I’m out of breath after reading that paragraph!

altogether now....

"Weeeeeeeee've got super Pat Vieira...and he ain't got a f*cking clue"

You seen the investment table and how much we have spent compared to the rest? We are bottom mate...

This was once a quality forum....

But you can point out that they are not investing in line with what it takes to stay in this league.

We are not finding/buying the replacements, we are not producing the future talent, we are not selling on players either.

10 years in the prem.

We unearthed one gem, AWB.
We watched a lot of players run down their contracts.
We watched loan players come and go.
We kept hold of wilf and didn't replace him at the optimum time - now he's going for next to nothing. Sure, he has been a fantastic player, however why couldn't we have found like for like or a system that wouldn't miss him?

We went up in 2013 ahead of schedule - that's absolutely fine, you gotta be in it, to win it. Year one, in the prem should've been about improving the squad so that if we went down, we were in a strong position and the cash from the prem - lovely, thank you. What did we do, sign a million players, insult one by not giving him a spot and releasing him.
Pulis came in, got us firing on all cylinders. He left us, we need to understand why... ofcourse parish will damage control and shift blame.

Pardew came in, we splashed the cash on Cabaye - we needed to hold that line but instead we got in danger and bought our way out with Sam Allardyce. We didn't hold that line and recoup. We just waded in the water. Fans wanting more, club quiet, RH came in, after the dutch disaster class and Roy held the line.

The club were never transparent in my eyes, to the point where we all knew what was going.

He should have just said - we are broke, we are looking at each season as we are newly promoted and need to survive. We didn't offload expensive players that clashed with that mindset.

I've always said, since promotion - we need to look at it as we need to stay up, playing our way, our philosophy and build on that. If we go down, we want to be the strongest team in the champ, with a plan. If we stay up, as intended, it wasn't because we broke the bank.

If teams cannot find a winning formula for this league, then why do we want to be in this state?

Hindsight is wonderful, first thing we should have done is sorted out our youth set up and scouting network. I'd be happy being a champ club, producing talent that other clubs want... having fun in the cup each year.

There are 4 professional leagues, being in the top one isn't life or death to me.

This was once a quality forum....

10 years in the Premier League. Average income per season? Perhaps £130M or more. So £1.3 billion over 10 years. Add in extra money input by investors. Where’s it all gone - mostly on wages for underperforming players? Apart from a smart new academy and some relatively minor ground upgrades and improvements, what’s there to show for it? I know it was a lot cheaper and easier back then, but when first getting promoted to the top division in 1969 we at least had a new stand (the Arthur Waite) when relegation came 4 years later.

Unless Mr Parish and the American 'investors' get their fingers out this month, we could well be back in the Championship next season. Remember the investment during the close season of 2021 came from John Textor (who has now put funds into Lyon). Where would we be without that investment ? It is also a similar situation with contracts next summer.
It was back to situation normal for the poor summer window last year.
For a club which has been in this league for 10 years now with its attached riches, the lack of urgency over investing in the team (Mr P prefers to bang on about the academy) & complacency over the squad quality is a joke.