Turkish

Certainly got a few Roger the Dodger characters in the team.

Between him and Walcott thats probably £100k a week on players that contributed zip all last season. Ridiculous.

Jesus wept, i cannot believe we are offering Long a new deal. The custodian situation appears to be panning out exactly as i revealed a few days ago. Willy gets new deal, Forster goes, our Man City friend comes to fight it out with Mcarthy for the Number 1 jersey, The Polish glovesman comes in on a free and goes on loan, joining up next season to slip into Willys place.

The transfer tavern 🤦 you might as well check the Beano it’s just as reliable (Yes MLG I know the Beano is a kids comic which does not report on transfer speculation)

Mane and Ronaldo included over Son, ridiculous.

Yep, they've even included "Trent" in the team of the year FFS Man City only had 3 included. Rudiger and Ronaldo the other two

Maybe we could gazump Liverpool for Darwin Nunez as well.

So he should have stayed at Man City so that Pompey fans, where he'll probably never play again, will remember him fondly, they really are a strange lot.

Calumn Davenport at home to Villa 2005 relegation season, Came on at half time with us 2-0 up, was absolutely woeful as we somehow managed to lose 3-2. Another game where we let a lead slip, the worst that season being 2-0 going into injury time at home to Boro and drawing 2-2.

I think the story was at the time that the selling club (Burnley?) Would have taken less than half what we paid. Absolutely terrible signing.

Scott Marshall a centre back signed from Arsenal in the mid 90s for a fair amount of money at the time- Played for us twice lost the first game 3-0, he scored and own goal, his next and final game we lost 4-0 and he scored an own goal in that too. He never played for us again

We won’t be doing that. We’re stuck with McCarthy even though the club won’t admit they’ve given him a new deal. Bazunu will come in, we will keep Willy for another year and that Turkish glovesman will sign and go on loan for a season before replacing Willy in 2023/24 as our third custodian

No wonder Middlesbrough are so desperate to take him on loan before footballs best secret gets out

Yeah but we topped the league for minutes given to teenagers last season "minutes given to teenagers champions, you'll never sing that!

Report: Everton want to sign a £58m striker (hitc.com) £58m!!!!!!

With that many washing machines it's a wonder they dont keep more clean sheets.

We’ve been shambolically run it’s as simple as that. All that nonsense about is being a well run club was BS. The only club in that been in the premier league a decent amount of time with a sell to buy strategy and even then we’ve not got a pot to piss in. The obsession with trying to be clever and believing our own hype. Rather than buying 3-4 quality players for c£30m that address the fundemental weaknesses in the team weve gone through endless players at sub £15m no where near good enough.

What's wierd is he has a go at you for being a grown man posting stuff on football forums when he spends his his whole life posting his preachy shite across multiple forums and everyone on all of them thinks he's complete crumpet.

Such a strange, bitter old man. I expect you saw all the union jack bunting last weekend and were shitting it about the rise in facism.

If it is the plan then the plan needs ripping up and starting again.

Yes.

You're stumped because you're missing the point completely. Signing a load of kids who have never played in the premier league before wont end well unless there is a core of quality players around them, we dont have either. So we're going to throw them in with the crap we've got. I've already said Bazunu would be a good signing if we already had a decent number one and he was brought in to challenge him then replace him plus we had a good defence for him to play behind, we dont have either.

What better way to force electric cars on people than to make driving petrol/diesel ones too expensive......

I'm all for buying potential but until we've got a good solid core of players to mix them in with we are always going to muddle along. As others have said every good team has a blend of youth and experience. Even Fergies "dont win anything with kids" team of the mid 90s was built around players like Irwin, Bruce, Pallister, Cantona. Keand and Giggs were in their mid twenties, Schmicheal had been there for 4 years and was an established international keeper. It's actually a bit unfair of us as a club to just throw these players in and expect them to perform at premier league level when they've never done that before. Some of them will come good, but some of them wont.

It beggars belief it really does. A decent centre half, one that can actually mark, defend and organise the others and a competent goalkeeper and we've fixed a lot of our problems.