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The Daily ITK Discussion Thread 11th July 2013

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ilikeost

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At this rate Benteke will be yet another name banded about we won't end up signing for whatever reason. With the Croatians transfer failure news I am in stinking form.

This window has been disappointing so far even with the Paulinho signing, we have more pressing issues with goalscoring and creativity and yet again we seem to be dragging our heels as per fucking usual.

Glad Baldini has got Daniel to finally sort things out... :facepalm:
How old are you?
 

Paolo10

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Re: Retrospective ratings.

If you're going to give a neg rating when you could disagree or whatever don't be surprised if I give you one back for whatever post.

Check your profiles to see if you give out more than you receive. That's my last word on rating karma.
 

codspur

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I find it really refreshing and reassuring to read Paolos comments this week as for a few weeks he was bordering on agreeable and I was worried about him
 

talkshowhost86

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We created the second most chances in the league with no one pulling the strings in midfield and maybe if we had a better strikeforce than we do we might have scored more of those chances. On that we have one who is patchy at best and one who looks like he couldn't give a fuck, we've also been missing a striker for a long time now.

Re: Bale (in a free role btw). We can't expect him to carry us every season and he'll be off sharpish if we can't improve the squad enough to get into the CL, which I believe we've already failed to do a couple of times when we should. We also need more from the other 'winger', Lennon doesn't contribute anywhere near enough.

"It's only 3 weeks" eh? We'll see I suppose.

I think we all share your frustration squire, particularly as we've been waiting for a striker for years now.

But there isn't a lot of business going on anywhere at the moment. Even the clubs with bucket loads of cash aren't spending wildly so I don't think it's a case of us dragging our heels any more than anyone else.

If we get to the end of August (and yes annoyingly it may take that long) and we haven't improved the squad then I think that'll be a massive black mark against Levy's name, and will really call into question whether we can improve any further under his leadership.

But until then I'm going to keep my powder and my trousers dry and at least see what happens before ranting too much.
 

Snarfalicious

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It's July 11th. That's the 11th day of the window. We just went back to preseason training on Monday. Yes, this recent Monday.

We've already signed a midfielder that I believe will be great and should Dembele go down with injury it will no longer be a huge blow to our squad's ability to get 3 points.

Relax.
 

WiganSpur

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Why are we suddenly so optimistic on Bernard? It's not gonna happen don't do it to yourselves!
 

fecka

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Even if Ade stays we still need another striker. 4-3-3 doesn't suit Defoe at all, and he'll want regular 1st team football anyway. Ade as 1st choice and a younger backup that can play in a 4-3-3 would be adequate. However Ade and Defoe as our only strikers (again) would be a huge disappointment.

I completely agree with the fact that we need a striker but is there really a striker out there, right now that would be a clear upgrade on Ade and Defoe without being out of our price range? Like you said, a young and hungry striker like Luis Muriel or Rodrigo would be preferable when looking at the market right now and then focusing on having a top replacement at LW instead. I still think Eriksen, Bernard or maybe Pjanic would be the smartest move right now unless we really shell out for Soldado, Negredo or Benteke (Whom I don't really rate)
 

Nocando

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Re: Retrospective ratings.

If you're going to give a neg rating when you could disagree or whatever don't be surprised if I give you one back for whatever post.

Check your profiles to see if you give out more than you receive. That's my last word on rating karma.

"rating karma", ha that did make me laugh.

Anyway don't make me turn this cuddle party into a cuddle, tickle and choochie choochie coo party..
 

michaelden

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Re: Retrospective ratings.

If you're going to give a neg rating when you could disagree or whatever don't be surprised if I give you one back for whatever post.

Check your profiles to see if you give out more than you receive. That's my last word on rating karma.


:ROFLMAO:

Karma? WTF?! if a post is shit it gets panned. It isn't tit for tat



Back on topic: -

If we are waiting for Bernard & the CopaL to finish then I hope we pounce like we did with Paulinho and don't fanny about
 

Archibald&Crooks

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Re: Retrospective ratings.

If you're going to give a neg rating when you could disagree or whatever don't be surprised if I give you one back for whatever post.

Check your profiles to see if you give out more than you receive. That's my last word on rating karma.
I'm with you all the way on rating Korma. I had a curry delivered the other night which I ordered online, so you've reminded me to do a favourable review.

As for the rest, shirley you're kidding? You're actually going to go around revenge negging anyone who clicks on the 'disagree' rating? Nah, I don't believe you. Surely that'd be a full time job, you simply wouldn't have the time.

Hire an immigrant to do it.
 

max cady

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You look at all the media speculation regarding Beneteke and you cannot help wondering have they got this one wrong. I would be suprised if we were in for him at the prices quoted when there is better out there. I reckon we will see something leftfield ala VDV no one saw that one except for POTL who iirc mentioned it on COYS about 1 hour before everyone else knew.
 

spurs9

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Aug 31, 2012
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We created the second most chances in the league with no one pulling the strings in midfield and maybe if we had a better strikeforce than we do we might have scored more of those chances. On that we have one who is patchy at best and one who looks like he couldn't give a fuck, we've also been missing a striker for a long time now.

Re: Bale (in a free role btw). We can't expect him to carry us every season and he'll be off sharpish if we can't improve the squad enough to get into the CL, which I believe we've already failed to do a couple of times when we should. We also need more from the other 'winger', Lennon doesn't contribute anywhere near enough.

"It's only 3 weeks" eh? We'll see I suppose.
We have added to the squad that finished 1 point behind 4th despite a shit start the season. We are only about 2 weeks into the transfer window and have about another 7 weeks left. We are not doing bad. We also have 2 players returning that are twice the players before they left and would say the same with Falque (creative player) too.
 

Paolo10

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I'm with you all the way on rating Korma. I had a curry delivered the other night which I ordered online, so you've reminded me to do a favourable review.

As for the rest, shirley you're kidding? You're actually going to go around revenge negging anyone who clicks on the 'disagree' rating? Nah, I don't believe you. Surely that'd be a full time job, you simply wouldn't have the time.

Hire an immigrant to do it.

Not disagree, dislike or spam, which I hardly ever give to anyone. Disagree is not a neg.

I don't go out of my way to neg anyone even when I don't like or agree with what they say.
 

Rob

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Re: Retrospective ratings.
If you're going to give a neg rating when you could disagree or whatever don't be surprised if I give you one back for whatever post.

And the last person who couldn't stop himself from doing that is now permanently banned. Just saying.
 

michaelden

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Aug 13, 2004
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please stop, i'm crying with laughter here and its not even itk related or a villa fan with delusions of grandeur
 
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