Recent content by Big Ben Foster

Most managers don't take sackings as personally as the Caf does. I don't think it'll be an issue for him.

This Frank guy is an incessant WUM. Surprised his tweets haven't been banned yet.

This. People here tend to forget that even to be a useful squad player, there's still a baseline level of quality and reliability that's required.

Very disingenuous to include caretakers. We've had 5 permanent managers since SAF retired.

I see no evidence any of that has actually happened under ETH. We lack a coherent playing style and we brought in an even worse mishmash of players than we already had. Under just about every conceivable metric, short-term and long-term, we are worse off now than we were before he came in.

Sounds like a sunk cost fallacy to me. Commit to something that isn't working instead of accepting a setback and going back to the drawing board.

Just like Antony. The scouts and recruitment team warned against signing him and put a ceiling of 20m on his valuation. This idea that our scouts are shit doesn't hold water - they've been ignored and marginalized for years.

Doing marginally better points-wise than the season where everyone completely checked out by November. Excellent stuff.

Nope, you're in a bubble if you think most fans care at all. I reckon most casual PL fans don't even know what FFP is.

Doesn't he say something to that effect every year? Feel like he's always moaning about something.

Was there another thread like this from the start of the season / end of the summer, by any chance?

Really? I thought it would've been higher. They squandered some easy chances in the first half.

You'd think he'd at least try to put himself in the shop window if that was the case

I normally have multiple Caf tabs open at once, so when I read the first paragraph I had to scroll up and see which player thread I was in, because that did not narrow it down much :lol:

We can circlejerk about their charges all we want, but the reality is 99% of fans don't give a shit about financial regulations, and if we don't get our act together, they will eventually surpass our domestic and European titles.