Believe it was just the January window. But it seems like we will do well to improve the quality of the Squad, and comply with FFP.
Even with our purse strings being cut we are still not guaranteed to not break FFP again aren't we? I think there will a big overhaul over the summer but we'll be shopping in Poundland if we are able to shop at all.
Losing most of the £12 million, this season"s final parachute payment, I think it was. PL will give something relatively small.
On a plus side - I had an excellent Chicken Shawarma after the game at Ayam Zaman on the Uxbridge Road. Highly recommend.
Thing is though with so many other Championship Clubs having the same financial problems, maybe this will filter down so that players will have to take lower wages if they want to stay in England, and Clubs lower fees.
Just pissed off mate. How on earth do we start with Hemed, then bring Smith on whilst Wells is still sitting on the bench? I agree with you regarding Lynch, he's been awful recently after being excellent earlier in the season. We won't go down, but next season is a real worry.
We're likely to pull out an unexpected win and a couple of draws. Hopefully enough though 53 or 54 would be much more comfortable. You've heard me say this before but there may have been behind the scenes factors to produce a (reported) display like that. Bad news for one of the team? A virus - maybe more than only Cameron? Clutching at straws I know but after talking the talk AND coming back from 2 nil down at Hull, who could have seen that coming?!
I was driving to work and once I could get commentary I listened. Disappointed with what I heard and definitely the result. A win would have eased things considerably and now we are potentially in danger of going down. However at the start of the season Steeve stated we were a top 18 side in the championship. I for one am looking forward to the end of the season. I think there has to be a lcear out of players that do not want to (1) play for the shirt and (2) are not players that can adapt to Steeve's game plan. Manager must be on a decent wedge so cannot see him being sacked - but then again do we want to be sacking someone every year or 2...surely give someone a little time to do something and make a difference. Will be interesting to see which players are available in the summer period on frees....maybe they may want to join...but then again.
I think Wells must have been carrying an injury, it's the only possible reason that Hemed and Smith would be higher up the pecking order. Hemed and Smith were both disappointing and have been for the majority of the season. What was also galling is that after a late rally to get a goal back we didn't get hold of the ball and create one chance in the five minutes of added on time.
I suspect that season ticket sales will also fall for 2019/20 season If we'd shown an improving trend in the 2nd half of the season it could be very different but the general view of those I spoke to yesterday (and not on here) is that we could be in for a major struggle next season Lower ticket income certainly won't help our already perilous financial position
Wells finished the match clutching his groin....I suspect he was carrying an injury...I also suspect it is now worse than it was....not good news at all Sent from my STF-L09 using Tapatalk
I just risked depressing myself further by listening to McClaren's post match comments. Yet again he hangs his hat on the need to have a solid back line and everything else springs from that. That was a sensible approach when we were shipping goals by the bucket load at the start of the season but our situation since Christmas has been very different. Teams have been beating us week after week by the odd goal in tight games and, once behind, we have rarely had the gumption to get back into the game. There seems to be zero focus on our attacking tactics and no thought given on how to break down the kind of tall, workmanlike defences that are ubiquitous in the lower reaches of the Championship. No penetration, no breakaway moves, pointless and often costly playing out from the back that stifles forward motion and a very predictable wide game. I defy anyone to tell me that we would have been any worse off by playing a less cautious game in this period and at least we might have been entertained. As it stands we have surely been watching the most mind-numbingly dull football in the division and losing week-in week-out so why not change things Mr Manager? Of course, you would have to let Luongo do something else for a while; perhaps he could write a new coaching manual: "How to win matches without ever playing a forward pass".
Yes, we came back at Hull with Eze playing with his old confidence again, beating people an making chances in and around their box. Where was he yesterday? Was he on the Bench, I never saw him or heard mention of him from the Commentators either. Odd! Sick ?Iinjured?
Did he not score twice up there? In which case a criminal decision to leave him out given that they would have put three men on him and we could have freed up others to attack. But then before someone else says it, I suppose there may have been a reason for it. Has any been given?
He was on the Bench according to BBC. With their big but not quick CB's , agree Eze at his best getting forward could have opened them up.
