benjii

Our basic model of signing players who are likely to appreciate in value and want to impress other clubs is sound. Teams like West Brom and Sunderland got into trouble because their squads were packed with aging average players that they couldn't sell to reinvest. However, it's clear that the current first team has problems with holding on to leads and I think part of that is down to leadership and mental toughness. If we can sign a couple of players with the attributes to fix that then we should, whether they are 22 or 32. With the money available in the PL, not everyone has to have resale value and when you are flirting with relegation then it's a false economy to focus exclusively on long term.

Near the start.

Saw one of your films the other day and I have to say, I was impressed with your stamina. The way that guy was going at it but you kept a stiff upper lip and dealt with it stoically and, for the most part, with some dignity.

Can he play right back? Lolzz.

Yeah, Bennett actually became OK. Davenport was ****e and remained ****e. Anyway what's Allaedine Yahia up to?

What could be better than a home kick off at 13:30 on a Sunday? Rejoice!

Helmut Kartoffelnsalad.

Cheers chaps.

Or maybe they are getting promotions and bonuses but, unsurprisingly and due to historical actuality, the majority of executives in organisations are still white blokes. Unless someone can show that BAME people are paid less than non BAME people for doing the same job it's all a little pointless (same as the gender reports).

It would be pretty odd if they were.

That guy was completely out of his depth. Incoherent, rambling and unable to debate sensibly. Obviously he's not alone in that but he was a complete waste of a seat.

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Ronaldo raped Ched Evans?

Actually, yeah! I'd do them a chocolate "log". A real Cleveland Steamer of a cake. With **** in t'batter and red and white icing inside. With the white made out of jizz and the red made out of dirty blood. The ****ing ****ers.

I, for one, would not make a skate cake. So I have to agree with the decision.

Probably go with a PIE for that, rather than a cake. Unless the aim is to entice kids.

****ing travesty really. Glad we were in it when we were!

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Agree with all that but we would need decisive leadership to deliver that and we don't seem to have it.

We've won 5 league matches from the last 39 so I would suggest a winning streak is looking unlikely.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want an owner who makes a tit of himself by spouting off and not delivering, like Everton or West Ham have. I don't want Gao getting personally involved in footballing decisions where he has no expertise. What I do want, though, is some sense that he has any purpose or clue whatsoever because at the moment it just looks like he just wanted to get some cash out of China and give his domestic profile a boost. Why has Kat kept 20%? Presumably because he couldn't meet the asking price. It all looks rather odd.

The decline is due to player recruitment failures and managerial appointment failures. Those failures have been exacerbated by a leadership vacuum which means nothing has been done to address the underperformance. Koeman did a cracking job and managed to bring in the likes of Tadic, Pelle and Van Dijk who did very well for reasonable fees. Quite simply, from that point on our recruitment has been rubbish. Not just in terms of quality of player but also getting the right mix of characters. Couple that with bull about the managers (remember the return to an exciting, attacking style of football under Pellegrino?!) and it isn't pretty. We've still had the odd success. Ings is a good signing, so is McCarthy and Gunn looks like a top prospect. But we've signed loads of garbage. Arguably we had been so successful that we were due a drop-off but we haven't acknowledged that our approach is failing and mixed up our strategy. We were desperately weak at centre back and kept looking for relative European bargains when perhaps we should have gone for a grizzly old PL stalwart. Same for central midfield. We've now got a squad of players where only two or three of them have any track record of decent Premier League perfoemances, week in week out. That's a gamble, and it's an unnecessary gamble when you've established yourself in the top flight.

Yes, but they did some of those too and didn't get booked!