mykeyb

Maybe because one was completely out of his depth when appointing managers and has made two appointments which at the moment has been a massive contribution to the fact we are bottom of the league and look like losing our position in the premiership. He was part of a transfer committee who seemed to go out and buy a list of targets more for their resale value than anything else, without it appears adequately replacing Benteke and Vlaar, in Bentekes case they just didnt replace him in any way, shape or form. The other has taken a role which I suspect is considerably worse than he first expected and after trying to establish some kind of order gets shafted by the man who had courted him for the role by not being able to get in any of his targets (not even one) which makes the managers role even more difficult with the injuries which have happened. Fox seemed to get a heros welcome from some as he wasnt Faulkner, I dont rate the bloke and never have. His main role is to improve our commercial turnover and much has been made about our much improved sponsorship and new kit deals but has anyone seen figures, anybody know by what percentage they are better than the deals sorted by Faulkner? I look forward to the day he is found out and sacked from our club.

Rudy is out injured

If I won the lottery and bought a business and ran it as poorly as Lerner has allowed us to be ran, pumped money into the business but ultimately was still struggling so I decided to cut my loses would I expect to sell the business and get every penny back I had put in. No I wouldnt - so Lerner can **** off

I share Richards disdain of the board but just to play devils advocate but if Doumbia was offered more money to come here but went to Newcastle instead I am not sure how that is the fault of the board.

If and when he goes they will take the cheapest option........step forward Eric Black

Float on the stock exchange.

I think Lerner is done with the club. We will have to stand on our own two feet so to speak. No more money from the owner and the books will be balanced so that at some point a buyer might be tempted. Sadly he has charged Hollis & Fox with running the club, neither have an ounce of real football knowledge so Hollis will balance the numbers and Fox will try to reclaim the revenue his decisions in the last 12 months have lost the club. If Garde goes I wouldn't want either of them within a million miles of appointing the next manager. We either come straight back up or we stay down until Lerner goes.

I do think Remi Garde is very much like Wenger and will have us play in a certain style, now if that style is what we are seeing now will he be able to make us have a more attacking intent and goal threat with the players he wanted to bring in. That is the reason at this point that I am not bothered if he stays or goes.

Disgusted

I dont think he will walk but I do think he will be looking for the exit and if someone can offer him a job he will do what he needs to do to take it.

If we get one or two loan signings in and manage to stay up by the skin of our teeth does anybody else share the opinion that Hollis would only sanction a NET spend similar to this summer?

Ayew doesn't play close enough to the other striker so they are both isolated. How many more goals will Ayew score in our current system 4, 5 maybe. Who else will score? Grey & Little, Withe & Shaw, Savo and Yorke (well almost).

4-4-2 or we will continue to collect draws instead of wins

I buy (sic) the fact that its difficult to get players to move to us as transfers because of our current plight, but surely loan players wouldnt view it as such a huge obstacle as they would be back to their club at the season end and if they have performed well would be back in the shop window!

So to keep the squad together they have built in relegation clauses into their contracts........................................yep that will definitely work.

The one thing I think most fans assumed is that being American he would be able to market the shit out of the club........................how wrong we were.

If Lerner wants to get rid of the club because he has zero interest in running it why doesnt he refloat it on the stock exchange at a price he could get his money back and be done with it. I assume a lot of fans would like to be shareholders again in the club.

Not being there I had to take it from the written word, which I read one way, which was incorrect. I would like to know from our activity in the Summer how Randy spent £23 million on transfers,

Spin or badly phrased?

Reading the full transcript he states we spent £60 million pounds this summer (not NET obviously) but I will allow him that spin but he then states we spent £60 million the previous season................really? Apart from the 5 Freebies we signed Cissokho for £2m, Sanchez £4.7m & Gil £3.2m, Bowery went for £250k and Ahmadi £700k. I make that less than £9m not £60m

Is it tonight that Hollis & Fox are at a fans meeting but because of a prior appointment can only be there for 45 minutes? If so I commend both of them for moving their diaries around so they can attend this evening if only for a short time and really shows how highly both men regard our fanbase! or The want to limit the amount of difficult questions they are asked for which they will have no useful answers. Wonder how much spin and bullshit they will spout?

and so is your response sir.

with £110,000,000 of players going with no return skews the figures. Had we got a 50% return on those players it would have put the spend at around £10,000,000 a season which isnt enough.

How about a NET spend of £168,150,000 since 2006/7 to end up with the squad we have now.

Point taken. Whats your view on the 16 players who we signed for about £110,000,000 that left for absolutely zero return. Can you show me any other club in the league who have wasted so much money and allowed 16 players to leave for nothing. I will see what the total in & out figures come to.