It's time the stadium got toxic towards this lot. They are the root of our problems, a bunch of data driven goons.
They've invested the money into signings, but my god, what an absolute clusterfuck it's been. Not many hits, plenty of misses. The 2022/23 transfer windows were laughable when you look back on them now, we signed crap like Bazunu for more money than Fulham paid for Leno. It seems to me that every signing is being made with us wanting to profit on them later down the line, but you have to find a middle ground here.
People always say that it isn't in our nature to go and spend out £30m on a player but the club has no issues signing three shit ones for £10m a pop. Why is it constantly quantity over quality for this lot?
I really hoped going into this season we would see a different approach transfer wise, but it's the same crap. Archer, Sugawara, BBD, Wood, Edwards - They are all Championship standard players, Archer possibly has potential for the Premier League, but he isn't ready for it at the moment IMO. Downes and THB have been disappointing as well, but they were two signings we needed to make after their performances last season. Fernandes looks a hit but he clearly isn't a box to box, he looks far better near the opposition box than he does near ours - the defensive side of his game is quite poor imo and he's having to play there because of our ignorance towards the midfield in the summer.
Now let's get onto the managerial side of things from these jokers, Ralph was done - We ended the 21/22 season horribly under him and a decision should have been made to part ways in the summer, we didn't and our form carried over - although failure to sign a striker didn't help the situation. The less said about Nathan Jones, the better. Selles was a random throw of a dice after this lot tried to get Jesse Marsch to see out the season, jesus christ.
Martin was a good appointment for the Championship but I'll be honest, I always worried about what would happen if/when he got us up. We always looked a bit too open in the Championship defensively under him but most sides didn't have the quality to punish us. I will always be grateful for that day and moment at Wembley, the final whistle is probably the best moment I've had supporting this club since starting in the 90s but it was so obvious, very early on, that RM in the Premier League was going to be an absolute embarrassment. For me, he needed to go after the Bournemouth game and most definitely after the Leicester game. SR's decision to persist with him has lined us up to have the most humiliating season in our history and one that will go into the Premier League record book. He would probably still be here if Spurs had won 2-0 or something more 'acceptable'.
The statement when he was sacked had the owners highlight the gap between the Premier League and the Championship but let me just remind you that after our first game under SR we were 11th in the Premier League whereas the likes of Fulham, Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest were all battling for promotion in the Championship. We are now lightyears away from those three clubs.
All I want is for us to be competitive in the league we're competing in. The scouting, the leadership and the plan need to be better. We need owners who will be ruthless in tough times but we've got these soft know it alls who think football is done on a spreadsheet. I really hope the match day fans make their feelins known to this lot before the season is out but plenty applauded relegation last time out and were quite happy to be spoonfed the shit coming from SR.
Maybe most are just numb to it now.
