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E17yid

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That’s fair enough and I agree to an extent. I think it is a legitimate discussion point though because it has caused issues for years. It just seems like such an oversight and personally I think it could potentially hamper the start to our season.
Oh yeah, it’s all fair to discuss though no European football all because of this late signing is way OTT. It’s more the fact that people just assume any CB we sign is going to immediately improve us so we need to get him in now. Our recruitment success rate is 50/50 at best and football is a funny old game so sweeping predictions about no European football because we didn’t sign a CB in July is imo silly.
 

jurgen

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I'm sure Ange went in eyes open as to what Levy's like. The evidence is there for all to see, and those in the game will hear much more than we do too.

But he probably couldn't have predicted that Daniel would spend the last month of his transfer window holed up in his home office frantically shredding documents.
 

freeeki

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Oh yeah, it’s all fair to discuss though no European football all because of this late signing is way OTT. It’s more the fact that people just assume any CB we sign is going to immediately improve us so we need to get him in now. Our recruitment success rate is 50/50 at best and football is a funny old game so sweeping predictions about no European football because we didn’t sign a CB in July is imo silly.

A new CB may not immediately improve us.

But signing no CB by the start of the season will, at best, leave us where we left off.

Which is conceding 63 goals a season.

Which, for a known and glaring issue, simply is not an acceptable way to commence the season.
 

13VanDerBale13

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People thought I was mad when I said Dier will start vs Brentford 🤷🏼‍♂️

It’s probably hard to accept but it needs to be realised, that this club never changes 🤦🏼‍♀️
 

LukaKranjcar

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Same old crap year after year. Until there is wholesale change at the club this will never stop.

Can bring in as many football people in for the high level positions or on the board, but ultimately whilst it's still Daniel Levy signing everything off this will continue.
 

E17yid

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A new CB may not immediately improve us.

But signing no CB by the start of the season will, at best, leave us where we left off.

Which is conceding 63 goals a season.

Which, for a known and glaring issue, simply is not an acceptable way to commence the season.
We still have over 2 weeks until the season starts. Last season was last season. We have a totally different manager now who plays in a completely different way to the previous 2. We may end up conceding just as many goals next season but score twice as many getting us more points. This is what the excitement abint Ange is about isn’t it, attacking football. We’ll sign a CB. If we don’t I’ll join the Levy is a bald **** ranks but until then I’m pretty
Chill.
 

VoteMe4Prez

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We still have over 2 weeks until the season starts. Last season was last season. We have a totally different manager now who plays in a completely different way to the previous 2. We may end up conceding just as many goals next season but score twice as many getting us more points. This is what the excitement abint Ange is about isn’t it, attacking football. We’ll sign a CB. If we don’t I’ll join Ty is a bald **** ranks but until then I’m pretty
Chill.
I'll have some of whatever you're on 😉
 

fishhhandaricecake

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I still think we will sign one but how late in the window is the question and really we need to sign 2 not 1, so agree it’s not acceptable at all.

It’ll be Romero & Dier vs Brentford.
 

Scot-Spur

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We still have over 2 weeks until the season starts. Last season was last season. We have a totally different manager now who plays in a completely different way to the previous 2. We may end up conceding just as many goals next season but score twice as many getting us more points. This is what the excitement abint Ange is about isn’t it, attacking football. We’ll sign a CB. If we don’t I’ll join the Levy is a bald **** ranks but until then I’m pretty
Chill.
The new style suits the defenders we have even less. It should have been the second priority after the GK.
 

cjsimba

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Not long now until Ange is forced to toe the club line that Dier and Davies will be like new signings in this new system......
 

E17yid

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The new style suits the defenders we have even less. It should have been the second priority after the GK.
Maybe. Maybe not. As I said, hopefully we see us scoring more goals and none of us are going to give a shit if we’re winning games 3-2 instead of 1-0
 
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