murphy

Just to recap. January 2023. In serious danger of the most scandalous relegation ever. We have £30m to save our season... We brought in Harry Souttar and Viktor f***ing Kristiansen!

Well you were making the point that An over the hill premier League player would be a better signing for a newly promoted premier League eam than for a league one team. Players like Reid, Ayew and newly extended Vestergaard were terrible business because they were past it at that level. It stands to reason that such a player would have a better chance of success at a lower level. In other news, water is wet.

It seems like people have been saying "hopefully he will learn and adapt" for years now. The fact that people are still saying it shows that he hasn't. He's a sideways zealot.

Wow. That's some kind of skewered logic

If he hasn't turned up for training and continues to be absent, surely we don't have to pay him?

It's a pretty sound metric to go by, generally speaking. Maguire being an exception. I mean it's not as if Vestergaard had outstanding individual stats that belied his team's performances. We knew what we were getting and it was a baffling signing.

And yet, for some reason, nobody came in with an £85m offer for Vestergaard. Bizarre. The footballing elite must be kicking themselves.

That's what I said. Second worse defence in the league when we signed him. Madness. We were chasing Champions league l. It doesn't matter whether he was any good in Enzo's possession heavy team that didn't have much defending to do (although I would argue that his defending, when he had to, wasn't up to much) because we gave him a three year extension when we had already been promoted to the premier league.

There is a world of difference between signing ageing plodders to play in the premier league and signing them when you're on your arse in league one. The Southampton fixation continues

Could it be that we have him by the 'nadgers'? He wants to play in a higher league, he wants a signing on fee. If we have to pay half his wages a year, might as well keep him rather than dance to his tune.

Steady in the premier league? He was a big part of the second worst defence in the league when we signed him, we had just put 9 past Southampton and their fans could scarcely believe their luck that some mug wanted to buy him

Especially as he had already proven to be disastrous for us in the premier league

I remember the relief last year when Martin signed for Rangers. The fact that we have ended up with him anyway and at our lowest ebb in history seems unnecessarily cruel. A bit like that scene in Marathon Man when Dustin Hoffman thinks he is being rescued, only to be bought back to his tormentors.

More evidence, of it were needed,that this club refuses to learn. When the director of football oversees such catastrophic and repeated failure it is reasonable for fans to assert that his position is untenable and to demand accountability. These filibuster responses show that the club is not taking fans concerns seriously and belie the pure contempt that they have for us. The whole exercise is no more than an attempt to appear as though they are engaging with fans.

They are all lazy entitled ****s