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What we’re the coaching staff pissed off about by the way? Were fucking lucky they didn’t get a pen. They should worry about themselves rather than the ref.

It’s a worrying thought really. We’re bad enough playing a back 3, but with those 3 idiots back there it boarders comical.

This result is on Jones. No one else. Anyone who’s watched us knows we cannot play a back 3, yet he continues to persist with it. He seemingly refuses to play players in their best position because he’s desperate to shoehorn Lyanco into the squad, because he thinks he’s best at suiting his shite hoofball. Getting a win here was unlikely, but we didn’t even give ourselves a chance. As others have said, we’re wasting money with Jones still being the manager, utterly clueless.

Why NJ? “With all due respect” this has nothing to do with him. Until they’re holding a saints shirt I won’t get my hopes up (although looks promising) and Until I see them actually play, I won’t expect too much. Let’s wait and see is my view point.

Mara going the other way on loan? Wouldn’t be the worst deal for the player / us…?

We’re SR / Rasmus in charge of recruitment in the last window? I genuinely don’t know the answer but I’d guess that it was that little bald fella and Crooker. Not sure it’s fair to stick the blame on them for the last window if they were in charge of overseeing it.

Because an agents job is to look after the best interests of the player. Keeping a deal quiet for a team destine for relegation, to prevent potentially other interest from better clubs isn’t really doing that.. is it. It also doesn’t stop the selling club from leaking things to get a better price.

On it doesn’t. If we’ve agreed to pay the release clause in full, then we’re free to talk to the player. It seems in this case, the player just didn’t want to come here.

It’s exactly how it works. It’s more of a eBay ‘buy it now’ rather than Auction. If a release clause is set at X, if you offer X then the player is free to agree terms with you. Little the selling club can do. Id expect Marseille have offer 2m more but in instalments rather than a lump sum, which the release fee needs to be paid at.

The return is growing the club & keeping them a PL side. Under SR model, it’s essential, as the ‘main club’ were a top flight team. Every business / investment is a gamble.

You really don’t know how this works Ron, do you. After seasons of the same shit, I’d have thought all woulda clocked on by now. Seems most have.

They’re just as much a basket case as us. If they’re after someone, we should steer well clear. They’re only marginally more attractive than us atm because they have a manager capable of keeping them in the league.

It’s not if you’re willing to invest properly in your squad. Brighton being a prime example. Years of poor recruitment, penny pinching and underinvestment have left us with under qualified staff (on and off the pitch). we’re now seemingly willing to spend a bit of cash, but it’s too late. Destine for the drop there are 19 other PL clubs who are more attractive options than us.

That was my assumption that the deal would be exactly that. Effectively a 6 month loan for £3m or whatever the cost is. Logically thinking, assuming he would want to join, that makes sense. Even if we’re in for this Portuguese lad as well.

You like to think those running the club understand the rules around release clauses etc. however, it wouldn’t at all surprise me if these idiots running the club didn’t.

I mean what he is saying is right I guess, but he and his family really need to stay off social media / web forums. Their skin is clearly not thick enough for it. Although, I think at 1-0 down, we’re already out of the game. I can’t foresee Newcastle being as bad as they were Tuesday night.

XG?

We’ll done for being about 2 weeks late on that joke.

Next season is the campaign before a European championship. There is no way we keep anyone with any ambition in playing in that.. JWP, ABK, DCC, lavia etc.

Agreed. Time he gets a run out, genuinely couldn’t be any worse than Bazunu.

This, so far, is a considerably better performance than that against Lincoln. We actually look like the PL side.

ABK doing his ACL was a load of rubbish then

We need to win pretty much the same amount of games in the last 20 as we did in the whole of 2022 and there is absolutely no sign that we will do that. Short of signing Haaland, ederson & Dias (and Pep), it’s all but a formality and we’re down.

He had bags of potential but no end product. He’s basically a winger version of Che. If we want to stay up, we need to stop littering our squad with championship players. We’ve got far to many already.

Our issue isn’t creating chances so to speak, it’s actually taking them. Che isn’t and never has been a strong enough finisher to play as a lone striker. He wastes far too many chances, at least 1 big “he should be scoring that” a game. Outside the top 6/7 teams, no one in this league is good enough to waste the chances we do. It’s no surprise that our best runs of form have been when we have a striker taking their chances, Ings / Broja. With the way we are playing under Jones, deep block and counter, we simply need to find a clinical striker. Im not sure a ‘forward’ to create more for Che is a sensible approach. Che is a likeable bloke and box to box is brilliant, but if want to stay in this division, we simply have to place him with someone more clinical. Those suggesting Tella are blinded by a half decent run in the championship playing for a cracking team. He’s been tried in the Pl and much like other we’ve signed, Armstrong / Adams, isn’t good enough at this level. His time at Burnley is perfect as it’ll give him some much needed experience (and evidence he is good enough at that level) in the championship and/or tempt Burnley to give us a decent wedge for him.