15 Aug 2015 17:57:00
We have to invest heavily now. We can get a return on the TV deal so this season is huge for us. Go for Hernandez and Austin and offer them big money. This is what Short must do. We would get a return on wage as for the deal. Tell them they would be our main players for the season and would be huge for us. But Marcus Alonso and De sciglio on loan if we can and get Fabian Schar an offer him good money and get Jonny Evans and try and get januzaj on loan and a solid midfielder. Ellis you must invest is similar quality players at least try and offer good money and persuade them. If you don't invest your an idiot Mr Short. Lol
GK: Pantiliomon
RB: De sciglio
CB: Schar
CB: Evans
LB: Alonso
CM : M'Villa
CAM/CM: januzaj or rodwell
ST: Hernandez
ST: Austin

1.) 15 Aug 2015
15 Aug 2015 20:27:15
All the defenders on our books are rubbish apart from beadling and tommy robson. Clear the rest out and get byram, evans, van dijk, and alonso. I doubt if pants will mind those 4 infront of him. Watmore, m'vila, giachy and lens infront of them. Austin and hernandez up front

2.) 15 Aug 2015
15 Aug 2015 20:29:40
Good luck with that, even if we had the transfer funds to get them all, we couldn't afford their wages at all. There's no way to get the junk we have on the wage bill off it as simply nobody will buy them. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place right now, and it'll be a good few seasons till half our team is out of contract and gone.

3.) 15 Aug 2015
15 Aug 2015 22:19:09
Wyndrusher I totally agree with you. Your post is the harsh reality. I just wanted the feel good factor with my post. that's about as close as we will get to having a decent team. FANTASY

4.) 16 Aug 2015
16 Aug 2015 00:11:53
Wyndrusher, But this is what it's come too we must pay there sky high wages as we would get a return on the money and Ellis Short has to really invest much more because we need to stay in the division. He had to try and buy some of these players not all of them because that's the type of side we should have. But we have the deadwood

5.) 16 Aug 2015
16 Aug 2015 06:57:18
Must pay? we just can't. We don't have the wage bill to manage much more and that's part of the problem. Consecutive managers have brought average players here and given them contracts that are way too high for their skill, this mixed with lower income, higher debts and the fact that half the stadium now is filled with people on free tickets truly hamper our ability to get anyone in. It'll take a good long time to get this sorted, and I just don't think the people in charge are brave enough to do it as it would probably end in relegation and a year or two of complete rebuilding. Our coaching staff need to be fired & completely replaced, most of the main team as well.

6.) 16 Aug 2015
16 Aug 2015 18:42:28
Wyndrusher, I agree why doesn't the club learn if you sign players for 1-3 million they will be deadwood and we give them high wages since short bough the club we should have a team like this but we don't. 250 million pound wasted except a few players really.