He also made Son "look like" the EPL top-scorer in the 2021–22 season
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Transfers January Transfer Thread 2024
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Son won the Golden boot under Conte, the only time he’s ever won it. I was never a Conte fan but you can’t just put all the blame onto Conte, players have got to take some responsibility for their own form
Form and injuries
He also made Son "look like" the EPL top-scorer in the 2021–22 season
Fair points!
He giveth and then he taketh away!
Bollocks - Conte was a selfish whiny has-been cunt who wanted us to play a horrific style of football that should shame a club of our footballing-style heritage, blamed every single person at the club but himself when things went wrong, then ran away having set fire to the place when the going got really tough. If he gave Daniel a few home truths and that had some kind of positive impact then great, but let's not dress up any of the rest of it. Absolute fraud of a man.
Regarding Loïc Badé: he was on loan at Not. Forest in 2022–2023 season. And he did not play a single game even though he was not injured, and was sent back to Sevilla during the January TW....
Here Badé's explanation of why he never got a single game:
Loic Bade explains Cooper call that forced him to leave Nottingham Forest
Premier League transfer news - Rennes-owned defender Loic Bade left Steve Cooper's Nottingham Forest for La Liga strugglers Sevilla.www.hitc.com
Unused at Notts Forest in 2022/23 and sent back without exercising the 12m release fee.
But now apparently available for 50m from a Seville side struggling at wrong end of he table.
My instincts are to swerve at that price - come the end of the season I suspect we could find better with a more consistent track record at a cheaper price (eg he's a lot more expensive than Van de Ven who had a longer track record, and we now know is a top CB).
Not to mention most players seemed to play worse after his honeymoon first 6 months - most have got back to being far better players under Ange, so their downturn is totally on Conte
Conte should have been binned the moment he said this
Antonio Conte praises Eric Dier as among the best in Premier League
Antonio Conte has hailed Eric Dier as one of the Premier League's best defenders and called on him to add goals from set-pieces to boost his claims for an England recall ahead of the World Cup.
Can you belive the club were almost duped into giving Eric a new contract because of this lmao
No.
It looks like there were no break clauses in the loans for Tanganga and Ndombele.
Tanganga was in the Augsburg squad yesterday.
West Ham have borrowed 30m off a bank so they get some of the Rice money earlier. It’s a common practice apparently.
everybody pays transfers over years. It used to be half down and the other half in 12 months.
Our problem is paying big fees for players who hardly play for us and are just loaned out because no one will buy them.
Absolutely. The excitement, euphoria and wild expectation levels on here when we appointed him were off the scale and unprecedented.
He also managed to drag that massively under invested mess of a squad into the champions league at the expense of our biggest rivals
Just a few wise, level headed posters like myself correctly predicted how it would all ultimately end in failure, just as it had with his predecessors
Dragusin
Against my usual instincts, I don't think Hercules is wrong.
IMO both Dragusin (and Werner) will be announced early next week - chances of today were always near zero with Modric the only player I can think of announced on a Sunday in recent(ish) times
Worth saying that Ben Davies and Emerson Royal have had a good run in the last 4 or 5 games as our CB's - probably looked as good as the majority of other CB's in PL. Rodrigo Bentancur's return playing as DM has also given our CB's a lot more cover, and must give the whole team a bit more confidence.
Good to hear that Van de Ven was training with first team for 3 days or so last week and has another week to go - I think he might have had one training session at Spurs before his debut - so it looks as if he's going to be back.
So whilst in late December I was thinking it was imperative to get a CB in early I'm a lot more relaxed now with Van de Ven back to pair with Dragusin, knowing that Royal is also available on the bench as a now experienced CB back up.
Sort of surprised we haven’t been linked more with Kalvin Phillips. Not that I’m saying we should sign him.
I guess he would want guaranteed game time after his experience at Man City anyway.
I guess he would want guaranteed game time after his experience at Man City anyway.
Absolutely. The excitement, euphoria and wild expectation levels on here when we appointed him were off the scale and unprecedented.
He also managed to drag that massively under invested mess of a squad into the champions league at the expense of our biggest rivals
Just a few wise, level headed posters like myself correctly predicted how it would all ultimately end in failure, just as it had with his predecessors
level headed ?
Even you must be laughing to yourself if you expect anyone to swallow that !
Bade was linked by 1 random French journalist.
It’s been discussed by everyone in this chat far far too much. Me included.
The funny thing is that he's such a blatant troll and most of the forum accept what he is but his gang of pathetic little lap dogs who like and agree his posts and side with him will never not make me laugh
Ivan Tony isn't a top Tier striker he's on a good career trajectory and a decent/good player.
He had 13 non penalty goals last season.
And 7non penalty goals the season before.
Before that he was in the football league.
He isn't the 20+ goal striker that every media outlet suggests he is.
Was saying exactly this in the Werner thread. So easy to overpay for forwards