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We're playing Leeds, Bolton, Sheffield Wednesday in the first few weeks. Good thing their fans are more confident than ours at transfer activity and prospects... 493328002424770560 I have never gone Into a football season before seriously feeling my team are going to get relegated. #lufc...

He didn't say we had. He said we would have a competitive squad by the "start of the season".

This is all he's said so far via http://youtu.be/uZ_lP1pbMGE

Agreed a good start is helpful but we have 41 further matches from Sept onwards to escape relegation.

This idea that Oscar and Sami are furious about their lack of involvement in signings is odd given that at Tel Aviv Garcia had no say at all and has just returned there. (Jordi Cruyff looked after it) . When at albion he was, according to TB at least, detached from recruitment team despite TB...

That interview is 17 minutes long and is a frank detailed conversation with TB that goes into great detail about what the recruitment team does, how Oscar worked with them last year. Its not "been put together to fit every situation".

For a good insight into what Tony Bloom himself thinks of our recruitment team (“I’m very happy [with the recruitment team] and David Burke is doing an excellent job”), his view on why Oscar really left the club, and what really happened in the last window with Bridcutt, El Abd, Barnes, Grabban...

Yep. I was well and truly kippered there.

In 12/13 we signed 4 players on August 31, we probably signed our best 2 best players in the jan window In 13/14 we signed one of the players of the season in mid August. Lingard wh arguably scored goals that took us to the play offs was loaned in March

What's wrong with a mix ? Upson, Bridge, Ward, Lingard, KLL all loanees in recent seasons. Who are the has beens we relied upon ? Upson ? Bruno ? Where do Stephens, Toko, Agustien, Ince, Walton - all recent signings - fit in this categorisation of our recruitment ?

So woeful that the man responsible for making the most of those limited opportunities usually with his head has just been sold for 10m quid.