The one we wanted to sign that a lot of fans were fucking livid about?
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The one we wanted to sign that a lot of fans were fucking livid about?
The chairmen sometimes has a veto, however in a shareholding business that would be very unusual, the board are responsible to the shareholders not the chairmen alone. That's why you have a board.
No manger has ever said either when with the club or after leaving the club that Levy had vetoed a signing, seems odd if as you suggest he has routinely been doing that. I don't know, and I suspect nobody on here does, but I would guess that our transfer committee and our board operate in the same way all big businesses run their business, by consensus not dictatorship ...
Levy may indeed buy and sell all the players, but common sense tells you that over the last twenty years at least one manager would have said as much ... odd that none ever have.
I am still a shareholder doesn't make me the owner, the 'owner' is the majority shareholder ...
I'm not valuing the signings, as I say I don't give a rat's snatch what other teams do, just that the three examples given don't hold up
I'm not saying he has vetoed anything, or does so on a regular basis but as the chairman he would have final say as its his signature that would be required on any deal. Its nothing to do with a dictatorship, but the buck stops with the chairman, its the reason he gets paid much more than a board member. Your giving him a massive level of responsibility, and a direct ear to Lewis, I would be very, very surprised if he does have final say on most things.
I said technically, Levy owns a stake in ENIC, ENIC own THFC there for he owns a stake, I never called him the outright owner.
We wanted Giroud couldn't get him, we apparently wanted Ighalo but he choose United. I cant see any established striker coming in as a bit part player for half a season only to play second fiddle to Kane, look at the Morata quotes form a couple of seasons ago.
So we give up trying to get one then?
Mourinho wanted Willian José, who was chomping at the bit to come, but we wouldn't pay a fair price for him
Who said we gave up? Its January, teams will not want to sell a player that they cant replace. Its not like a store where you walk in and pick up what you want, the club actually has to want to sell that player and the player has to be willing to move.
£59M for a 28yo striker who averages 11 goals (heavily influenced by a 15goal season) a season in Spain, I can see why we didn't sign him.
United also rejected him.
That was his release clause, but we probably could've signed him for something like £22-25m.
Not probably, could, that was the sum that Real Sociedad were asking, we wouldn't go over £12 million
Could be because he's rubbish? why did nobody else want him? just buying a second rate striker who would almost certainly fail in the EPL helps nobody ... Kane, Son, Dele, Moura all have better scoring records than he does, and yet he plays (rarely) in a mickey mouse league ... a dud well avoided.
FYI - since January he's played 4 times (115 minutes) scored none, the only game he started he was hauled off after 55 minutes because he was utter shite ... hmmmmmm
Has started 18 matches so far this season for Real Sociedad in La Liga (8 goals).
Barcelona apparently rejected him too, in favour of a M’boro reject.
I thought most reports were saying they were holding out for the release clause? Either way he isn't that good.
That's the problem with blind numbers ... he's managed 90 minutes just three times ... in all he's played just 1,331 minutes, unfit, unreliable, no good? who knows why, but if he can't hack the pace of LaLiga he'd almost certainly be utterly useless in the EPL.
I wouldn't say that he 'plays rarely' this season with already 18 starts (26 appearances in total) as it's not even March and taking into consideration that he was left out of the squad a couple of times because he wanted to make a transfer. Also not sure why anyone would call La Liga a 'Mickey Mouse League'.
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Well shit or not, we’re definitely fucked now.
Would you have wanted us to sign the strikers they did. They are stop gaps. Exactly what Jose said he didn't want.
He wants quality, who can play not only now but in the future, someone who can play with Harry.
The ones you mentioned are shite, which shows how hard it is to sign a quality striker in January
And when Poch said this he got slaughtered.