Golac's Cunning Stunts

No he isn't. It is so blatantly obvious we need a striker. I just can't see where the goals are going to come from this year

and then the £20 odd million in annual wages!

There's always another wad to blow in my experience

We need a quality striker..will we get one?

Me too. COuldn't agree more Turkish

oh dear, just like lallana. MLG has definitely returned

There is absolutely no precedent for us spending that kind of money on one player even if we had a good keeper / striker

It is unfair to make us play against 10 men. Gives the other team an advantage. Just ask Nate

to be fair, without knowing anything about him, he is very likely an upgrade on current incumbents

I'm with you. However, as it appears we will be proceeding with full-fat Russball, that will involve a lot of dicking about with the ball at the back and therefore the GK will need to be good with his feet. If he isn't, we have already seen what happens in the very 1st match of the season with McCarthy's blooper.

But from what I hear, Ramsdale is dodgy with ball at his feet? Not sure if it's true as I haven't really watched him much

They are looking like a good contender to be the next Brighton. Some excellent players coming through there

Martin sets up the team to pass around at the back. We got away with it in the champs. We will be punished for it in the prem, no doubt about it. We don't have good enough players to do it

problem is, it isn't hard to suss us out as Martin has already told every opposition team how we will play. No surprises for any oppo manager

If I remember right, he was a bitter little fucker who hung around on the forum arguing with anybody who had anything bad to say about the banana once he went to the scouse

Yeah they really weren't that good at all apart from when Mowbray schooled Martin in the 5-0

So effectively, please pay us 25% more than he is worth...

That's the thing about statistics - you can use them to make any sort of point you want. In this case, let's just ignore 15% of the league games we played last year. Whichever way you slice it, we let in 63 league goals last season which is an average of 1.4 goals a game, and a win never felt certain even if we were 2-0 up. Not at all convinced we won't let a shed load of goals in this season.

Surprised we aren’t going for BOGOF deals to be honest

I'm not too up on Palace, but their recruitment and development of younger players has been phenomenal recently

Yes. I like Brooks and think there is a good player in there considering what he has recently been through. A full season will see him improve.

I didn't follow those performances, but given West Ham were happy to let him go, I'd guess they weren't much to talk about

half decent for the championship

His boyhood club told him he wasn't wanted more like

a spoonful of suga helps the pompey go down, the pompey go down, the pompey go down oh a spoonful of suga helps the pompey go down in a most delightful way