More crap & lies then. Adkins quote on Tuesday was ..." he's player that I'm aware of...."
I would bloody hope so if he's been training with us. Or is Adkins blind or just hasn't encountered him on his daily walk around the training pitches.
See, this is what pisses me off. Just say it as it is.
"Yes, the kid has been training with us..."
If you can lie about something so obvious & that can easily be found out, what else are you lying about that can't be.
He didn't lie. He said he was aware of him.
That phrase is being frugal with the truth. Being aware of someone is a bit different to. 'He is training with us at the moment actually '. Imagine if RD used such words.
Why would RD have ever spoke about a player training with us?
This current obsession with bringing up RD at the moment is odd. Not digging you out personally, plenty of posters are doing it at the moment. But it needs to stop. Adkins and Sandgaard are light years ahead of RD in terms of football knowledge and care for our club.
Yet we are at thr lowest point we have EVER been in the league, with a desperately inadequate squad, almost no goal threat and an acceptance by Adkins that we are unable to pay wages needed to attract the best league one players. We have a youth policy at the same time that our youth team has produced fewer young players of real promise than for a long time. We have a promotion strategy which depends on us bucking the trend that promoted teams are the ones who spend the most. How is any of this 'light years' ahead? I hated RD and his regime by the way, but the phrase ' frying pan and fire' comes to mind.
Out of the frying pan (ie nearly going out of business) into a sustainable club that might not get promoted based on financial realities, in a season that's 3 games old?
Here you go, this might be more your speed if you think not being handed promotion is a disaster on the level of the club being asset stripped: https://www.chelseafc.com/en
Which club are you contrasting us with? Arsenal, who have never been relegated from the top league, or Chelsea, one of the most successful clubs in the world in the past 10 years or so.?
We are no more 'sustainable' as a struggling League 1 club than we were under any of the previous inadequate regimes. League I is not the level I want us to be at, nor has it been for most of the past. We have a support base than can support Champoinship football and that is what we should be aiming to achieve, as a minimum. I have no idea why a very rich man should wish to own a football club unless he wished to make it successful, not just allow it to eke out an existence. Success in any business depends on investment, not luck, a point Adkins himeself made today when admitting that it is the clubs who spend money that get promoted.
Charlton, Ipswich, Sunderland and probably Portsmouth and Wigan are not sustainable clubs in league 1. Not if they spend 1k a week or 10k a week on a player.
It's not if your hemerage money it's how much and for how long.
Unless they sell a big prospect for x amount of millions and reinvest some of the funds.
More crap & lies then. Adkins quote on Tuesday was ..." he's player that I'm aware of...."
I would bloody hope so if he's been training with us. Or is Adkins blind or just hasn't encountered him on his daily walk around the training pitches.
See, this is what pisses me off. Just say it as it is.
"Yes, the kid has been training with us..."
If you can lie about something so obvious & that can easily be found out, what else are you lying about that can't be.
He didn't lie. He said he was aware of him.
That phrase is being frugal with the truth. Being aware of someone is a bit different to. 'He is training with us at the moment actually '. Imagine if RD used such words.
Why would RD have ever spoke about a player training with us?
This current obsession with bringing up RD at the moment is odd. Not digging you out personally, plenty of posters are doing it at the moment. But it needs to stop. Adkins and Sandgaard are light years ahead of RD in terms of football knowledge and care for our club.
Yet we are at thr lowest point we have EVER been in the league, with a desperately inadequate squad, almost no goal threat and an acceptance by Adkins that we are unable to pay wages needed to attract the best league one players. We have a youth policy at the same time that our youth team has produced fewer young players of real promise than for a long time. We have a promotion strategy which depends on us bucking the trend that promoted teams are the ones who spend the most. How is any of this 'light years' ahead? I hated RD and his regime by the way, but the phrase ' frying pan and fire' comes to mind.
