If ts impossible what's the point of it all? By definition, nothing can be done. That's hysterical pessimism from you. I want the club to do better, not for supporters to tell me its too hard. Barnsley and Luton made Top 6 in the last 2 seasons FFS, yet we haven't in 11 seasons.

Not exactly seeing any progress are we?......

He can talk his way around Venkys but can he pull the wool over the eyes of our Chaddy?

He chose to be better paid.

Like when Shearer got twice what anyone else in he squad got you mean? No, the other players recognised he was a special talent.

Off to QPR then!

If he's going to be a future star, an England player as is being tipped--yes I would match it. He plays for us for 3 or 4 years and hopefully helps us get promotion. We then get a huge fee for him. As I said, its about investment. Fail to invest in the squad and you end up where we are, losing players for nothing and scrambling around in the final hours of the Transfer Window looking for freebies. Meanwhile even more supporters lose heart and ask what the point is.

sorry! Panic in a week!.

Offer him enough to keep him and regard it as an investment?

2 days and 5 hours before the season starts and we have signed no body. Who said big changes were on the way for this season? Effing unbelievable.

What relevance does that have? So we got some right--great. We risk losing probably the best youngster we've developed since Phil Jones. At least we got £16m or was it £20M for him? If we lose Philips are we really expected to say"never mind we kept Haddow!"

and not to panic!

I posted that there was a sell-on clause way back in the January transfer window.

Davies becomes just another player we have been "linked with" and Phillips hasn't yet signed as we were led to believe. No players have been signed. Is it time to panic yet?

Right---just checking! Your post reads contradictory to me. Must be me!

are not?

As w always suspected....

We'll get done in the middle of the park with that line-up.

That's true and we have done it before. So, rather than risk it let's sign nobody and go down.

So you'd think Waggot's job would focus on increasing the turnover wouldn't you? Instead he does the opposite.

this..

You're right but I don't think there will be too many of these do you?

Nobody can say that anymore that you can say we'll have a good start. I know which scenario is the more likely though. We have lost several of our best players after all.

If we had the money, we'd still be reaching a decision when the player went off somewhere else. Not to say finance isn't an issue though. Always has been since Venkys rocked up. As has slow and poor decision-making.

But the good first half of the season we enjoyed last season prevented us being relegated!