Of course Den and that’s my concern but TBH not too dissimilar from many other seasons recently.

But the options for me are either believe the powers that be are unaware of this/do not care or that things are a lot more difficult than I could articulate in a post. I find the first hard to believe.

The other possibility is that a small flurry of late activity may occur which will still fall short but they’ll hold their breath til January and if it comes off is far better for the club, if not the team, longer term. I’m hoping so anyway we need at least a couple bods in to have a semi-decent starting XI.

Edited by Nicholas91 (04 Aug 2023 3.05pm)

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

You did indeed.

Just ignore the whiners. Your ITK stuff is more accurate than 80% of the click bait.

I can't disagree with you Nicholas, it just that I was hoping for much better preparation this year and had hoped SP would learn from previous mistakes but it seems to be the same old story, leave everything to the last minute, no proper preparation for the manager before the season starts. We just lack a degree of urgency in these matters.

My sentiments exactly. Say it how it is. If they get offended it says more about them than it does about you .

Are we that far behind our comp. West ham are awash with cash are a bigger club and have bought no-one.

I don't really care about WH, my concern is CP and I want them to continue to enjoy playing in the top league in the world. Some of our investors are wealthy enough but by their own admission are not committed to the club long term!

I wish you was in charge, I’d be ponsing a lift up from Kent in your yellow Ferrari, although if you were loaded like Parish I doubt you’d be living in Sittingbourne anymore

If no one else leaves we should be alright , if the bar is avoiding relegation, and maybe that’s enough.
The frustration comes in when for two close seasons now it has been fairly obvious we were only a couple of decent signings short of being a side better than bottom 10 , with no fear of relegation, it’s that close. But last close season we ended slightly lighter than the year before, and right now having our main man and three others out , with one decent signing in , it wouldn’t seem to be the way to real progress we are on.
Yes the picture could change over the next month , but when the manager , appears to have the same concern, then there must be room for concern.

A Ferrari would look a bit out of place round here in amongst all the horse and carts