Steve Earle

He’s our player. why on earth would we sell for £3m?

The great man was on my Manchester-Amsterdam flight yesterday. Just in case anyone gives a damn…

There’s a high bar you know?

I like that! For me, the three we actually get. Because our leadership remains toxic (‘we promote!’) and ludicrously overestimates the actual ability & teamwork required to sustain a promotion push over 46 games. I’ll be surprised if we have more than 3 points from the first 3..

I’m with you @Lambert09. Abdul is a £50M+ player in the making. Emphasis, for now, on ‘in the making’. And I like what I’ve seen of his character. If he moves to the right environment next, just watch him go. In any event, for me he’s the best to play for us in that position since the most gifted player ever to wear the shirt left.

Well put. For years we were run by a troika. At times almost decently. Susan leaves, forced out & given minutes to clear her desk. Then the wheels came off big style. I’d be loathed to criticise her too much without much more information, especially as the capabilities of the two left behind have become clear for all to see.

You have my sympathy. I’m afraid to say you can expect disappointment on a massive scale several times over a personal and professional life. Sorry to be the bearer, and all that.

I won’t be alone on here in having seen, I think, 10 of them, beginning in 1969. Still, there’s a record there for the taking. Go on Top my son, you can do it. 18 here we come!

And of course we won’t necessarily know then either.

But that’s where we are, isn’t it? Hoping for an ‘inspired’ appointment. They are bound to get one right eventually. This is what I think Henry Winter meant when he described us as a ‘manager club’. In other words, absent anything resembling a club strategy, the buffoons in charge keep rolling the dice hoping to drop on the next Enzo or Nige. But every passing year’s financial missteps make it less and less likely that any manager could succeed here.

A strategy you say? That’d be a start.

An optimist huh? You think there'll be another season after next?

I think we need, among many others, a Steve Howard-style ST. Someone for wingers to cross to, someone decent at hold up play. If we go the more likely route (4-2-3-1 with a rapid CF) then we could do a lot worse than Sidibeh from Stockport. Impressed watching him now.

This is of course right. 👏 May I introduce you @CarolinaFox to paragraphs?

This could have been us with a half competent owner. Sack Rodgers in the autumn, appoint the available Emery, extend Tielemans’ contract (or sell in the January window). It was, even back then, obvious. To most people but not our 🤡 of an owner. We’d have won a European title by now.. . 😢💦