and what 1 of those Spam players they have signed would get in our 1st XI? they have been at the OS for 2 seasons, paying just over £2m in rent, and have finally spent some money to keep them up. yep a manager that knows the prem, but fuck me the money and quality he had at City was harder not to win something.
If we hadn't even been linked with players this window I could understand the panic. the annoying thing is no one knows for certain that the failure to buy players is due to Levy, it might be clubs wanting players in return that either are not for sale, or don't want to go to the other club. it might be players thinking wow with that stadium they can afford 250k a week, when Levy ain't going to pay them that amount when Kane is on 200k. with the Zaha news, if he is off to Chelsea perhaps it's because Chelsea have RLC to give them, but we can only offer Onamah. if Zaha leaves Palace they need something big, because he kept them up last season
please remind me never to start playing football manager, because I might think signings are just about giving 50m here, 50m mil there and that's job done
and what 1 of those Spam players they have signed would get in our 1st XI? they have been at the OS for 2 seasons, paying just over £2m in rent, and have finally spent some money to keep them up. yep a manager that knows the prem, but fuck me the money and quality he had at City was harder not to win something.
If we hadn't even been linked with players this window I could understand the panic. the annoying thing is no one knows for certain that the failure to buy players is due to Levy, it might be clubs wanting players in return that either are not for sale, or don't want to go to the other club. it might be players thinking wow with that stadium they can afford 250k a week, when Levy ain't going to pay them that amount when Kane is on 200k. with the Zaha news, if he is off to Chelsea perhaps it's because Chelsea have RLC to give them, but we can only offer Onamah. if Zaha leaves Palace they need something big, because he kept them up last season
please remind me never to start playing football manager, because I might think signings are just about giving 50m here, 50m mil there and that's job done
If somebody doesn’t understand that improving the West Ham team is easier than improving ours then they are probably best left ignored.
That's not the point - why are we the only team in the league that either can't identify a player for shit, or if they actually do, can't get it over the line?
I'm not saying I want the players WH signed, or Liverpool. I'm saying why is it that we, so consistently, year after year, take so long we usually fuck it up.
10 years ago there was a market for this behavior. We were small fry, we needed to sell big, buy numerous, rinse and repeat.
We haven't moved on from that. We have a load of big valuable players we don't want to sell, and a load of shit players, worth feck all no one wants to buy.
The model has run its course, it's as clear to see as anything, but we haven't moved on. We're still trying to act like a mid table club in a period of growth whilst trying to sit at a the top table.
As for the Daily Fail article saying the stadium won't hinder transfers - of course it won't, we do a perfectly good job of that ourselves.
I suggest you take it all with a pinch of salt and stop reading it as if it's an exact documentation of what is going to happen.I suggest you go find @Trix's ITK right at the start of the window
I suggest you take it all with a pinch of salt and stop reading it as if it's an exact documentation of what is going to happen.
Still think it’s totally pointless judging Levy till the window closes it’s still 10 days. If he pulls out a £40m CM and a £40m striker/winger it’s been a great window. And both those things are still immensely possible.
That's not the point - why are we the only team in the league that either can't identify a player for shit, or if they actually do, can't get it over the line?
I'm not saying I want the players WH signed, or Liverpool. I'm saying why is it that we, so consistently, year after year, take so long we usually fuck it up.
10 years ago there was a market for this behavior. We were small fry, we needed to sell big, buy numerous, rinse and repeat.
We haven't moved on from that. We have a load of big valuable players we don't want to sell, and a load of shit players, worth feck all no one wants to buy.
The model has run its course, it's as clear to see as anything, but we haven't moved on. We're still trying to act like a mid table club in a period of growth whilst trying to sit at a the top table.
As for the Daily Fail article saying the stadium won't hinder transfers - of course it won't, we do a perfectly good job of that ourselves.
This kind of shite only happens to us.
Happy Bunch this afternoon.
Maybe, but in the Leicester season there was no way we were preparing for a title challenge in the run up to that so wouldn't have invested with that in mind.With the exception of last season this coming season and 2 of the least three seasons have been HUGE chances to win a league title with that extra bit on our bench , I don’t want us to end up with nothing in five years time
No it doesn't. You just don't spend all your time on the forums of other teams analysing every piece of ITK they get.