If we get shift Alderweireld & Dembele and bring in Grealish, Zaha & Sanson I'd be satisfied with that window with how things currently stand. I'd take that and see how the season goes
Sanson?
If we get shift Alderweireld & Dembele and bring in Grealish, Zaha & Sanson I'd be satisfied with that window with how things currently stand. I'd take that and see how the season goes
Sanson?
Sanson?
All your footnotes are things which can’t inanyway be attributed to levy lacking ambition. My post was merely to demonstrate that this boring argument of our chairman not being ambitious enough and not backing the manager is false. In fact, every note you added is actually a Pochettino mistake, not a Levy mistake.
Pochettino chose Winks as the one purely untested academy player he would champion. Pochettino wanted Wanyama, Sissoko, Foyth and Llorente (see his comments upon signing Fernando). And Pochettino used Llorente so little that he’d always look awful when he did have a chance, so now he wants him out. Pochettino also wants Toby and Rose out, and Pochettino deemed Lamela the man around whom his revolution would be built.
You may call my arguments simplistic, I say that accusing Levy of not backing the manager based on this window so far is more simplistic. I’d also say that, you can’t base opinions on players who are hypothetically leaving but in the same breath criticise lack of signings, because much like we’ve yet to buy anyone, we’re also yet to sell anyone.
Good player.. injuries have curtailed himMorgan Sanson, relatively reliable midfielder who plays for Marseille
Sons will arrive shortly to fog, deflect and bewilderJust a little reminder, this was from May 24th This year :-
Poch & his staff have signed new 5-year deals until 2023. He has received assurances from Levy that there will be significant funds to spend this summer
Good to have you back in the fold.Sons will arrive shortly to fog, deflect and bewilder
Just warming up should I be required when the window closes. I still think he'll turn it around but best to keep my hand in, just in case.Good to have you back in the fold.
I have generally been a fully paid up member of bsodl but I'm getting a bit worried. Poch's comments yesterday shows his frustration and if he's getting pissed off then maybe things aren't all under control.Just warming up should I be required when the window closes. I still think he'll turn it around but best to keep my hand in, just in case.
I think it is far beyond the window that you judge it’s success. It is at the end of the season we judge against performance and results.Unfortunately some here are unable to reconcile the two. Just as some will think you should be confident about our transfer strategy right up until the moment the window ends in disappointment.
I think it is far beyond the window that you judge it’s success. It is at the end of the season we judge against performance and results.
Idealised result this year: QF CL, winning a cup and 2nd in league. With some memorable performances and attacking football.
Acceptable (bottom line) result: 2nd round exit, cup final, top 4 finish. With some memorable performances and attacking football.
Those (for me) are the end goals although we could debate them. If we achieve somewhere in that range then this will have been a successful transfer window EVEN IF WE SIGN NOONE ELSE. It can be viewed as not participating when there was little value and helping to normalise the market a little. No sweat.
Remember, the transfer market is a means to an end you beautiful people.
He just went full west ham. Never go full west ham.
I hate how everything gets so polarising/binary these days, makes more sense on social media but it still seeps into forums where more discussion is possible.
I personally think Levy does a great job and I accept his transfer profile of buying high potential players that also retain resale value. I think it's great. My issue is when we find players in that profile and drag our heels to try and squeeze every single penny out of the deals. I can explain all that and close by mentioning that I think we can afford to ease off on that and overpay slightly to wrap up certain deals in better time...
...and within minutes I'll be told how this isn't sustainable and reckless, others will act like I want us to spend £200m net every summer, and no doubt someone will bring up Leeds Utd before long.
I think that is an incredibly fair point to make and it was the first objection I had to my own point.If we don't sign anyone yet manage to finish second or third (again) and get to the quarter finals of the Champions league (for example), would you not wonder how well we might have done if we'd actually improved the squad? We have an excellent squad but it has very obvious areas we can improve (ie central midfield) so to not improve is potentially missing a huge opportunity to capitalise while we have some outstanding players and manager.
I think that is an incredibly fair point to make and it was the first objection I had to my own point.
So I modified it to benchmark success against expectations PRE closing of the transfer window. If we finished 2nd in league, won a cup and hit a CL QF then it is because the squad was more sufficient than we supposed back in August 2018. Perhaps people consistently underestimated the effect of having Moura firing on all cylinders, or Wink’s return or the progress that sanchez would make or a youth team player really stepped up...or a tactical tweak... so many factors involved.
The assumption among many - particularly at this time of year - is that the most important way to improve a squad is by buying players. I know first-hand that people at the club view that as being far less significant than fans do.
The basic logical problem with the approach you outline is that you ASSUME that entering the transfer market is always better than not entering the transfer market. You can never be proved wrong in your hypothesis that we must buy players because no matter how much success we have you will always think we could have had more if we had bought XYZ.
In the end, even if we think we as a club need to buy certain players, those players need to be available at a fair price. I trust the club to find that value if it exists.
I just hope that Pochettino is happy with the outcome because he influences so many of the factors necessary for success.
I think that is an incredibly fair point to make and it was the first objection I had to my own point.
So I modified it to benchmark success against expectations PRE closing of the transfer window. If we finished 2nd in league, won a cup and hit a CL QF then it is because the squad was more sufficient than we supposed back in August 2018. Perhaps people consistently underestimated the effect of having Moura firing on all cylinders, or Wink’s return or the progress that sanchez would make or a youth team player really stepped up...or a tactical tweak... so many factors involved.
The assumption among many - particularly at this time of year - is that the most important way to improve a squad is by buying players. I know first-hand that people at the club view that as being far less significant than fans do.
The basic logical problem with the approach you outline is that you ASSUME that entering the transfer market is always better than not entering the transfer market. You can never be proved wrong in your hypothesis that we must buy players because no matter how much success we have you will always think we could have had more if we had bought XYZ.
In the end, even if we think we as a club need to buy certain players, those players need to be available at a fair price. I trust the club to find that value if it exists.
I just hope that Pochettino is happy with the outcome because he influences so many of the factors necessary for success.
I think it is far beyond the window that you judge it’s success. It is at the end of the season we judge against performance and results.
(describes goals)
Those (for me) are the end goals although we could debate them. If we achieve somewhere in that range then this will have been a successful transfer window EVEN IF WE SIGN NOONE ELSE. It can be viewed as not participating when there was little value and helping to normalise the market a little. No sweat.
Remember, the transfer market is a means to an end you beautiful people.