Poor deluded Steve also quoted as saying we will be OK in the next five fixtures and will surprise a few people.
It will truly surprise me if we get one point against those top sides.

Listening to him say that we buy players just to have 11 vs 11 in training, or we buy players who will be happy to sit on the bench, I found myself hoping that he was making bulls*** excuses rather than actually describing aspects of our transfer policy.

In my view we seem ok when buying solid consistent professionals such as Mcarthur, Dann and Tomkins.
We seem to struggle when we shell out big money which is big commitment with our resources.
We have tried to distance ourselves from clubs such as Brighton and Burnley who would never have purchased Benteke or Sakho but the jury is out as to whether we have had value.
They are I think around 27 years old so there’s still time.
However, the expenditure on them seems to have restricted our flexibility in recent windows .

Couldnt agree more. Listening to the chairman of a Premier League side say we sign players to make the numbers in training, and try to make it sound as if Sorloth is doing really well for us, all sounds a bit deluded.

Seems to be going around lately. RH keeps saying we are putting in good performances, when it seems pretty clear we are totally unable to break down moderately well drilled defenses. If you get a goal at Selhurst, its game over, even if its in the first minute.

Listen carefully to what SP said when asked about our overall strategy on transfers, and its kind of clear; we dont have one.

Lack of "joined up thinking" runs through our club all over the place. Benteke had an abysmal season last year (not a few games, an entire season), Wickham is questionable to get back to his former levels, and Sako walked. So we sign Alex Sorloth, who couldnt cut it in the Eredivisie in Holland, and Ayew who has had about 1 shot on goal in 5 games.

Our second biggest goal threat after Zaha is our left back. And some folks wonder why we cant score any goals at home.

January will be a big window for us to solve our striker issues, unless Wickham can miraculously come good. Solving issues in transfer windows is not Steve's forte however. Seem to remember Freddie Ladapo being the only fit striker at the club not so long ago.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

Our transfer policy is at best random and worst chaotic and as a Premier League Club of some years (not for much longer I fear) we should be ashamed of ourselves.
I didn't hear the interview but it sounds pretty bad.
I am a Parish fan but he should know not to try and defend the indefensible!

Overall I think our squad is decent enough and capable of staying up - with the exception of our forwards.

And those that we currently have are all good examples of the varied transfer policy that we have.

Spend big ? - We did that with Benteke. Has that been a success ?

Unearth a hitherto unknown ' gem ' - we tried that with Sorloth. Has that been a success ?

Ayew - Premier League experience with a modest goalscoring record. Has that been a success ?

Wickham - on his day he looked the part, but he can't be relied upon given his injury record. So - has that been a success ?

I don't know what the answer is, but this club have struggled to sign forwards that can deliver consistently and also seem unable to develop one from the youth set up as well.

As for SP's thoughts on this subject, I sometimes wonder if he has regular conversations with Ian Holloway....

Anyway, if you look at our ' friends ' from the South Coast, they have spent big on three forwards, none of whom are even close to removing their dependence on Glenn Murray.

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