alpine_saint

This. The club has got cocky after last summer and thinks it can pull the same stunts again. Sad times, the renaissance is over.

We are still a chickensh*t club in the scheme of things, it seems. f*ck ambition and being well-run, brings us nothing.

Would be very nice...

Agree with most of it, except the last 3 words. Spurs have been riding along on our coat-tails as we huff and puff our way up the heirarchy of English football for far too long. Hoddle, Pochettino, Mitchell, tried with J-Rod and Morgan, and now Toby.

Oh, thats just f**king great...

What predictions are you talking about ? I didnt make any. Pretty sad when you have to refer to cliches and stereotypes.

If you are right, AM dead-batted us at every turn. So it was never going to happen. I think you proved my point. Even Toby said earlier in the season it was unlikely/difficult. So why havent we signed another CB this summer and simply given up ?

Its a genuine question regarding our ongoing strategy. I think the strategy for-heaven's_saint is describing is a nonsense and will not make for a stable squad and club. Players and coaching staff with a little tastse of success will leave because of ambition. We have to decide if we are a selling club or not and set our sights accordingly. Whether you all like it or not, we sold less and were more stable under Cortese.

Exactly. Wasnt worth the paper it was written on. AM didnt opt-out in time, still its not binding.

Why is it drivel ? WTF is the matter with you today ?

A genuine question. A moronic answer. About par for the course round here nowadays..

No answers as usual...

SFC is in an intolerable situation, imo. We are better than also-rans and mid-table mediocrity - we were top 3 for most of last season. We are unable or unwilling to make the step up to genuine Top 6 contenders. The ease with which Liverpool and Tottenham pick off our players and staff testifies to that. Every time we threaten to smash the glass ceiling, we get looted. What REALLY is the way forward - to make progress - for SFC ? I dont see it....

Bottom line appears to be that Toby wont be playing in red and white stripes next season....... WTF did Les and co think they were doing agreeing to this crock of sh*t last season ? It was bleeding obvious that if Toby had a good season we'd be f**king gazumped.

You've become a caracature of yourself. Not worth the effort to respond to you.

If we've let Toby slip through our fingers for the amount of money being discussed in the media, I will start to wonder about our board again. Maybe they've got a bit overconfident.

Wouldnt have thought so, but the silly buggers surrounding getting Tobys signature and potentially letting Spurs in appears to suggest otherwise. Do we need Morgan to go to approach AMs asking price for Toby ?

You mean Matty's, not Rosler's I guess.. In which case I agree.

The lack of conclusion of this is really frustrating. Sure, I know that AM are playing silly buggers, but it doesnt help. Why can our board just bite the bullet and make a reasonable offer ?

Dont worry, its not.

Genuinely superb post.

Come back to gloat ? Why dont you f**k off ? You arent one of us anymore.

We knew this was coming. Its happened. Its now history. Bit peeved at how much we are getting and Liverpool seeming to think they can just click their fingers and our players come running with little resistance, but outside my sphere of influence. Far, far, FAR more worried about losing Toby to Levy and those arrogant pr*cks in North London.

This.