That's my gripe though world class training ground, world class training ground, and up until recently a world class front line and even manager(elsewhere) and yet how we are run on the football side is still second rate(at best). I'll always give Levy credit for what he does off the pitch, but his input for what we do on it sucks dick.
Playing the game mate, he'd have come no question.
Conte's future was already firmly in doubt in January though. I know its been done to death on here but you can't really buy a forward with a super unique skillset, terrible numbers and a horrible history of injuries for a decent amount of money for a manager we have all known for ages is going in the summer. It's less of an issue with Porro but we will now be stuck with 3 (albeit good) Rbs/Rwbs come June.
I know mate and if this was the only case of this happening I'd be in full agreement. I understood the risks with him. You have to admit though every single manager has said the same thing I asked for A,B,C I got X,Y,Z, and that's why it is a problem.
Yeh, the Spence signing isn't really something that can be defended. I really rate him and think he will be brilliant for us but if Conte was never going to use him the signing was so pointless. Feels like the same happened with the Bissouma signing tbh, he had 1 year left and Paratici rated him so we pulled the trigger. Generally, I don't really mind 'club' signings because if you only sign players the manager wants then what's the point in having a scouting department + some top managers (aka Tuchel) are actually really poor in the transfer market. However, with a manager like Conte you pretty much just have to go for everyone you want otherwise it probably won't end well.
And this is why I maintain that it's pure luck if we're to progress.
the reprint from Gazzetta dello Sport.
The problem isn’t with us not getting zaniolo if the club deemed it too risky, it’s with the club getting a LWF when the manager wants a RWF. What’s the point in this, I mean it at least makes some sense if the club had go for another RWF then maybe it’s more reasonable for asking the manager to be flexible but not when the player doesn’t even play in the position that the manager is requesting.
This irks me a bit, we haven't fallen short for the best part of 40 windows, our peers like Villa, Newcastle, Everton have. We've had excellent, good and bad periods throughout. We made the elite 4 an elite 6. Our strategy has floundered since we pushed ourselves into the top 4. Levy understood what it took us to get in there but he's been all over the place when trying to take us to the next level.
You're spot on
Daniel himself maybe?....
I'm sure it was de Jong he wanted, not sure I heard about de Ligt. Although de Jong can go a better job at centre back than Dier.
Our targets don't make sense to me. We went for Diaz an inside left attacker and then missed out and got Kulusevski (thank god) who is an inside right attacker. We wanted Zaniolo an inside right attacker and got Danjuma an inside left attacker
Our targets don't make sense to me. We went for Diaz an inside left attacker and then missed out and got Kulusevski (thank god) who is an inside right attacker. We wanted Zaniolo an inside right attacker and got Danjuma an inside left attacker
Yep.
The ideal owner (and manager) would be purple imo.
