Ex Lion Tamer

Because Gao wanted to sell and there was no one else offering anything better? SR at least seem to have a plan, although I think a lot of people are seriously overestimating the impact they are going to make

Haven't they made it pretty clear that there won't be extra money to spend, just a bit of extra liquidity to allow us to buy earlier?

Let's see how Brentford do next season. They might get found out in their second season just like Leeds, Sheffield United and many others

Training? One to one meetings with players, staff etc?

I could well imagine that Ralph prefers Long's pressing to Broja's and AA's, and that is his top priority

It should be possible for him to take a pay cut if he won't get more elsewhere

The problem is they all want to maintain their access to the club. Without that they've got nothing. None of them are really powerful enough, with a strong enough audience, to be able to go rogue and threaten the club with negative press. The Echo in particular got totally screwed by Cortese when they "stepped out of line"

Will we even have a bit more money? I read it as no more money but we can buy earlier in the window

This place is always worst when there's not a lot going on. Fact is that we're comfortably midtable, the manager's job is pretty safe, we're a way off the next transfer window and we've just had a takeover, so not much proper stuff to discuss

Your outlook is correct, but you can just accept it and enjoy supporting the club

I'd be interested to hear from older posters about who was better between Niemi and Flowers

OK he's more of a cult hero but don't tell me you didn't love Kelvin by the end

Are centre partings back in fashion now then? It's like the 90s never ended

Well if he said it on a conspiracy theorist podcast then it must be true! Why were Thompson and Nicholas sacked at the same time?

The keeper has narrowed the angle far, far better here than in the other one

37,395 posts on an internet forum, and counting

I was excited when David Speedie joined. I thought Perry Groves might be good for us.

I honestly can't think of a player who's had a stranger development. Glad he's doing better now though

Steve de Ridder sure looked good on that YouTube video

We have players scoring screamers from all over the pitch now. Talk about a team in form

Mate, Marsden was fantastic. Worked so well with Bridge

I was desperate for Marco Silva to take over from Pellegrino

A charity can't just start running a private business. The trustees could separately get together and form a board to run the business, but they might be seen as having a conflict of interest

Brilliant finish to lift it over the defender