Again though, the Wilshere deal is a great example of hindsight.

Wilshire was in exactly the same situation as Remy. Good player, couldn't stay fit, needed games.

With slightly different luck, we could easily be in a situation now where Remy was fit from the start and had banged in 10 goals alongside Benteke's 10 and we're 12 points better off right now, while Wilshere could have been the one who got injured again and only played three times for Bournemouth.

It hasn't worked out like that, but if our wage bill demanded that we could effectively only afford to sign one of them I think it was a pretty fair shout to go with Remy when we were very short of strikers.

Employee of the month is a good example of how someone can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

Lol, no you werent spouting about living in the real world, just about me living in cloud cuckoo land. I seem to recall that Pardew slagged off the yanks a couple of weeks before getting fired inferring that Parish DEFENDED him in front of the yanks who wanted to fire him because, in Pardew's world, they didnt know anything about football. How that has turned around into the Yanks actually meaning Parish was slower in firing AP is quite the baffling switch from reality.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

I apologise, I wasn't referring to you as living in the real world. It is another poster who is claiming that, then proving how wrong he is.

But you post was good.

I heard AP was dealling with other things as you stated this is true he was helping restructure the club which again shows Parish is not fit to be top man if he is doing this you bring in someone to handle this stuff but the whole fitness thing is bogus he even stated himself he was handling it which is wrong managers do not deal with this you have proper staff for this.

The modern game this is what the sports science and fitness coaches are for they use data to see players strengths and weakness but the manager needs to give these staff outline on the type of football he will be playing and the pace so they can work on the type of fitness needed. AP refused to listen to doctors advice this is not good next we have only just hired a sports science bloke so AP didn't have a clue

AP appeared like a control freak to me and Parish lack of knowledge/experience allowed it.

I respect what Parish has done but he needs to step a side he is becoming more and more like Jordan he should be a background guy or he could be the media guy but also needs to bring in people that know what they are doing every year it's a mess when it comes to transfers plus not sure he knows what he is spending money on when it cmes to ground/training ground stuff.

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We all make mistakes. For most of us, out of the public eye, and not subject to public criticism.

Undoubtedly there was a serious fck-up in giving Super Al some extended slack. But that was mostly due to a better manager not being available at the time.

We need to splash the cash, unfortunately. But if we don't , we're doomed.

I disengage, I turn the page.

I beg to differ: Folk on these boards have been screaming for a quality LB for effing years! Tight-fisted and dithery Parish finally got us Fryers from the bargain basement, then Souare when he finally had to. We've ALWAYS needed a top LB. It's been f@cking our line-ups around for years. He p1ssed off Pulis on his tight-fistedness and now he doing it again. F@ck SAMBA! My prediction is he'll be a waste of space and money. Clubs can ask for silly money for the players we need in this window because that's the law of supply and demand. Parish is to blame for that for not buying what we needed in the summer and not sacking that prize tw@t Pardew who wrecked our ability to defend. This is BOLLOCKS!

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