Dokko

Yup. It's the manager who'll take the hit as we all know. If he's dug his heels and said Guehi or nothing at all, then he's signed his own p45, if it gets to that. It's a dangerous game he's playing judging no one else is going to improve the squad.

This is N-O. Never apologise, if anything, double down.

I don't, be it loan or perm, I'd be happy.

So many bites. This is their cup final. One for the history books. Let them have this moment.

Do one better by hurting yourself on it and suing him for negligence. Times that by a few 1000 and he's fucked.

Benfica defender Morato is also poised to move to the City Ground in a deal worth around 15m euros (£12.6m). The 23-year-old Brazilian has made 78 appearances for Benfica, with Forest currently working on the deal. Can't tel me that's not worth a punt?

Window shut tonight or tomorrow?

As long as James has found God, then this window is a success.

Easy to mark.

Ultra smug cunt.

We could have bought a £15m defender from Europe on OK wages, and once our top target is secured in the next couple of windows sell him on. Least that way we're not playing kraft at cb or praying schar doesn't go down injured 24 times a game. It's complete bollocks. Fair play to Eddie for towing the party line and not spitting his dummy, but he must be seething he's saying shit like this.

Hes saying psr is an issue, it's not. If it was we wouldn't be putting £60m+ bids in for 2 players. The issue is they put their eggs in one palace basket and got fucked over and now look stupid.

Psr didn't stop us bidding for two players at £60m+. It's not honest, it's bollocks.

It's deceitful. It's very Ashley are style comms instead of hiding their hands up and admitting they've got it wrong.

90% certain this happens

Of the club, keegan style? Imagine.

Coming here on loan till Jan.

Sorry, I've had a drink. (Penultimate day of holidays) There is a lot of care and kind words in there, appreciated. Truly. I had hoped you'd read between the lines with me, but my positing and emotion directly links to another thread I'm quite busy in. I have good days and bad days. I was a fucking nightmare poster 15 years ago due to going through a breakdown, and really self sabotage. Realistically I shouldn't even have an account here, thankfully the mods seen there was something worth keeping. Still for the life of me hand on heart don't remember that Gerrard comment. It's one of those where I'll never live it down, just wish I could own it properly by remembering saying it. It's a brutal reminder, of my mood swings. 😂

I wanted emery, and was gutted it didn't happen. He's proved decent at villa. I was concerned with Howes lack of European experience and it showed last season with him not managing the added games properly, but mainly, in my mind, he relegated Bournemouth after spending shit loads on English players and even Steve Bruce tanned his arse on the way down, so yes, I want sold on him. His start didn't get off for a while and we looked nailed on for relegation. It wasn't working, then it did. Fair play to those who backed him then, I didn't. Last year and managing Europe, It wasn't even a dig then, it was something I predicted and something I pointed out was happening, but nothing could be said against him during that time. You brought up the same things then as well. If you keep the same opinion on something when new evidence or events happen, then you're just stubborn. I'm not that. I'm an emotional poster, I tend to try not post after a defeat these days, as a lot is sounding off and getting out frustrations, but I resent this going back in time for a few comments each time I have an opinion on Howe. My opinion is up and down on him because guess what, Howe has been patchy. Some good some bad, some great. It's a journey, and you can call out the bits you don't like and enjoy the ones you do. It's just shite posters like yourself feel the need to belittle opinions made on that journey, especially when 'in hindsight' some of them were right. Last time we do this dance.

Especially if it's minteh.

I said after new year the issue isn't Howe but the club (as it was borderline neglect not to bring in reinforcements when players safety was at risk - we now know why, we over spent) and he had a free pass from me for the rest of the season, which he got. Others on here had begun to question him and even more so now. Nothing I can do about that apart from say what I see. He's not perfect, I don't see why people need to kid themselves he is and 100% unwavering support for him regardless of what he does. I certainly don't treat any relationship like that in real life, at home or at work. It's fantasy.

He lost a lot of good will last season, and the poor performances so far aren't helping. The main worry though, like you've pointed out is either a power struggle or targets not delivered on purpose, to undermine the manager. Howe wasn't at his best last season. Stubborn tactical and personnel decisions and not managing the additional games correctly. I said it then. I stand by it. 2nd half of the season was better, but the lack of assist from the club on transfers was staggering. Since then we know how bad our psr status was, and without significant outgoings no one was coming in. For me though, this is bad financial management by the club. So both sides didn't cover themselves in glory. New season and we sell 2 promising players lose out on a free, and since then the whole strategy comes tumbling down. Not backup targets, no players out and a schar suspension highlighting how fragile we are in one particular position. Who this is down to we probably won't know unless Howe comes out direct and tells it like it is, if he does, he's gone by Christmas anyway. If he takes the blame and accepts he was too stubborn on his targets, then we may be able to move forward, but I doubt he will and I doubt it's all his fault anyway. I reckon Mitchell was certain he'd land Guehi for him, so much so we didn't need to look elsewhere, but he underestimated parishs desire to fuck us about. Now we are where we are. One of the most important windows to show Bruno, Isak etc.. We can build and retain the best, and we've got fuck all in, lost young talent, and been made a fool of for weeks, and it's not hindsight, many on here called parishs tactics and said he'd do this and there we have it. Disaster window.