That's probably the biggest overreaction I have seen yet. We aren't in a great place, but I prefer this place to anything under RD. The bloke wrecked a squad that had real potential to push on in the championship having narrowly missed out on the playoffs. It needed 2-3 additions. He sold Standard Liege for 24m got 10mil for Batsuahi or whatever his name was in a sell on from Marseilles to Chelsea. 5 - 10 mil could have really pushed us over the line. Nope, lets give away our talisman striker to Bournemouth, who went on to scre 20+ for Bournemouth and Stephens for 400K. Both end up in the Premier league. He was a madman.
I'd rather have TS any day. It doesn't mean I'm not frustrated by the transfer window and promises, but to this point, TS doesn't seem to be running us into the ground.
Stockley will score goals with the right service. We need to keep the ball better and create more and higher quality chances. Improving the midfield with Kirk and a creative CM (Lowery?) would help, as would having an attacking left back rather than Gunter and a stronger bench.
Obviously a CAM and left back would make an immediate impact, if they were of the required standard, but you won't get full backs pushing on, let alone bombing, or midfielders running passed Stockley unless we can control the midfield.
You could put Roberto Carlos and Cafu in this team and they wouldn't be able to bomb forward.
Gilbey back could help that too. Are you saying we need to sign more than one CM? I don’t see that happening.
I don't know if its signing or shuffling. We need to find away of controlling the game which we drastically failed to do in the last two games.
I would be strongly tempted to play Morgan and Watson as the 2 tomorrow and Clare in the more advanced role. Watson and Morgan were very good in those roles against Lincoln and Hull right at the end of last season. Clare has the energy to get up and passed Stockley. We miss JFC so much at the moment.
Far from ideal but if you change nothing you will get the same result. I would consider 3 at the back but we really don't have the players for that.
Why would we put a player with no goal scoring record in that position? I agree we miss JFC and to be fair Gilbey. Those two make the midfield much stronger. Personally, I'm not sure what we can do with the midfield as it stands other than hope Morgan takes a big step forward or try to bypass it and compete when we haven't got the ball.
More crap & lies then. Adkins quote on Tuesday was ..." he's player that I'm aware of...."
I would bloody hope so if he's been training with us. Or is Adkins blind or just hasn't encountered him on his daily walk around the training pitches.
See, this is what pisses me off. Just say it as it is.
"Yes, the kid has been training with us..."
If you can lie about something so obvious & that can easily be found out, what else are you lying about that can't be.
He didn't lie. He said he was aware of him.
That phrase is being frugal with the truth. Being aware of someone is a bit different to. 'He is training with us at the moment actually '. Imagine if RD used such words.
Why would RD have ever spoke about a player training with us?
This current obsession with bringing up RD at the moment is odd. Not digging you out personally, plenty of posters are doing it at the moment. But it needs to stop. Adkins and Sandgaard are light years ahead of RD in terms of football knowledge and care for our club.
Yet we are at thr lowest point we have EVER been in the league, with a desperately inadequate squad, almost no goal threat and an acceptance by Adkins that we are unable to pay wages needed to attract the best league one players. We have a youth policy at the same time that our youth team has produced fewer young players of real promise than for a long time. We have a promotion strategy which depends on us bucking the trend that promoted teams are the ones who spend the most. How is any of this 'light years' ahead? I hated RD and his regime by the way, but the phrase ' frying pan and fire' comes to mind.
Out of the frying pan (ie nearly going out of business) into a sustainable club that might not get promoted based on financial realities, in a season that's 3 games old?
Here you go, this might be more your speed if you think not being handed promotion is a disaster on the level of the club being asset stripped: https://www.chelseafc.com/en
Which club are you contrasting us with? Arsenal, who have never been relegated from the top league, or Chelsea, one of the most successful clubs in the world in the past 10 years or so.?
