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MARTIN SAMUEL: Fan ownership has a nice ring to it but this is not the answer to bring reform to football... the Kronkes are doing a poor job at Arsenal but the person with the say has to be the person with the money

The end-of-campaign vox-pop is a hardy annual in any football season. Highs and lows. Hits and misses. And, of course, the future. What does your club need this summer?

One Sunday newspaper quizzed fans of the 20 Premier League teams this weekend. And guess what it transpires each club needs? Players. Lots of them. New players. Better players. Not cheap ones, either. Not youth or homegrown or local or any of those players that are supposedly the lifeblood of a club.

Brighton require a 30-goal-a-season striker, apparently, of which there were two in Europe's major leagues last season: Robert Lewandowski and Lionel Messi.