Lol mate. Your quoting your reply to someone else. I'm not disagreeing with you. I replied to your comment about one player might not want to play second fiddle.Please make it stop.
There's nothing to prove.
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There's nothing to prove.
Yes squad players who increasingly played more and more to the point they played more than their superior colleagues. It was regression. We'd even sold Dembele 6 months before the CL final without a replacement at the same time as Wanyama had basically become broken. It was piss poor squad management and hurt us.
I never said we weren't a good team in 17/18 but our apex was 16/17 - that is clear as you can see by our points and league position either side of 16/17. And our decline absolutely correlates to all the factors I already described. Key players playing less games, squad players slowly becoming first teamers, aging CBs, poor recruitment or no recruitment (2 windows).
I don't really know what you're disputing, the data is pretty evident. Sure there were other factors but let's have less of the mental gymnastic talk and talk of Forster who I never mentioned and deal with the facts. And Aurier was an example of weakening the first team as he wasn't as good as Walker.
The starting eleven increasingly declined as inferior squad players played more and more and others lost form (Rose, Alli), left (Walker), got old (Jan and Toby), lost focus (Eriksen) . This is absolutely reflected in our performance during that era.
Here are some facts:
Wanyama played in 4 seasons:
36 games 16/17
18
13
2
Dembele:
30 games 16/17
28
10
And remember Dembele rarely played 90 minutes.
And that's a clear example of first team players no longer contributing in the same way or as much and therefore it MUST follow that our squad players gradually become first team players. And that correlates with our points decline because they weren't as good. We were becoming weaker, didn't recruit or recruited badly and let players leave without adequate replacements. It's absolutely clear.
Again; not really the point....
Nor is it set in stone who our targets are.
Recruitment should be at the top of any list of the clubs deficiencies.
I realise it's taken from my post to someone else.....
I'm just exhausted by the issue (3 or 4 times today I've faced the same questions even though my position is clearly stated in B&W numerous times in the last few pages) and I'm outta gas.
Controversial but if he refuses to sign a contract extension this summer then that offer is worth considering, especially if it can be bumped up a bit.
Losing him for nothing in 12 months to a Premier League rival would be dogshit. At least this way we have money to get someone in to compete with Richarlison.
Looks like they are playing Levy at his own game, I hope this saga finishes quickly so that everyone knows where they stand.
If the issue with buying both Tapsoba and VdV wasn't budgetary, our alternative CB options would be in the similar price range as them. That's the fundamental point.
£80m plus reasonable add ons. 2-4 installments, I’d probably bite. But Levy needs Kane to reject the new contract offer before he accepts any bid
Ahaha so they added €10m? Is that it?
As when Levy does this to other chairmen, that will only irritate him. They should have made a serious second bid, probably game over for them now.
Hazard went to Real Madrid for £100m with a year left on his deal. No reason for Levy to even consider less (and he should demand more).
You on gardening leave from the BBC?
If he has rejected the new contract, sadly…
I think we should accept the Bayern Bid and at the same time make our contract offer and allow Harry to make his decision. If he does not want to be at the club and wants to stat pad a couple of Bundesliga medals he can fuck off. We only want players who want to be here and fight for something.
It's not gymnastics at all; but you are sidetracking by bothering to go down the path of whether Walker was better than Aurier.... My point was clearly about how would defines "replacement".
To reiterate; we didn't "replace" MD & VW with Winks & Sissoko.... And that the season 18/19 showed that they couldn't hack it anymore and needed to be replaced.
...And thus they were; by TN & GLC in Summer 19.
Which doesn't dispute what I've said....
2 length spells injured and then replaced when it became clear it was over for him.
Again; this is entirely in tune with what I said...... In 18/19 his appearance no's dropped off signifying he had to be replaced.
Cue TN & GLC in summer 19.