And once upon a time Huddersfield won the league 3 years running.
Those days are long gone.
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Management Levy out?
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Those days are long gone.
Bolton Wanderers and a team called Wanderers have won more FA Cups than West Ham, Old Etonians have won it more times than Leeds United and Clapham Rovers & the Royal Engineers have won it more tims than Leicester City. As you said times change.
Yep Britannia ruled the waves and dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Those days are long gone.
I'm glad you agree.
some people think that football stopped in the sixties.
Whats Poch got to do with the article you posted? I was just stating that what Mourinho said in that article has nothing to do with Levy buying him his priorities because Mourinho's priority would clearly have been a target with his only other striker injured for the season.
But if you are just after my opinion anyway, Poch probably didnt demand a striker. Jose however needed one really badly in January instead of Bergwijn.
It's obvious to me both managers would have asked for a forward.
Indeed Poch did, and got Lorente while Jansen was still at the club.
Poch used Lorente quite a lot so I can only think he wanted someone better/ younger otherwise why let Lorente go when Poch wanted a forward(s) to cover Kane or work in tandem with Kane ( Madrid away).
Reading between the lines ,it has to be Levy that is at fault, he won't buy someone out of desperation and looks at every purchase as an investment but sometimes needs must. And I believe he didn't renew Lorente's contract just to save wages and then when we drew a blank in the summer he went back to Lorente but it was too late , he already had an agreement with Napoli.
Hey times move on.
My local team regularly play against teams I watched spurs play in the 80s.
And as has been proven - by Spurs - spending the big(ger) bucks does not guarantee anything.
I’m more hopeful Troy comes good than us spending loads of money on one player who could flop. Or some very good scouting.
Because some people on here seem to think that Levy shafted Poch and Jose by refusing to buy a striker.
Glad to see you don't agree with that point if view.
What kind of person does that? Someone has just employed you , paying you £15m a year and you start trouble at the first opportunity? How does that help Jose? His reputation would be completely fucked and would never get another job again.
You remind me of Championship manager when I was 15. I would keep giving my chairman ultimatums over and over again to release more money for wages and the fucker would never sack me.
Not Poch. But Jose did get screwed over by levy for not giving him a single striker.
So have you heard of the two strikers formations? We’re using a 4-4-2 mainly when defending.
But yes if we had a world class striker and he played better than Kane then yes, Kane would be fucking benched. Or does that ruin your little fantasy?
Jose wanted a striker but not a make weight or a stand in. He wanted quality. There were none of quality available, otherwise other clubs would of signed them.
Jose was given £30m in January. Why didn't he spend it on the much needed striker? Why is it always on Levy?
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No other top club went into the january window facing the prospect of having no senior striker available for the rest of the season, though.
And what do you mean there were none available? Are clubs supposed to advertise there wares in the local paper or something?
Qualty Striker for sale. 20 goals a season guarenteed. Good pedigree.
€50million o.n.o
It's up to the buying club to be pro-active and go out there and force the fucking issue. Ffs.. It's how the transfer market has always worked.
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Probably because Levy saw future resale value in Bergwijn.
Are we seriously blaming Jose for our lack of striker options when he spent the whole month of january and every weekend since crying about it?
Ah right.
So that's why Chelsea, United, Barca etc were able to sign a quality striker and we weren't.........Oh wait.
Piatek was available for one. We even have a "Have we signed Piatek yet?" thread. But during negotiations Levy went into hardcore Levy mode and demanded we take him on Loan instead of paying the £23.5million that Berlin ultimately ended up paying.
I'm not blaming Jose, I'm just making my point that with the amount of money given to management in the last 7-9 months to spend, why should Levy be getting it in the neck?
5th highest net spend in the world across the last two transfer windows John. Why didn't the guys with the need use that more efficiently?