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I realise I will get slaughtered for being insensitive but we deserve relegation.
Let's face it we are not a Premiership club either on or off the pitch.
We have a poor team with players playing out of position but get picked if they are close to the manager.
Off the pitch we stumble and slip on virtually every possible transfer.
At the end of the season we need a director of football along with a new manager.
Even then I don't hold much hope of the club becoming professional
There doesn’t seem to be any structure to our transfer dealings at all.
We jump from unknown players from the Belgian leagues, to a Ricky Lambert, to established pros on the scrap heap, to free signings from league one, to players who have a good game against us, to good young championship players, to dishing out 3 year contracts to someone in their mid 30s, and near 5 year deals to a 28 years old who hasn’t turned up any trees in 5/6 years playing in English football.
There is no long term plan everything is so short sighted.
All the while there is zero path for any youngster coming through at the club.
And not forgetting the countless players we’ve had to pay out. Tan bangs on about Acorn but he’s just one of many expensive mistakes.
For me we have in the main messed up the last three transfer windows.
Summer looked encouraging with Reid and Murphy but we do not play them.
Last January we spent £6 million on a striker that didn't score and is now out on loan.
This window we have not remedied any of our gaps both in midfield or at right back.
This isn't a new thing by any means.
The club make noises like 'we'll have to wait and see' and 'we can't get it over the line' on regular occasions and we have missed most targets. Something behind the scenes is not right.
Sadly, the Sala deal looked the best bit of business we had done for quite some time but we'll never find out.
The sooner we get a football man in place to see these things through smoothly the better. What we have in place, for me, isn't good enough and it has shown time and again.
We had a chance this season from here on in with a strong window but all hope for me has all but been lost and most people I know feel the same after tonight.
So, you make absolutely no allowance for the Sala accident and that the staff and players are obviously devastated by what happened. Its a wonder they could turn up to work at all, let alone sign any players. You say we 'messed up' the January 2018 window, totally ignoring the fact that we were promoted to the Premier League in second place with 91 points after it. What did you expect this season then - European qualification !!
I said in the main we have failed and I stick by that.
Our biggest deal in January 2018 was Madine. We didn't go up because of Madine but more regardless of the fact he did not score.
We signed him to score the goals to get us over the line. We managed to get these from other areas with Madine getting not one.