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He just said what any manager in his position would say. WTF would he say anything else?

Managers make cryptic comments, comments to put pressure on the club, or to take pressure off in this case. It sounds at least like an acceptance that there was nothing imminent, and a pointer to impatient fans that it will be august/ late in the window before the key squad incoming/outgoings are settled.

At a time everyone was/is screaming for new CBs and we had strong press links to VDV and Tapsoba, I read this as, be patient, it's going to take time.
 
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Well like I said, making the acquisitions early would have allowed them to Gel, we could have hit the ground running and rode the momentum wave like the Gooners did last season.

So what I’m saying mate is imagine if we bought a CB early and they gelled really well with Romero early doors and we started the season on fire like Woolwich did last season and we used the momentum of those early results to keep on winning like Woolwich did this season.

Is there a crayon function on here? If so I will draw you a picture
I'm sorry, how old are you and how long have you been following football?

Crayons indeed. This reads like the thought process of a 9-year old.
 
So what do you do if you approach the other club early and they tell you they'll happily talk to you when the window opens but not before? Say bollocks to that and move onto your second choice?

Your strategy is sound up to a point, that point being where you haven't taken into account that there's another 3 parties who will all have their own strategy, and will likely only want to deal with you on their own terms.

Agents will want to tout their player out to interested parties, the selling club will too. Then the player will want to weigh up his options.

Whilst it is desirable to have these players in for the preseason tour, a handful of games, which are essentially PR warm ups, are not necessarily a guarantee that these players will magically gel. That's what the training pitch is for. So whilst I agree that spending the time with the rest of the team would likely help them to integrate into the team much better, it's by no means imperative.
We’re talking about Leverkusen and Wolfsburg, if we dangle enough carrot their way then they sell when we want them to. If they do start mucking around you move to your next target.

I just think there should have been a premium placed on getting the deal done early
 
It's not the negativity, we all feel that. It's the constant repetition of the same tired old dirge that "a little cabal of posters" roll out every single day.

That's all that ever really gets jumped on here. Every single thread, regardless of the content, gets hijacked by some bellend who's only interest is to start a cunt off.

Have you ever seen Ace Ventura Pet Detective? Where he visits Ray Finkle's parents house, and the bedroom is covered in "Die Dan Marino" scrawls all over the walls?

That's how I see the houses of these hate merchants. Not the bedroom, the entire feckin house!
Sure but the flip side of that feels like that partridge episode where he has his super fan, “hi Daniel, I’m your biggest fan”

I do wonder how many have tats of Levy’d bald bonce sketched across their bellies
 
It was our most important area to strengthen 12 months ago and we did fuck all to address it

Fuck all to address it in January and here we are, pre season tour about to start and seemingly still no closer to addressing it

I'll lose my shit if Dier and Sanchez are still starting matches for us next season
Even cunte didn’t want to address it. Instead he wanted us to buy a £40M city reject to play rwb knowing he was gonna leave and next manager may play a back 4.
 
It's the age old question isn't it....

Is it paranoia or are they truly out to get you?

:)

I do find it utterly hilarious that that ‘Archie’ character thinks I’m somehow responsible for getting the obnoxious posters binned.

Someone needs to learn how the foul vote system works, bless his little cotton socks.

Even funnier that longer term posters on here thinks admin is going to approve foul votes where people have simple ‘expressed opinions’. You’d think those lot would know better. The old ‘ignore list’ is increasing quickly!

One of them is going around giving out sarcastic funnies too. Poor sod has really had his nose put out of joint.

Back on topic, hope we get Vdv in soon…starting to get impatient! 😊
 
A number of top employees have 6 month or even 12 month notice periods

And sometimes it can be more complicated such as '6 months unless next employer is a top 4 club in PL and in which case its 12 months' etc.

So if Munn thinks he is free to join Spurs in x months but City decide otherwise, then City may have the legal ability to stop Munn joining Spurs.
Yes I get that but surely you agree a leaving date with existing employer before announcing start date with new employer. It can’t be that difficult?
 
Again I don’t care, we needed CB’s, creativity and a keeper this summer and we’ve done 2 out of the 3 - and we have form for stopping at this juncture.

It’s pointless comparing us to City - they could play Dier at CB and still win the league. Woolwich will soon have rice tied up - it’s not like they are trying to decide between him and Lanzini.

The fact we had 3 major areas of need just highlights our past failings in the market - this was the summer to get it right, strengthen early, get a good pre season and hopefully hit the ground running and do what the gooners did last year - ride the crest of the momentum wave. Instead we’re all fucked off because we’ve seen this movie before
Indeed how many FBs/WBs do we have on the books?
 
Oh no, a bit of sarcasm.

Won't someone please think of the children, or in this case, Goaty.

The 'man' that loves to dish out X's and Foul Votes like nobody's business.

It won't take too much to make you turn, after all you were once and out and proud Tory after all.

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You can't be happy that we haven't signed at least one CB by now, sure the season is still a few weeks away but it's only a few weeks. It's best to get as much business done as early as possible, don't you agree?
 
You can't be happy that we haven't signed at least one CB by now, sure the season is still a few weeks away but it's only a few weeks. It's best to get as much business done as early as possible, don't you agree?

On this I agree. I don’t know what the hold up is and have no evidence to blame anyone, so not gonna do that, but yeah, I would’ve liked a new CB ahead of our tour.

Hopefully we still bring in two but need to get on with it.

Think our other business has been decent though but doesn’t excuse not getting in a CB
 
On this I agree. I don’t know what the hold up is and have no evidence to blame anyone, so not gonna do that, but yeah, I would’ve liked a new CB ahead of our tour.

Hopefully we still bring in two but need to get on with it.

Think our other business has been decent though but doesn’t excuse not getting in a CB

.......Only to add I'd rather get good ones than panic buy and end up with shit ones.
 
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Well I noticed a load of yellow cards being given to a the predominantly Levy out mob - it did seem a bit one sided
You obviously don't know how this site works.

People can foul vote anybody, for anything.

Admin then decides if the foul vote is warranted or not.

If enough foul votes are warranted posters get either a yellow, red, or permanent ban.

If, and this is the important bit, the foul votes are not warranted no action is taken.
Although in excessive instances Admin can remove the foul option from posters.


TLDR:
People only get yellows or bans if they're warranted.
 
You obviously don't know how this site works.

People can foul vote anybody, for anything.

Admin then decides if the foul vote is warranted or not.

If enough foul votes are warranted posters get either a yellow, red, or permanent ban.

If, and this is the important bit, the foul votes are not warranted no action is taken.
Although in excessive instances Admin can remove the foul option from posters.


TLDR:
People only get yellows or bans if they're warranted.

.....And deep down, the likes of Tottenham Massive Tottenham Massive , Archie Archie , Col_McCafferty Col_McCafferty (and their ilk who like to play the victim) already know this.
 
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This fucking thread is a zoo
To be honest, I'm only here to see if we can get to 2000 posts.

To that end, here's a GIF of a cute puppy...

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