Brian Johnson

You say that on here every year and yet I have yet to see this happen. That's not a dig at Carol by the way, she sets whatever budget thinks it should be. It's just people coming on here saying she will spend big when she never does. She sets out the budget accordingly.

Exactly right! But this is how far we have fallen that people keep harping on about that we should have kept Crosby and that we should offer a new contract to 1 goal per season centre forward Uche & offer James Wilson a pay as you play contract.

Again, forget about the 3 months Crosby went without a win and the number of games it was Port Vale Nil. Forget about how we easily surrendered at home to Cheltenham then away to Carlisle & Fleetwood. Stop making tripe up Phil

Was it really? I came on here after every one of those games saying I can not see what everyone else can see and we are in serious trouble. Also, what happened to the following 3 months? A good manager would of got a tune out of a side with the likes of Arblaster & Devine in the side for those 3 months and would have got at least 3 wins that would have kept us up.

Do you think under Moore, we will go the the whole summer without signing 2 or 3 strikers? I personally don't

Crosby had Devine and Arblaster. Moore did not. Even with Devine and Arblaster, Vale were still total crap. Moore never signed any of the players where Crosby had a say in all the players that we signed. Under Crosby, we lost 7-0 to a team. Under Crosby, we went almost 3 months without a win Under Crosby, we dropped like a stone from second in the table to 5th from bottom And I keep adding but it gets boring talking about the same thing over and over again

Alfie Devine played 765 minutes in the championship for Plymouth with 2 x assists. Lets just agree that Crosby was tripe and Moore's been trip so far. No need to keep arguing about who is the worst out of the 2.

You can get either get paid £20k or not play at all this season and then have zero chance the following season of actually finding a club because you have not played for 12 months and you have been to show that you do not give 2 hoots which means you they will need to have a new career path like pot hole filler

Devine, Thomas who Crosby treated poorly and then he had a player at his disposal who is playing in the Premier League. If we take a step back, we are actually arguing about which manager is worse, Crosby or Moore. Crazy if you think about it

With some you can but then that's just hanging around waiting to see if another club would actually do that and then that buggers up your planning & recruiting of players. Pay up 2 or 3 and then place a handful more on the transfer list

Lets not forget that included in that run was losing to bottom of the table Carlisle and getting thrashed at second from bottom of the table Fleetwood. Let's not forget that Moore had a much weaker squad to choose from compared to what Crosby had and even then Crosby messed up big style

I agree to an extent but players & their agents will listen to sensible offers to pay up their contract because a) they will not be playing next season b) Their money will already be reduced this season because of relegation clauses in the contract c) If they are not playing, they will not pick up any bonuses for wins, positions in table etc (I know that sounds hard to believe after the last 18 months d) it will do their career no good at all for the following season, if they just want to sit on their contract whilst not playing and then trying to sign for a new club. It would be a bad look for them if they played a season without any games and it looks like they have an attitude because they would rather get paid then move on and play. We can play right hard ball on this and I'm expecting we will with one or two contracted players Even though they are still under contract, we will be very lucky to keep hold of the likes of Garrity, Ripley and Chislett. The Power is still very much in those players hands with what they want to do next season

These boys are not from Boslem, so, we would not be interested Bergkamp, Kuyt and Larsson ‘in process’ of takeover at EFL club and one will become manager FANBANTER.CO.UK

Not sure what your understanding of abuse is but none, whatsoever's, been thrown at you

Blackpool currently have great owners Mansfield Town have had great owners for a number of years now Crystal Palace have got good owners and have had them for a number of years Coventry have had great owners for a number of years now Wrexham have had great owners for 3 years now Portsmouth have had great owners for a number of years now which is a continuation of the guy that wanted to invest in Port Vale but got rebuffed so brought Portsmouth instead Chester have been run really well fro the past 7 years or more now Would you like me to do a list of clubs that have ace owners to combat your's?

Its not how you interpreted before. Thank you for putting that right. P.S. I have not abused you. No apology needed though

So, in short, you have no idea, what soever, of who could be potentially interested in owning Port Vale now or in the past. You are just basing it on your own without substance theories. Thank you clearing that up

Are you going to be d1ck all the time on here? If so, please just delete your account 100% Bill Bratt you are. The only shock in this, is that you actually know how to use a computer.

We can be in a position where we offer 2 or 3 players a settlement for the rest of their contracts. Here you go Grant, he is 3 or 6 months salary, now go find yourself a new club

How many times are you going to avoid the question Bill? Are you Bill Bratt? Are you Bill Bratt? Are you Bill Bratt? Are you Bill Bratt?

worse than losing to Chasetown, worse than the first team manager and first team coach fighting on the first team bus on the way to a match, worse than administration? Wake up clown, guess who was at the helm at all of that?

Do not mis-quote me, I never said "owner or CEO of Port Vale wouldn't tell us about them". I or nobody else should be told about them,, it should be kept all in house until a time when the club is ready to sell the club or accept investment into the club. People are assuming that no one is willing to buy the club just because the club have not mentioned it, does not mean that people have not approached the club about buying the club. So, you and many other fans are wrong on that point. The vast majority of the clubs have good owners. In fact, I would suggest that most of the owners of Football League clubs are not "low-lifes" such as Smurthwaite or Bratt. Unless you actually Carol or a director of the club, how do you know exactly what type of people are interested in buying Port Vale unless you are actually involved at the club at Director level? "I'm just further stressing that we, the supporters as a whole, shouldn't hold false views about there being loads of genuine buyers out there who are interested in taking over Port Vale for constructive reasons, because there aren't." Again, without being involved at Director level at the club, how would you know? With how you write posts, you are involved in the club either that being that you are Carol, on the board of Directors or you are Matt Hancock. I would be interested to know which one of those is you.

Unless you are Bill Bratt or Smurf, which you are not because I know you are a respected Vale fan, you will not have any clue of who would have been interested in or not interested in the club when underneath their leadership (I really do not like using the word leader when it comes to Bratt or Smurf). You will only know what's been spouted out to you by both of those cretins.

Tell you now, Chesterfield are going to walk this league next season. They have a manger that would have come here last summer, that is amongst one of the the best managers outside the Championship. He's proved it and proved time & time again. They got new owners around 12 months ago who are brothers and they are estimated to be worth £500 million. Great manger, great wealthy owners.

I think with the season they have just had, rightly or wrongly, he is playing down expectations. That could help him in the transfer market when trying to sign players. I could be wrong