jabbaglob123 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:25 pm It's the tactics we deploy not PL football that doesn't suit him. He's a good CB in a team that plays with the ball from the back, we unfortunately don't do much of that

Disagree
Weak as piss against physical forwards.

He certainly couldn't deal with the physical challenges from the Fulham centre forward last week. If he’s still here as a potential starter post the summer then we should all reduce down our expectations of PL starting position by at least three places as it’ll mean CB wasn’t taken seriously in the...

It’s hard not to feel apathetic about these names being mentioned if I’m honest. Those that read my posts will know I’m not a fan of Sullivan. I should qualify that. I think our board did a fantastic job steering us through a financial crisis and building us back to some semblance of stability. When...

If he gets his wish of gaining full control of our "football operations" it's very likely that two more scouts/data guys will join Steidten from next season. They're already on gardening leave at their clubs in Germany, but will only move over, if Steidten is with us after this season. Wh...

I wonder how many people that say Moyes should have stood up to Sullivan on transfers more than he has have been successful telling their ultimate boss to go **** themselves, done what they wanted anyway and remained in the same job. Moyes has without doubt made transfer mistakes but I doubt there i...

Sadly, I don’t think we’ll be back in Europe for some time

If you watch that and don’t conclude that the difference was that one team had the ability to bring equivalent (better even) players on and the other couldn’t despite their players having played 45 minutes at a completely unsustainable level…..then I think you need to have a bit of a sit down. As ha...

Referee has given us at least 3 free kicks since the equaliser that were softer than most of the challenges he didn’t give fouls for when we were ahead.

****er. Trying to even his numbers up when it doesn’t matter anymore.

Dead on their feet

I think the mad 5 minutes was bad for us and has taken our momentum away a bit personally.

I don’t think Emery would have been anywhere near as successful here We would not have competed as seriously re: signing the players he has at his disposal in the summer for a start. They paid decent money for Diaby (more expensive than our record signing) and Torres in transfer fees and I’m not con...

Just want to say - ahead of tomorrow so that it doesn’t look like I’m results led……

….Even if we beat Leverkusen 5-0

Sullivan is a **** owner and I still wish he’d **** off

westlondonhammer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:13 pm Here's a deal

I won't mention Chalobah if you don't mention Gibbs-White?

Lol, deal

I might still mention Kilman though - if Chalobah is a £20m CB then Kilman is a £200m CB mate.




Ps I know we can’t afford Kilman even at £40m so only playing

Hope Fulham do sign Trevor Chalobah - we were linked with him previously, shudders.

Your point about the underlying annual amortisation is a good one, but when you sell a player you book out all the remaining value against the transfer fee in one season. So when you trade a player with a high book value you get an amortisation spike as well as an income spike. With in-season squad...

I just can’t see the size spend some people are suggesting and wouldn’t be surprised to see a net profit again. Our income was £235m last accounts, with wages as £135m and player amortisation at £65m. Bang on 85% which I believe is the PSR %age for next season. But that includes Europe so income wil...

You could be right Bubbs but having suffered Dyche I doubt if the fans would relish David Moyes.Peas in the same pod comes to mind. Know a couple of Everton fans, they think Dyche just turns the wheels and doesn’t build - but they believe Moyes does. Without meaning to re-open the debate you can se...

smuts wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:18 pm Tim's wangled another holiday in Brazil out of the club I see

lol. It seems that imports to the PL from the Brazilian league have been a bit more successful in the last few seasons. We’ll need someone to keep Emerson company at least next season (either Brazilian or Italian)…

Not so sure about that. Smaller squad needed, easier workload with more preparation and recuperation time coupled with less travel. It arguably enables a smaller more focused overhaul of playing personnel with less need to puff up the numbers in the squad with resources focused on the first XI. Dem...

On signings: We're likely going to see a complete change in signings. They're likely getting (much) younger but also more on the risky side. He obviously didn't give us names, but spoke about them in the majority being more in the 20 to 23yrs age bracket going forward. Thanks mate That’s all intere...