You need to take inflation into account too, we signed Lloris in 2012 prices were VERY different back then.
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Poch basically binned off 70M worth of attackers. I thought he was the greatest coach everrrrrrrr and could train anyone.
Oh but that’s right, we should just spend more and hope the manager gives them more than 4 minutes every nine weeks
There's no coherent point and very little fact to your warblings about Barkley.....
Is your stance still the same regarding the firing if certain players have been made aware to Pochettino and he chose not to pursue them? Tough one knowing where the issue lays but something definitely needs to be done regarding our quality assistance levels in this particular department.
Can’t get better than what though?
They are shit. And he was the manager.
To be fair I don't think Ndombele was available to anyone other than Lyon last summer, he was on loan with them the season prior, that 7 mil would of been already agreed.
Soldado too.
But yeh, "big fees"... :roll:
P.s. De Ligt got schooled by our very own ridiculed "oil tanker", Llorente.
Of course not.
I hope there are 12-20 files open on the manager's lap describing his options. If not, then someone does need firing.
If he doesn't fancy them then I defer to his judgement.
If anything inflation only reaffirms my point though mate.
If we have a quality £10m goalkeeper, an able £3.5m RB, 2 CBs that cost c£20m£22m combined and to improve the first XI we'd have to pay c£60m which is an astronomical inflation then why not stick with what you've got knowing it has the required quality to hit our initial objectives and targets set out and just see how the market is and settles when the need is more urgent?
Markets don't always continue to boom, they do dip and occasionally crash so at a time when there's been one of the biggest spikes in this particular industry if you have a quality team put together with barely £75m back then and all are still contracted to your club why throw money that would equate to the same kind of outlay because it's seen as being ambitious by those outside of the club?
It's risk/ reward of course and inflation does come into the equation yes but if you're happy in your house but open to a move yet the market is mental, why show urgency in a move at the expense of financial sensibility? Sometimes not making a deal is the best deal to be had.
Again, I never said give up spending but I also refuse to act like Woolwich fans have done for the past few years by coming to the conclusion that you buy players and that is the be all and end all.
It has to be the right layer and right player only. Just signing players because it's what you have to do is not what we are.
I'm sure everyone would have thrown a party if we signed Pogba for 90m last season?
Solid mid table. Their team is shite
Of course not.
The scouting department should be providing him with options. If not then they need firing.
He knows who he wants. Levy should back his judgement with funds.
It's the quietness that is killing all of us.
He still still a player that slipped through our radar for the loan and agreed upon £7m. If you were chairman of a football club would you ask the question why he slipped through the net regardless of pre-agreed of fixed prices? I know I would and that it would be one of the first things I'd ask to ensure it doesn't happen again. Why did we choose not to loan him when Lyon did? Why was that seen as a poor deal to be had when 2 seasons later we want to smash our transfer record on him etc
