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Totally agree. Targets won't feel they're joining a sinking ship.

The transfer success rate since Burke left, in a notoriously difficult art/science, has been immense. Barely any flops, and those who were, were either short term loanees or bought for fees that wouldn't damage the club. The Barber, Winstanley and Hughton triumverate on transfers has worked...

There've been quite a few expensive flops acquired in August. Bony, Sakho at Smellhurst, Sigurdsson, Maguire, Keane and all other Everton flops. Huge sums spent on players who have played poorly and regularly tasted defeat.

This. Bloom's incompetence in August has cost us a Champions League place. Amazing that so few lickers are pushing for Bloom out.

Nailed it.

But we know he wasn't on CH's radar. This was revealed inherently within Naylor's PR article of 1st September when he said "With time running out, Albion turned their attention to Janssen (below) at Tottenham. He did not fit manager Chris Hughton's criteria for the type of striker he wanted as...

:thumbsup: NSC life's too short.

Should we be a sinking ship in December, that would exacerbate the problem of attracting top flight quality strikers to club with no PL history. Andone for example would be be upping sticks for just a four month stay in an alien part of the world. But I would imagine that the recruitment team...

10,000's still do that. NSC and Facebook football groups comprise a niche who love chatting and bickering about football. On transfer deadline evening I spotted 2,050 viewing NSC at one point. Although only one forum (obviously the best), that's just 1 in 13 of Amex home seats. Other...

Could it be control freakery?

No it wasn't necessary,

Some lickers will blame the fanbase for a quick relegation.

The understandable posts expressing concern, annoyance and anger, were dying a death. Interest was turning to the WBA game, possible formations and so on. The club have poured petrol on the dying flames with the latest statement. TB's statement, plus stage 2 of the PR exercise through Naylor...

PL players often talk about their development, where they started off up front or as a winger when a kid, then gradually moved back to end up DM, CB or FB. But that evolution seemed to all take place when they were kids. Great coaches such as Conte and Klopp appear to adapt players and...

I was referring to the Gross as our striker suggestion. Agree that Brown, or Izquierdo, might do in a fluid system with no aireal balls up them.

Good points. With many fans having waited 34 years to make the top flight again, and being wise enough to know that the current Championship is extremely difficult to get promoted from (with or without parachute monies).

Square pegs in round holes never works, that is, playing players in a position alien to them. Many England managers, plus club managers such as Wenger, have been lambasted by the football world, for screwing teams through such stupidity,

This. A rewriting by some of our spring and summer to suggest that one new forward would have been enough all along.

Like just getting on in filling the critical position early, instead of being a slave to the cluster spreadsheet.

I rate PB, but also couldn't be bothered to read the essay.