(10-08-2016, 21:08)BaggieSteve Wrote: Every year we wring our hands at the club's close season transfer dealings, say that they are hopeless and couldn't get any worse.....and then the next close they are! It's quite unbelievable; we are three days away from the start of a new season and we have one signing. We are allegedly in discussions to sign other players whom their clubs clearly don't want to sell, meaning that we will end up panic buying at the transfer deadline players such as Enner Valencia, Emmanuel Rivière and Peter Crouch, none of whom will improve the team one jot. How can we get it so f**kin' wrong year after year? Right now, there is no indication that we are attempting to sign some creativity into our midfield, instead we are faffing around looking at a list of defenders and either sub standard strikers or ones who clearly don't want to join us. I have to agree with World Class Albion in that Pulis must be the most unattractive manager to play for, and I'm not talking about his looks. He has a prehistoric view of football, one that is based upon the principle of "as long as you don't lose, nothing else matters". Only problem is that we do lose and when we concede are incapable of retrieving a result. At some point Pulis' record of never being relegated will come to an end and, at that point, his only selling point disappears. Some selling point.