More Doherty gymnastics......
Originally you claimed that we paid approaching 30m for PEH and you're still insinuating as much.
PEH himself cost 15m.... You demanded links.... You got them.
Take the 'L' and walk away, Blakey.
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More Doherty gymnastics......
Originally you claimed that we paid approaching 30m for PEH and you're still insinuating as much.
PEH himself cost 15m.... You demanded links.... You got them.
Take the 'L' and walk away, Blakey.
WTF are you rambling on about? Prehaps you turned up last Tuesday. Because no one here thinks Daniel Levy is about to start burning through Lewis money . The point was about the frankly idiotic idea you announce you have loads to spend before you go to buy. I know its the internt but if you're going to answer questions no body asked please don't tag in responders.
Would be sensational
With levy , he is so cheap that even when he spends big he does it in a cheapish way. Always trying to get some deal. He spends big money on younger players because potentially then they could be great for 10 years so his investment is spread out cheaply. Its always about doing something out of the box because he is a genius and has seen something no one else has.
It's not about selling players at their prime. it's selling them when they're ready to leave and before they're totally worthless. Which is exactly what has been done.I'm sure you'd be delighted had we sold all our best players at their prime! you'd be praising Levy to the rafters wouldn't you and not call him a "money grabbing C**t"
What's also funny here, is that you complain about selling Eriksen too late and then in the same sentence talk about "letting Demele leave!"
I wouldn't mind if we were cash rich and just went out and replaced them with players in their prime, but that's not us, is it.
We turned down good offers for Eriksen the summer he wanted out. most fans would have been happy to sell but we didn't. Then we took pittance for him 6 months later. Now the same is happening with Kane.
Yea, with that I can mostly agree on.
I think one has to pick his battles. There are some players you can haggle and negotiate and play around with. But with some it is just the case to just go for it. Pay extra 3 or 5 million if needed. If player is quality and squad needs player like this then that's the case to go all out.
I agree that he universally tries to look cleaver and pinch every penny.
And totally ruling out signing players over 23 is stupid. They are valued based on their potential which might or might not materialize. Generally they can increase their value, but at the same time there are moments to also buy players in their best footballing years as well.
We won’t be buying anyone in the summer if there’s no fans in the stadiums again in the new year. People better get ready with the complaining.
That's not what "reality" means.
You're merely making a projection.
Only you are toying with hindsight here, my friend.
Fact: TN & GLC have failed to establish themselves in this team under five different managers.
Right, so you're not trading in "reality" afterall.... This is merely a theory of yours.
I put it to you that considering your'e not proposing a like for like replacement (i.e. PEH / Bale) that you're essentially proposing a major revamp of all our line-ups over the course of a season and to make staunch claims over what is rapidly becoming a pure fantasy scenario isn't a particularly realistic hill to choose to die on.
At this point your continued insistence that a player's performance, application, fitness, mentality and work-rate has no bearing over their destiny at a club frankly doesn't dignify further serious discussion.
This has all been done to death..... (Go visit the Ndombele thread for a refresher.... Former managers confirming he has a dubious attitude.... Him expressing a desire to leave at least 3 times since he arrived... Him being visibly gassed after 45minutes etc etc. etc..... The evidence has mounted beyond mere unconscious bias.)
Not one, not two..... But 5 managers..... And more before he arrived here......
M-a-a-a-a-aa-y-b-e you're the one suffering from "bias" here, rather than the many proffesionals that actually work with him.
Gio.... Perhaps a different mind-set, but ultimately a very similar outcome; a meager contribution that falls way short of what is a) required and b) was expected.
Ultimately, I don't give a shit about PEHs G&A ratios.... Unlike GLC, he's not in the team with an expectancy to score and assist (in fact his entire first year was being played as a DM!). It's just a stinging indictment of Gio's lack of contribution that he is being out-scored and out-assisted be a player that his detractors would insist is far inferior and has been deployed with less attacking/creative responsibility.
An honest appraisal however would concede that they've both had runs in the team (TN moreso than GLC thanks to injury, granted)......
An honest appraisal would also say you have to earn your starts on the training field and not merely coast along on the basis of how good you (or the fans) think you are.
Paid to train yadda yadda....
Wrong.... This wouldn't even be a discussion if an ever depleting few wouldn't put their fetish for supposedly technically superior players ahead of acknowledging the actual contribution of players (however rudimentary the latter may be). We've all seen this 'movie' before with Blakey/Sissoko..... Yours is not a fresh nor compelling take and your insistence on blaming a single player for our disfunction as a team is flagrant "bias" (irony!).....
They're always primed, fella..... No matter how good things are going at the time.
Like rats out of the woodwork....
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I don’t want to turn this into another Covid thread; but basically the Omicron case growth is so mental it could actually run out of people to infect by late Jan.
So any measures like closing stadiums to fans wouldn’t have to last many weeks (and it may not happen at all).
Sounds backwards to me..... Sell maybe, but what's the point in loaning him out?
Just means we'll need another player, but not have the incoming funds to buy one.
Source is kinda shit, but I dont see us loaning him out.
A loan deal would be stupid, we would need cash to bring in a replacement for him, that’s letting someone out without getting a new player.
Signs show that omicron is gonna spread like hell, but its less potent. I think a two week break will do the trick.
Assuming they'd be no buyers it gets his salary off the wage bill
Ndombele and GLC should always start ahead of him. especially if Skipp is already starting as well.
I don't think him personally was the reason but the fact that we have players like him starting, and in his case being supposedly a top player, shows why we finished 7th. He isn't a top 4 player and if we want to compete with the top teams we need to have better players than him.
You can't accept the realities , certainly not on Locelso. Whatever PEH limitations he is available to play. Locelso and Ndombele are very likely done at Spurs. I had high hope for Tanguy knew little about the Argentine. But its been an epic flop.