Turkish

That isn't thinking out of the box pal. But especially for a club like us that even in a good spell is only a couple of injuries or bad transfer windows away from a relegation battle you do exactly that. Build a good solid core, decent keeper, decent pair of centre backs and a few other good, experience, solid players and build the rest around them. Not buy a load of kids, cheap foreigners and expect them to all kick on immediately. You might unearth the odd gem, Liveramento or Lavia for example that slots in straight away and are already physically developed enough at 18/19 to cope but the reality is most aren't.

possibly one of the worst full backs i've ever seen. Wish him no ill as seems a decent guy but such a poor signing.

we made most of our signings for this season last summer so they could have a year playing together and get off to a flying start. Oh wait.....

this is the sad reality. We've been stuck in this 15m or so with the occasional disasterous c20m signing market for years buying 2-3 or in some cases more crap players for one position instead of one decent one. Obsessed with buying cheap and resale value rather than buying players to do the job at the time. Obsessed with buying young players and letting them sink or swim. Meanwhile most premier league clubs of a similar size to us 20m+ is the norm and 30-40m is become more regular. Just look how much we've spunked on centre backs since Van Dijk which is probably the best example, Stephens been around since then doing Jack Stephens things when in the mean time we've spunked ridiculous amounts of Hoedt, Caleta-Carr, Lyanco, Vestergaard, Salisu, Bella-Kotchap, all of them shite. Attackers/forwards we've done the same, Adams, Armstrong, Carillo, Mara, Elyanoussi, Sulemana, Onauachu, Boufal, Archer, BBD. 100s of millons spunked stock piling average players that in some cases we've had to pay to leave. The irony of it all is that some of our best signings in recent times have been ones where we've got a bit of proven quality. Walker-Peters, Ings and Bertrand were very good and in the same price range as the the shit ones so you dont have to spend fortunes but we seem happy to persist with this think outside the box bullshit rather than actually buy a proven player to do a job now.

A benefit of the multi club arrangement was saints were able to buy a player for 5x his market value 😂😂😂😂😂

Carragher raving about him of course 🙄

Lucky bastards

Just to add we’ve got a climbing wall and a bar named after a tree in the new forest it’s not all Bad

All fair and accurate and it’s been a disaster however they own the club, they can’t just be “shown the door” because there is “no way back” for them. to go someone has to buy us which isn’t going to be easy as it seems like we’re in shit loads of debt too which is only going to get worse if we don’t go up this or next season even if we do go up the club seems to have adopted a dare i say it, yo yo strategy with profit to come from player trading not on field performance. From boardroom appointments to mangers to players it’s difficult to see how they could have got more wrong. In optimistic about the appointment of Will Stlll but Im starting to think he won’t be backed properly and it’s been an awful window so far so it’s no overstatement to say the next week is the biggest in the club since they got here

Course he said it was okay, he’s programmed to back up the club whatever they do it was a dodgy as fuck deal, one of the highest transfer fees ever for a 3rd tier French club. You can build a quality team with £5m in the French 3rd division, get them promoted and increase their value and therefore the value of the overall group. it’s seems like the other clubs in the group are doing very well out of it, money coming and and plenty of players signed by us and loaned or sold to them. We have had lots of benefits though just no one can think of any

Funny isn’t it. The same rules apply to everyone but it’s always harder for us. Plus we are the only club to have to pay those damn agents fees

We got a £1m player for £5m in January, who we’ve just loaned out for the season to the French second division. Any others?

So about these other benefits we’ve seen of the multi club setup….

They said when they arrived they are a player trading organisation. Which means the performances on the pitch don’t matter it’s about buying low selling high. £40m clear profit for Tyler means it’s been another summer of success

Such as?

She’s just won it again. 4th time in 7 years. Fittest women on Earth in her age range. First or second every year for the last 7, winning it four times. Incredible achievement which unless you know about CrossFit won’t appreciate

I found George Longs YouTube highlights anyway, looks okay

We got 12 premier league points with Ramsdale We got 25 with Baz Baz>Ramsdale

He’ll fit in as the other two won’t have to worry about losing their place to him

3rd choice goalkeeper should surely be the aspiration for all young kids. You get to be a footballer, get to train, decent money and medals but don’t have to do any actual work.

You mean resale value

Now is not the time to judge!!

3 subs, what a window!!!

Is there no end to the shit you spout? It’s not a fucking infants school teaching a load of kids to count it’s elite sport you clown

If the attacking players did what they were told they wouldn’t have lost the ball and the goals would have been avoided. It’s the players for not being good enough or not following the system