CB Fry

You haven't answered my question about Pelle. Panic buy yes or no? Why are you going on and on about panic buying when by your own admission we don't really do it. To recap, by your own definition: Winter window 2019 - zero Summer window 2018 - zero Winter window 2018 - one Summer window 2017 - zero Winter window 2017 - zero Summer window 2016 - zero Winter window 2016 - hilariously, one Summer window 2015 - zero Winter window 2015 - zero Summer window 2015 - zero Winter window 2014 - zero Summer window 2013 - zero Winter window 2013 - zero Summer window 2012 - zero 2 panic buys (not that either of them are) in 14 windows and you're still blathering on about it. Lastly you need to look up the word "panic" in the dictionary. Any person or business can decide to deviate from their normal behaviour in a perfectly considered way ("tell you what, let's got to Disneyland next summer", "I've done the numbers and I think we should invest more in magazine advertising for this campaign", "Charlie Austin is available for £4m, we can afford it, he wants to come and oh look and it is January 13th") without it needing to be a "panic". Seriously, learn what words actually mean.

You grizzled about "panic buying over the last few years" but, when pushed, could name two players, one of which was a striker bought in mid January with weeks to spare while we were actually very well stocked up front. Three seasons nd four managers ago. And then Carillo. Even if we say fair enough he was a panic buy (I dont agree: we clearly needed a striker, he was signed well before the window shut, plus he would have well monitored and tracked and very familiar to the manager) that's one. One. Hardly a freaking epidemic is it? What about 29 year old Pelle? Was he a panic buy? Yes or no? Lastly, you seem to be destroying your own argument. Our problem has not been panic buys. We don't do them. We haven't been doing them "over the last few years". We've been doing the complete opposite. We are either constantly failing to buy anyone - a CB in Jan 17, Theo/Promes in Jan 18, a RB in Jan 19 - or slavishly sticking to an apparent formula leaving us with unproven mediocrity we hope will rapidly improve once with us, then they don't. The actual opposite of panic buying. We get plenty wrong in the transfer market but to try and hang the club for panic buying is utterly laughable. If we are guilty of anything, it's cautious over-thinking.

I wonder who will be a major player, worldwide, in setting the regulations and standards that will define this new industry?

I know Glasgow is big fan of Transfer Markt. Their valuations: Leicester City £301m Glagow's Beloved Toffeemen £383m. 7th place. Your boy is really punching below his weight. #beloved #toffeemen #glasgowkiss #ofdeath #fraud

Pretty much every post you do is you cut-and-paste posting some guff from the Daily Telegraph comment section.

Barely an annihilation. Just a simple swatting away of a wasp drugged up on some shi tbag chemical fertiliser. Do come again GM. Maybe a news story about Chad or Guernsey could also be enlightening about Brexit next time.

When it comes to Brexit, I think you'll find Corbyn, Milne, Mann, Dennis Skinner and the rest are far more on your side than mine, sweetheart. Snuggle up, comrade.

Have I been in a coma for five years, in which time Corbyn took power and enacted loads of policies that have turned us into a sub-Venezuela? If not, what the fu ck is this idiot chatting sh it about?

That famous EU nation, Venezuela. Jesus wept.

Maradona's first goal against us at Mexico 86 was fine according to you, then?

Sunderland knew precisely what they were voting for.

LOL@Silva. Absolute fraud.

Came across great.

Just to recap, the "panic buying in the last few years" amounts to Koeman signing Austin in the middle of January 2016 to beef up one of the best attacking line ups we've ever had, and Carrillo. Clear.

I was wrong about ages. Austin was 26 win we signed him. But Pelle was about to turn 29 when we signed him.

Also we signed Charlie Austin on 16th January 2016. Oh what a last minute panic panic panic.

Carillo was well known by the manager at the time so clearly had been tracked and assessed. Not a great signing but disagree he was a panic. Austin, no idea what you are on about. If signing a player six months before the player he replaces even leaves now counts as a "last minute replacement" then I really can't help you. How early so we need to sign replacements to front line players according to you? Plus, Austin would have been about 25 when we signed him, about the same age as Pelle was when we signed him. And Pelle was a striker very familiar to the incumbent manager, just like Carillo was. So does Graziano Pelle fit your definition of a panic buy or one that fitted our strategy?

I remember that around this time last year there was an absolutely glowing BBC profile and fawning interview with Carlos Carvahal and his working methods which had lead to a remarkable turnaround at Swansea.

When Charlie Austin was the same age as Gallagher is now, Charlie was a very consistent and very effective Championship level striker - 28 goals in 40 games, 17 the season before, 20 the season after. Gallagher nowhere near that standard, nowhere near. And the likelihood he never will be, having already had plenty of opportunities at that second tier level. The notion that him being young therefore better is more lazy than your own "fear" theory you are offering up. Austin comes off the bench: goal threat. Gallagher off the bench: meh. Kid getting a run out before inevitable loan move. Also, all the info this Jan pointed to us definitely trying to sign a front line right back. I wonder why?

Who has been a panic buy in the last couple of years? Caceres is the only player who comes close and we didn't buy him. I do hope it's not a "made up fact".

You'll have to point out to me where I am advocating any panic buying. I can only assume that if we had announced the signing of a right back or striker last night, this morning you'd be dismissing them as a panic buy?

I still think we will stay up because there are three worse than us. But feels much dicier than it does now. What I don't want to be reading here is any garbage about how unlucky we've been with injuries if we do get some. Decisions have consequences, and in January we have decided to assume we won't get injuries.

I see the insular, narrow-minded protectionist EU with its hatred of trade with the wider world is at it again today. If only these Eurocrat idiots realised that there is a whole wide world out there beyond just caring about Spanish orange growers. When we're free of this dictatorship we could, like, do trade deals with Japan and stuff.

And here we are.

That's because he is great at penalties.