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You could say that if we were signing a 14 year old park player for goodness sake. Its an opinion on a football forum.

My only thoughts are around the idea that £30m in the bank and there isn’t a better bet between here and this guy for a striker. Really? There isn’t another striker anywhere between here and China? WTF are the club thinking?

So the last player of any real value - and the only goalscorer in the squad is being willlingly sold and replaced by a 26 or 27 year old Japanese player who has no experience in English football whatsoever. A complete and total gamble. That’s the best Waggott and his chums have got. The squad is on its knees both quality wise and numbers wise and this is their answer? What an effing mess.

The new ground being built about 2 miles from me.

It’s obvious now what Venkys are doing but I hadn’t read previously that the staff at Ewood had been told that was the case. Had anyone else?

I’ve no idea who this is or the credibility of this post.

Why? Why do we need to sell absolutely everything or anything with any value? These sales more than keep the lights on surely. When Smodic has gone, who’s going to pay the electricity bill next season? Not a single word from the club. The supporters deserve far better than this. About time those who can, start asking the tough questions. Starting tonight with WATR and the LT.

He might as well model himself on Messi then.

As regards the transfer thread, we once pinned a topic for “links”. No discussion, just links. for those people who don’t want to crawl endlessly through all this - could bringing back that topic help?

When people argue that signing players doesn’t come with guarantees …….. it never did and it never will. However the bottom line to all this is…… Sign second division players, get second division football. If you’re shopping in dodgy leagues you’re far more likely to get duds.

If this guy signs and plays he’ll get all the backing he could ask for. Unless he’s not good enough. That’s how it is at every football club. At the moment fans are more than entitled to question the clubs ambition - or lack of it. They’re more than entitled to question why we are shopping in the market we are after bringing in £20m+ recently. So I’m not quite sure what you’re asking posters on here to do, that they always do. “Back the club” maybe?

Nothing to do with the manager - or any other manager IMO. man for man, position for position Spain had technically superior players, superior footballers than us. Players that understand how to play the game. It’s been that way for 58 years now. We’ve had how many managers in that time? Which manager could have seen us outplay Spain tonight with that squad? I doubt anyone else could. I haven’t got the answer why we are always second best but it’s ingrained somewhere in the development of our players.

I guess if you thought Adam Wharton was simply a young championship lad that had made the most of a lucky break into the PL, then you would think £18m down was a good deal. It’s a bit naive though.

Do we need to be able to decipher court papers, translate Waggotts coding to work out what’s going on? It’s all there to be seen. There’s no money.

I would say the way county cricket is going…..

Spent yesterday at Southport waiting for the rain to clear. No luck. Not there today but play got underway and this morning saw Jimmy in his first outing this season, take 7/35. Notts following on so might go tomorrow if it’s not over. BTW, Anderson and Lyon bowling for Lancs. Two all time greats playing for the same county at the same time. When does that happen?

We very willingly pulled our own pants down. only very odd people do that.

Those are added extras to “help” the referee decide if it was deliberate. “Deliberate” being the key word. It’s never been the intention of law makers to make any contact between ball and arm/hand an offence. If it was an offence, there would be no need for anything else. What I’m saying is what Arbitro said after my post. If VAR spots a possible handball then ask the referee by all means to take a look. He should be looking for only one thing - was it deliberate? Surely nobody would have given a penalty for that last night. The correct decision would have been made. I would suggest don’t get VAR involved for any handball incidents but that’s not realistic in todays game.

“Natural position” this, “unnatural position” that, “arm movement” here, “close proximity” there. Utterly ridiculous. The laws of the game say it has to be intentional handball. If the VAR officials were given that simple task to base their decision on, it would be so much easier and so bloody obvious in 99 cases out of 100.

Have we created a chance yet?

This is fear football. Players frightened of making a mistake and taking the easy way out. It’s been evident for a while. A good manager would shake them out of it.

From mid Premier league to Crewe Alexandra and the same division as well. Where did Ronaldo and Beckham fit into this plan?

That was worrying. Got to look at Southgate. Just for starters, what was the game plan - anyone know? We struggled big time for an hour of the game. What did he change? - nothing that made any difference and if he can’t change anything what chance do we have going forward? Early days of course and sometimes teams grow into tournaments, but TBH, looking at last nights hopeless performance I can’t see England giving any of the better sides a game. and there was me believing England have some top quality, technically excellent young players. Last night, apart from one, they were second best to Serbia.

I’m looking at the manager and wondering what the game plan is.