Dman

I mean, neither played in England.

I'd say the 2 aren't mutally exlusive. Obviously Ramsdales wages would cause us a problem, but the reason we wont keep them, is because they aren't going to want to apply their trade in the championship.. I don't blame them in a WC year, either.

I mean, obviously he is as he is simply far too good and consistent for the championship. However, playing devils advocate, do we potentially need another anyway? Perhaps someone slightly different in make up - more technical etc. There would absouletly be times next season where we could play fernandes in a deeper role with someone else in the 10.

Mental Manji chatting utter nonsense... who'd have thought it. He spuouts the same crap every summer.

He's be absolutely useless in a high intensity, high pressing side. Much like he was under Ralphs Reign. Too slow & not very athletic get rid if we can.

Falling into the trap of trying to shoehorn the best 11 players into the side. It asn't worked in the past, wont in the future.

Did we have 1 eye on relegation when we signed, Tino, Lavia etc. despite being a established lower mid-table PL side? Or do you think that it could possibly be our business model to sign, what they see as, "value for money". Some work, like Tino, Lavia, Fernandes some don't like Bazunu, Archer, BBD. Im not really sure what your point you're trying to make. After wasting big money the last time round, the club were never going to go out and spunk big sums on a couple of players.

Archer - clearly (at least) our second choice behind Delap. Come off the back of a season in the PL and signed for £15. Clearly a bad buy in hindsight, but one we obviously thought had potential. BBD - looked a smart purchase at the time, again off the back of half a season in the PL where he actually done alright, after some time in La Liga. At the time of purchase, not the sort of player who would have gone to a championship club. Edwards - young, potential, cheap. A no brainer. Wood - cheap, knew Martins style of play. Just because the transfers didn't pay off, doesn't mean they were signed because we we intent on going down.. its just bad business. We were probably looking for value for money after spunking £40m on TP and Sulemana only a season before.. once bitten twice shy.

The only one you could maybe argue a case for is Wood. But even then, he was a bargain, Martins mate and one we wanted the season before...

He didn't help himself though. He was just a wedded to a system, much like Martin - All be it, I suspect longer term Juric's would have been more sucessful for us. I can't help but think back in disbelif that we actually persisted with Aribo at CB (scary that he looked one of the better ones) for a good 3/4 game period. Mental. Had he kept things simple and gone back to basics (like he did for the first 2-3 games), I suspect he would have seen out the season. His Man to Man system was just as bad as Martins suicide ball.

He went back to South America for what, 6 months?

Edwards is injured. He was replaced by Hampton, who was absolutly dreadful and subsequently sent home. I don't think Edwards is coming now? I actually hope he isn't - Fuller has done well enough this season for us not to need another all-rounder. We need a top / middle order bat to help us get scores on the board.

Yeah, he'll do alright there. Will probably be able to pick up some half decent players as well, if the new ownership are willing to put their hand in their pocket. He'll be judged on games vs Celtic and in europe. Both of which I think he'll struggle significantly in.

and Armstrong, Fraser, Smallbone,Wood and maybe even Bazunu (if they can see past his Irish connections).... Christmas come early...?

Surely Ramsdale isn't going to want another relegation on his CV....