Fantail Breeze

Nobody should ever drink a can of anything. Never tastes as good. Bottles or straight out of the tap.

Kasper Schmeichel off to Nice apparently.

May be wrong as I know fuck all about this, but I assumed we had moved from Barclays to HSBC due to Staveley’s conflict with them and the ‘lending’ is just an overdraft secured against our known future income?

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Always thought he had zero end product. Didn’t realise he got 0 goals and 1 assist in 38 games last season though

His lass is absolutely stunning too. Worth the £50m just to bring her to SJP.

It’s glorious. Every chance they circle the bowl again.

Going to wait to hear what Grumpy thinks.

Man City, Chelsea etc. have all wasted millions like. We’ll almost certainly have some duds along the way. I suppose the only thing that makes this deal different is how obvious it was that Wood was garbage before we signed him. Whoever thought signing him was a good idea needs to be well away from future deals.

Plays at LB. End.

I accept all of your apologies.

For once you're right about a ref A broken clock and all that…

PIF a failure already. One trophy gone.

Six month ban from all competitions IIRC.

He’s just absolutely shite, anyone who watched him at Burnley would’ve known that.

What’s Adam Pearson done now?

Gonna win the leeg marra.

Another fantasy point that you’ve just made up. You’re doing well at that today. Asking to sign a competent striker across two windows isn’t asking for the world.

I don’t disagree with that - I think @middsis articulating the point I’m trying to make much better (and obviously upsetting less people). We won’t move up the league consistently with this strategy that isn’t in line with their voice notes. It’ll get us so far, which would probably be similar to West Ham in fighting for 4th/5th/6th but to push on beyond that we’ll need to accept we will need to move away from our self imposed wage cap and deals with as much value as possible. A striker is essential this window and they cost a lot of money, it’s always an expensive position that requires a level of risk. My point being signing one is probably the difference of us getting European football or finishing midtable. It’s been repeated a million times and people fail to understand. You can be delighted with our progress so far but also have a higher benchmark than finishing 14th and clear of relegation all season. Absolutely from where we’ve come from that may be considered spoilt, but it’s not. I’d be happy with a top half finish and a good cup run, fwiw. But if Wilson was injured for a majority of the season I think we’d struggle to achieve that. Good teams have good strikers, it’s such an important position.

Has anyone done that? Or have they just said it’s disappointing we haven’t signed one? Love a bit of made up fantasy to prove a non-existent argument.

As I said, that’ll work in some circumstances like the deals mentioned - but to sign quality players to kick on in the way we want to* require a bit of risk and extra finance/player promises. *Lets not forget the aims they have set out of challenging/winning the league in five years [can’t remember the exact quote] or “being the best in world football”. Nonsense, as always. My original post was perfectly balanced and put forward the positive deals but also reflected where we could/should be doing better. RAWK hyperbole whenever someone dares suggest something different. I haven’t once said we haven’t come far, far from it. Sit back down and stop getting excited.

Leicester haven’t signed anyone because they’re skint, it’s like comparing our dealings with Derby. 2/20 clubs isn’t a great point prover for you.

A week and a half until the season starts*

You can’t be serious - have you ever played football manager because a lot of the posters on here have and know how easy it is, we’re just not trying. Aston Villa didn’t seem to have such difficulty signing Carlos, PSG and Ekitike. This football manager line is tiresome. We’re not saying it’s easy to complete deals but other teams seem to be able to make comparable deals much easier than we can - there is obviously something astray. Whether clubs/players/agents are taking the piss or we’re being stubborn with the structuring of our deals, who knows. But we seem to be taking ages to do anything, again. It’s pretty crap not to have a striker in at this point given how obviously needed it is. It’s been needed since they came in October, surely we’ve been working on deals since then. We can’t rely on Wilson to stay fit and Wood has already proven to be completely useless. Some of the deals have been outstanding value; Trippier, Pope, Targett and they’ve done incredibly well on them, but we need to make moves sometimes on key positions/players out of the norm, imo. A quality striker is exactly that.

Soon