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I hope you’re right but that they are obviously better than Gavin straight away in training so Still picks them. Don’t mind Bazunu as #2 so much.

Not necessarily if they retain the registration as they did with Reading but threaten disqualification if the owner doesn’t sell by X date. The issue there was that the owner played brinkmanship right to the last minute. The EFL Board either needs more teeth, or to work more closely with football creditors and HMRC to force sales much earlier. The National League has to deal with their piss poor governance after Morecambe’s relegation. And the ground safety issues are more than enough to trigger FAPP. An iconic 9000 seater stand very dangerously rusted to bits. And thousands of people sat in that last season. I’ve been there to watch Saints over many years and it’s not had a penny piece in maintenance for at least 10 years. Given that stadium’s history, that’s astonishing.

They did as new business interests in China pulled up red flags (no pun intended) https://www.stadiumrant.com/sell-or-sink-the-efl-forces-reading-fc/ I agree with Simon Church’s summation of the EFL board though https://rdg.today/former-reading-fc-player-describes-efl-as-f-morons-following-latest-takeover-statement/

Did well working with Wolves. Solak having a similar tie-up to a top agent would’ve made a boat load more sense than relying on Ankerson, and made him money not lose it hand over fist.

Withhold the Golden Share or whatever it’s called these days. They’ll need to play the first 3-4 games away anyway with kids as their iconic North Stand has failed safety inspections, or rather he won’t let it be done properly. Kill your fans. Nice. Solak is inept but at least he’s not that bad. Poundings deduction comes with it but as with us in 08/09 it’s the least of the issues https://eflanalysis.com/news/finance-expert-explains-why-administration-is-best-outcome-for-dejphon-chansiri-and-sheffield-wednesday/

Force administration - he’s missed so many payrolls and payments to football creditors they can enforce it. Or stoke HMRC into doing it if they’re feeling cowardly. Or find a Leon Crouch figure who has lent him money to put them into it.

Quick to hand out points deductions (except Leicester) and transfer embargoes but when they need to put their screw up right in approving a rogue owner - silence. On a smaller scale, see Morecambe. Not that the PL were any better with us and allowing Gao through.

8 years service during the club’s second worst spell in living memory, 250 appearances, got our money back, could’ve been a lot worse. Hoedt, Vestergaard and others were signed for far more money and were total turd, not even that good really, so can’t complain too much about Jan. He’s been part of some horrific moments - 2x 9-0 - but then the club has been horrific to support 2017-present bar Ralph’s first few months and Project Restart, so hardly his fault in a lot of ways.

I doubt it, Alpine was actually pictured on here with other forum members at a pre-season game in either Austria or Switzerland. Long time ago but I think it was possibly under Poch, or Ronald at a push. Was a very prolific poster and then just vanished.

True, but part of the stupidity was making those two transfers into a whole recruitment strategy and that becoming what seemed like 75% of the players purchased, completely forgetting about building a team and a spine to compete properly.

Couldn’t have done any worse if he physically been either,

No, he was 2021 I think from Torino.

Which would end up heavily subsidised. We’re very light in wide areas, especially with Edozie sale, so even with a couple of incomings Ryan would still get some appearances and maybe an impact sub as he was 23/24?

Sam was too lightweight for the PL which City fans warned about but actually one of the markedly better players in the first half of our last Champ campaign until Stacey’s dirty (and should’ve been red card) foul at Norwich wiped him out. As with Baz, very mixed Belgian spell but that’s a good manager and club to get him back in track. If the fee is broadly right, that could work out for all parties.

Given how poorly the club’s been run since Ronald left, accelerated by SR, I can’t really blame them tbh from a professional perspective. Ralph hid the decline but even he ran out of steam. Good luck to Still, he will need it.

‘It’s one apiece here in the South Coast derby at St Mary’s into added on time, Colby Bishop here with a low shot, not much power, Bazunu should save that to his left, oh, it’s in!! Look at the reaction in the away end, Portsmouth are set for their first league win in Southampton for 37 years!’

Tone down the abuse. If you can’t debate in a civilised and intelligent way without going the personal route, don’t debate at all. Go and give your head a good wobble. Goodnight. And yes, Still would like to change the wide and forward areas up, but he can’t because we are stuck with the likes of BBD, who is far worse than Che Adams.

Bet Dale Vince tries it at FGR. Mad as a box of frogs.

There were loads of them, about PSR and how this summer would be better because Rasmus’s Jan 2023 splurge was still on the cycle. Still a month to go but it’s hardly promising nor the change that was promised.

You know exactly what I was saying - he wasn’t a 20 goal superstar but Che did what his team and their team needed. How many honest pros have SR signed who actually did their basic job? Anyway, anyone who thought Russell Martin was doing a fine job at PL level shouldn’t be giving stick out to other posters frankly.

I’m not the one who spent the whole of last summer saying ‘the strategy is to sign top Championship players for next season as the club know they’re going down’. Funnily enough, they’re the ones Still seems keenest to move on….

Not touched a drop Farmer. What I’m saying is he hasn’t scored 20 goals but for a top flight team looking to be mid-lower table and stay clear of trouble he’s helped them do that comfortably. What would we give for that? More than Archer or BBD could do last season and I think he’s a far better footballer than either of those two, although Archer might be ok if we use him properly with earlier passes. In summary, I rate him higher than our current strikers at any level.

We can’t use Ramsdale next season so he might as well be as a supporter. He won’t be coming back. Fernandes will go, along with KWP the only two players to give a shit last season. Dibling - the club can smell the pure PSR ‘profit’. Yuck at what football has become and yuck at SR.

Jaidi, Hammond, Chaplow - excellent professionals and a cut above the league were in at the time we signed them. That’s what this summer should’ve been about. Instead, more gambles/clever shit leading to errors and a failure leader given three more years of reward. SR will never learn, sooner they sell up the better.

Point is, it’s a well known risk and he’d cost us 12 points or so during the regular season before he did his Achilles. If they’re as determined to finish top 2 as they say they are, why take a stupid risk that? From a business perspective, it doesn’t make sense. Get your spine right and if you want to gamble/risk, do it in the wide areas with a funky loan or two.