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No, he was a Comolli purchase (as was Bentley).If I remember correctly, Bent was Levy purchase not sanctioned by the Manager, Jol I believe
No, he was a Comolli purchase (as was Bentley).If I remember correctly, Bent was Levy purchase not sanctioned by the Manager, Jol I believe
In regards to the similar style quality, I have to disagree, I think most were signings of types we needed. They only player acquisition I would question in that regards is Davies as he looks too slow (both in pace and on the turn) to play full back in Poch's system. But the rest:Been away from the site since just before the TW deadline, because of being on the road a lot with work and virus problems with my laptop, so couldn't join in the last day fun or comment since.
Apparently the deal for MS could have been done the week before the deadline if Townsend had gone the other way, but he refused to go so it didn't happen. It is expected we will go back in for him and Rodriguez in January if we can off load a couple more. We are staying in touch with H Moreno too and any offer for him would depend on fitness and form of Kaboul. The club are pretty happy with the business done and it is a very happy place at the moment despite the defeat last weekend.
Just to comment on Bus Conducter's comments above, I agree with most of what he says except for the comment about better quality than years before. I think we are buying too many good but not great players and prior to this window I was being told we were going for quality rather than quantity, but for some reason that never panned out that way and we ended up with too many players of similar style and quality. If you look at our squad there are not too many that would be wanted by our nearest rivals in the top 6 or so having said that I do realise that not every successful team has 11 world class players in it. I think we just need to give Poch a bit of time to see what he can do with what we got, but he is not a magician and certain players seem to dim to grasp what they have to do in the set up, but I guess time will tell.
Bit off topic; just watched Rodriguez (Swiss LB) play, he was being touted as a potential signing and a lot of people said he would cost near £20m. Based on today's performance if he's worth £20m then so is Rose.