southernmag

Crikey. Yes I hope he takes absolutely as long as he needs, even if it's the rest of the season. It's only football.

I literally did this in my current Football Manager save. Brought in Woodman, even Tavernier and Mbabu. Now got Anderson back. Kept Longstaff for donkey's years and played him about three times a season...

I could probably handle Collins for a lowish fee.

Agreed, there are plenty more Huijsens in the sea. We need to stop being lazy and beta, picking them up for exorbitant prices a year after other clubs made their move.

I agree that Delap has the potential to go to the top, but like others have said, we'd be signing him a year after we should've. And paying the price (literally) for it. IMO David on a free is smarter business in the current PSR climate.

We're really gonna have to get our act together and be bloody clever in the summer transfer window now.

Huijsen would probably be a good signing in terms of strengthening the team, but to splurge 50 mill on him a year after he was available for relative peanuts is pretty embarrassing business. Bournemouth would think we are mugs and rightly so.

Why should we boo a player who left us through little to no fault or even choice of his own?

Probably the biggest concern for me is our inconsistency, and how when we just don't show up for random games, you can see it virtually from the off. Why a) are we not showing up at all for some games (/why is there such extreme variance in our performances), and b) why is it clear from pretty much the opening whistle when we're going to have a shocker? I could bring up multiple games this season as examples. Before any pitch forks come out, I'm not saying Eddie has to go. I'm just raising genuine questions, and not necessarily buying ALL of the mitigating factors. Is it possible that PSR is a crock, AND Eddie has some real limitations?

I want to know that we've at the very least pushed like crazy for most of these, the free transfers especially. If we dawdle around again, missing out on good deals while emptying our pockets before Steve Parish for two months, I will lose my rag.

I'm hopeful, but also have some trust issues preventing me being confident.

Gordon, when he's bad, he's so so bad.

Standard morsels for Osula.

Howe needs to be bloody putting his foot down and ensuring our best players take our set pieces. Not letting it be a literal crap shoot.