Dai, as usual you are completely and utterly correct. We are nothing more than noisy upstarts, as my old friend Brian Thomas would have said. We have no right to be at the top table and should depart as soon as possible, doffing our cap as we leave.
Nonsense. If we go down, we'll deserve it. If we stay up we'll deserve it. Look at Palace, Bournemouth and West Hams start to the season. They have no right to be in the PL also I guess? Nonsense.
The line about Dai made me think you were having a laff, but the next few lines seemed believable ! A hundred thousand apologies.
Seems we are buying players these days that are not fit for purpose, Baston last season, Mesa this season? Bit worrying this trend, I also think that taking Sanchez off for Bony was a mistake, Sanchez should have been replaced with Mesa who was on the Bench, and Abraham should have come off for Bony, saying that it was a close game with two evenly matched teams, just that Newcastle had more of a spring in their step, and wanted the win more, and we have always had a weakness for set pieces, really missed Llorente yesterday, going to be a tough start to the season before things click, Bony has really got to get serious with his fitness and mobility if he wants to end his final career years on a high, especially as his own boys are Jacks, going to be a sharp learning curve next game at Spurs...........
We sold our only striker replacing him with a YTS kid and an unfit player who is going to take months before he can start to perform at an acceptable standard, if at all. Where Llorente scored goals, Abraham misses chances. We are weaker in defence than last year yet we allow our defence to be led by a young Man who would be an understudy at most competitive clubs in the prem. Regardless of this, imo, Mawson is the top candidate to be sold next. Between our weak attack and flimsy defence we have a bog standard, average midfield which lacks creativity and flair both needed if we want to unlock the team we're up against. This is the first year I can remember where we don't have any player in our entire squad who has the skills needed to create chances or take them. We have no go to guy like Llorente, Sigurdsson, Michu, Ash, no one who can rally the team and push us forward to win games. To do this in midfield, like in attack, we've loaned another clubs player, a YTS kid so out of form its a wonder he's still playing football, but he's here to get our midfield playing and our season rolling? I don't think so. Sanchez will make all his mistakes this year and we're paying £8M for him so he can make them all in a Swans shirt, great business. Next summer, like Abraham who'll only bag 8-9 goals this season, they'll **** off home, all the better for their experience while we pick up the tab. The yanks have extracted approx £70m worth of talent from last years match day squad replacing that talent with approx £35m worth of players and a couple of rent-boys. None of these very cheap replacements are anywhere near as talented as the players sold. The Maths don't lie, we're ****ed.
The name of the game is money for the boardroom now Stumpy, sorry to say, and the transparency is deafening..............
What fans dont understand is we all know we have been poor these past few seasons and we have all agreed what is wrong with the way the club is run from the very top to the very bottom and as usual nothing is done to improve things......We sell off our best players when we dont have too and in most cases before we have a replacement which is usually inferior to what we sold and for what. A profit for the shareholders as i dont see anything going to improve the team. We never spent a single penny this past window but we made a profit which is Huw's major goal......We on here were saying that we must get better players for our dismal defence as they are not the standard we need especially after we sold Ash to everton where a few weeks previous he signed a long term contract saying he wanted to end his career with us......But once Everton came in we did not matter any more and all Huw could see was £ signs in a profit and was eager to sell him. Huws policy is not to make us a strong side and a feared club for anyone but a club that wants to live on a hope and a prayer that we dont finish in the bottom three. That is not fair on the loyal fans who spends a fortune supporting the club and want us at the top end and winning games in the premiership and not being as bad as we have been these past 3 years... It is no good anymore making every excuse we can think of to justify why we are so poor because we all know what is wrong and if the club dont care if we go down or not as long as they can make a profit for themselves then i am not going to care and hope we do get relegated to teach them a good lesson that you cant sell off our best players and think we will be ok......We are kidding ourselves if we think things will get better under this lot and only relegation will put a halt to the way the club is run....
Dai - I actually agree with the vast majority of what you have written. However, when you write "... but we made a profit which is Huw's major goal." More importantly, that is the Yanks' goal and what Pearlman is charged with doing.
It does not matter who's goal it is...It is happening and Huw as chairman if he dont agree should say so, But i am sure he is all in favour and is making as much as he can before he retires..
But you've always needed a profit on transfers to compensate for your operational losses. And the owners can't rip anything out of the club unless you a) make a profit and b) they pay a dividend from those profits. And that will be the acid test of your owners' intentions.
.... or they are preparing to "flip" the Club/Company. That approach would/could entail generating/maximising as much cash as possible (transfers/cost reductions), take control of the stadium (provides additional cash leverage), take no prisoners, etc
Swansea fans ‘Stay away from social media lads, those gormless Geordies are gunna act like they won the league...........
My guess is that as part of the loan deal you are required to play him in a certain percentage of games he is available. Many of the current loan deals from big clubs seem to have penalties for not playing them enough. I don't think you're in as bad shape as some of your fans seem to think but I will be interested to see what happens if Sanches or Abraham drop in form - what is the cost of not selecting them?
For beating Swansea? No offence but wtf? Good luck for the rest of the season lads, you're a good team and a good bunch.
