E17yid
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But it conflicts with what Trix said, no?
Ross Barkley signs for Chelsea
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But it conflicts with what Trix said, no?
SEANSPURS1975
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...and like clockwork. The spin machine is now on full throttle.
Moved on from Barkley to other targets.
Leaks of new contracts (Harry and Toby) have been offered.
While the spin team are working overtime our direct rivals are actually going out and making their squads better. We will be left short again going into the second half of the season. We know how the rest of this window works. Lots of rumours and we’ll end up doing nothing. We’ve been in a great position over these last couple of seasons to really achieve something big and to push on, but we’re always just short in certain areas. As I said we’re so close, just the odd tweak is needed. Why are we so reluctant to make that next step?
All we want is an ambitious club whose main aim is to win trophies. Cannot see us anywhere near winning a trophy. Looks an uphill task to even get top four this season.
Seems to me we’re very ambitious to make money. All about making money.
Moved on from Barkley to other targets.
Leaks of new contracts (Harry and Toby) have been offered.
While the spin team are working overtime our direct rivals are actually going out and making their squads better. We will be left short again going into the second half of the season. We know how the rest of this window works. Lots of rumours and we’ll end up doing nothing. We’ve been in a great position over these last couple of seasons to really achieve something big and to push on, but we’re always just short in certain areas. As I said we’re so close, just the odd tweak is needed. Why are we so reluctant to make that next step?
All we want is an ambitious club whose main aim is to win trophies. Cannot see us anywhere near winning a trophy. Looks an uphill task to even get top four this season.
Seems to me we’re very ambitious to make money. All about making money.
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No it does not!!!
E17yid
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What is Tobi’s then strange that he is out for longer. Genuinely curious as you seem to know your hamstrings. Is your career over as soon as you get a grade 3, then?
E17yid
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Trix said it’s just injury. You said there’s more to it than that. Am I wrong. I might’ve misread
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Injury and more, and I am very sure Trix would agree. Sometimes it is best to accept what we put out
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Blimey, Mrs Bucks section scar is smaller!
E17yid
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Injury and more, and I am very sure Trix would agree. Sometimes it is best to accept what we put out
It’s the “and more” bit I’m alluding to
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From what Hercules said it sounds to me as if it’s a question of having found a better alternative.
That would make sense, but if we can’t sign him, whoever he may be, till the summer, that would leave us weak for the rest of this season.
Perhaps they’ve decided that RB wouldn’t be fully fit till so late in the season anyway that we’re better off going for the alternative in the summer.
That could make good sense provided we’re confident about landing him, but I suppose that’s the sort of risk/judgement/gamble you have to take sometimes. Signing RB just in case we don’t sign the better alternative doesn’t sound like a very plausible or ambitious strategy to me, but I can see why some might think it would be better than nothing.
E17yid
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I guess we better hope that a million and 1 things that could happen between now and the summer don’t happen then, I guess.
I’m assuming this target that Hercules mentions isn’t bothered if we get CL football as at the moment I’d rank our chances at 50/50.
This assumes we can actually deliver on any preferred target where our conversion rate under Levy of getting preferred targets is abysmal
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I'm not going to start running about my front room punching the air just yet
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Advances in medicine and treatment regimes have improved hamstring recovery dramatically in the last decade. Toby hasn't undergone surgery and I suspect that he is in cotton wool as rest and slow resumption of exercise is recommended for a myotendinous junction injury. This is a slow recuperative process which follows the initial inflammation of the muscle with a strictly supervised regime of recovery involving an increasing use of exercise to regain the full range of movement e.g. jogging backwards at 50% normal speed etc.
Players with a myotendinous junction injury typically have a faster recovery and a higher rate of return to prior level of function than those who have had an avulsion type injury. Avulsion injuries are pretty serious for professional athletes. If RB did have an avulsion injury, I think the club may have rethought a 40M quid contract on this basis.
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Well yes, I agree, but I hope there’s been some actual material contact with the player and that it’s not just a case of spotting someone who looks good who we’ll sound out in six month’s time. I hope so at any rate!
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Ultimately as I have felt for years now Levy and ENIC and uncle Joe are playing the end game now
New Stadium. Sell. Line their pockets. We hear the same stuff every single transfer window about how we are in for xyz , trust us etc and we rarely land a preferred target. This is a transfer that should have been a Levy special with a player that waited for us
Clearly ITk with superior knowledge to mine but saying trust Levy is a pretty bold ask when time and time again he has not delivered on transfer targets where there is genuine competition for the player
New Stadium. Sell. Line their pockets. We hear the same stuff every single transfer window about how we are in for xyz , trust us etc and we rarely land a preferred target. This is a transfer that should have been a Levy special with a player that waited for us
Clearly ITk with superior knowledge to mine but saying trust Levy is a pretty bold ask when time and time again he has not delivered on transfer targets where there is genuine competition for the player
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Perhaps the return of Lamela and Wanyama has given us enough midfield options to make the RB gamble unnecessary. It might be thought that RB isn't likely to be match fit for a few weeks, and then he'll need time to get up to speed and integrate. There's also the chance that there are doubts about whether RB will be ready to play at all this season. If that's the case then let him go and chase someone who is fit and isn't trying to come back from a pretty bad injury and surgery. We already have players in that position.
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I don’t think that makes sense.
It assumes that the asset Levy wants to sell in your scenario is worth more without the good players you’re talking about than it would be with them. But it doesn’t work like that does it?
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