hypochondriac

I know an ex spurs youth player who still knows people at the club. The rumour there is that they are selling Ali, keeping kane and getting bale back. Interesting to see if that is true.

Good to know. If true though it's a bit of a pr misstep (again) to not get it sorted quickly.

Well there's a lot to be concerned about but that's quite clearly bullsh*t.

But then how do you explain January? Or the previous January? Are you suggesting that even with constraints it was an impossibility to get in a fonte replacement or a vvd replacement or a creative midfielder?

I really thought the club had a great chance to turn things around a bit after that abortion of a season. Appoint Hughes early doors, put some bullsh*t statements out about unity and purpose and marching on together as one, get a nice early signing in before the world Cup and get everyone excited for a full pre season in China and starting the new season with a bang. Instead we get the paralysis and the dithering before possibly Hughes walking away, us smearing him in the press or some other PR to cover our a*ses and hide the fact that we have no money and bringing in another no mark coach from the continent or a young English coach with little experience to continue the inept football. I think Ralph was telling the truth about us being a small club- expectations have clearly been reined in since the new guys took over and showed no interest in investing in the club other than setting up some pointless Chinese academies that no one in England gives a tinkers cuss about. Continue on this path and we will have further disillusionment, the malaise will continue and we will be down within three years and I can't see us returning.

Do we get to keep the trophy yet?

Yes and it was a terrible season. Who knows if we would have been any better off with more decisive decision making. Lets remember also that this season we have a truncated transfer window and thus it's more important than ever that we get this sorted asap. |The impression it gves is we are being difficult and dragging our feet once again and we look slightly rudderless. |It's not a good look.

We didn't get a pelle replacement, we didn't get a fonte replacement, we didn't sort the vvd situation, the failure to sort any players of quality in January was an absolute clusterf*ck, we should have sacked pellegrino months before we finally did. Those are just a few examples. I want some decisiveness and an idea of some sort of plan and drive. We definitely had that under Cortese and now who knows?

No I think many of our problems have stemmed from being indecisive and slow to sort out some of our obvious issues.

Exactly. We don't have the level of players required for that type of football and we probably never will have. This is getting slightly farcical now that we can't even tie up what should be an incredibly simple deal.

Absolutely. The main reason I went to Milan and Prague is because I knew we probably wouldn't be in that situation again for a very long time. Like you I would like a cup win though.

I genuinely thought the club had learnt from the last two seasons and would have been decisive at the very start of this window so we can hit the ground running. There is something fundamentally wrong at this club and its been very evident since koeman left. I think we may struggle again next year.

It certainly does seem like that yes. All we need now is Hughes to walk away to put the cherry on top and saints will go to radio silence again now doubt.

Probably. Should be long and carillo though really.

I'd take 20 million.

Would be interesting to know who he proposed as the other option. Hopefully Reed doesn't like Hughes because he isn't a yes man and he can't really influence him too much.

Really drives home when reading these how utterly crazy it was that he wasn't sacked earlier. Sounds like Huddersfield was the final straw for you whereas it was Leicester for me but regardless of that, only the most incompetent and inept leadership would have kept him in charge after Palace. It makes me very worried that we simply don't have the right decisive people in charge at the club. Still makes me angry now that we didn't sack him after Palace. I may need the summer to get over it.

I'd prefer if you didn't try to associate me with this weirdo. Thanks x

I assume we have ticket money too? And commercial revenue?

What about the rest of the vvd money? Not forgetting the cash we will make selling Bertrand and maybe soares. Should leave us with about £80-100 million to spend if we wanted to.

It wasn't him who mistook him. To be fair he has very little knowledge of football and just about recognised Hughes who opened the door for him.

Who exactly are these forum experts you speak of? Because almost every poster in this thread has called for Hughes to be appointed.

It's not an either or scenario is it. I agree it's better than conning people into thinking we are challenging for champions league, but it's a much inferior mindset to what we had previously which was to be the best of the rest and challenging for Europe and the odd Cup final and finishing upper mid table.

I assume you are wilfully misrepresenting my point? Where did I mention anything about games?

It's obvious that he has started using the word "small" or "smaller" to try to play down expectations and prepare us for leaner times ahead.