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Kinda - it's well written at least. LOL the Chelsea point, too. 👍 Why couldn't we go in for Nkunku instead of Grealish? 😒

Playing the long term game is great when you have been doing it for 5 years and managed to cling onto PL status while you get the process up and running. With restrictions now on what you can spend, player prices and bonkers wages, it’s nigh on...

I sort of agree with this - and 100% right about sentiment, too. But McNeil , Garner and Beto are funnily anough precisely the characters I'd keep as squad, subs and injury cover. Patterson, yeah. Myko (sadly) for me, Keane, Seamus will retire...

250k a week woulda fixed a lot of holes down our right side. That's all I'm saying. He didn't create a shot or assist vs a newly promoted avg leeds, just a foul from memory.

So true!

Sell another player who gets goals and assists. The everton way.

That's true, but players do need meaningful game time (not just friendlies) to improve and get match fit. McNeil should play, he's been a successful example of my point, and an investment we're now wasting. Patterson needs a run, and is...

a) The players above neither playing much (or at all), nor belonging to the club b) The remainder losing to a newly promoted, very average prem side, using players out of position, prioritising back-passes to a shaky back four instead of passing...

Hm, I don't see the youth developing. He's dumped Patterson, Garner out of position (not good), dumped Mcneil (who has been playing OK). Not doing much with Chermiti. Armstrong young at 18 admittedly, not seeing much time on pitch. Lucky JoB...

Nailed it. This is precisely the frustration and people are venting with pre-season, transfer window and Leeds performance. So avoidable. I HOPE Moyes can wrangle what he's got into some sort of survival formula this year- and if he can - it...

I said it months ago that we'll be looking for a new manager by November. Last season, the only thing that mattered was survival. Moyes, to his credit, secured that within a month - just as Big Sam did in 2017. However, when the panic abates...

I agree about Grealish and Ake especially Ake but I see why Moyes would want them as he wants results straight away. It's why I agree with Davek that we need a younger more dynamic manager in the long term as I don't get the impression Moyes fits...

Europe will shake out their squad. This year they'll be up for it, exciting times, fair play. Next season is the measure of both their funds and squad - what with FFP, PSR and some tired legs to manage.

This is true, and a spot on post. But this transfer window so far doesn't present a long term strategy. Quick expensive fixes in Grealish, Ake now on the cards... It's almost like the brief is ' grind out 16th', with expensive loans, no youth...

Clubs like Brighton have a long term vision and structure where all the parts from managers to players fit in seemingly to that vision. We on the other hand have bounced about from one extreme to another making it up ad hoc along the way. This is...