ErwinK1961

Well said

Totally agree with you - not good enough. Shipping Long, Obafemi and Nlundulu and signing another striker would be great (we can dream).

That genuinely staggered me - had to look it up. But guess that averages at 40m a season, so not crazy. They also had a very small net spend last year, so will be interesting to see if that continues in the current landscape. Fair to say there’s quite a lot of wasted money in there. £202m to improve 0% is a lot of money.

Still have Obafemi too…

Imagine it will be the buying teams media saying £15m plus add-ons, Blackmore and Co saying £25m plus, truth probably somewhere in the middle. These opposing figures will then be dragged out and used in arguments by the usual suspects on here to suit their particular agenda. Rinse and repeat.

No-one is paying that. If they do, then we can ask for £40m for Ings minimum

Is there optimism? Must have missed that.

Don't think it would have mattered what the fixtures looked like, after the end of the season we had any fixture looks tough at the moment. On the flip side, if we do somehow banish the Goodison / opening day hoodoo, the fixtures will be viewed differently.

That last goal looked offside to me? Nothing to do with me having Portugal to win 2-0…

😂😂

After watching the Amazon documentary, didn’t realise how close he was to going there in the first place. Swansea completely screwed them.

Wonder if us and West Ham will be the go to for random (or made up) rumours this summer.

True, but he’s in the best possible hands and no doubt getting the best care available. Medics, bloody hell - what wonderful people.

Shame. But as you say unlikely to have started ever week, plus only worthwhile if there’s an option to buy.

If that’s true, then he deserves to be sacked. Ludicrous.

Well said.

True story, I nearly ran him over by the ferry port. Maybe that put him off?

What a shame. See Nuno turned down Palace, be interesting to see what way they go.

Sorry, thought you were talking about both! Wouldn’t surprise me with Fraser

There’s not a chance in hell we’re paying McCarthy £110k a week.

I can’t believe someone with the nous of Semmens would have been duped by this very obvious fake entity. Clearly something stank from the outset and I think you’re probably right, Gao forced this onto them and the club.

Absolutely spot on.

1 down, 2 to go... Seriously though, bit of a shame really - had the potential to be a better bet than both Fraser and McCarthy (maybe he still will), but never seemed to recover from the 9-0.

Did you miss the part where Piran said he was being flippant? And that he wasn’t suggesting Prost should come back, but that one person can have a big impact?