When the chances of relegation is is nigh on impossible

Were established then

And we still need a striker

There were four of them that saved the club but Parish went for the glory. After 8 seasons and £1.1bn what have we got to show for it? A new pitch, a bit of cladding, one FA cup final, £20m now going on the academy but boring sh*t football with no goals and a fooking old squad and no money....this is his mess and he needs to sort it out, it’s fooking embarrassing.

We always look over our shoulder at relegation.. Everton, wolves, Leicester, west ham, burnley don't start the season thinking 'let's focus on not getting relegated' - sure, the west ham's have lost their way and get themselves in trouble... but that's the difference in an established prem club...

We, it's well documented that we over spent trying to fix errors... and now look to be neutral again.. if we make 2/3 more signings of potential this summer, it could mean a mid table finish with not even a sniff of relegation... which then means next summer, one/two signings is only really needed and we grow as a club and become established... basically where we are now, we should ahem been after our 3rd season...

This was once a quality forum....

Remarkable? Well I guess people pass remarks.

I have not mentioned Roy aside from in the context he has been here a while and offered some stability. Mr Parish can run the club as he sees fit. It is his along with the Yanks to do so. (And they all do very well out of it.) But I would not say his performance has been remarkable. We are as a club struggling to simply stand still and in football terms that pretty much equals going backwards. Maybe that is the managers fault but equally we have needed a striker now for the last few windows and failed to sign one (well apart from one who we sent on a very generous one way loan deal)

So maybe one thing we have is a remarkable transfer policy.

We've pretty much got a new striker every transfer window.

Last window - Tosun on loan who BFS wanted to spend £25m on as he was the top scorer in Turkey. Whilst we were happy to sent out Wickham which was inexplicable as far as I was concerned.

Then Ayew, Batshuayi, Ayew (loan), Sorloth, Benteke, Wickham, Campbell, Adebayor, Remy, Chemakh, Sonogo, Gayle, Jerome.

The most successful being Benteke when we played to his strenght. Clearly not a panic buy as we spent the whole summer negotiating the fee.

Would be nice if we tried to set the team up to the players strengths.

In the mean time. We've just got to keep hunting to unearth the next goalscorer. In recent history, that's relied more on luck than throwing cash around (Murray, Johnson, Morrison, Jansen, Armstrong, Wright vs Kuqi, Akinbuyi, Gabiadini)