We are no more 'sustainable' as a struggling League 1 club than we were under any of the previous inadequate regimes. League I is not the level I want us to be at, nor has it been for most of the past. We have a support base than can support Champoinship football and that is what we should be aiming to achieve, as a minimum. I have no idea why a very rich man should wish to own a football club unless he wished to make it successful, not just allow it to eke out an existence. Success in any business depends on investment, not luck, a point Adkins himeself made today when admitting that it is the clubs who spend money that get promoted.
Eh? I'm not contrasting us with anyone, I'm telling you that if you're going to collapse in on yourself when we don't win our first three league games and tantrum that we're worse off than we were under ESI then you should go off and support Chelsea, where you'll get all the big signings and fun wins you can handle. I also want us to be a success, but claiming that we're just as sustainable under an owner that cares and can afford to finance it against a bunch of chancers who took all the money they could out of the club, or an old man who hated us and literally didn't care about football and did the bare minimum is just stupid. We don't have a right to promotion, we've made some decent signings but not enough yet. We've made a poor start. Other than that, grow up. It's a 46 game season. If we don't go up this season then we'll go again next year, and if you're going to cry that it's NOT GOOD ENOUGH every time you don't get what you want then you're in for a miserable life
More crap & lies then. Adkins quote on Tuesday was ..." he's player that I'm aware of...."
I would bloody hope so if he's been training with us. Or is Adkins blind or just hasn't encountered him on his daily walk around the training pitches.
See, this is what pisses me off. Just say it as it is.
"Yes, the kid has been training with us..."
If you can lie about something so obvious & that can easily be found out, what else are you lying about that can't be.
He didn't lie. He said he was aware of him.
That phrase is being frugal with the truth. Being aware of someone is a bit different to. 'He is training with us at the moment actually '. Imagine if RD used such words.
Why would RD have ever spoke about a player training with us?
This current obsession with bringing up RD at the moment is odd. Not digging you out personally, plenty of posters are doing it at the moment. But it needs to stop. Adkins and Sandgaard are light years ahead of RD in terms of football knowledge and care for our club.
Yet we are at thr lowest point we have EVER been in the league, with a desperately inadequate squad, almost no goal threat and an acceptance by Adkins that we are unable to pay wages needed to attract the best league one players. We have a youth policy at the same time that our youth team has produced fewer young players of real promise than for a long time. We have a promotion strategy which depends on us bucking the trend that promoted teams are the ones who spend the most. How is any of this 'light years' ahead? I hated RD and his regime by the way, but the phrase ' frying pan and fire' comes to mind.
I think most of points here are absolutely valid. I’m not quite sure Sandgaard is the fire to Duchatelets frying pan but the rest I agree with.
More crap & lies then. Adkins quote on Tuesday was ..." he's player that I'm aware of...."
I would bloody hope so if he's been training with us. Or is Adkins blind or just hasn't encountered him on his daily walk around the training pitches.
See, this is what pisses me off. Just say it as it is.
"Yes, the kid has been training with us..."
If you can lie about something so obvious & that can easily be found out, what else are you lying about that can't be.
He didn't lie. He said he was aware of him.
That phrase is being frugal with the truth. Being aware of someone is a bit different to. 'He is training with us at the moment actually '. Imagine if RD used such words.
Why would RD have ever spoke about a player training with us?
This current obsession with bringing up RD at the moment is odd. Not digging you out personally, plenty of posters are doing it at the moment. But it needs to stop. Adkins and Sandgaard are light years ahead of RD in terms of football knowledge and care for our club.
Yet we are at thr lowest point we have EVER been in the league, with a desperately inadequate squad, almost no goal threat and an acceptance by Adkins that we are unable to pay wages needed to attract the best league one players. We have a youth policy at the same time that our youth team has produced fewer young players of real promise than for a long time. We have a promotion strategy which depends on us bucking the trend that promoted teams are the ones who spend the most. How is any of this 'light years' ahead? I hated RD and his regime by the way, but the phrase ' frying pan and fire' comes to mind.
