Greenridge

The January window had been coming for, well, 12 months so there was no need for any 'panic' buying. It could have been done in a calm and measured manner with players that would enhance our first eleven / squad. That's why we have a team of people in the recruitment roles.

Double post.

May come under ‘outraging public decency’ law

Well, it is the ‘odd ‘ shocker and Ralph holds him in high enough esteem that I’m quite happy to trust him in all due respect. As for Stephens and Long, you crack on lol.

I don’t begrudge him the odd shocker. He’s one of our best players. Plenty others to focus our disdain on.

Maybe the players will have a 20 minute video for Ralph to watch in Tenerife with his good and bad points.

But but but he’s great at bringing the ball out. Can’t defend mind.

Indeed. It was not so long ago we had the likes of Fonte, Toby, Lovren and VvD in these roles. Now it’s a question of the best options with what we have at our disposal.

His primary role is to defend and Yoshi is streets ahead of Stephens in that respect.

He came off Saturday with a reoccurrence / continuation of his hamstring problem I thought. Not surprised he’s not training yet if that was indeed the case. Frustrating, but to be expected in the circumstances.

The murky world of football agents https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-6661473/Emiliano-Sala-pawn-sordid-transfer-shames-football.html

This is the crux of it. Yes he’s good with the ball at his feet and adept at bringing it out and setting up play, but, first and foremost he is a defender whose job is to prevent goals. That’s where his weakness is - as a defender.

We can put that with our net spend trophies. Going to need a new cabinet at this rate.

Harsh to blame him entirely for the pen but he really isn't a very good player and the fact that he is a regular says a lot about where we are with our squad.

He really is made of glass.

PEH out with head injury according to Blackmore

It’s not an unreasonable interpretation of events.

No PEH?

An interesting article on Deadline Day with agent Kiko Rodriguez (Jay's dad) https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/02/01/sports/soccer/01reuters-soccer-england-agents-feature.html

World class Puel must have had a few nominations.

The same board that was in place when the signings were made?

Ralph H also said, on several occasions, that we were looking to bring people in. That would suggest he wanted additions but let's pretend that never happened.

Have we got 11?

Why does it need to be a panic buy? We’ve known that the January window was coming up so our team responsible have had plenty of time to target acquisitions in a calm and measured manner. That is their job. There should be no ‘panic’ about the process whatsoever.

I'm assuming you quoted the wrong person as that reply doesn't relate to anything in my post.