Seems Wickham is on his way, with Brizzle & Stoke interested.

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This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.

Our model is to buy late on in the window in order to save money on wages.

Steve Poorish

Slowly slowly catchy monkey

why he deserves it!

Where do I start. Yes it’s great we’re going into our 7th season in the Prem but, you’re happy with the way Parish has guided us here?

We’re here because we’ve been spending way beyond our means, with a wage bill in the top 8 with revenue at 14th, the worst wage/revenue ratio and we were signing players for fees and wages we shouldn’t have been doing, but we were because the setup and people at the club was complete nonsense or non existent.

The reason we aren’t kicking on is because of the things I’ve mentioned, causing the money to run out and the club owe director loans of £45 mil plus whatever other loans haven’t or are due to be reported in the next company accounts.

Sure Parish has hired the right managers in our different crises and Zaha against the wishes of Pulis, but there’s been so many costly car crashes followed by costly crisis management and conservatism for however long that’ll coincide with the Zaha sale that’ll mean evolving the team to make it more dynamic in more ways than it is now with so much resting on Zaha.

For me the success of Parish will be following that period or, let’s hope not, relegation and seeing how the club is actually structured, improved and stronger than in 2012/13.

The easy solution would be wealthy and willing to invest huge sums buyers, but Parish thought Nosh and Twister would fulfill that prayer but sadly not. They’ve probably caused issues, spending has increased, but their loans that’ll be as a result of errors they’re in some way responsible for they want repaying pretty swiftly it seems, so much so our survival could be at risk.

We’ll see now the cheques aren’t being flung around to cover up foul ups how well we’re being steered. Hopefully we’ll be alright.

COYP

The first thing we need to do to restructure is get rid of Dougie Freedman.

On the basis that the transfer reports we are hearing are correct I’m at a loss to explain the strategy.
We have apparently been interested in the likes of Cahill, McCarthy, Jenkinson and Clyne - an ageing group of experienced players but all with problems of form and fitness.
We already have an ageing squad with a large amount of players in their late twenties/early thirties.
Because these players may be cheap they do not necessarily represent good value based on their recent performances.
In contrast Reece James and Ollie Watkins are young and perhaps would refresh an ageing squad.
But surely we should have established at the beginning of the window if James was available to buy or loan.
If the answer was no, then move in to other targets.