It's been a good season...

[Efcjake]

I don't think any club has ever hired Fat Sam twice.

So there's that at least.

 

[Eggs]

Can I sum that up for you ?

Walsh is a clueless, gravy train riding, waste.

..cheers, Matey, it would’ve been a lot easier if i’d have said that.

 

[Furey1878]

Can we actually just take the initiative now please? Finish 7th, possibly get Europe and have a fresh start next season.

All things considered it would be a nice way to end the season.

 

[Furey1878]

Oh and I want a minimum of at least 2 more away wins before he season ends.

 

[Eggs]

It's all opinion here. But this one is backed up by the scheme plan to have the club pay the whole amount plus interest back.

It cant go ahead because it'll kill the club in any crisis. But if that's what some people want....

..I might have done A Level Economics but I’m really thick and naive when it comes to business matters. I think you say Moshiri has bought into the club to build the new ground and then quickly sell up to make himself a big profit whilst saddling the club with massive debt.

I naively think there must be a quicker, less risky and easier way for him to make a profit, especially given he’s no spring chicken and will be even older by the time the ground is built and he manages to sell up. The other probably daft question is how would he sell his shares at a big profit to a new owner who would surely know the level of debt being taken on?

 

[zebedee]

Bottom line is that HE is calling the shots here on everything: who manages the club, how much money has been spent (and wasted), the terms and conditions that we'd have a stadium built at BMD.

It's an absolute catastrophe he's overseen here in less than two years.

No worse than when BK bought out PC. As I've referred to in other threads it's not a sprint it's a marathon. Owning a club has changed it's now a business and a huge business at that.

 

[davek]

No worse than when BK bought out PC. As I've referred to in other threads it's not a sprint it's a marathon. Owning a club has changed it's now a business and a huge business at that.

I accept that. But the conclusion thus far on Moshiri after two years is mixed...to be VERY kind.

Just look at the mess the club is in after spending £300M on the squad. And the status of the club has been brought low.

That's happened on his watch.

 

[pedro789]

Traumatic season, but at least everyone can see it's senior players and management who aren't up to it.

Wont be easy to move on Williams, Schneiderlin, Bolassie etc - stupid wages, no arsed - affecting whole dynamic of the squad.

Manager and DoF with clear philosophy and identity they want to stamp on team. Backroom staff seems stale.

Replace exec team, chief exec and deputy should be managing a leisure centre or carpet superstore. That 'we'll own the city' shout was toe curling.

Think we've been lucky in games this season. Summer revolution.

 

[Steve0]

..I think it’s wrong to look solely at individual signings. You need to look at the squad as whole and how it fits a playing strategy. The squad is very unbalanced, top heavy in some positions whilst woefully lacking in others. There’s a real lack of athleticism (pace, strength, running power) particularly obvious in EL where teams overpowered us. Players bought who don’t compliment each other (in the way Coleman/Walcott immediately look a combination), meaning no blend. Players bought without a team structure and method of play in mind.

I reckon that has something to do with the DoF.

Honestly don't think we're that far away though.

We bought too many players for there to have been instant cohesion, also no left back, Coleman taking longer to come back than expected, Keane being injuted/ lacking match fitness for months, Baines getting injured for months.

Sounding a bit kopite but with one decent centre back and a left back in the summer we could surprise people. With Gibson already looking too good for the u23 we might already have the centre back.

Spurs game we were the second best team but they did score an offside goal. A mishit shot and another from a mishit cross.

Arsenal scored a deflection and a couple of set pieces that cone off one in a hundred times. We looked ok second half I thought.