At one point it looked like Steven Reid was being primed for the job but he disappeared unfortunately.

If I was going on this quote from the BBC article below then Jose Bordalas from Getafe looks a good shout. Vicente was obtained from them, very solid defensively, no real stars but work well as a collective.

"Some 15 kilometres away from the city's iconic Puerta del Sol landmark is Getafe, a municipality probably best described as being to Madrid what Croydon is to London."

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“ [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

Nobody's Spanish and there are loads of stabbings?

Red and Blue Army!

If this is true then it's no real surprise, as I doubt Roy wants his last season in football to be such a damp squib. I just hope to the gods that if it is true he will finally be backed with some decent transfers, as I don't think he can be expected to squeeze much more out of this ageing tube of toothpaste.

Giving Roy a 1 year extension and then backing him in the transfer market, where we clearly have a lot of chopping and changing to do makes no sense to me. So either we wont see much change over the summer recruitment wise or the next manager who comes in after Roy will be told you've got what you've got. This presents issues in itself. We've got a Manager who is clearly here for the short term but now we are going to back him.. mental. If we are future planning then employ someone as Manager to go along with the same vision fs

I think that a 1 year extension is the best option at the moment...

We are looking at getting some fresh young blood in, as is apparent with our signings and nearly signings in January.
It seems the clubs hope is that RH can integrate them into the Squad safely, then pass on a squad which is in a much healthier state, and one that is more attractive to someone like Eddie Howe *not necessarily him*).

obviously this is reliant on us staying in this division and actually signing the right people in the summer.

In retrospect, the Window was indeed terrible, but if reports are to be believed, was two injuries(ferguson and Kouame) away from being a really good one. I'm tending towards these being bad luck that they fell through. But it's bad luck that we've somewhat forced on ourselves with our previous performances in the transfer market, meaning we cannot afford to take risks.

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"