Chez

No transfer fee.

You're not happy with him as third choice? After a woeful first game, I thought he looked solid enough. A step up from Lewis. Means we sign one new keeper...perhaps helping us spend elsewhere?

Stuart Armstrong not tracking back hard a couple of times made me wonder. Easily misinterpreted though.

Bruno Genesio or Julian Stephane perhaps?

Why is Davis and Watson always to blame? Do you know how good or bad their coaching skills are?

We are not that skint. I guess what I was trying to say was, is a new manager worth more than £12m of new talent? Which is basically one player for us.

If it was a choice between new manager and £0m spent this summer or keep Ralph and £12m spent this summer, I assume you would all go for the new manager option?

Spot on. We have a reasonable mix of ages. It's quality that's lacking and then maximising what we have.

Our press ain't all that. Midfield don't provide enough pressure on the ball or cover, full backs out of position all the time leaving big gaps, offside trap non existent, and we don't even bother defending free kicks. A general lack of pace at the back. A lack of pace across midfield...

I doubt he's signing as a coach. Will be second or third choice keeper.

Agreed, but not sure we are out the other side.

We paid £15m on Armstrong last summer?

Maybe. But keep in mind that we only have three keepers and Long out of contract (plus Broja loan deal ends). So squad change will depend a lot on someone taking our cast offs off our hands. It happened with Vestagaard, but not sure who is taking Djenepo et al.

I thought he was our best player. Worked hard, kept the ball well. He fluffed his chance though. Armstrong was poor. Didn't look sharp. Didn't look confident. Failed to hold the ball up, and was a non entity...and then out of nowhere he took his chance brilliantly. Very unlucky it was offside. I thought that might give him confidence in the second half, but he did nothing. Disappointing and I would have brought Che on. The game was lost though and we don't look like a side capable of scoring late goals. That strike does give me hope that Armstrong can turn things round. Needs a great summer/preseason to kick start things.

he has played for Ireland too, which supplements that experience. Get what you mean though. Joe Hart made the jump.

yes. Not a chance they will spend that this summer without selling a player like JWP. They might buy before they officially announce that sale.

Point? Gao sold cos he wanted the money. Drago bought, because he knows he knows the price was low and the value of the club will go up, so long as he can keep them in the top flight.

the accounts for last year state that we made a substantial loss - £98m over the last two years, and we have a sizeable debt - £91m with only £29m of the loan left in the bank, and Sport Republic said when they took over that "we will continue to operate using the same model'.

seriously, don't do it. We sucked.

January funds perhaps second instalment from Ings transfer? The comments management have made dont suggest to me that we can buy without selling, just that we can buy first and then sell afterwards to balance the books. Big difference. We shall see.

You think there will be significant funds to spend?

what do you think it will bring?

gonna cost us £9m a year interest over the next 12 months. Our owners have no plans to loan/give us money. The company will be run pretty much in the same was as it was under Gao. Pretty sure those were the words used to describe their plans. That means sell to buy.

So do you think we have pot to piss on or not MLG?

£114m wage bill, plus I didn't know JWP was going.