S-Clarke

It's just the normal ''back from holidays, and into pre-season'' press call. It'll be a case of talking about the hopes for the season, how the players look after the summer, what the pre-season plans are like.....and if any transfers are imminent.

Sounds like Pilkington has been tapped up.

I have a feeling that Adkins doesn't see Dickson as a relibable LB - when he's played he's quite often been used in an advanced left midfield position, and if that's where he sees him in the championship then we would need another LB for cover. (but I'd imagine if this happens, Harding would become the cover)

Pointless!

It shows the differences between the ambitions of us and P'boro. They're after good L1 players - we've been there and done that. We're now after good championship players. Totally different playing fields, we quite clearly have a fair bit of cash.

We already have a very settled squad, with players that are very familier with eachother having been together for the last 2 years. Signing 2 or 3 quality players will not require gelling time, that's just a myth. If they're good enough they're make an impact straight away. It's also still June.

Absoloutley spot on. There's no point panic buying in June, which is what alot of posters seem to advocate us doing.

lol, nice.

He'd be a fool leaving if true. He can either have professional football week in week out, in a very competitive league. Or reserve and Under 18 football at arsenal, because he'll be nowhere near their first team yet. Similar to Theo in that he could potentially waste 18 months which could be put to better use...i.e playing!

Close season is fantastic...!

Ox will be fine. He'll tear the championship a new one if we keep him. Arsenal aren't just interested in a good L1 player, they're after one of the hottest talents in english football.

I went pretty much every week, and the performances were solid in the whole. We did a professional job on most of the teams we played, even if we only won 1-0 we didn't get caused too many issues in alot of games and most of the time we came out with the higher possesion stats. I appreciated the run we had at the end of the season, it was a promotion winning run of form. Winning games from all sorts of positions, being 2-0 down, winning at the death, winning a game confortably 3-0 etc.... We also have Lallana, Morgan, Fonte, Davis, Jaidi, Butterfield, Richardson (probably a few more I can't think of) that have played regularly at championship level. If we can add 2 or 3 more quality players to that group, we'll be fine. We're not coming into this level with a lower league squad, we already have a pretty decent championship basis for a squad. Just chill.

Have you spoken to Cortese?

No point in throwing the stats Nick, they have their minds made up. Apparentley we were supposed to win 5-0 every week.

He has an agenda, take anything from him with a big pinch of salt.

tbf Lambo got 37 goals and 25 assists in his first season with us. Pretty amazing stats.

Pretty much. You've been here during pre-season before, haven't you?

And the ball was given to us for free for christ sake, if we had any money we'd have gone out and bought the best ball for £10m. We're skint.

What a mental view.

This thread is born out of frustration by the way the club now runs. I think everyone is dying to see some movement and you certain clubs being linked with player x, y , z etc - but we don't work like that, you hear our signings once they have put pen to paper and I have no reason to believe that will change. People saying we have no money is based on nothing but frustration, we clearly do have money and you will see the proof over the next 6-8 weeks. As I posted before, Leicester City fans are also asking ''where is the money?'' as they are underwhelmed by their activity. Just to put some perspective into it.

I think most people with sanity agree with that too! Anyone panicking now, and I'll stand by what i said before, is being hysterical.

To put a bit of context in this thread, it's not just us thinking this way. Check out the Leicester City forum http://talkingballs.co.uk/showthread.php/33715-less-money-than-we-thought?p=1041075#post1041075

Every team in L1 and the champ were saying this about us and M'Boro last season. It really isn't that simple.

tbf, the teams coming down last year were utter tosh. Portsmouth were a mess, had no team and no money and were never going to be a threat. Burnley had a rubbish manager in charge and weren't very strong anyway. Hull were financially messed up and struggled to get anyone in. The teams coming down this year already have established premiership squads and seem to have the means to add to it. The weakest of the relegated squads is probably Blackpool, but with holloway in charge they'll still be a tough team to play.

Not in my recent memory, even when we were skint we managed 1.2m on Morgan.