You get what you deserve

[mkkid]

In january, we loaned out Charlie and Pieenar and sold Pav, could we have used them?
I definitely think, so. We need just two points.
Brought in two free transfers but have got a Sainburys superstore for next year.
We were going for the league and we actually made the squad weaker.
We had a net spend of 5 million.
I will run round Tottenham naked if Enic/Levy every build the pie in the sky stadium.
Last night game , shouldn't have been an issue for us or wanting the scum to lose at West Brom.
It's been quite simply the club lack of ambition.

 

[davethebear]

I hate to say it but I kind of think you are right, I am hoping our lack of spending was down to the board thinking Redknapp was going and they didn't want to invest in expensive players that the new manager may not want or like?

I am hoping that after this setback we flex some muscle and start spending and showing real ambition that we want to be in the champions league again as I truly believe that the scum are still for the taking...

COYS!!!

 

[Kingellesar]

If that were true, John Terry and Mr.Abramovic would most likely be in prison and A.Cole would be rotting away at some League 1 club.

Meh! Still bitter towards those chav twats.

We shot ourselves in the foot by not buying in January, said it at the time and I'll say it again. Too many players went out on loan. We also shot ourselves in the foot against Aston Villa by playing for the draw.

 

[Stoof]

We needed more points. Not fewer. Selling Pavlyuchenko for actual money was an amazing achievement.

 

[scat1620]

We needed more points. Not fewer. Selling Pavlyuchenko for actual money was an amazing achievement.

Agreed, but not reinvesting that money was an equally amazing fail.

 

[Stoof]

Agreed, but not reinvesting that money was an equally amazing fail.

Saha > Pavlyuchenko.

As others have said, I expect Levy & Co thought that CL qualification was in the bag - and the way we were playing, why not? - and thought Harry would be off (as did most of us). Splashing the cash wasn't the right option at the time. With hindsight, maybe that changes. But at the time, most were content with doing no business, ensuring the squad stayed fit and keeping our players.

 

[scat1620]

Saha > Pavlyuchenko.

As others have said, I expect Levy & Co thought that CL qualification was in the bag - and the way we were playing, why not? - and thought Harry would be off (as did most of us). Splashing the cash wasn't the right option at the time. With hindsight, maybe that changes. But at the time, most were content with doing no business, ensuring the squad stayed fit and keeping our players.

I also agree that Saha > Pavlyuchenko, and if you search my posting history you'll see that I said that at the end of January. But that's not to say that we couldn't have done better than Saha by spending relatively modest transfer fees (£10m for Cisse, £7m for Jelavic, diddly squat for Pogrebnyak) on players who might have done even better than Saha. I also said at the time that we'd massively fucked up by letting Corluka and Pienaar go without proper - actually, replace that with "any" - replacements. Regardless of whether those two individual players would have played all that many games, I was against the idea of leaving the squad weaker on 1st February than it was on 1st January, and I said at the time that that was exactly what we had done.

I think Harry's tactics and selection have played about 50% of the blame in us not securing CL football this season, but I think that equal blame should lay at Levy's door for holding back on even modest investment in the playing squad for the last 3 windows now.

 

[AngerManagement]

I also agree that Saha > Pavlyuchenko, and if you search my posting history you'll see that I said that at the end of January. But that's not to say that we couldn't have done better than Saha by spending relatively modest transfer fees (£10m for Cisse, £7m for Jelavic, diddly squat for Pogrebnyak) on players who might have done even better than Saha. I also said at the time that we'd massively fucked up by letting Corluka and Pienaar go without proper - actually, replace that with "any" - replacements. Regardless of whether those two individual players would have played all that many games, I was against the idea of leaving the squad weaker on 1st February than it was on 1st January, and I said at the time that that was exactly what we had done.

I think Harry's tactics and selection have played about 50% of the blame in us not securing CL football this season, but I think that equal blame should lay at Levy's door for holding back on even modest investment in the playing squad for the last 3 windows now.

I agree 100% with this, I've been trying to say the same ever since we first went on our poor run of form after the Arsenal game

 

[DEFchenkOE]

Saha > Pavlyuchenko.

As others have said, I expect Levy & Co thought that CL qualification was in the bag - and the way we were playing, why not? - and thought Harry would be off (as did most of us). Splashing the cash wasn't the right option at the time. With hindsight, maybe that changes. But at the time, most were content with doing no business, ensuring the squad stayed fit and keeping our players.

Unfortunately, thinking that we had CL football sewn up in Jan was a massive mistake. Unless it was mathematically impossible we should have expected the likes of arsenal to put a run together and possibly catch us.

For this having an improved squad or at least maintaining our squad could have helped.

 

[jurgen]

You are right in that we've had our destiny in our own hands - however in the wider context of the season and how awfully its ended, its hard not to feel we've been hard done by. With a margin of one point and one penalty separating us from CL and its riches, there are also things beyond our control that we didn't innately 'deserve'.

We well might have not got any points from our first two games anyway, but missing a player who had been illegally tapped up by the club that Stoke'd their way to the CL had huge implications on the beginning of our season. Of course compounded by not bringing in new players quick enough, but Modric being tapped up is not our fault whatsoever.. Then you look back at a shocking game with Foy looking for all the world like he had a serious vendetta against us (not dropped or censured for his 'performance' as other refs have been), through to Fulop appearing to have taken a monster bung to gift the scum some absolute joke goals, through to the FA clearly sending out feelers that helped disrupt our season massively, which again, wasn't 'deserved' even if the modicum of professionalism seemed to disappear under the weight of expectation..