We seem to treat buying needed players like running out of milk: 'Oh, I'll just pop to Sainsbury's'.

Yes - It all comes down to what kind of person you are. I'm sure you'd have found Leicester supporters that were still moaning and thought they knew better when they won the league. But surely even the most negative person must concede the squad is stronger this year? I know we haven't improved areas that we clearly need to but I'm sure the intent was there

"Credit for saving the club expired?" was probably the wrong term as the poster should have said that SP can't live on that credit for ever more.

Interesting comment you made that you "don't know if SP is good or bad at this job, but I'm sure he does what he thinks is right" as I'm sure that the same could have been said about Mark Goldberg and Simon Jordan and look where that left us.

Not sure what you mean with who? Who could do a better job? How long is a piece of string. Steve Parish could make any number of moves to bring new blood into running the football side of the house. He seems to have done that with Freedman but its the same old story of inept transfer strategies and huge gaps in the squad, which smells like Parish again. This transfer window has been a huge failure especially in the context of having just hired a manager who likes to play possession football and pass it around the park. You seem to be missing the point I made about my nephew. Person A doing what they think is right playing connect 4 - putting the coloured chips into the holes to try to put 4 into a row, and maybe they are good at it and always win. Person B - throwing the pieces around and crying - not a good player of connect 4. At this stage of the game, we need someone who is good at being chairman of our football club. We needed to address pressing needs in the squad by executing a professional and coordinated strategy regarding transfers. Instead of trying to sign Oumar Niasse at midnight and then cocking it up over agent fees. We saved 3 or 4 million quid on waiting this long on Sakho, and all the uncertainty and noise that brought to the other deals, was it really worth it? Parish is getting obsessed about waiting late on deadline day, other clubs around us didnt do that, so why do we do it every time? The managerial appointment and then transfer window was shambolic. Parish himself said "barring disasters" we would sign 3 players yesterday, I guess then you can call it a disaster - and who is responsible for this disaster?

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

He saved us, he gave us Burley, he's paid 650k per annum, he's sold a large part of us to the yanks, he's promised us a new stadium, brought back Freedman, appointed FdB, he let Pardew nearly take us to the gallows.....If you dressed him in a toga and stuck a laurel crown on his bonce he looks like Julius Caesar. He is not accountable to anyone. We are his toy.

Count how many clubs have 1 available striker for 4- 5 months. Just as perhaps?

COYP