Obvious as fuck, why stay at Villa?
PLEASE COME AND BUY ADE - AT LEAST
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Summer 2015 Transfer Window DISCUSSION Thread
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Obvious as fuck, why stay at Villa?
PLEASE COME AND BUY ADE - AT LEAST
I thought it was a PS4 with Football Manager '15 in.
I can't tell if you think we should sign him because of that, or not...
We have no faith in slaphead
We "buy to sell" ,
Kane will be gone in 2 years if he maintains his form . We can not attract big names
on a couple of shekels .
But what happens once he takes those players on?
I keep saying this and will continue to do so; statistics aren't relevant enough in football to be used as a barometer to signing someone or berating them. An example is this; Trippier made more mistakes than any other player ythat led to goalscoring chances last season. What that doesn't tell us is how often he had the ball? against which teams were this mistakes made? Did he make amends?
Here is another. Other than Benteke (I think I am getting this right) Kane is responsible for more points gained for his team than any other player. Does that mean Kane is better than Aguero or Costa? Not really. I don't think anyway.....or does it? Fuck! It might do.
It does make Kane more important to us than aguero or Costa are to city or Chelsea respectively.
Messi would look shite if he were relying on passes from Phil fucking Bardsley and crossing for Jonathon bastard Walters.
So has Benteke gone to Liverpool and Ade gets swept up by Sherwood because that's all I've been thinking about for the last 24 hours.
That is fair enough...and clearly a shoddy example but I still stand by stats meaning very little, even more so when they are players taken on during a game for example as they don't tell a complete story.
I can't see Ade going to Birmingham for a relegation dogfight when he can just put his feet up at ours.
We buy and sell - just like any other club. I can't quite see where the problem lies in making money of players we don't want anymore, but like I said our best players who have left have pushed the matter themselves rather than been put front and centre of the Spurs shop window.
If you seriously believe that the aim of those running our club is to stagnate and reap profit of transfers then your logic is flawed. Don't get me wrong I'm not an unequivocal Levy lover but there's a lot more money to be made in the CL, through ad revenue, sponsorship, the competition itself and the top-player business etc etc. Also, we wouldn't be building a state of the art new stadium unless we were looking to progress.
If you want us to sign expensive players then at the moment we'd be signing more Adebayor types - of course financial gain plays a part in players decisions but the creme de la creme want to play in the CL, I'd rather have cheaper players with a desire to improve both themselves and the club than a mercenary who's only here for the shekels.
Pritchard is untested and people have suddenly jumped to the massive conclusion that all our youth product are going to be the equivalent of Kane in their respective positions.
Eriksen is not back up to Chadli, nor is he behind Chadli on the field. I have no idea what you are taking about there.
Why sign another left sided AM? So Eriksen doesnt have to play on the left side. Its called squad cover so when Chadlis form dips or he gets injured he has another player breathing his neck, like Davis did to Rose, pushing him to his best ever form.
We either sell them or use them. Not sure anyone wants to sign someone shit.
Berahino, Saleh, Mane´, Lavezzi, Moses, Miralles.........................
Nor can I. That's why I wish we would give him the worst fucking footballing life this season. Make him train with the lowest squad we have, make him play in the youth games if possible on a cold ass week day night. Absolutely miserable.
He just wouldn't turn up.
fine him then? So long as we do what is in our power and he refuses there's gotta be repercussions aye?
Yeah, it was basically a small theatre where they could do presentations that layered their data and video together.
I really don't like to say things like this. But why not just fuck off and support Man City. You'd never be disappointed.Of course it is. Which goes to show were being run as a feeder club. Buy young up and coming starlets with potential re-sale value. It`s all about profit and has fuck all today with trophies. I`m so pleased your finally starting to wake up.
Contrary to public opinion, not much money is made from owning a football club. If the money made was all siphoned off into the pockets of the Levy and Lewis, then you'd soon know about it.
We wouldn't have a new training ground and we wouldn't be building a new stadium. We also would not have players like Lloris, Eriksen, Vertonghen or Alderweireld.
Spurs have not won the league in my lifetime. Since I have been going we have only finished in the top 4 8 times.
That's 8 times since my first game in 1969.
6 of those times was when it did not matter, and was seen as fuck all really.
We were a big club once. When we had the capacity. It was us and Woolwich who commanded the biggest average attendances in London.
Then Woolwich went and built a new stadium and Chavs got a Russian crook.
We are in a 36k capacity stadium mate. We have not got an owner that rules an oil rich country and can throw money into the club by sponsorship and advertising of his countries airline and other state owned businesses. We have to look hard to get our deals, and we do get them on merit. Not a shirt sponsorship deal that in 2007 was £1.5 m and when the UAE take over 7 x that , after achieving nothing of any merit to command that.
The last 10 years is the most consistent we have ever been in the league. The last 6 the best ever in my time. This is all post Taylor report, when we have smaller capacity. We have the 11th biggest capacity mate. On par with Spam. Do their owners siphon off the money? Why do we do better than them then, and Newcastle, Villa, Sunderland, Everton and, over the last 6yrs, Liverpool - we have qualified for the CL twice in 6 years they have once. They all have bigger capacities than us.
At no other time in my Spurs years have we been in the top 6 so consistently, 2 x outside it in 10 yrs.
What other club outside the current top 4, playing in EL has done what we have done?
Of course I want us to do better, but in the current climate we have to be fucking realistic and not so fickle.
There are a few solutions. We could reduce ticket prices and not be able to attract better quality players over the whole squad and be Spam.
We could double ticket prices, which would bring us up to Woolwich's level of match day revenue, and be the 3rd highest in the league and compete.
Build a new stadium which would double it.
Get taken over by Qatar Sports Investment and be the London PSG.
Number 4 may happen when we have a SOA training facility used by the leading National and Domestic football teams of the world, coupled with a SOA stadium capable of hosting major events.
So, hold tight Mr Thomas. We then could call it the Qatar Airways Arena and our shirt sponsors can be Al Jazeera.
We can then buy who the fuck we want, when we want and pay them whatever they want.
Yet a host of teams feel they do matter enough to use them for recruiting players and preparing tactics. Not as the be-all and end-all, but as the extra-info to let scouts/coaches focus on priorities faster by giving them the info they wanted.
A good example is that teams now build the lists through data and video, and only send the scouts to find out the stuff they can't tell without being in person (ie personality, habits, off-pitch behaviour). It lets your scouts make better use of their time.
I don't know buddy, he just seems to do whatever he likes
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