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Agreed. The players were paid £5k each (if you believe what’s been banded about on the internet) so I wouldn’t be surprised if it actually made a loss for the club. That is how badly run our club is at the moment.

I enquired about a box in 2024 (mainly out of curiosity) and was told that the price was £44k + VAT. If true that the prices haven’t changed since then, who in their right mind would be purchasing a box, especially in this economic climate. Considering the club are owned by a merchandising giant, they really are poor at pricing. It’s really as simple as this, get bums on seats and then they will spend more on merchandise and food/beverages.

We need a no-nonsense b@stard in who has a flexible approach and can alter things to react to how a game is going, be that the formation or style. This is why this is a terrible appointment.

Ricardo at his peak was the best RB in the world IMO

Got told by someone close to the club yesterday that Top calls Rudkin and gives him rough instructions in broken English and is told to do whatever Top says. This is not me defending Rudkin but it sounds to be as though Top is more in control than people think and Rudkin is a yes man, hence why Top is defending him as he just carry’s out instructions. Probably wrong thread but wouldn’t surprise me if he also has some say in the selection.

Dogshit it is

We all know it will be someone ex-Soton, so prepare yourselves…

He counted the people who stayed behind to clap last night, decided they need to see the problem face to face

Only G’s will remember his name and what followed 🥰

IF we’ve got any money, this is the only viable option

Disappointed he didn’t hammer home on why we are in the mess with PSR in the first place and why silly contracts were given out. IMO he’s failed with his remit here which keeps the club happy.

For which club were you tasked with this? Hopefully you’ve told them John is the best in the business and to go all out to get him 🙏

It seems as though we were 14th in the League after a 3-2 loss at Palace in the opening game, so currently we’re not lower than when the club was bought.

How’s Mendy been playing?

I think the lack of action shows that KP are hoping to sell up. If they were truly planning on sticking around for the long term then it would be a no-brainer to get this done, not just in terms of PSR but to bring in additional fans and non-footballing revenue. As the costs will rise year on year, this summer would have been the perfect time to start. The lower attendances would have meant less affect on the current finances and it could have been potentially finished for the start of *hopefully* the next Premier League season. It’s a shame that the vision isn’t there anymore after such an exciting time for the club in the last decade, it seems as though the owners are happy for us to just plod along until we have a buyer.

So what happened to this loan then? We didn’t spend anything on incomings and haven’t since. What would the reasons for taking a loan out but not spending it, unless we’re struggling a lot more than we are led to believe

I can’t believe there is someone out there getting paid to scout defenders and then adding Faes to his shortlist. I guess it’s not just our club who have incompetent people running the show.

Same with Faes!

Agreed but the only way we stand a chance of keeping exciting talent is by showing them we have a route for them to first team football. Playing Monga and Evans will help but it has to be a regular thing.

Yeah this annoyed me the most about the day, Vichai walking around with the Trophy like he bought it (I suppose you could argue his money did)

Holy Shit.

It HAS to go ahead or we can kiss goodbye to ever competing at the top table ever again. We desperately need non-match day revenue to help us being able to spend larger amounts and not fall foul of PSR/FFP.

Tbf right now I’d snap your hand off at Ben Mee 😢

Incompetence of the highest degree. Not only are we likely to be left with a weaker squad than when we started the season but we are likely to be left with a squad considerably weaker than the side we had in the Championship last season. Heads need to roll.

He was honestly so bad when he first came but you could say he was played out of position and then found his home as a centre half