mattspur1986
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I’m sorry, but who does he think he’s going to sign for? Is he another PEH? Thinking he deserves to play for champions league level clubs? Some of these players are so deluded man:
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I’m sorry, but who does he think he’s going to sign for? Is he another PEH? Thinking he deserves to play for champions league level clubs? Some of these players are so deluded man:
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In January: “the market’s difficult”
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This is it in a nutshell, hoping that we're okay with regards to injuries from now until Jan, but the reality is we'll be at the same shit on the last day again trying to shift our unwanted players and attempting to balance the HG quota.
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He could make 100 signings mate it's irrelevant. The plain and simple fact is every window we are always left short in certain areas. We've got a massive squad and yet we are still thread bare at CB considering what Ange requires them to do.
We've done some decent business but that is overshadowed by selling our greatest ever goalscorer. I'm not going to go all in because I've said it all before and it's pointless.
Things will never change until there's change.
arunspurs
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If Hugo cant get a club , it shows how inconsistent the market is.
Hugo wants to be no1 at a club which also pays him well & has to be in prime location as well...
Sorry Hugo , you got to compromise at 36 when you have receded so much. Otherwise, time to hang up your boots.
Hugo wants to be no1 at a club which also pays him well & has to be in prime location as well...
Sorry Hugo , you got to compromise at 36 when you have receded so much. Otherwise, time to hang up your boots.
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20 + fucking years of the same old shit is the context.
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First of all let’s get this straight there are still areas of our squad that still need addressing. These areas are reasonably clear to us all.
if we spin back to the end of last season our club/squad was in disarray. Uncertainty about ownership, no manager, no real back room staff or off the field leadership, no first team keeper, no captain, the need for new cb’s, a midfield in need of regeneration, a lack of creativity and our main source of goals and talisman probably on the way out.
The ship hasn’t always been steady and things may not have been handled as perfectly as we may wish but we have addressed a lot of the concerns above.
Rome wasn’t built in a day is a phrase we feel we have all heard before and get slightly tired of hearing but the last thing we want to do is panic buy players of mediocrity which are then hard to shift further down the line. HG players is a concern but there little point buying squad players to fulfil spots. Gallagher would have been a good buy but in an area which isn’t the greatest concern. The other names listed in the last few weeks would have done little to improve us in the short to medium term and then caused further problems 2-3 seasons down the line.
Clearing the decks has been the biggest issue and remains the case. Hopefully Lloris will get his move. That however leaves lots of other players at our club on inflated wages which will price out the majority of other clubs. Those with the financial clout won’t be shopping for our players on a down swing when the world is their oyster.
I would rather write off their contracts to then help us move forward in the long term. We will be short on cover and yes Ange will have to get creative with the squad but a smaller fresher squad pulling in the right direction is of greater benefit that filling it with filler especially this season with no Europe and only one cup competition. Hopefully Ange may even trust some of the youth and promote from within.
im glad we aren’t doing much business on the last day. Remember we have played better in the last three games than we did in any three game period last year. At the moment we should be glass half full rather than be out seeking blood!
if we spin back to the end of last season our club/squad was in disarray. Uncertainty about ownership, no manager, no real back room staff or off the field leadership, no first team keeper, no captain, the need for new cb’s, a midfield in need of regeneration, a lack of creativity and our main source of goals and talisman probably on the way out.
The ship hasn’t always been steady and things may not have been handled as perfectly as we may wish but we have addressed a lot of the concerns above.
Rome wasn’t built in a day is a phrase we feel we have all heard before and get slightly tired of hearing but the last thing we want to do is panic buy players of mediocrity which are then hard to shift further down the line. HG players is a concern but there little point buying squad players to fulfil spots. Gallagher would have been a good buy but in an area which isn’t the greatest concern. The other names listed in the last few weeks would have done little to improve us in the short to medium term and then caused further problems 2-3 seasons down the line.
Clearing the decks has been the biggest issue and remains the case. Hopefully Lloris will get his move. That however leaves lots of other players at our club on inflated wages which will price out the majority of other clubs. Those with the financial clout won’t be shopping for our players on a down swing when the world is their oyster.
I would rather write off their contracts to then help us move forward in the long term. We will be short on cover and yes Ange will have to get creative with the squad but a smaller fresher squad pulling in the right direction is of greater benefit that filling it with filler especially this season with no Europe and only one cup competition. Hopefully Ange may even trust some of the youth and promote from within.
im glad we aren’t doing much business on the last day. Remember we have played better in the last three games than we did in any three game period last year. At the moment we should be glass half full rather than be out seeking blood!
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Like most people, I feel like we have never pulled a whole squad together under Levy.
There's always components missing and when we eventually get the missing parts someone else who was key is moved on.
Maddison and Kane would have been awesome. Poch just needed a bench for awhile etc. Even Harry was only a couple of players off something really special.
I've always tried to be positive but after many repetitions you're almost trained for disappointment.
The main reason our fan base is so toxic and on edge is... answers on a postcard...
I'm still really pleased with Ange and most of our new signings, but it always feels like we're hamstrung.
Tucker
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Yeah. But it doesn’t mean that isn’t the thought processes that went into what’s happened the last few days. Sometimes people aren’t presenting excuses but just discussing why things have happened.
Like I said a minute ago, people can be disappointed without having a raging hate boner.
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You are bang on. I can’t remember a window where so many of our players said no to a move. Painful.
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Thankfully I don't think Levy will get away with it next summer as Dier, Lloris, Sanchez & Perisic will all be off the books.
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