I have been of the opinion all would be ok... really not sure now... clubs will be holding us to ransom based upon whats happening with people deciding to ge elsewhere and reading of where we're at squad wise... High time Tan and Acun came out and said something and something positive....
It's not about overspending, it's about the general way we're handling things at the moment. Why are we only now bidding for players, we knew we needed a massive rebuild, why are we so far into pre-season without signings? We sold Greaves and Philogene weeks ago, we've got the most decimated squad in the league, what are we ****ing about at?
As long as its not another Q&A. We can't be annoying any more of the players and forcing them to leave
Got to the stage where I think the local media will announce both as done deals tomorrow and they'll sign for other Championship clubs on Friday. Sigh.
This thing of being gazumped to players. Seems to have been a real concern at the club for a long time - there's always talk of keeping targets quiet in case other clubs are alerted. Now it's happened twice this summer. It doesn't seem to be that common outside of us, why is that? Why can't we be the ones stealing other clubs targets from under their noses?
Where is the evidence we will sign "a higher quality" player down the line? I'm getting the impression players don't want to come here. Season starts in 10 days and we are nowhere near ready. I can see a relegation fight this season unless things take a quick upturn in terms of recruitment
At least Óscar Zambrano is supposed to be here today, we should take his phone off him, just in case.
I'm an optimistic bloke and though our handling of this summer had clearly been poor from the start, I was happy to give them the opportunity to catch up and get the bodies in, but it seems they're continuing to make rather a mess of it all.
I think he's past caring now, when the Asante story broke earlier, he just sent me a load of laughing faces.
It's not just the gazumping though. Things obviously are going very badly with the brains and recruitment teams. There is absolutely no way the club would have intended to have had only 3 new faces in by now (Drameh + the 2 gazumpees). Something(s) failing badly atm. Maybe naivety, like earlier thinking we could secure 2 or more of our loanees, and / or maybe simply incompetence and or Tim being unrealistic? Don't know what it is but something's wrong. 20 out with 1 new face in with 9 days to go beggars belief
Yeh – the planning has been piss poor. I had said that twice in this thread today. Why it has been so poor – dunno.
I don't think the raw numbers in vs out are as damning as the state of the squad we have, which at this point is realistically more or less the squad which will start the season. We've got last season's third and seventh choice keepers - our 1st and 2nd choices have gone to lesser sides. We've got a decent back four, but we're relying on young Simons in midfield and we can't field our left back at left back because we need him to play on the wing (where he looks totally out of place and ineffective). Longman and Giles being our best wingers is a ridiculous state of affairs.
