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Better scouting as well obviously. Also got us Ings, livramento, Lavia, Ramsdale and the equivalent got us the likes of VVD. Spending money isn't a guarantee of success but £25 million in a number of areas of the pitch is going to give us a much better chance of success.

Has barely played this year and need game time. He's also getting on a bit. Probably bollocks but interesting to discuss the possibility:

Agreed. We should be spending 20-25 million for 4-5 players that are starters every week. 80-100 million minimum. Personally I'd try for 150 million and get 6 or 7 starters. Should be achievable really.

Be brought it on himself with his brain dead actions getting himself sent off in games when he's supposed to be setting an example.

I definitely think we could do with a couple of older prem heads. That could be Callum Wilson, maybe Cresswell at the back and we need a Stewart Armstrong replacement in the middle of the park when Oguchukwu goes. Not sure who that could be. Would Antonio be a good option up top? Or Welbeck?

Theoretically we will be in a much stronger position at the end of this season than last year. A fair bit less crap that we can't offload on long contracts, greater spending power having not spunked it all this year and a good chance of keeping some of our best players who will be great in the championship but less in demand given they've failed in the prem. If we can sign a creative player, a new striker, a winger, goalkeeper and full back and let's say we lose Fernandes, Ramsdale kwp, Dibling, Aribo, Sulemana, Onuachu and THB then we should be right up there and have a fun season.

I'm not sure what you're suggesting we do. Very few players good enough for the prem will sign for us in the championship. We can cross our fingers that the likes of our young cbs or Amo Ameyew suddenly develop into those type of players but other than that, the only real way to maybe survive our first prem season is to spend ten of millions net on the majority of areas of the team. We will only be able to do that once we have been promoted and the reality is that we will have to junk three quarters of the team minimum if we back in the prem.

Whelk called them 'their leaders.' That's factually accurate. Kin Jong un is the leader of North Korea but that doesn't mean he was democratically elected (Hamas were but it was a long time ago.)

They have still been in charge of Gaza and therefore leading things - whether a majority wanted them to or not.

Not for the championship we don't which is where we are headed. The problem will be if we manage to go up again how we will overhaul the squad to the degree needed.

The only positive from this is that if we can get promoted next year, we've been a lot more frugal this season so should be in a position to spend a lot more if we wanted to in an attempt to survive.

The innocent ones didn't deserve it. The difference of opinion centres around who is to blame for what's happened to them.

I don't know. I'd say the last relegation I disliked the players slightly more other than JWP and KWP. A lot of them can't help being shit, I don't think they're not trying in the main. Some of them are just painfully limited and have been asked to play a brand of football that was never going to work in the prem.

Retty standard for Scotland! All seriousness yet more evil people in the world. We're getting a couple of instant stream of terrible acts committed against children which is terribly upsetting. The only slight positive is at least they are being subjected to some sort of justice now.

That's quite likely in my opinion. Lab leak with the outbreak starting in the market.

I would suggest that the evidence they have access to is greater than the evidence you or I possess given the nature of their organisation. Will probably never know but it's certainly not a laughable theory, it's entirely plausible.

But officials told US media that the new assessment was not based on new intelligence and predates the Trump administration. The review was reportedly ordered in the closing weeks of the Biden administration and completed before Trump took office on Monday. Like you said it's unlikely we will ever know the truth either way. My argument has always been that we should have always been allowed to discuss the possibility of a lab leak.

Agree with what others are saying. Next year we need to go for promotion and then if we are successful we need to essentially buy a whole new team to have any chance of survival.

And yet this week:

True. Can't see us getting rid of Smallbone not that I'd be upset if we did.

Kwp Ramsdale Larios Aribo Sulemana Fraser Dibling Onuachu Taylor Fernandes ABK Lallana Ugochukwu I got to thirteen. You could add THB and maybe THB fo to get to fifteen.

Yes please.

I'm not sure he was suggested NG that, simply that he doesn't care which of them leave.

I'm going to take that with a pinch of salt until confirmed but let's hope so.

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