In bazaro land club captain Jonjo Shelvey is just about to make his 600th appearance for Charlton as the early championship pace setters prepare for a 6 pointer with Fulham.
Karlan Grant will be looking to add to his opening day hattrick as he looks to regain his golden boot. His hopes are bolstered but the return to fitness of last seasons POTY Joe Aribo.
Alan Curbishley (who replaced the disgraced Alan Pardew soon after the Zabeel take over) 's young attacking side rebuilt after the record sale of Konsa to Arsenal have introduced young wing back Alfie Doughty and starlet Jeremy Sarmiento to the first team this season.
In the real world out youth team have stopped producing talent because Roland flogged them all or failed to give them proper contracts! If he had the slightest bit of sense with could have a championship side with 4 or 5 20-25 year olds in from our academy. In contrast we have just signed the most 1st year pros ever. That's really comparable isn't it!
More crap & lies then. Adkins quote on Tuesday was ..." he's player that I'm aware of...."
I would bloody hope so if he's been training with us. Or is Adkins blind or just hasn't encountered him on his daily walk around the training pitches.
See, this is what pisses me off. Just say it as it is.
"Yes, the kid has been training with us..."
If you can lie about something so obvious & that can easily be found out, what else are you lying about that can't be.
He didn't lie. He said he was aware of him.
That phrase is being frugal with the truth. Being aware of someone is a bit different to. 'He is training with us at the moment actually '. Imagine if RD used such words.
Why would RD have ever spoke about a player training with us?
This current obsession with bringing up RD at the moment is odd. Not digging you out personally, plenty of posters are doing it at the moment. But it needs to stop. Adkins and Sandgaard are light years ahead of RD in terms of football knowledge and care for our club.
Yet we are at thr lowest point we have EVER been in the league, with a desperately inadequate squad, almost no goal threat and an acceptance by Adkins that we are unable to pay wages needed to attract the best league one players. We have a youth policy at the same time that our youth team has produced fewer young players of real promise than for a long time. We have a promotion strategy which depends on us bucking the trend that promoted teams are the ones who spend the most. How is any of this 'light years' ahead? I hated RD and his regime by the way, but the phrase ' frying pan and fire' comes to mind.
Better fold the club then. There is no hope or point for a future.
I would rather the club acted with a sustainable strategy instead of throwing money at everything and everyone leading us to financial ruin.
Based on the recent interviews from TS and NA I'm... speechless? I didn't expect us to spend our way out of this league but I never dreamed we would be scraping the barrel.
Last season's squad was the absolute pits. It was awful. Never in a thousand years did I imagine we would be in a new season with a squad that's even worse. In fact, our new squad is so bad that we look back on last year's squad with glee. How is that even possible.
Even Nigel sounds discouraged. I really don't know what to say. Seems like Thomas is going to learn a few harsh lessons over the next year. Sadly for us fans we have learnt these lessons already and we know exactly what's coming.
Based on the recent interviews from TS and NA I'm... speechless? I didn't expect us to spend our way out of this league but I never dreamed we would be scraping the barrel.
Last season's squad was the absolute pits. It was awful. Never in a thousand years did I imagine we would be in a new season with a squad that's even worse. In fact, our new squad is so bad that we look back on last year's squad with glee. How is that even possible.
Even Nigel sounds discouraged. I really don't know what to say. Seems like Thomas is going to learn a few harsh lessons over the next year. Sadly for us fans we have learnt these lessons already and we look know exactly what's coming.
More crap & lies then. Adkins quote on Tuesday was ..." he's player that I'm aware of...."
I would bloody hope so if he's been training with us. Or is Adkins blind or just hasn't encountered him on his daily walk around the training pitches.
See, this is what pisses me off. Just say it as it is.
"Yes, the kid has been training with us..."
If you can lie about something so obvious & that can easily be found out, what else are you lying about that can't be.
He didn't lie. He said he was aware of him.
That phrase is being frugal with the truth. Being aware of someone is a bit different to. 'He is training with us at the moment actually '. Imagine if RD used such words.
