Smirking_Saint

We can't afford Abraham And if he isn't interested in WHU he won't be interested in us

And if we get relegated his asset becomes significantly devalued

Our decline was due to poor recruitment, a belief that we can sustain selling our best and recruiting hidden gems You cannot continue with the above methodology, as unfortunately we have seen. Its also reducing rewards as you begin to fall down the table you then end up shopping in different brackets. Im not suggesting we follow an old Leeds, Portsmouth or even a Bournemouth model.... I'm not suggesting that we go in chasing Europe, but we almost certainly need to spend above our budget at certain times.... now is one of those times We have struggled for the last 2 or 3 years and have survived, in part, due to the lack of quality in the teams below us. If we fail to adequately prepare for this year, I have no doubt we will struggle again This is one of those years that we need to potentially go into the red to stave of a relegation that will cost us far more than overspending on a goalscorer

I have no love for Austin But he isn't wrong, if you show no ambition then you're going to lose your best players

Go fuck yourself Ings A club in Europe I could swallow..... but Aston Fucking Villa We must be an absolute mess btw

It sort of is...... its just a bit more sophisticated in its application

Im not sure he is; - Top young CB - Breaks into England team - Breakthrough year last year - Brighton don't want to sell - English tax

Which is a completely irrelevant point and has nothing to do with the intricacies of the market To put it another way then, I don't want to sell my house but theres a wealthy landowner wants to buy it to demolish it.... its only worth 450k but I won't sell unless he offers me 1.5m plus.... which makes what its worth again somewhat irrelevant

I get that, but all of us were worried towards the end of the season, some more than others, we got away with it because of our early season form, which was fantastic We were lucky that those at the bottom of the table never really found any significant form I get what you are saying, and in hindsight we were fine, but were you really feeling 'comfortable' ?

I'd say comfortably is a bit of a stretch

This is what I'm saying though, we don't have to go hell for leather, its unnecessary... but when required we need the funds available to ensure we are comfortably able to remain in the PL This is one of those situations, Id happily nail my colours to the mast here and suggest without spending more than we receive it will be a miracle if we have a season outside of the danger of relegation Like you followed up... we're stuck behind a rock and a hard place.... overspend and we go bust, fail to secure the right playing assets, we are relegated... and probably go bust

This basically I appreciate our transfer strategy allows us to be financially viable and stops us from stretching beyond our means, but football finances are, and always will be intrinsically linked with on field progression At some point you need to stretch in order to ensure your PL survival, especially in a season such as this where we are so obviously calling out for reinforcements It doesn't matter how careful we are financially if we end up in the Championship as that event has the potential to decimate any financial plans we have.

Unfortunately quite possibly not for us

This is true but they are only under it by about 200-300k I believe (Which for a club like Barca isn't huge) Not sure if that figure includes Messi's wages or not, either as they stand or renegotiated. Still, they have so much overpaid crap, surely they can just dump Coutinho, Pjanic, O Dembele and be ok Their recent transfer policy has been absolutely woeful

It wasn't particularly successful when we tried to use Salisu there either Im assuming Ralph will go back to his favoured 4222 system, which both Perraud and KWP as the wingbacks

I can't help but feel completely underwhelmed by Williams

I can't help but think this 2nd half was made even more dull by Danny Murphy's monotone, insipid punditry bollocks BBC really have a poor punditry team this year

Hmmmm

I mean, you’ve obviously got an opinion to open your post with ‘fish lips’ TBH if somebody wanted to pay me a load of money to post pictures in my pants Im not sure Id be worried much about what people on a football forum said about me Again, its up to her and what she values to be honest

Tad harsh to be honest, as much as Le Tiss himself has gone full on conspiracist nut he isn't a bad bloke, and still does a lot for chairty So does Alex from what I have seen on twitter, again, neither of them seem like bad people If she wants to do OF, thats up to her... I don't know the girl btw, just seems odd throwing mud at someone for what they want to do with their own body

Pompey is definitely moat cailin

You can only play 11 So you have 15 alternatives, I have absolutely no problem taking our best CB and CM who are also both of our likely captains if they can play after the group stages.... especially when we were handed a group that in all honesty we should be winning going into the tournament

Is that the guy that keeps arguing with Lighthouse ?

To be fair, you win tournaments by not letting goals in. But he has to get the front unit to play more effectively, and I don't buy the 'kane is perfectly fit' bollocks as he has been an absolute passenger for the last 180 mins

Its a moot point though, as we have 3 extra picks