make, whether it came from his own observations or listening to his son complaining. I hope for both his and Kasper’s sake that he learns better discretion in the future.

comment by Nuneaton_fox (U7936)
posted 52 minutes ago
I'm not particularly fussed about it, just curious. If KS has wound up his dad and indicated that everything would be fine provided the club got a decent manager in, that is far worse than what Vardy did.

So why wouldn't Claude send a clear message to Kasper in the same way?


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Because he might have apologised? Who knows.

comment by The_Dungeon_Master (U4830)
posted 37 minutes ago
I think better of Kasper Schmeichel than to deliberately undermine the manager by getting his dad to do his dirty work. His career has been all about trying to step out of his father’s shadow and stand for himself rather than hiding behind him. That scenario just doesn’t ring true to me.

What does ring true is that he might have moaned about the situation to his family, believing it would be kept amongst themselves. I don’t think he deserves criticism for that. Everyone needs someone to sound off to when they’re feeling frustrated about life. That Peter should sound off about it was, frankly, a gaffe. It was stupid, and he should have realised the connection everyone would make, whether it came from his own observations or listening to his son complaining. I hope for both his and Kasper’s sake that he learns better discretion in the future.
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I completely agree with this.

comment by The Artist formerly known as Black Starr (U12353)
posted 7 hours, 58 minutes ago
comment by The_Dungeon_Master (U4830)
posted 37 minutes ago
I think better of Kasper Schmeichel than to deliberately undermine the manager by getting his dad to do his dirty work. His career has been all about trying to step out of his father’s shadow and stand for himself rather than hiding behind him. That scenario just doesn’t ring true to me.

What does ring true is that he might have moaned about the situation to his family, believing it would be kept amongst themselves. I don’t think he deserves criticism for that. Everyone needs someone to sound off to when they’re feeling frustrated about life. That Peter should sound off about it was, frankly, a gaffe. It was stupid, and he should have realised the connection everyone would make, whether it came from his own observations or listening to his son complaining. I hope for both his and Kasper’s sake that he learns better discretion in the future.
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I completely agree with this.
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I'd like to agree with this, but I'm just not sure.

I did initially set out some reasons why but I've deleted them and I'm calling it quits on this part of the thread - like I said previously, I'm not that fussed about this point.