Why would RD have ever spoke about a player training with us?
This current obsession with bringing up RD at the moment is odd. Not digging you out personally, plenty of posters are doing it at the moment. But it needs to stop. Adkins and Sandgaard are light years ahead of RD in terms of football knowledge and care for our club.
Yet we are at thr lowest point we have EVER been in the league, with a desperately inadequate squad, almost no goal threat and an acceptance by Adkins that we are unable to pay wages needed to attract the best league one players. We have a youth policy at the same time that our youth team has produced fewer young players of real promise than for a long time. We have a promotion strategy which depends on us bucking the trend that promoted teams are the ones who spend the most. How is any of this 'light years' ahead? I hated RD and his regime by the way, but the phrase ' frying pan and fire' comes to mind.
That's probably the biggest overreaction I have seen yet. We aren't in a great place, but I prefer this place to anything under RD. The bloke wrecked a squad that had real potential to push on in the championship having narrowly missed out on the playoffs. It needed 2-3 additions. He sold Standard Liege for 24m got 10mil for Batsuahi or whatever his name was in a sell on from Marseilles to Chelsea. 5 - 10 mil could have really pushed us over the line. Nope, lets give away our talisman striker to Bournemouth, who went on to scre 20+ for Bournemouth and Stephens for 400K. Both end up in the Premier league. He was a madman.
I'd rather have TS any day. It doesn't mean I'm not frustrated by the transfer window and promises, but to this point, TS doesn't seem to be running us into the ground.
Roland made many mistakes, but in his defence here the problem was that the contracts were allowed to run down by the Spivs, after they ran out of money. He inherited a squad full of players with 6 months left on their contracts
Stephens was out of contract in the summer, if we hadn't have sold him he would have left on a free anyway (like Hamer did)
And while the Yann decision was wrong (nothing that he was also out of contract in the summer), I bet Bournemouth were also paying silly wages, judging at how they failed the FFP rules.
Stockley will score goals with the right service. We need to keep the ball better and create more and higher quality chances. Improving the midfield with Kirk and a creative CM (Lowery?) would help, as would having an attacking left back rather than Gunter and a stronger bench.
Obviously a CAM and left back would make an immediate impact, if they were of the required standard, but you won't get full backs pushing on, let alone bombing, or midfielders running passed Stockley unless we can control the midfield.
You could put Roberto Carlos and Cafu in this team and they wouldn't be able to bomb forward.
Gilbey back could help that too. Are you saying we need to sign more than one CM? I don’t see that happening.
I don't know if its signing or shuffling. We need to find away of controlling the game which we drastically failed to do in the last two games.
I would be strongly tempted to play Morgan and Watson as the 2 tomorrow and Clare in the more advanced role. Watson and Morgan were very good in those roles against Lincoln and Hull right at the end of last season. Clare has the energy to get up and passed Stockley. We miss JFC so much at the moment.
Far from ideal but if you change nothing you will get the same result. I would consider 3 at the back but we really don't have the players for that.
Why would we put a player with no goal scoring record in that position? I agree we miss JFC and to be fair Gilbey. Those two make the midfield much stronger. Personally, I'm not sure what we can do with the midfield as it stands other than hope Morgan takes a big step forward or try to bypass it and compete when we haven't got the ball.
Given we don't have any midfielders with good goal records available right now I can see the logic in trying Clare further forward. He is not going to be a direct goal threat but he could bring a bit of physicality and presence to draw defenders away from Stockley.
It's hardly ideal but the current version of the midfield doesn't seem to be consistently good so a change has to at least be considered. If it doesn't work so be it but I can't see we'd have lost anything in the attempt
I know others don't share my belief, but I genuinely believe Thomas stalled on potentially securing promotion last season by waiting for an unhappy manager to walk. I don't know the exact figure saved by waiting but that should be viewed in the context of larger income and closer proximity to the promised land had we got promoted.
