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Mal (23): If we have had a sell on clause and make money from Gordon, so be it. Let’s utilise that money to buy two right full backs.

Erm???? Young Deggers from Walton Vale is available for £0.7 mill and we might be able to snatch a 40-something from somewhere.

To be fair MG (20), if last year’s summer window was a ‘rescue project’ then it didn’t work out very well in the end.

We finished 13th in 2024-2025; we finished 13th in 2025-2026,

The ‘record spend’ £160m (ish) resulted in one extra point than the year before; 5 more goals scored; 6 more goals conceded (-1, if you like).

Only one of the seven players we bought in that window has become a regular fixture/starter in the first team. Barry is next in line, but there is a strong likelihood that the wishes of many on here will be granted and he will be moved on somewhere. One of last season’s multiple enigmas is Dibling/Alcaraz/Aznou. Barry is another one. To be fair, two signings are in essence back-up keepers.

We did better in the loan market. Top drinker when injured (or not) Grealish gave us 20 games and is something marmite on here. That’s it, apparently, Maresca wants him back at City (allegedly). I’m sick and tired of him after his latest piss up and strip-fest with Pickford and Garner. I will not be sorry at all to see the back of him.

Rohl is ours now and he also splits opinion on here. I’m hopeful as he was a dim-shining light in our shocking end to the season. But the jury is most definitely out on him.

We’ll have to wait and see.

I don’t think MG that last summer’s window ‘rescued’ much and it has arguably looked like a costly venture on the pitch in terms of displays and selections and points.

I don’t even believe that we needed to be ‘rescued’ last summer. MG. That window was an opportunity to move forward and improve not to be ‘rescued’ with its negative connotations. And a lot of blood boils if we mention the January window in the bleak mid-winter season.

Now, this summer window as a consequence of the very mixed results of the last one and the nothingness of January (bye TG, sorry you were so chronically neglected) has become far more important.

I would hazard that the majority on here are at best sceptical and need to be convinced. So, let’s see what happens. Moyes at the helm does not build a great deal of confidence, it seems. Not for me either. When does the time for ‘stability’ end?

But there will be fume and rage if this coming window is as successful as the last one.

If we have had a sell on clause and make money from Gordon, so be it. Let’s utilise that money to buy two right full backs.

You can (almost) always tell when a Managers time is up – a few things happen.

1) Obviously; you get a series of poor results and performances.
At the start of the season people when asked how we’ll fare say ask me when the clocks go back or Halloween / after Bommy Night / 10 or 12 games and let’s see…

Results; L, W, W, L, W, D, L, L, D, D, L, L.
P12, 12Pts. pretty ordinary, though this season W.Ham went down on that form
Performances; It has to said they got worse as they went on.

2) The dreaded Chairman’s ‘Vote of Confidence’ – ‘Happily Dissatisfied’? well I’m not sure what that exactly means, it’s all a bit ‘Meh’.

3) A list of possible replacements, we’ve got that on an almost daily basis.

What we haven’t had yet is…who will succeed ‘xxxxxxx’? and you get 2 answers.

4a&b) Almost anybody & The Tea Lady.

My Conclusion; Short Term.
Sadly, Moyes isn’t going anywhere yet…and I’m not about to wish for a poor start (although he does have previous for them, I can remember a couple of times we’ve been on 3pts in October) just to get rid of him.

Hail Mary options;
A) Moyes has taken the 6 weeks paid gig because he knows he’s on the way out.
B) Kinnear has Road to Damascus revelation and petitions TFG to act.

Nah, I don’t think it’s very likely either.

My Conclusion; Medium Term.
If You keep Moyes he will…eventually…build you a Moyes Team.
This season he failed to get at least 6th with basically a Dyche team and got 13th.
Eventually ( and who knows how long this eventually will be?) with his own team He’ll fail to get 3rd and finish with his 7th-ish Trophy.

As Lyndon Lloyd said; Yesterday’s Man for Stability Today.

I was just about to apologise Laurie when I saw this. Yep, he is clearly happy with looking downwards so that meal might still be on! He’s been linked to Real. Mind you Laurie, perhaps it’s a young manager with verve and ideas that is pushing him there.