These are generating more interest than our game against Tottenham!

I have had a number of phone calls today to the extent that I have had to place my phone in 'Vibrate' mode due to the fact that the incessant ringtones have raised the hackles of my dear wife! I have advised her to go out with her mask and do some shopping!!

Good point and is the issue of our transfer spending in a nutshell. Why haven't we spent these sums this season ? After all we completed our biggest transfer ever with AWB. Okay, if the money is now servicing debt, how much debt do we have now and will this continue ? Next window will be crucial as it will become very clear where we are financially.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

When a manger only has a year left, no responsible chairman would open the cheque book for them, particulary with Roy's history in the transfer market.

Also which new quality players want to pay negativity football under Roy?

Why have the players not been performing well?
Well he has said they are too old for the Premier and we need younger players, how motivating is that for the senior squad, when they know they a re needed to be phased out. Roy maybe you are too old for the present "Premier League" too?

And please tell what coach is coming to teach the younger players, because as as far i have researched its a long time ago Roy had time/taught younger players?

I think this thread is coming to an end as I’m convinced he’s staying - even if there were to be 8 consecutive defeats.
We’re only 6 weeks away from a new season and Hodgson seems fully on board for the planning.
He has said the club are looking for younger players in the attacking areas with the defence not being a priority as we’re well covered in this area and have signed Ferguson already.
The only concern may be that he said the club are looking at young players to ‘initially understudy ‘ the senior players I.e to improve strength in depth.
I think we’re crying out for an immediate injection of pace into the side and would like a couple of players who could go straight into the team.

I was ignorant of this. Now checking I see it has a capacity of just 17,500. Perhaps that was the limit of their budget but it does indicate a lack of ambition to me.

I have now sufficient funds to last me the rest of my life. Provided I don't buy anything.

You could argue that no responsible chairman would have offered the manager a 12 month deal given that the squad overhaul needed is going to take longer than that.

Old, Ungifted and White

A few articles floating around news now at the moment. In short we appear to have a manager on a one year contract who wants to bring more experienced players into the team despite it being the oldest in the league, a chairman who wants to bring youth into the team and a star player who has told his manager he wants to leave on numerous occasions and the manager appears quite happy to chat about it.

You just know this recipe ain’t going to end well.

Thanks, that possibility really cheered up my rainy Saturday morning!

Well let’s face it 17,500 is about what we will achieve in the Championship.

Serious ? Brentford a lack of ambition, a brand new stadium, excellent scouting set up, have made progression despite selling the best players every year for handsome profits.

After 9 years of PL money we had to sell AWB to cover our losses, we have a picture of a stand that won’t get built a bang average ageing squad with one sellable player and two Sakho and Tekkers that have leached us the best part of 80 million (or the cost of a new Stadium in Kew).