It is crazy how this place is the same every summer. With the negative realists Vs the positive dreamers, it will continue throughout the season also when we shit the bed early on but be told exactly that…it’s still early, no time to panic. We’ll inevitably fail in the cups also once we face anyone half decent and the debate will rumble on up until and after our nail biting battle for top 6.
Then the hopes and naive dreams will start again in the close season, as we will be led to believe the summer window will be the time to rectify the holes in squad and get us closer to challenging again (all whilst the teams already better than us improve and in a more efficient way). However we’ll have just come full circle to yet another frustrating summer window with our different but same inept recruitment team slowly preparing bids for players that are either too expensive for our budget limitations (once again hampered by our inability to sell any of our overpaid crap)…or by players who will only join if it’s the choice of us on a fat wage or unemployment.
The biggest consistency through all this though, and in the years to come (besides the age old Redcafe battle of wits) will be another new manager joining for yet another rinse and repeat project. All whilst us fans continue to cling on to memories of the past when we used to be a serious force in football and not just a ridiculed and debt riddled club with second rate facilities and staff…continuing to plod along into obscurity, whilst just about managing to stay relevant enough commercially to pay our leech owners handsomely.
OR this is just one big smoke screen and our new super team or Arnold, Murtough and Fletcher will drop 4 new signings ready for tour. Manage to sell Martial, Jones, Pereira and Bailly. ETH will take to the league like a duck to water and have us playing great football, with a squad full of togetherness and harmony on it’s way to challenging again for years to come?