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In my view, the bigger issue is that, for the last few years, the entire squad has had the cutting edge of a Tommee Tippee spoon. We don't score many, we're not clinical and we rely heavily on our old mate OG.
Let's hope for an improvement as the season unfolds.
I acknowledge that he has underperformed so far but yesterday was Celar's first competitive game under a new manager and marked his return after a long lay-off which a pretty serious injury. Let's give the guy a chance, please 🙏.
While I totally agree that we need to start the season - indeed, all seasons - well prepared, you need to take into account that the S & P rules mean that the only alternative to "a five-year plan, focused on developing young players" is a do or die attempt to get promoted immediately by bringing in quite a few good quality, established Championship players. A very high calibre manager might also be required.
I think we'd need to go up at the first time of asking to avoid crippling S & P sanctions - as repeat offenders, we'd be for the high jump - but another issue might be how difficult it is to attract that sort of personnel to a relatively small and unglamorous club like ours.
Don't get me wrong, I, like most on here, am worn out by season after season with no real hope of promotion or a cup, not to mention unnerving flirtations with relegation, but there are no easy solutions. Sadly .
"We’ve got a job on our hands and let’s not needlessly destabilise things".
Look, I'm totally behind Stephan, we are where we are and all that, but after what happened to Cifuentes, a manager who was broadly popular and quite successful given the resources at his disposal, the irony of that statement is sufficiently massive to be seen from space.
"And, needless to say, there are rules as to which nouns are masculine and which feminine."
A great piece, both entertaining and insightful, but on the subject of foreign languages and grammar, Italian - which I am steadily teaching myself, I might become fluent if I live to be 149 - really takes the biscuit:
Egg is masculine when in the singular - uovo - and - gasp - feminine in the plural, uova. Mad!
The trouble is, if we brought in multiple tried and tested Championship players, we would end up breaking the sustainability and profitability rules. Those rules really restrict us.