It could be an ingenious move from Real Sociedad to wait until their Japanese tour has concluded to sell Kubo. Whilst he is in Japan with their squad, they could sell plenty of Real Sociedad shirts with Kubo on the back and make a small fortune...
In the summer of 2017 Ronald Keoman spent over 100m on a number of players, we were unbeaten in preseason, we beat Stoke 1-0 in our first League game, then we broke our transfer record on a certain number 10 from Iceland, we then went 3 months...
Not true. And Branners missing time screwed us. So we are trying to avoid injuries. It would be a mistake not to make big signings, but preseason literally means nothing. The team is half arsing it.
When Dwight got injured in preseason (a player many don't rate) and Branners (can't remember if it was preseason or the first game) we suffered massively to start the year. I would wager we are trying to avoid killing our season before it starts.
We hear this nonsense every single pre-season that it doesn’t matter, we then proceed to lose our opening 3 games while looking miles off the pace of our opponents. It’s a tiring cycle.
I think it just highlights how negligent previous ownership has been to leave us in such a mess both on and off the field. The scale of it is becoming clearer by the day.
It's also clear we're making progress but it will take time. But also that...
same s**t year in year out if they don’t invest in new players we will be in the championship next year where most of our team belong. The recruitment in this football club is atrocious Patterson, kean, mylenko, Gardner, alcaraz, beto...