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I would say management issues as well - but having Bednarek and Stephens anywhere near a PL lineup doesn't help, as does having no decent strikers or creativity for the last 5 years or so.

Christ I'm spending a lot of time agreeing with Hypo at the moment.

4 of the 6 were here last year and it made no difference. I don't think the yo-yo thing is all SRs fault in all honesty, it's football if you are not a big boy. All it takes is a few of bad transfer windows and you're fucked, and that can happen to anyone. Ask 2015 PL winners Leicester. Brighton could easily fuck up one of these days with a few dodgy high value signings (which may be this year tbh). Every club is a couple of years of bad transfers away from being the newest yo-yo club, the difference is we are trying to embrace it and hope one of these years we get lucky.

We bought a lot of shit then as well. Do Ramsdale, Fernandes, Lavia, Livramento, THB, KWP not count as good purchases?

No PL team is buying either of them though.

So, Fernandes will likely be off this Summer which is a shame. Issue will be around fee, and not pissing off Mendes. Figures from us look to be around £40-£45m for foreign clubs (€50m), and £50-£55m for PL.

Fairly obvious considering he joined us. I don't think he joined us cos we're an amazing pull.

He's a famous NFL QB, retired last year.

Been on an Atlanta Falcons forum to look at their opinions of Matt Ryan. The main takeaways were he has an excellent throw, but he is not the most mobile and can wilt under pressure.

Exactly, so win-win.

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Except he will likely return when we get back into the Prem next season.

Would have been 15 if it weren't for their keeper.

Didn't a depleted Wrexham once play the US women's National team when they were in League 2? The US team were 7-0 down in 19 minutes or something.

Ah, but is he worse than Batistuta? I said "silly" as a term of endearment, but look forward to seeing Still's quotes on getting rid of Wood, Edwards, Downes, BBD and Archer. I also look forward to tomorrow's installment of player comparisons. Will it be "Smallbone: Just like Zidane", or maybe "Ryan Manning, the Irish Roberto Carlos"? "James Bree, more comparable to Thuram or Cafu?"

I'm talking about Still's quotes you silly fucker.

I genuinely have no idea what you are saying? Batistuta was a bonafide superstar. He scored 168 goals in 269 games for Fiorentina and 56 in 78 for Argentina. In 1994 he scored 26 goals in the league, and over 20 goals the next 3 seasons. I will ask you again, what in fucks name are you talking about?

Really, sorry I haven't seen those quotes. Would be good to see them. You are wetting the bed at things that haven't happened yet. I would suggest you just wait until the end of the transfer window before calling the Wambulance.

Alongside Batistuta?

Oh, so you're making up what the club is going to do, financially. In the same Summer we got what, £18m for Sulemana and £6m for Bednarek. I think you need to put the wine down and go to bed.

Are you drunk? What the hell are you talking about Batistuta for? Are you comparing Che to Gabriel?

Sorry, how much have we sold Ramsdale, Fernandes and Dibling for? I must have missed that.

Thank fuck for that.

Che wasn't rated, because Che was pretty shit, not because of who came before him. He scored 9 goals with 3 assists last season for Torino, and a monumental 6 goals and 2 assists in his last 31 games. If you had the choice of Adams, KWP, Smallbone and Edozie, or Downs, Sugawara, Fernandes and Dibling, which would you choose?

That's why I said 90% of the season. But either way we finished 4th, nowhere near mid table, with a Manager that the majority on here thought was utterly abysmal.