S-Clarke

On par, but getting worse. Seemingly because he has no interest in us, none at all. If he was a passionate owner as our Ralph claims him to be...then he'd have bothered to learn English and given us some concrete proposals on his plans going forward. At the end of the day his actions speak louder than words, and all his actions have been is to sell and get rid, whilst not investing a penny. This entire charade seems to have been simply an ego boost for himself and his franchises in China, a quick and easy sale for Kat as she needed money urgently, whilst helping him jump on the football bandwagon they’re trying to promote over there. None of this is being done in the interests of us guys who spend our money to line his pockets. This entire takeover screamed alarm bells from the moment he initially failed any test.

The problem is, if this was cost cutting (which it seemingly is), it's only temporary cost cutting. So therefore it doesn't really make a great deal of sense. The return of Cedric, Hoedt, Bouful, Carillo, Clasie in the NPC is going to kill us financially. We won't be able to do anything until those are gone.

He was pretty clear in that he wanted players in the door, who were more suited to his way of playing. Yeah, he's got a smaller pool to work with, but it's ****.

I don't think the issue is with us shipping them out, as I agree they were pretty crap and not suited to this league. They weren’t going to do anything for us, so didn’t want them stinking the place out. The problem was that we didn't replace them with better/more suited players. Absolutely shocking really.

I wouldn't direct anger at the media team to be fair, they only push out what they are told to push out. I think they can/do make some good content.

It's embarrassing when you see we have fans who'd do something like that. There really are some pointless human beings on this planet. But am I alone in thinking all the sympathy towards Cardiff on this is a bit, well, OTT? He'd never set foot in their changing room, he'd never been named as a player in their squad, 99% of their fans would have never watched him play. The tragedy is for his family and friends, it's nothing to do with Cardiff and I don't like to see them jumping on board. I'd say Nantes should be the club and fans who should have any sympathy directed towards them, not Cardiff. They need to let it go and let the people who were really part of Sala's life mourn him

We have Huddersfield as our last game which is a huge bonus for us I think. Not saying Huddersifled will be involved as they'll be gone by then, but having an already relegated team at home on the last day is pretty perfect.... Cardiff meanwhile are at Old Trafford.

I think Slatery is decent to be honest. Valery isn't too bad. The fact the likes of Sims are being called upon is scary though. He couldn't even get into Readings team. It's those sort of guys (Targett, Sims, Hesketh, Gallagher) who just aren't good enough.

Valery was decent, but that's about all. He did step up I felt, but I wouldn't have called out anyone for a MOTM.

I felt we'd turned a corner but we were still light on quality and a few injuries from bad times, I naively thought we'd use that optimism we’d built to improve/build on the squad in January, as I did feel we'd have a little dip and we'd need some new faces to freshen it up. That didn't happen and now we're staring into the abyss. At least Gao didn’t have to spend any money though. Bonus.

The last two results have been killers for us, without question. We could have pulled ourselves away, but now we're in the thick of it until the final weekend I'd have thought. Really lazy first half, lack of intent, lack of confidence to move the ball quicker. We had a few passengers out there which didn't help the situation. Hoj returned to the bad Hoj, game seemed to pass Romeu and Prowse by. Bertrand looked like he'd forgotten how to play. Stephens was edgy most of the game and then did the inevitable (he's not good enough). Long was horrific, like beyond bad. Really, really painful to watch someone like him try to play football. Redmond ran around a lot but didn't contribute, seems to be going back into blind allies again - but he was our most threatening outlet, unfortunately that doesn't say much. Valery was decent though, which is good as he needs to step up. Now all we need to hear is that he's injured for a few weeks so our replacement RB can come in. Oh, wait. If this Tenerife trip is to sift out the crap then we will struggle to field a team when we return.

To be fair, it was his first game back. But I didn't expect him to be that bad.

Worst owner in the league. Worst owner we've ever had. Get the **** out.

He was absolute tosh, really struggled with the pace. Didn't get forward enough, poor on the ball. One of our weak links.

At the end of the day - Austin or Long, what was the difference? Both are crap and not of the right standard. Long runs around a bit and has some pace, so that gave him the nod I'd expect. That's about all he has though.

Maybe we can return and claim damaged goods or something? He is so not suited to this league, in fact he's seemingly not suited to playing football of any standard.

He was back to his worst today. This is why he's with us and not anywhere else.

How many new managers is it going to take some people to realise that the problems are deeper than that? Wakey wakey.

Nah, he grates on me. Stupid phrases, stupid interviews, stupid comments. If he mentions 'space' 'roster' or 'growth oppertunity' again, I will scream. He is the expert of saying loads without actually saying anything (just annoying americanisms, which mean nothing and are just PR managed words)

I really like him, looks like he's got something about him in my eyes. Probably the next 'big one' to emerge, in my opinion. Glad he's being given a chance.

I know what you are saying, but it's worth noting that over those years the revenue we make from TV/Prize money has also gone up. Our spending isn't increasing with the trend, and we do need to sell before we can outlay anything. Basically, those numbers above show that we've received about £104m in players and have spent £111m out on new - so that's only around £10m being spent which isn't being pulled in from sales. I know that's a very simplistic way of looking at it, and obviously you need to consider wages and the way transfer deals are structured etc, but we don't seem to have any disposable income for players unless we sell big first.

I think the key part of the summer is how quickly we can shift the likes of Cedric, Hoedt, Boufal, Carrillo on permanent deals. (maybe even Forster). Given how Boufal and Carrillo have been doing over in Spain, I think the chances of us getting a fee from their current clubs is slim, so they'll be back with us. I don't think the Cedric move is with an obligation to buy, so there's every chance he will be returned as well. Then we have the very big problem which is Fraser....absolutely no idea what's happening with him, but we're ****ing money away with him on the books. I think we've made a start in trimming the squad in this window, but my frustration is that it's primarily been loan deals - so we could be in the same position come the summer with an overloaded squad and players we don't want but no one else does either. Thus, again, restricting what we can do.

The only conclusion I can get to, regarding our performance in recent transfer windows, is that we are broke. We've been saddled with poor buys over previous windows which has left us in a position where we have a bloated squad, lots of overpaid expensive signings out on loan and highly paid players not performing. We need to sell before we can free up cash to buy. We're not a rich club and the way we've used our 'fortune' over the recent windows from our selling has been disastrous and we can see the impact that's having now. Until we can get the likes of Boufal, Carrillo, Hoedt, Cedric, Forster, Austin off our books for good, then we will continue to be hand tied in terms of what we can do. Yeah, we're probably penny pinching, but we've put ourselves into that situation by wasting so much valuable funds over the last 2/3 years. Congratulations Les and Ross, I'm staggered Ross is still in a job to be honest. He should be wholly accountable as to why we're in this position financially.

I think it would be different nowdays to be honest. Lallana, Lambert, Morgan. All off if we had a sniff of money.

Pretty sure it was a perm now. That's what was advertised on our OS and Sampdoria anyway.