Conte has 5 months on his contract left. Paratici 17 months. Its not a plan, its a sticking plaster.
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Transfers January 2023 Transfer Thread. The Big One
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Our plan of what exactly ? Conte is not a project manager everyone knows this. We will be starting a new “plan” in the summer. Whoever comes in might not even want to deal with paratici of who the jury is definitely still out on.
Why Romero and Hojberg seeking an exit? But i agree, the squad doesnt look so good at all.
Please explain how you press with Kane and Son?
It's no mystery as to why our pressing has fallen off a cliff. Those two don't have the legs for it anymore.
Some sensible reasoning, thank you. I've had a couple of days to get over the Villa result and am feeling more reflective on the situation now, as you have described above.
Aren't Kulu, Romero, Sarr, Gil, Spence, Udogie (and yep; Ndombele) young and technically good(*)?
Bentancur, Bissouma too; only slightly older.
It seems like there is a pattern/plan; just that someone in the dug-out is getting cold feet.
(*The thing is when we do this they get called "punts" and we are falsely accused of only buying them to re-sell for profit.)
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The "rich list" is only based on revenue and does not equate to spending power.
We are only above them this year due to us having CL football and them not.
If they have CL football next year and we don't they will go above us in the rich list.
All that being said, they're is no reason why we shouldn't match their spending as the difference between the two is minimal.
We have only matched their income since the new stadium has been open to fans , i.e. the last two years.
Which is why we have matched their spending (more or less) only they have bought better than us.
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organize a protest march then, what do you want me to say
Well we can’t, although neither of those two where great at pressing even years back, Son was often a headless chicken off the ball and Kane has never had speed or great mobility. Lamela was the press under Poch with Rose and Walker helping out. Just look at Mane and Liverpool, he has gone and now their press is shit, few players are that great at pressing, it’s not just mobility but timing and aggression.
With the other 8 outfield players, incredibly enough. Just like Barca would when Messi was immune to pressing.
If we had Guardiola, I'd hope he'd be brave enough to sell Kane and Son.
PEH must love it here..... Plays every game.... Scores goals..... 2 managers in a row that appreciate him..... Much like the bulk of the fanbase do.
They invested more and better then.
We are agreed.
Timing is the one part of this conversation that always gets missed out imo. We always seem to go soft at the worst times. This summer for example. We go into the summer full of big chat about going hard and full of enthusiasm because we have a world class coach that got us top 4 … We want Bastoni, we like Gvardiol, we like Skriniar, we are looking at all kinds of big name RWBs… Then we actually come out of it with a youngster at RWB that our coaching staff don’t trust yet and an on loan CB.
Sure you can point at Richy to say we spent but did we REALLY go hard against all our targets?
Or did we do another Nelson and Zaha? Or bottle it on Dybala because of naming rights? Or not Spend for a full calendar year when we had the best squad in 20 years?
Why is it that our owners bottle it precisely at the worst moments?
Bentancur, Kulu and Romero have been good signings. The rest jury very much out. Ndombele, lack of due diligence.
We still have rubbish hanging around from years ago. It just doesnt look like any sort of strategy and thats why we have gaping holes at centre back, rwb, creative players and goalkeeper.
Sorry mate; this is one of this instances where I've addressed something that you specifically said and now you're broadly throwing the kitchen sink back in response........
I didn't remotely suggest our squad was complete and flawless.
My main point was a lack of stategy and planning. I really dont think you can look at us over the last 2 or 3 years and think we have one. Are we win now at all costs or buying youngsters to improve, are we happy with poor football, are we ever going to see the back of Sanchez, Dier, Emerson, Doc etc. If i and many others could see a direction then you can put up with short term disruption. Its the lack of any identity.
At yet we spent the same as Woolwich.
I've been saying for years that our recruitment is shite.
It has improved somewhat under Paratici, we have to wait to see if that continues.
That someone in the dug out has never been a develop young players project manager, so it’s a pretty stupid plan to hire him and then sign a bunch of young players most of which aren’t first team ready or that he just doesn’t want.
Our recruitment is shite because it's driven by wages and agent fees. IE, an aversion to paying them.At yet we spent the same as Woolwich.
I've been saying for years that our recruitment is shite.
It has improved somewhat under Paratici, we have to wait to see if that continues.
I don't agree mate.
Someone put up a wages chart thing (can't be arsed to look for it)
5th/6th highest revenue in the league.
3rd highest spenders on transfers.
6th highest wage payers.
I'm assuming that that does not include our bonus system (?????) and only the flat wage.
For the record I think the bonus system Levy likes is bollocks.