tiger666
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It's not behind the scenes. Google Douglas Costa attitude. He's complained to the press on a number of occasions regarding playing time and wages.
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It's not behind the scenes. Google Douglas Costa attitude. He's complained to the press on a number of occasions regarding playing time and wages.
tommyt
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Lilbaz
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Why not? Our best players were all bought "on the cheap". Toby, dele, dier, lloris, eriksen all under market value.
Stupid or fantastically rich clubs will throw money at buying players. Things will then settle down and we negotiate for the players we want at more reasonable prices.
Most clubs in europe will not compete with these valuations but will still get very good players that will strengthen them.
We have to be smart and (i know that this is anathema to many of our fans) patient.
TheChosenOne
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Colemans mustard - but he has a busted leg.
Twizzle
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Of course we bought them cheap, like I said, living in the past.
We wont pick up players of their quality for that price now in my opinion. Anyone we pick up for those prices will be a year or 2 from being our accepted level like Son and perhaps Jansen with the odd N'jie type flop.
If we want the depth we need to compete at UCL level and still be at out best in the PL, we may need more than one "household name" or we exit the UCL in the group stage as we did last season, and perhaps that all our goal is to slowly get to that stage over a period of years like we did with our first 11 in the PL.
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In goal?
Col_M
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Has anyone thought of household name as something they would use within the house?! Surprised no one claimed cryptic or just me
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Costa. There's 3 in every British high st.
Shadydan
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We paid £11m for one of the signings of the season last summer who'd walk into any team in the league, pretty sure that's a bargain.
Twizzle
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exactly, but do you really think we can do that another 3 or 4 times this TW, or do you think that with all the TV money around, we should expect to pay more ?
Japhet
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Wanyama was a real bargain, but we did sign him early and it seemed that the transfer prices went berserk after we'd signed him due to the TV money.
Shadydan
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I don't think we have to spend big 3 or 4 times to improve, 1 player who was bought for cheap was enough last season.
spursfan77
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It's a balancing act though. I think you have to weigh up all the pros and cons on a player regarding their price versus another player. Something, with the exception of deals like sissoko (which was so unlike us) we are usually good at.
I would say that the market we like to enter is that where the player has only a year or so left on their contract. We have taken this approach over recent summers and it has proved to pay dividends (e.g. Wanyama, chadli, Eriksen) and I expect us to continue to do so, although with the increase in price of the players the amount we pay will go up. It's how we pick up good players relatively cheaply and it's amazing other teams in England don't adopt this approach.
GetSpurredOn
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Based on the talk we're looking for value from our transfers, Barkley and Veltman both within the last year of contract look likely.
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Has anyone thought of household name as something they would use within the house?! Surprised no one claimed cryptic or just me
I will get my Coates sorry
Solved the cryptic!!! Me FTW!
Everlasting Seconds
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Not necessarily directly a given that we'll get Barkley on a cheap simply because he is in his last year of contract, IMO.
yido_number1
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Both will depend on the amount of real interest in signing them. If both are available in Levy time then things might change. Barkley won't want a move to Liverpool so that leaves us, Arse, Chavski, City and UTD as a viable move. If they don't want him then it will get cheaper by the day as Everton won't want to lose him for nothing.
Everlasting Seconds
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We actually don't know that. We can assume that to be the case, but we actually don't know at this point.
Insomnia
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Well it is beaten easily 2 or 3 times every 90 minutes
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WHERE'S FROGGIE!!?
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