CB Fry

Forren it is. Cheers!

Yes. We've signed players without a manager before. Five years ago this week we appointed Poch and signed that Scandinavian centre back whose name has now completely escaped me. I think Bertrand was signed before Koeman and Redmond was definitely signed before Puel.

I count the first game, whoever it is.

This is his first game.

In a way we need to go into the Spurs game second bottom. We fu cking deserve to.

Yes it was. I agree. The biggest mistake not appointing a big name manager when we were sixth and in the Europa League. The seeds of decline started then. Now we're going down with the Argentine Steve Wigley and this season has been a shambles. It's a well trodden path for football clubs, but we hit a high that lots of other clubs would love to achieve.

Looks like it. No fear of the Championship for me.

Newcastle relegated since. Reading in the Championship. Villa finished sixth three times in a row, not twice actually. Now in the Championship. So it's okay for those clubs to falter after finishing high up the table but not us. Clear.

Fu cking brilliant. I think you're supporting the wrong club then because by your measure we've never ever been successful so it's pretty certain we never ever will be regardless of who owns us or runs us. And all those clubs you've listed (some of them just about fit the criteria) are where now? Built on their fleeting success and now at the top end of football? They finished seventh and then grew and grew and grew? Did they do that? Did they? Of course they didn't. They are all nowhere, especially on your standards, all of them are absolutely nowhere. You may have noticed that Bolton and Blackburn and Fulham have gone through a teeny tiny bit of bother actually worse than were doing now. Which is entirely my point you ****i g imbecile.

If finishing sixth in the Premier League is being looked down on, fine by me. Just means that no owner or manager has delivered any success to our club since 1976. None of them. They've all failed. Not my personal opinion but if it's yours then good to know.

What a lovely list of clubs and what a lovely swivel eyed rant about fu ck all. Just remind which of those clubs finished 7th and then 6th in the richest league in the world? Just list them. Off you pop.

I was only joking anyway. I don't want Sam Gallagher any where near my fuc king football club.

Even Saints twitter legend Leandre Griffit has joined the no to Carillo camp tonight. "Not a fan" apparently. The game's up, he's obviously sh it. Just get Gallagher and the Yeovil one back and be done with it. Bring on Leeds and Ipswich Town next year.

In 2014 we finished 8th (half a season after Cortese left in the January) In 2015 we finished 7th In 2016 we finished 6th So that's 30 months of progress in the time the person I replied to said our decline had been since Cortese left - so from January 2014 - when clearly, patently, no decline. In 2017 we finished 8th and got to a cup final - yes people can talk about points but sorry it's not a decline. If people genuinely, genuinely thought we would just get better and better and better every season - with the result being us winning the league no later than 2021 - then god help them. 8th, for us, in any season, is good. 2018 we are dreadful, not sure where I have said any different. I want the manager out, Reed has co cked it right up. But I stand by the point I made which is that decline did not start in January 2014. You want to talk about our peak - very happy to, delighted to - it all happened since Cortese left in January 2014. We hit a peak, and then smashed through it the following season, and followed up by holding firm under the increased fixture congestion as a result of hitting that peak. Yeah, now we've been struggling to maintain it but we hit a peak, boy did we hit a peak. Now we're having a drop. Other clubs would kill to have the peak we've had since January 2014. But to hit those peaks, to hit those huge peaks we hit after January 2014, I wouldn't want to change a single thing.

A club that is paying Jack Stephens and Matty Targett £50k a week is possibly running the shi ttest asset strip in the history of business.

I prefer to be known as CB Lie these days.

Maybe I'm double bluffing the lot of you. Or am I?

If this poor soul has used this forum as evidence for this statement then I am truly sorry. If they haven't, then this signing is on FACT.

I know some people hate it, but finishing 8th, 7th, 6th and then 8th plus a cup final, with two European campaigns is not a decline. Cortese's only full premier league campaign we finished 14th. Personally I enjoyed those campaigns, very very strange that some people write them off as a decline. Our current predicament has as much to do with the departure of Cortese as it has to do with the departure of Chris Nicholl.

We'll probably get a soul destroying Telegraph article rubbishing the whole thing within hours. Which in a funny way is better than a Telegraph article saying we are confident of signing him. Get the disappointment out of the way early doors.

And hes failed so far, which is why we need to sign a striker who has a proven record of actually scoring some goals. Dutch league, French League, Belgian League, to be honest I'd take Scotland or the Championship if we just sign someone that has actually put the ball in the net 20 -30 times the last year. If we sign this guy and he fails then no one can say they are surprised, he's got Shane Long stats and can't currently get a game. I ain't no black box but it's a no from me.

Yeah all done and dusted £29m plus add ons FACT

He was the one we took to the Huddersfield game and showed him round FACT announced by the end of next week FACT.

Conte used to pick Pelle for the national team so wonder if they've considered him.

#moneyball