hypochondriac

To be fair to him he has had three competitive games with a new team. It takes time to build a rapport with those around you.

So one poster made a badly worded post which possibly suggested spending 100 million. No other poster as said anythibg like that as far as I can see.

No I wasn't complaining about selling our best players, I was saying that selling our best players isn't an action that gives me faith in those in charge. Building a great team to properly challenge for automatic promotion is the actions I expect which will give me faith in them. Sports Republic failed last year and their appointees this year are under pressure to deliver and do things differently. What they do this week will potentially give them a track record of success and thus deserving of faith in the future. Talk is cheap like I said.

That second one says we may spend 50 million on signings. We've spent 15 so far and imo we could get close to that with remaining signings so i don't consider that to be outlandish. No idea what that first poster was saying as it looks clumsily worded to me.

Who? I haven't seen anyone.

Ffs where did I say I didn't expect it? Of course I expected it but doing something expected doesn't then mean I have faith. What provides faith is leaving the squad in a stronger position than they are now which is what Martin has continually said they will do. They have a week to show it and prove they can be trusted.

Selling all our best players - despite getting some good prices-is not something that has persuaded me that we are building a team capable of automatic promotion. Downes, Charles and Manning are decent signings but it's not get enough and certainly not enough if we sell more which it looks like we may do. It's not flapping, it's being realistic about where we are and what they need to do - just like many people were last summer and too many shouted them down.

I'm persuaded by actions not words. They have a week to win trust and to back up their impressive words. There's a lot riding on this week.

I think if we have confidence in keeping Che, they could sell that to the fan base if we don't bring anyone else in. Any other scenario is going to have fans asking why we didn't go with Piroe and it's going to be a big risk to bring anyone else I'm if they aren't as effective. Keeping Adams now a must for me.

The pressure on sports Republic ramps up a tad. Real pressure on them to make the right calls this week and not weaken us.

Damn

Genuinely surprised we seemingly haven't challenged for this. If we lose Adams there's going to be a heck of a lot of disappointment.

Indeed. Duk is the signing I'd expect alongside Adams or Piroe to provide cover in the squad.

Agreed. My only point was that I expect us to be a bit further down the line with our strengthening in key areas. It hasn't been a disaster because we've continued to get results but it is making me nervous about if we will bring in enough by next Friday.

I assume for those people the worry is that we will sell Adams and not get either of those players.

Leeds linked with a lot of exciting attacking talent

I'm not even that fussed about the amount spent. I just really think we need a refresh of some of the squad and a strengthening throughout the team including some of our strength in depth which we really don't have at the moment. Four players minimum I would say.

I don't believe all this doom mongering about only selling things to cover the spending from last year. I'm sure some of it is that but we obviously want to make some decent signings as well and I'm confident we will do over the next week. The key is if we can effectively replace everyone who has left or is leaving in that time and I'm not confident we will be capable of doing that.

The pieces are there to smash QPR on Saturday and give everyone a boost before the window closes. I'd love us to get a comfortable win where we end up a few goals clear. I can't remember the last time that happened.

Bollocks did you predict we would have a week to go with no strengthening of our centre backs or attack. You might have predicted we would sell a lot or most of our good players but you don't have to be Nostradamus to predict th

Totally different players and positions.

I think Martin said something about getting more in this week. I wonder if he's disappointed.

I think if people were honest with themselves, there wouldn't be many who were predicting us to be at this stage of the window having sold off most of our players worth selling, with the others linked with moves away, a week to go until the window shuts and we've brought in one promising youngster, a loanee and a free transfer. I fully expected us to have improved the attack and defence by now, not potentially weaken them further with more outgoings. The only positive is that we have been successful on the pitch which takes the pressure off a bit. I dread to think what the mood would be like had we started like Leeds.

I'm incredibly positive when we do something to warrant it. I'll leave it to others though to rate last summers transfer window as a 9 or 10 and take the flack when I rate us lower and state exactly why. That's not positivity it's delusion.

There you go @buctootimhe deserves everything he gets.