Lighthouse

Recent Alcaraz chat moved to a new thread, since this seems to have some substance.

I can’t for the life of me see why we’d want to let our best player leave in January, in the middle of a relegation fight. When we go down he’ll be gone in summer but it’d be madness to sell before then.

Can’t disagree with that.

If we go down this year it'll be down to appaling transfers from Reed and Wilson, years of stagnation and underinvestment from Gao and too little to late from SR. The managers are just a small piece in this puzzle. We've got pretty much the worst squad in the league, which means we will need an exceptional (rather than decent) manager to stay up.

Two out of City, Chelsea and Arsenal are going out.

Wood has been training for his Saints loan early.

I’m not sure if this is a real word but; gggguuueueaaahhhh 😣

Leandre Griffit was fairly enthusiastic about us on Twitter for a good while.

Two problems with that: Most of them do give a f**k they just lack talent and good management. For another club to buy you, you have to look like you’re quite good and give a f**k.

I’ve heard he put in a few flakey performances.

I have been known to flash at sailors.

You have hope?!

And Ralph had them 18th when he was sacked, so I’m glad you finally agree with me; he was overachieving.

I’m fairly sure that even the poorest PL clubs can offer a lot more money than Dinamo Zagreb. I just hope he’s better than Moi, although being worse would be impressive in itself.

It’s done deliberately to circumnavigate anti-copyright software. I’m no expert but I’m assuming it compares YouTube videos to protected intellectual property and if they match they get taken down.

Last time we got relegated we signed Ricardo Fuller, Tomasz Hajto, Kamil Kosowski, Bart Bialkowski and 38 year old Dennis Wise.

I have my reservations about this guy but if our scouts have managed to find a player worse than Tella to join us they should face criminal charges.

I’d like to see us sack Jones and appoint Dyche. Not because I think it will keep us up but so that everyone will shut up about appointing Dyche.

TBF he did play a significant part in sh*t housing a point out of Arsenal, only two other teams have manage that this season. He's not a particularly good player but used correctly he can sometimes be the horrible b*stard other teams hate playing against.

Wait, we have tactics?!

It’s nice that you think £70m is a big spend but I’m afraid you are mistaken.

Not bothered if we sack him or not, it’s too late now. We have nothing, literally nothing, to cause anyone problems in this league. Whether we like it or not, 18th and a point off safety is as good as this squad is capable of. Ralph and one vaguely competent player in the final third, signed in January, MIGHT have kept us up but I guess we’ll never know.