Let’s hope we get a couple of loan gems in as we are really going to struggle with what we have at the moment.
If we're up against it in terms of PSR, then we really can't make any moves until we ship out some players. Finding willing buyers for them is another matter.
At this stage, **** PSR, spend the money, and take the points deduction. Everton stayed up. Forest stayed up.
This 3-4 years ago we would be up in arms. We have to realise where we are in the football pyramid now. Let's hope we can go under the radar for a while.
And that is the issue, other teams will know we are desperate if we are struggling with PSR so won’t be rushing to buy at prices we want. Can see most of the players we want to go happening late in the window when either Saints or the other team blinks when negotiating a price
Forest is the example I kept using earlier in the summer. Their squad was terrible when they got promoted so they signed 30 players or whatever it was, not sure how much they actually spent but obviously it was sizeable. That is the approach we should’ve taken, too late now I’d imagine, but still if any other PL team want a player as well, the player is not picking us over them regardless of if we agreed a fee. Only way round that is the old Cortese tactic of bidding more than other teams are willing to offer so the selling club only accepts our bid so the player doesn’t have multiple options of where to go
I know clubs always have a number 1 target for a position then move on to 2 then 3 etc, but we’ll be on option 10/11 at this rate. Feel a bit sorry for RM as we are probably weaker than last season at the moment in squad depth. Wouldn’t bet against the fans forum being cancelled this Monday as could be a bit uncomfortable for Mr Parsons??
All he needs to say is something along the lines of we are hampered by PSR so have to be patient. Nobody understands how it works so nobody can argue with it
No I’ve never really cared about fans forums etc. I just assume everything that comes out of manager/players/staff mouths is media trained waffle tbh. Rarely listen to any interviews