hypochondriac

FFS we are not talking about Clough and Taylor. We are talking about the here and now. Do you think that if the setup of the league stayed the same as it is now that a team could win the premiership and not spend an obscene amount of money? If you think it could happen then frankly I think you are deluded. Name one instance n the last twenty years where anyone has got close, top three even! It doesn't happen and it won't happen.

Once again posters like yourself are failing to grasp what others are saying. It's about being realistic and looking at the available evidence (that no one has ever won the premier league without spending an absolute shedload). It's not negative to say that we won't win the league without an enormous increase in spending. Positivity and negativity doesn't come into it.

What do you mean by this? If you mean you feel that in a decade we could win the league by pursuing the tactic we are at the moment, then I would ask you what club has ever won the Premier League (or even got close) by doing that?

Don't think so. I think he knows Lallana or something.

Exactly. It's good that the club are aiming as high as possible. It doesn't mean they think it is in any way achievable though.

Which of course would never ever happen. You are right though, if football as a competition fundamentally changes then our chances of winning the league could increase.

Oh I have no problem with the club saying they want to win the league. What is irritating is when weird people on here actually believe that that is achievable. Nothing wrong with the club saying it but I'm certain that they don't actually think they will be winning the league in the next couple of decades without an enormous spending increase.

Precisely. I can certainly envisage a scenario where we established ourselves in the top flight and regularly challenged for Europe. I could even see us possibly getting into a position like Spurs at some time in the future. What I don't think we have any chance at is winning the league adopting the strategy we currently have. We won't win the league unless we change our spending policy drastically and basically become a new Chelsea or Man City.

A one off competition is very different from an entire season.

Not necessarily.

Only in print. He can hold it up to his face...

Yep could well be someone sniffing around now. I mean if Bournemouth can get someone then anyone can.

Didn't Adkins just say he couldn't see it happening?

Messages like this also make me lol: What is the obsession over there with using overly emotive language and being over the top? Can they not see how cringeworthy and embarrassing they sound? It was the same with Avram.

Am astoundingly deluded post from pompeyonline:

Did your ... after Zaha imply that we would be making a bid?

Boris is a legend. He speaks a lot of sense.

Has he agreed to our terms?

The off centre S makes that slightly unsettling.

Does your yet imply that a bid will happen?

Gotcha. Suppose we don't need Palace's agreement then.

How can we offer the player a deal if we haven't agreed a deal with Palace?

We don't know if either of them are true...

Hasn't happened yet!

I would rather have Naughton TBH but in terms of value maybe Clyne is better.