The Deadline Day ITK Discussion Thread - 1st September

[Trix]

And people can say what they like about Hugo, Dier etc but players with drive and hunger to win and compete at the highest level aren't going to just sit in the reserves for a year regardless of their contract circumstance.

That is the mentality we have built over the last 5 or 6 years.

Don't get me wrong they are more than entitled to do that, and I'm not slagging them off for sitting on their contracts. What I'm saying is I'll be glad to see the back of players with that mentality.

Hopefully we reach agreement with both and they are gone this week. I don't want players happy to coast, around a young hungry squad.

 

[G Ron]

Players love to just chill here and collect their wages instead of aspiring to play more football elsewhere

As others have said before - we make it way too comfortable for them here.

 

[Ruffinthepuffin]

So I’m guessing Gleison Bremer wasn’t around the training centre today then.

 

[srups34]

So I’m guessing Gleison Bremer wasn’t around the training centre today then.

Of course he wasn’t

 

[Ruffinthepuffin]

And people can say what they like about Hugo, Dier etc but players with drive and hunger to win and compete at the highest level aren't going to just sit in the reserves for a year regardless of their contract circumstance.

That is the mentality we have built over the last 5 or 6 years.

Don't get me wrong they are more than entitled to do that, and I'm not slagging them off for sitting on their contracts. What I'm saying is I'll be glad to see the back of players with that mentality.

Hopefully we reach agreement with both and they are gone this week. I don't want players happy to coast, around a young hungry squad.

Absolutely spot on Trix.

 

[Thenewcat]

I agree on the cb but again, who knows if we're short or whatever that means. Maybe if we got in Tosin he would have been worse than Dier deputising this season. Or maybe Romero and VDV don't get injured.

I just don't think a squad is ever complete or perfect. You can always point out a weak link in every team that could have been improved.

I see us, in the last 3 years, being very active, making smarter signings, and building what I think is a damn good squad. Not a perfect one - the job isn't over, but as long as we're better after every window I'll take that.

And yes, Kane makes this a lot harder to swallow. We'd probably have been better this season with him, but certainly not next season without him and a chunk to reinvest in the coming windows.

Probably? What planet do you live on?
Also if we aren’t going to reinvest the Kane money anyway then we may as well have kept him.

 

[mattspur1986]

 

[tubbygold]

And people can say what they like about Hugo, Dier etc but players with drive and hunger to win and compete at the highest level aren't going to just sit in the reserves for a year regardless of their contract circumstance.

That is the mentality we have built over the last 5 or 6 years.

Don't get me wrong they are more than entitled to do that, and I'm not slagging them off for sitting on their contracts. What I'm saying is I'll be glad to see the back of players with that mentality.

Hopefully we reach agreement with both and they are gone this week. I don't want players happy to coast, around a young hungry squad.

You'd be okay with having just three CBs in the first team? Despite him not fitting the system in any way.

 

[GioW]

 

[nicdic]

And people can say what they like about Hugo, Dier etc but players with drive and hunger to win and compete at the highest level aren't going to just sit in the reserves for a year regardless of their contract circumstance.

That is the mentality we have built over the last 5 or 6 years.

Don't get me wrong they are more than entitled to do that, and I'm not slagging them off for sitting on their contracts. What I'm saying is I'll be glad to see the back of players with that mentality.

Hopefully we reach agreement with both and they are gone this week. I don't want players happy to coast, around a young hungry squad.

Completely agree.

Lots of respect for Dier and Hugo for their service, but cannot understand why they and Ndombele have been turning down moves when they know they're not going to be included here. They planning to just sit on their contracts doing nothing?

 

[M.I.B.]

That would be bang on 11pm
Do we want to be the last team to announce a signing?

Trophy for that?

 

[mattspur1986]

And then forest announce it first

 

[cjsimba]

They’re taking the piss if they think they can hoodwink us again.

‘Weve pulled off a last minute master stroke!’

Fuck you Daniel

 

[Hotspur88]

This is the last window, and I mean the last window I get sucked in (regardless of what I'm told) until we get new owners! Levy can fuck off!

 

[$hoguN]

‘tHe nEW sTaDiUm WiLl bE A gAMeChAngEr’

Not to mention selling arguably our best ever player for 100m

Absolute disgrace

Good job we sold Kane for £100m rather than letting him go for free next summer!!

Couldn’t agree more. We have let one of our greatest goal scorers of all time leave and failed to strengthen the squad adequately. It’s disgusting.

we are nothing short of a name for Levy’s property business.

 

[PCozzie]

WTF is that? We've signed Joffra Archer from the England Cricket team?

 

[GioW]

 

[Meercat]

Add to the fact, PEH, Hugo, Dier, these were all the leadership group… there’s something rotten about that.

 

[tommyt]

Oh dea...

 

[soflapaul]

Tim "Sherwood Forest" is back? shoot me