Yes, this is the first time I feel we are on-course for relegation. Everything just feels wrong, 1 first team regular under 26, our best players want to leave or won't extend contract. Stadium plans are a joke. We've overstretched on player wages, Sakho, Meyer, Zaha, Benteke etc are all on bigger salaries than a top 6 team would pay. We are struggling to attract new players and Dougie has done a terrible job off field. I think we could really struggle this season.

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just about sums it all up

Yes, this is the first time I feel we are on-course for relegation. Everything just feels wrong, 1 first team regular under 26, our best players want to leave or won't extend contract. Stadium plans are a joke. We've overstretched on player wages, Sakho, Meyer, Zaha, Benteke etc are all on bigger salaries than a top 6 team would pay. We are struggling to attract new players and Dougie has done a terrible job off field. I think we could really struggle this season.

Nothing like the same situation and Pulis left with disagreements over how we conducted and, as it turns out, always conduct transfer activity. Do nothing until until the last possible moment.

Pulis achieved what we all thought was an impossible task at the time, unless you were confident in the mess we were in putting 3 attacks over the final third each match.

There’s as much trapping a manager 3 weeks into the season when we do nothing on recruitment as there is the manager being discontented with what happens or doesn’t happen.

Great, Parish isn’t to be taken advantage of, but please don’t try to paint this image of him being squeaky clean and knowing more than any manager out there. How many times have we messed up the first half of the season, including that very season under Warnock? Only once have we been prepared. Under Pardew. Only once.