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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Frustrating thing is, if we signed one CB we would all be calm and be more understanding that other players might come later in the window with sales needed first.
Not even asking for a lot.
One CB and we are looking at 3 new players in the 11, say Tapsoba, Maddison, Vicario. Addition of Udogie & Bissouma getting minutes and we are looking quite fresh compared to last season.
Not even asking for a lot.
One CB and we are looking at 3 new players in the 11, say Tapsoba, Maddison, Vicario. Addition of Udogie & Bissouma getting minutes and we are looking quite fresh compared to last season.
how could one forget?I just remembered.
The Audi Cup
Sometimes you have to step back and look at the bigger picture. If you really believe the player is a talent you suck it up that Blackburn are being prats and do the deal anyway.
Whilst the rhetoric is juvenile and moronic, there are a number of reasons fans have to be unhappy right now:-
- We just finished 8th and missed out on Europe. This is well below our stature and financial status as a club and I think we all agree is unacceptable for us.
- After a really fruitful period, we’ve only attained top 4 once in the last 4 years and have finished out of the top 6 twice
- We haven’t had a manager for a full season since 18/19, a sign of the successive poor managerial choices we’ve made since Poch left.
- Our recent recruitment record has been awful
- We’ve won 1 trophy this century. I appreciate it’s gotten harder with the influx of foreign money, but that’s not good enough for Tottenham
- Ticket prices for fans are extortionate and I read the highest in the country. That doesn’t reflect what we see on the pitch
- After such a disappointing season last year, our transfer activity (in and out) has been pretty uninspiring thus far (I appreciate there are many weeks left in the window).
- One of our greatest ever players wants to leave because the club hasn’t been able to fulfil his ambition.
- Our club has appeared to lack any real strategy for success since Poch left.
Most of the failures noted sit under the remit of Levy, and whilst some of the comments made about him are utterly cringey, so is the way you,Airfixx and
Get in! seek to dismiss every single negative, or critique to a minute level to undermine them at least.
I’ve never previously been ENIC or Levy out, and I'm still broadly comfortable with the way we run our club financially.
But surely we can all agree that Levy needs to be completely removed from all football-related decision making now? I know the new structure promotes this, but the fact everyone on the footballing side still reports to him is a concern for me.
I no longer have faith in him to make the footballing decisions needed to push our club in the right direction.
incorrect thread.
Bin voted!
It’s the constant fucking over of managers. It’s what this club does. It will happen to Ange too and I bet it will start with leaks of the players complaining about training and then the manager losing the dressing room. It will happen in about 12 or 18 months time. The pattern has already begun.
If there is one.
2 completely different things.
"I am unhappy with the way the clubs is run"
vs
"You suck Levy's cock"
........See the difference?
What you just listed (and the manner you did so) is fair and reasonable......
BUT fair and reasonable isn't what gets discouraged.
The claim that I just seek to shut down anything vaguely negative is frankly bollocks. I simply have an aversion to the kind of BS (and often blatant lies) that get spewed which serves to crank up the stress, bad feeling and toxicity around the club and often makes it difficult to enjoy the up-sides of supporting the club....
...The predictable-as-hell reaction to the Blackburn post a page or so ago is just a classic example of the kind of crap that I rally against and I sure as fuck won't cease nor apologise for that.
On the flipside; it's been pointed out & proven on many occasion how - even if you are somewhat disgruntled - unless you are angrily vocal enough about ENIC then you run the risk of being subjected to puerile insults and "Levy fallatio" cuntery.
It's pretty bad faith of you to claim neutrality and namecheck myself and a few others, whilst not counterbalancing with such direct criticism of the proponents of the trolling, conspiracy theory and relentless 1-dimensional drum-beaters that readily play the victim when called on their crap (or find themselves democratically binned).
ps. I just had a few days off and you fuckers were still at each other's throats in my absence anyway.
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Absolutely.
It's something I've never understood about the Levybots. It's almost like battered wife syndrome. After 20odd years of penny pinching and never quite providing the team with what we need to truly succeed they'll always make excuses for his poor management.
Still nevermind...
We've got the skywalk and a go karting track... you'll never sing that!!
To be fair to the bald one, as much as I hate him sometimes I have read from multiple sources that although he is a cunt to do business with , he has never gone back on a deal or what he has agreed on
The fact that it’s so reasonable and they won’t do it is what is so infuriating.
When Liverpool needed a top CB they spent €84m on Virgil Van Dijk. That was in fucking 2018!!!
They overpaid but they scouted him well, identified him and did what it took to get him!
Why is that such difficult concept for this club to grasp?
it’s being claimed by just about every source including some very reputable ones.
Blackburn fans appear to think it exists given their reaction on the Internet.
If there is then it’s just about waiting for the legal process to get done.
Or you just compromise to get it done earlier
100%
It's all so self defeating. Levy not getting the players we need just so he can save a few bob. If we miss out on top 4 due to a point or two, then it will be because of our crap preseason and not having two good centre halves in early. Every season it costs us. So avoidable
Yeah we'll probably get one, but it will be last minute and it certainly won't be our first choice.
He's not the one to fix us so let the chips fall.... His agent will show the player contract to a contract lawyer and the dispute between player & BRFC will get solved.
If in a week or two it transpires the clause is fucked then we decide whether he is worth 5m + 4.5m to us.
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Long as we get 5th
A valid point.
Although I don’t think it has cost us anything since the 2012/ 13 season when we dropped home points to WBA and Norwich, after starting Sandro and Livermore in the pivot, and finished 5th.
Ben 'meh' Davies a starter and no new CB.