If he was planning to start this season with our current budget, surely there would have been even more urgency not to pass up the opportunity that was there last season. We can only speculate on the reason for it, but I am minded that something has changed since then.
More crap & lies then. Adkins quote on Tuesday was ..." he's player that I'm aware of...."
I would bloody hope so if he's been training with us. Or is Adkins blind or just hasn't encountered him on his daily walk around the training pitches.
See, this is what pisses me off. Just say it as it is.
"Yes, the kid has been training with us..."
If you can lie about something so obvious & that can easily be found out, what else are you lying about that can't be.
He didn't lie. He said he was aware of him.
That phrase is being frugal with the truth. Being aware of someone is a bit different to. 'He is training with us at the moment actually '. Imagine if RD used such words.
Why would RD have ever spoke about a player training with us?
This current obsession with bringing up RD at the moment is odd. Not digging you out personally, plenty of posters are doing it at the moment. But it needs to stop. Adkins and Sandgaard are light years ahead of RD in terms of football knowledge and care for our club.
Yet we are at thr lowest point we have EVER been in the league, with a desperately inadequate squad, almost no goal threat and an acceptance by Adkins that we are unable to pay wages needed to attract the best league one players. We have a youth policy at the same time that our youth team has produced fewer young players of real promise than for a long time. We have a promotion strategy which depends on us bucking the trend that promoted teams are the ones who spend the most. How is any of this 'light years' ahead? I hated RD and his regime by the way, but the phrase ' frying pan and fire' comes to mind.
That's probably the biggest overreaction I have seen yet. We aren't in a great place, but I prefer this place to anything under RD. The bloke wrecked a squad that had real potential to push on in the championship having narrowly missed out on the playoffs. It needed 2-3 additions. He sold Standard Liege for 24m got 10mil for Batsuahi or whatever his name was in a sell on from Marseilles to Chelsea. 5 - 10 mil could have really pushed us over the line. Nope, lets give away our talisman striker to Bournemouth, who went on to scre 20+ for Bournemouth and Stephens for 400K. Both end up in the Premier league. He was a madman.
I'd rather have TS any day. It doesn't mean I'm not frustrated by the transfer window and promises, but to this point, TS doesn't seem to be running us into the ground.
Roland made many mistakes, but in his defence here the problem was that the contracts were allowed to run down by the Spivs, after they ran out of money. He inherited a squad full of players with 6 months left on their contracts
Stephens was out of contract in the summer, if we hadn't have sold him he would have left on a free anyway (like Hamer did)
And while the Yann decision was wrong (nothing that he was also out of contract in the summer), I bet Bournemouth were also paying silly wages, judging at how they failed the FFP rules.
The only defence anyone can mount for Roland is that the club was massively underfunded and mismanaged in the previous 10 years as well. He probably actually didn't make it significantly worse but that is faint faint praise indeed.
Yes get in there - thats the type of signing that will make the league sit up and take notice. This place will calm down now (after the jubilant celebrations of course)
Taken from a Crewe Alex fan on Twitter, don't know where this appeared exactly but interesting read re. Lowery
Wow, what a knob that agent sounds, IF he does sign for us, let's hope he changes his agent at the same time, having said that it is down to how Lowery negotiates with his agent, but seems to be being advised some wierd stuff by the sound of it.
I’ve just been told about the Tranmere winger ‘he’s shit mate’ also that watson and Dobson are both starting tomorrow . But I’ve also been told he think we’re signing him (the winger)
Yes get in there - thats the type of signing that will make the league sit up and take notice. This place will calm down now (after the jubilant celebrations of course)
Thank god he is signing, else its a bit like when Gomes was on trial yet didnt sign
Equally then turned around and started panicking that if we couldnt sign him - Who could we get in
I’ve just been told about the Tranmere winger ‘he’s shit mate’ also that watson and Dobson are both starting tomorrow . But I’ve also been told he think we’re signing him (the winger)
I’ve just been told about the Tranmere winger ‘he’s shit mate’ also that watson and Dobson are both starting tomorrow
I can understand this if true. What would interest me if it was part of a three and who out of Morgan or Clare plays, or whether we have an extra striker, possibly Davison. Not ideal but Adkins has to try something.
