True, but if we replace Toby with Andersen and look to Europe for a new creative CAM to replace Eriksen, then the burden isn't lifted too much.
Vorm for a home grown 3rd choice is the big one there.
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Transfers Summer 2019 transfer thread
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Vorm for a home grown 3rd choice is the big one there.
If thats the remit then i'm cool with it (even if like you i'm not impressed with the individual; the staff will be more clued up than i), but if it's at the expense of our fundamental needs then absolutely not cos he isn't good enough at either LB or LW for now.....
This is not to say i don't support a progressive recruitment/development system, quite the opposite, just that somehow this window we need to get from 'Hmmm.... X is good enough for the bench but not to start in the EPL' level of depth to a state where our core 20 or so players don't cause concerns regarding our overall performance levels if any are rotated in for PL purposes.... Otherwise, CL is gonna routinely kill our league form.
If that can happen via upgrading 1 or 2 of the starting XI, rather than purchasing primarily with the bench in mind then more power to DL&MP.
One things for sure things become a lot more manageable if we don't have to piss about replacing CE & TA.
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Our players we didn't sell we're not exactly stuck with. I wouldn't say they are overpaid in footballer terms, Jansen £25k pw, GKN £20k pw, Tripps £40k pw, Rose £60k pw, Davies £60k pw, Aurier £70k pw, Dier £60k pw, Lamela £80k pw, Onomah £25k pw, CCV £20k pw,AndSchmoodSpur
Pretty sure the plan wasn't to be stuck with players we can't even register for our CL squad because we have a squad bloated full of non HG players, we've paid millions for, and are paying millions in wages that we can't sell?
Because that's the reason we didn't buy anyone last summer, not because we planned not to.
Many, many clubs not just in UK but across Europe can afford these wages or even more.
Well, ain't autocorrect a bitch!
Just answer the question just for once in your life. Do you think he's off message?
Alfie Whiteman
I'm not convinced replacing Alderweireld is a priority. It's the one position we have some cover and Dier can also slot in (I think this is his best position anyway)
I think he's just re-asserting the message he gave out last summer and on numerous occassions since.
Get your fucking balls out Mr Chairman and back your damn manager for once.
Indeed. Vic & Lamela are the trickiest because of long-term physical fitness, but - as per this context - you can't legislate for that; it's not a strategic failure.
Interesting that now Poch has put his balls on the table and unequivocally called for a change in approach, the LPM crew's main protagonists are suddenly shitting their pants at being exposed as the fantasists they really are.
How they'll squirm and backtrack if another disappointing window transpires.
"Being brave meant spend nothing" they blabbered.
I wonder how they'll twist Poch's recent comments as the Summer plays out?
Watch this space, folks.
Yeah, it's funny, because Poch is kind of an eccentric guy with a somewhat adventurous grasp of the English language, he seems to always leave some door open for people who are determined to see him as their profit-humping savior.
But he's consistently been begging for transfer funds for two years now.
But you said he put his balls on the table last summer?
Then September.
Then October.
Then January.
You said that Poch saying he was happy 5 times was lies and that you were worried he'd go to United.
Who's twisting?
You said we couldn't progress without signings.
We're in the CL semi-final without them.
You were wrong.
The guy that said Saido Berahino would improve us and that no stadium was being built calling others fantasists is a hoot.
Do you know you've claimed that every Poch word uttered in the past 3 years has backed you up.
Dat confirmation bias doe.
....You see how this works?
It goes back way further than that. It started with Frank Arnesen and Jacques Santini.
For 15 years now, we've always been better off with just Levy and the manager, and anytime a prominent DoF-type figure has been added it's been an unstable equilibrium that ended in someone leaving in acrimony.
So did you manage to dig out any quotes of myself,
SchmoodSpur
or ANYONE saying "I don't want signings this summer", fraud-boy?.....Or are you just moving onto your next layer of spin, lies, question-dodging and bullshit?
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Yes he did.
And was given fuck all support despite all his pleading.
And against all the odds, and despite our regression in the league and stuttering, fatigue laden end of season run in, he's somehow managed to drag his overworked, financially neglected squad to a champions league semi.
Hero's the lot of 'em.
God, I love Poch. .. What a man!
We haven't progressed. This is a worse team than last year, which was worse than the year before.
The trouble is, one interpretation of the words is clearly right, and the other is clearly wrong.
"Be brave means don't sign anyone" was, frankly, a really embarrassing argument that was made on here. I don't remember by whom, but it happened.
Where did I say that mate?So did you manage to dig out any quotes of myself,
.....Or are you just moving onto your next layer of spin, lies question-dodging and bullshit?
Last year you were saying we needing to up our squad's contracts. 9 of them were. You're now claiming that's fuck all support.
You flip flop more than Donald Duck.
What did you predict for the season after no transfers in the summer btw?
Btw, like I had to explain to
Honest John
yesterday; 2 trf windows = 1 season = 1 year.I assume that's just an oversight on your part rather than you being a falsifying WUM like he.
Your view.....how’s KWP doing