When has it ever been better? we have had some great times with Bert Head, venables the 1st time, and of course Coppel, but nothing then compares to the present cocktail of great chairman, great manager, great squad, and the greatest, loudest supporters EVER

Main risk factor this summer is losing Roy and I think he would love to give retirement a miss for another year but he would rightly expect to be backed in the transfer market. He has proved himself to be a brilliant manager and with a good squad and a few outstanding players he could give himself (and us) a less stressful time of it.

But recruitment is Parish's problem. A very good businessman and a huge ego. These things often go together. He knows that it's likely the best deals are to be had at the deadline, but his judgement has let us down in the final days and hours. He has overestimated the strength of his hand (high transfer fees compared to Europe) but also overestimated the selling club's need to sell. Or underestimated that they really need cash not extended payment terms.

So when he plays hardball and tries to nail the finer points of the deal (cash percentage / payment plans etc) they can bring the shutters down as the clock counts down and he misses players and is left with poor terms on the ones he can get in.

Sørloth may prove to be a brilliant purchase but you can't be impressed with your deal when the other club are openly wetting themselves with glee at the price they wrung out of you.

Yeah what have the Romans ever done for us.

One more point

Hopefully,Steve will have learnt from his experiences in that he one hopes,will be fully focused on some quality signings this coming window,following a quite disastrous January window.
Believe Roy even questioned the inability to get quality across the line last window, leaving us with some mediocrity and complete unknowns.
There is no way you can possibly survive on the cheap in this league unless you are very lucky and I guess the appointment of Roy following the disastrous De Boer selection,proved to be a master stroke as he was faced with almost mission impossible.

I was wondering what hair-do he will opt for next season. He has gone for the blonde wind-swept SJ look for too long, in my opinion.

And time for some looser trousers, so he can increase the blood flow to his brain.

I disengage, I turn the page.

He's got until August 9th before he has to worry about transfers.