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We are no more 'sustainable' as a struggling League 1 club than we were under any of the previous inadequate regimes. League I is not the level I want us to be at, nor has it been for most of the past. We have a support base than can support Champoinship football and that is what we should be aiming to achieve, as a minimum. I have no idea why a very rich man should wish to own a football club unless he wished to make it successful, not just allow it to eke out an existence. Success in any business depends on investment, not luck, a point Adkins himeself made today when admitting that it is the clubs who spend money that get promoted.
We aren't in a great place, but I prefer this place to anything under RD.
The bloke wrecked a squad that had real potential to push on in the championship having narrowly missed out on the playoffs.
It needed 2-3 additions. He sold Standard Liege for 24m got 10mil for Batsuahi or whatever his name was in a sell on from Marseilles to Chelsea.
5 - 10 mil could have really pushed us over the line.
Nope, lets give away our talisman striker to Bournemouth, who went on to scre 20+ for Bournemouth and Stephens for 400K.
Both end up in the Premier league.
He was a madman.
I'd rather have TS any day.
It doesn't mean I'm not frustrated by the transfer window and promises, but to this point, TS doesn't seem to be running us into the ground.
Karlan Grant will be looking to add to his opening day hattrick as he looks to regain his golden boot. His hopes are bolstered but the return to fitness of last seasons POTY Joe Aribo.
Alan Curbishley (who replaced the disgraced Alan Pardew soon after the Zabeel take over) 's young attacking side rebuilt after the record sale of Konsa to Arsenal have introduced young wing back Alfie Doughty and starlet Jeremy Sarmiento to the first team this season.
In the real world out youth team have stopped producing talent because Roland flogged them all or failed to give them proper contracts! If he had the slightest bit of sense with could have a championship side with 4 or 5 20-25 year olds in from our academy. In contrast we have just signed the most 1st year pros ever. That's really comparable isn't it!
I would rather the club acted with a sustainable strategy instead of throwing money at everything and everyone leading us to financial ruin.
Last season's squad was the absolute pits. It was awful. Never in a thousand years did I imagine we would be in a new season with a squad that's even worse. In fact, our new squad is so bad that we look back on last year's squad with glee. How is that even possible.
Even Nigel sounds discouraged. I really don't know what to say. Seems like Thomas is going to learn a few harsh lessons over the next year. Sadly for us fans we have learnt these lessons already and we know exactly what's coming.
Stephens was out of contract in the summer, if we hadn't have sold him he would have left on a free anyway (like Hamer did)
And while the Yann decision was wrong (nothing that he was also out of contract in the summer), I bet Bournemouth were also paying silly wages, judging at how they failed the FFP rules.
It's hardly ideal but the current version of the midfield doesn't seem to be consistently good so a change has to at least be considered. If it doesn't work so be it but I can't see we'd have lost anything in the attempt
If he was planning to start this season with our current budget, surely there would have been even more urgency not to pass up the opportunity that was there last season. We can only speculate on the reason for it, but I am minded that something has changed since then.
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/tom-lowery/profil/spieler/426414
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/adam-matthews/profil/spieler/108878
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His choice is sign the contract, that he has been advised not to or not play.
Crewe's choice is either back down and play him anyway, pay him for a full season and don't play him or reluctantly sell him before the window shuts.
He has the same agent as Joe Gomez and we know what happened there.
Equally then turned around and started panicking that if we couldnt sign him - Who could we get in
Hiding to nothing
Given the fact that Clare drifted out a few times on Tuesday
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Matthews | Inniss | Famewo | Gunter
Dobson | Watson
Morgan
Jaiyesimi | Stockley | Clare