dmayne7

Of course we will be. But that's a massive oversimplification of why we have fallen so low, and frankly it's a total cop out. Some key factors: - Leaving Jon Rudkin and Top to run things when neither of them had a clue what they were doing. Then actually further reinforcing the power of the likes of Rudkin, despite probably the 2 worst relegations in modern football history (in terms of capability vs the end result). - Connected to the above, not being able to do a proper root and branch analysis of what went wrong, taking steps to remedy it. They've gradually dismantled all the good infrastructure/systems we had in place. - Massively overspending on wages. And that's not a case of players not being as good as your hoped, but rather giving massive contracts to players who in no way ever commanded that kind of salary. Tielemans aside, there is not a single player where we needed to go and commit that kind of salary to in order to get them to come here. That's been verified with multiple stories of how we have negotiated salaries. Transfers go wrong and we couldn't keep the hit rate we had, but getting it so wrong on wages, is not excusable. - And arguably the worst for me, the inability to ever capitalise commercially on our success. KP sponsoring us for so long with such a paltry amount was a big contributor. The fact that we did have a social media following way beyond any other club outside the top 6 (and in some cases bigger than Spurs for example), means there was literally 10 of £millions sat on the table year after year. How we sat so low in commercial income is baffling. Combine that with getting the stadium and seagrave back to front (stadium should have always been first as that was short-term and long-term ROI), it's borderline negligence. Pro KP or anti KP, let's be clear; the club is dying so we need somebody to take us over to save us. So whilst any new owners can't wave a magic wand or spend billions on players, what they can do is invest in the infrastructure, on and off the pitch, which creates longer term sustainability and chances for success. All the things I've listed above, would never have happened or been solved if we had an ownership group that took some accountability or made executives accountable for their areas. It's like we'll get somebody who just cares about the bottom line, but if we do, it will absolutely ensure that we don't get into the same mess (in the unlikely event we ever get back to the place we were), because they can't afford to let it spiral into decline. Top neither cares about the football club, not the business aspect instead it's all about this misguided sense of duty to his father which was admirable at first, but has now left us in a situation where we're neither one nor the other

Yeah, let's blame those people who actually tried to hold people accountable, rather than those who've sat there fueling the fire. KP aren't selling because of the fans, they're selling because of their own incompetence. Important to understand that.

Well you failed pretty spectacularly (even if justified in what you said)

Still looks very raw and a little clumsy at times, but the nature of his goals are a massive positive sign. Can't teach the instinct and all that. At the moment, I'm seeing him as a 12 in 40 kind of striker which is solid enough if there are lots of other sources of goals, and we can still get another more senior striker in

I hope Braybrooke is not playing that position. He should be at the base of the midfield where he can dictate things, so it's more a case of whether Skipp is going to block his playing time

Done that loads in the other games I've seen so clearly an individual/team instruction

Seriously? He was a crap signing for many reasons, but he's the one player that I would never level this kind of accusation at. And he probably spoke to the media more than any other player last year, as I suspect he would be the one guy to offer.

Been that way for a few years. The Newcastle takeover was the absolute final nail in the coffin. European Super League will happen in some form so might as well take one last swing before then.

Considering the only noise has been that Top absolutely doesn't want to sell, I'd say any indication that they are looking to sell is clearly news

As much as I did love him, not fussed at all. It's only when you realise you're selling him to Ipswich and not one of the elite it sinks it just how badly things have panned out for us/him

Rice has looked screwed for 10 mins. Barely able to walk, let alone run and Tuchel's left him on. Awful management again, not that it matters

Well it was a bizarre comparison, and then it was a shocking shout on top of that! Might as well have said he reminded you Mavididi or Mo Sylla!

What an awful comparison. Nothing alike as players (apart from playing on the RW) and Saka has arguably been England's best player since he broke into the team. He's clearly not fully fit this WC. Think if he had been, it would have made a huge difference

Let's be real, France's performance is absolutely embarrassing. As in, it makes it look like our players slogged their guts out last season

Really badly