The Weekend ITK Discussion Thread THE CHIRPY EDITION 11/12 August 2012

[brasil_spur]

Newcastle probably looking forward to playing us, see their chance of starting with a win.

Would be a good time for another riot to kick off ..... this time up north though

 

[Sum Monsterism]

I'm confused. Defoe will be allowed to go when we get two strikers in...but he only has two years left on his deal? Does that mean we will extend his contract a further two years until we actually sign two strikers?

Glad to see we are such a disappointment for our owners and that they are really in it for the long haul.

Glad to see someone reading the same thing as me, but coming away with a - completely different - negative point of view...

where in "Told this week Enic thought they'd be long gone by now with Levys pension all sown up,they never forsaw roman and city happening,thought we would have been established cl club with stadium all sorted long ago ,club has simply not hit the heights to be worth what they needed it to be to get out." do you find that they're disappointed?

a revised plan maybe. unhappy? doubtful. Glass half full much?

 

[Lilbaz]

He was going so well until he ended a sentence with the word "fact".

Well if all that is to be done we better get a move on and make some calls.

 

[TheyCallHimTheSig]

I'm confused. Defoe will be allowed to go when we get two strikers in...but he only has two years left on his deal? Does that mean we will extend his contract a further two years until we actually sign two strikers?

Glad to see we are such a disappointment for our owners and that they are really in it for the long haul.

Or we'll sign Leandro and Ade this month.

Good news from Dragon - keeping Defoe makes no sense at all as he's neither a lone or a wide forward.

 

[Spurger King]

Glad to see someone reading the same thing as me, but coming away with a - completely different - negative point of view...

where in "Told this week Enic thought they'd be long gone by now with Levys pension all sown up,they never forsaw roman and city happening,thought we would have been established cl club with stadium all sorted long ago ,club has simply not hit the heights to be worth what they needed it to be to get out." do you find that they're disappointed?

a revised plan maybe. unhappy? doubtful. Glass half full much?

It's always been the plan anyway. They wanted to get the club into the best position possible then sell for a big profit. I don't see anything wrong with that. As you say, it's just a case of having to revise their plan due to Mansour bin zayed al Nahyan City FC fucking everything up for everybody else.

 

[KevinW]

It's always been the plan anyway. They wanted to get the club into the best position possible then sell for a big profit. I don't see anything wrong with that. As you say, it's just a case of having to revise their plan due to Mansour bin zayed al Nahyan City FC fucking everything up for everybody else.

Am I the only one to see the irony that Levy's own negotiation approach and conservatism in getting in the right players is probably the major reason that they have not met their objectives. There are a number of points in time when a bit more investment would have pushed things along

 

[Spurger King]

Am I the only one to see the irony that Levy's own negotiation approach and conservatism in getting in the right players is probably the major reason that they have not met their objectives. There are a number of points in time when a bit more investment would have pushed things along

I would guess that there's truth in that, but without personally knowing much about the finer details of our finances it would only be a guess.

I do think that some more investment in January could have helped our final push for a top 3 place, and would have therefore made the money back and more by getting into the Champions League, but that's still just speculation and doesn't take into account the negative effect Harry was having on our results.

Anyway, on topic I reckon Ade will be announced in the next couple of days, and we'll continue to negotiate on Leandro for another week or so.

 

[marvel]

This tweet is sarcastically ripping Agent_ITK:

akqayid ‏@akqayid
Well the official site is currently not melting..... These four uber signings must still be in NuBar #neverputatimeagainstsignings

What about the cuddly toy arriving today? Or the duty free arriving tomorrow?

 

[etchedchaos]

Wow, an old for pointing out info from the last page? Tough crowd.

 

[greaves]

Wow, an old for pointing out info from the last page? Tough crowd.

yep, seems so. I think some people perhaps don't understand or else have a strange view of time. maybe they'll catch up?

 

[etchedchaos]

yep, seems so. I think some people perhaps don't understand or else have a strange view of time. maybe they'll catch up?

I doubt it. In this age of social media these young kids think everything is old now. I've no doubt someone would get labelled old for posting a tweeter 5 seconds after it was tweeted.

 

[mw828]

I doubt it. In this age of social media these young kids think everything is old now. I've no doubt someone would get labelled old for posting a tweeter 5 seconds after it was tweeted.

They might give you an old label if you use the word "tweeter"

 

[etchedchaos]

They might give you an old label if you use the word "tweeter"

The er was a typo, got twitter on the brain .

 

[Yiddo1982]

I thought Akqayid had previously put times on things??!?? He's not in a position to gloat. He has got loads of things wrong, and slipped up with the Gio Impressing line. Plus the BM/typo episode. I'm surprised he's held in such high regard and considered ITK. Oh well, if it adds to the soap opera, and keeps the readers coming back, then fair play to SC.

 

[SpurSince57]

Am I the only one to see the irony that Levy's own negotiation approach and conservatism in getting in the right players is probably the major reason that they have not met their objectives. There are a number of points in time when a bit more investment would have pushed things along

Probably not. It doesn't occur to you that City and Chelsea's net spends being respectively four and three times ours over the last seven seasons might have a great deal more to do with it, as Dragon suggests? I'm not sure that there's anything in his info we didn't already know or couldn't figure out for ourselves, but it all rings true enough.

 

[spud]

Probably not. It doesn't occur to you that City and Chelsea's net spends being respectively four and three times ours over the last seven seasons might have a great deal more to do with it, as Dragon suggests? I'm not sure that there's anything in his info we didn't already know or couldn't figure out for ourselves, but it all rings true enough.

And therein lies the flaw in your reasoning: expecting a degree of critical analysis in the evaluation of the relative position of our club. Much easier to scream 'I want a signing and I want it NOW!'.

 

[Rob]

Ben says:

"Ade more or less now finally done
Should be announced tomorrow latest Tuesday
Now need about 4 more!!"

 

[Bizness]

There's more there Rob

 

[liam17oi]

And someone has obviously given Ben a dictionary. More good news!

 

[Rob]

There's more there Rob

Is there? The rest is Ben's opinion isn't it?