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I'm keeping my 'blame powder' dry until the window closes. We'll see.
I keep getting the feeling we are going to oversell now. In essence we're going to sell off all the depth, even if it's only decent depth, and only bring in 4 faces. To me, that's a huge mistake. We were finally building a well-rounded club that appeared to have a couple options at each position.
Now, it's looking more and more likely as it was last season. A starter goes down and then we're really struggling. Caulker leaving only makes sense if he was pushing his way out. But, if that's the case, a replacement player needs to be brought in of similar quality.
If we sell Bale and then only bring in two players (Coentrao and say Di Maria for shits), that's fine. It'd give us good depth at LB and at RW we could have Di Maria and Townsend.
I'm growing worried that we get a little sell-crazy and then all the sudden we're looking at one guy covering two positions which can sometimes work but often times you play with fire and you get burnt.
He's a decent player, but far from irreplaceable. It's about principles, Barnett has fucked us over, I'd be fully behind DL if he chose to cut all ties.
It's always been that way though, we've always been a highly political club behind the scenes, it's probably been one of the reasons we haven't had more success. Whether JJ's source is right about Franco or not, the fact that someone high (Sherwood?) is against him, is already bad news for us.Death by a thousand cuts.
Must say our club sounds like a madhouse behind closed doors
And if they would sell Sig for £10 or so, that would give them almost £50 mill just on sales, which I believe would totally cover Soldado, Paulinho, and Chadli. So who the heck are they going to spend the Bale money on?Hudd: 5 mill
Naughton: 3 mill
BAE: 7 mill
Dempsey: 6 million
Parker: 3 million
Ade: 8 million
Absolute guesstimates but that's £30 million there and none of the prices seem ridiculous? Add that to £9 million for Caulker...
We would of have a lot of money to spend, add in potentially Bale's money and we can seriously do some damage... Even keeping GB we can afford Coentrao (if we are to believe that they owe us for Modrat)
Plus the £50 milllion loan and TV rights.
All this info is frying my brain..
Tl;dr we have enough money to go crazy and challenge for the title and keep Bale.
I keep getting the feeling we are going to oversell now. In essence we're going to sell off all the depth, even if it's only decent depth, and only bring in 4 faces. To me, that's a huge mistake. We were finally building a well-rounded club that appeared to have a couple options at each position.
Now, it's looking more and more likely as it was last season. A starter goes down and then we're really struggling. Caulker leaving only makes sense if he was pushing his way out. But, if that's the case, a replacement player needs to be brought in of similar quality.
If we sell Bale and then only bring in two players (Coentrao and say Di Maria for shits), that's fine. It'd give us good depth at LB and at RW we could have Di Maria and Townsend.
I'm growing worried that we get a little sell-crazy and then all the sudden we're looking at one guy covering two positions which can sometimes work but often times you play with fire and you get burnt.
AVB will get the 23/24 player squad he's after. I just feel it in my balls. DL is backing this guy. We won't be left short.
What concerns me is we are dismantling the squad as the season looms closer.
What concerns me is we are dismantling the squad as the season looms closer.
There's going to have to be a lot of action over the next week etc...look at our CB situation.
I actually think we're about to assemble the squad AVB has always wanted. Exciting times imo.
NOT Sherwood!!It's always been that way though, we've always been a highly political club behind the scenes, it's probably been one of the reasons we haven't had more success. Whether JJ's source is right about Franco or not, the fact he's someone high (Sherwood?) is against him, is already bad news for us.
Soldado is the game changer - 28 yrs old/30 mill. Our rule book has been incinerated.I'd like to hope so. But, we've been here before haven't we? The needs appear obvious and then we don't address them. Then, when things look like we're getting the needed player (Leandro/Moutinho) we get Clint Dempsey.
Yeah, it's not a good thing when players start looking over their shoulder wandering if they are next. Hopefully each player knows where they stand, but it's hard to imagine every one of them do.
If we can bring in Chiriches or any other decent CB that position will be fine. I'm just so worried this will be the striker position of last year.