I really do not understand why our ability to have a decent transfer window seems to be beyond us. In this window we seemed to spend a considerable amount of time trying to sign players that were not and never were going to available to play for us in the second half of this season. Whoever is responsible for identifying targets should be fired as we.never seem to have a plan,, hence no real improvement in quality proven players for the squad!

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The only constant in all of our recent poor transfer dealings is Steve Parish others have come and gone, But unfortunately he remains in total charge

The scouting is not the issue. The issue is how we go about trying to sign those players. Not getting a keeper signed is not down to the scout - he dug up Guaita. It’s down to our p*** poor approach to negotiations, and lack of focus on solving key problems.

The keeper situation has been going on for years, literally. We only have 2 and the gaffer doesn’t fancy either of them.

Until TFM came in we didn’t really have a right back to challenge ward.

We have loaned 2 premier league players we have absolutely no chance of buying.

We have loads of players out of contract at the same time at the end of this season, including our 2 current goalkeepers.

We failed to sign a striker in the last window leaving us with one recognized forward. Thankfully we actually addressed that finally in this window.

If zaha gets injured we are totally screwed as we don’t have a player who is remotely similar and could even give us 50% of his output.

We cannot ever seem to sell our deadwood.

We leave critical negotiations to the last minute of the window leaving deals open to collapse with no chance to react - Niasse for example.

We play stupid games and put false narratives out there and mess around for weeks on end - Mamadou for example.

The list goes on, it’s amatuer hour.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

er, no. What it shows is that you have no idea about what it takes to scout, research, approach and negotiate a transfer, unless of course you have a direct line to the club and are a part of the negotiation team. Otherwise, you are basing your opinion simply on press releases which are nearly always unreliable and always launched way after any team has started any negotiations.

Edited by europalace (03 Feb 2018 5.48am)

We didn’t sign a striker in the last window - we had one fit striker of premier league class, who got injured, and we had to play 2 wingers up top. We blew the Tosun deal according to his agent, then left Niasse so late that when it crumbled we had no time to sort someone else out, and didn’t replace Mandanda = fail.

This time around we messed around and played chicken on Guaita, ballsed that up, then didn’t have time to get the Ronnow deal done. Our manager said 50 times we needed to have 3 goalies = fail.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

And that reinforces the view I expressed earlier, which is that whilst Parish doesn't need to "sell the club and f*** off", he does need to hand over the management of transfer dealings to someone who is good at it. He isn't, he isn't getting in the players we need, he's jaopardising our retention of coaching staff and managers, and he's not presenting the club in a good light by doing it the way he is or as a hobby alongside the "real" job of running the club, which is a complicated enough business as it is and will only get more complicated when we start rebuilding stands.

He did have a decent window a year ago when we got Sakho on loan, Milivojevic, Schlupp and van Aanholt, and last time he should have had de Boer on board but he threw his toys about and f***ed off, but this time he's had a DoF and a top manager to support and advise and we've ended up making an arse of it. Not too bad from the point of view of prospects for the future but from the point of view of securing our future in the Premier League: f***ing s***e.

So as well as a Director of Football we need a Director of Playing Staff who deals with all this s*** and keeps it away from Parish.

This has to be sorted out before the next window comes along. And no I don't mean that t*** from Wet Spam who spent the whole window trying to hijack our purchases then got himself sacked by sending that ridiculous tweet.

Edited by chateauferret (03 Feb 2018 10.33pm)

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