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Player Guglielmo Vicario

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The fact that we weren’t willing to pay top dollar for a new goalkeeper that summer is a scandal in itself. We were trying to replace Lloris - a club legend, captain, a mainstay in the side for the previous decade.
A serious club would have gone out and got their first choice target to replace such a major player in the squad. But Spurs? Oh no no.
As with seemingly every fucking decision made at this club, we gave “Don” Fabio a shout, who said “I know a guy.”
And that guy was Vicario. Was he any good? Not really. Did he suit the way Ange wanted to play? Couldn’t have been further from it. But, was he cheap? YES.

United are a moot point in the conversation as well. They went for Onana, who was their first choice target and cost more than Raya.
This can go in the dossier that'll be written about how we spent £1bn on a stadium and fuck all of use on the squad.






The dossier
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Sums up the majority of our transfer business under ENIC. Spending hundreds of millions on loads of bargain players instead of paying top money for fewer proper players.

Long term it has sunk us because our squad is just a collection of average or below average bodies.
Levy.
This can go in the dossier that'll be written about how we spent £1bn on a stadium and fuck all of use on the squad.






The dossier
Too Much Good Luck GIF by France tv
Actually we spent 100's of millions on players...

The problem was, Levy spent it on a whole lot of shit.
 
Fucks me off every time I watch Woolwich and see Raya confidently coming out and claiming crosses, pinging passes.

We had a homegrown, really decent keeper on a plate for us that would've sorted us out for like 6-7 years. Brentford were asking a lot but we could've met them in the middle and got him for like 30-32m or something - less than half of what Pool paid for Alisson, Chelsea for Kepa, etc.

Nah, as usual we go for the budget pick and it fucks us. Buy cheap, buy twice as always with Levy.
 
Fucks me off every time I watch Woolwich and see Raya confidently coming out and claiming crosses, pinging passes.

We had a homegrown, really decent keeper on a plate for us that would've sorted us out for like 6-7 years. Brentford were asking a lot but we could've met them in the middle and got him for like 30-32m or something - less than half of what Pool paid for Alisson, Chelsea for Kepa, etc.

Nah, as usual we go for the budget pick and it fucks us. Buy cheap, buy twice as always with Levy.
Trafford if we stay up? I think Barcodes and others are interested though.
 
Fucks me off every time I watch Woolwich and see Raya confidently coming out and claiming crosses, pinging passes.

We had a homegrown, really decent keeper on a plate for us that would've sorted us out for like 6-7 years. Brentford were asking a lot but we could've met them in the middle and got him for like 30-32m or something - less than half of what Pool paid for Alisson, Chelsea for Kepa, etc.

Nah, as usual we go for the budget pick and it fucks us. Buy cheap, buy twice as always with Levy.
Raya gets seriously injured three or four times in every match though.

Sometimes I fear for his life, but he always manages to pull through somehow and soldier on.
 
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All those who thought Kinsky should play should have donate £10 to charity.
We always told you he is an absolutely shit , shit keeper.

The club should have bought a replacement.
 
In 15 minutes Kinsky caused us more goals with his feet than Vic has all season. Vic is not the best, but the abuse he's getting is absurd. So far from our biggest problem.

If we had proper defenders, he would be doing alright.
 
This is one of the issues with all of us fans - we know what’s not working, but we don’t really understand how the alternative is even worse.

RKM plays because we have no-one on the RW.

Vic plays because….Kinsky.

Frank is kept on because Tudor.

And so on.

I think it is that bad right now.

FWIW - Kinsky should have had his time in the cups and maybe even CL from the start but not in at that stage.
 
This is one of the issues with all of us fans - we know what’s not working, but we don’t really understand how the alternative is even worse.

RKM plays because we have no-one on the RW.

Vic plays because….Kinsky.

Frank is kept on because Tudor.

And so on.

I think it is that bad right now.

FWIW - Kinsky should have had his time in the cups and maybe even CL from the start but not in at that stage.
what was the difference between CL groups and now? If anything now is the least pressure all season. We are expected to get beat, we definitely were never winning it all. This was a low pressure situation. At the group stage there was still some level of optimism for the season. At this point we know we are trash.
 
what was the difference between CL groups and now? If anything now is the least pressure all season. We are expected to get beat, we definitely were never winning it all. This was a low pressure situation. At the group stage there was still some level of optimism for the season. At this point we know we are trash.
You play better teams so no chance to make up the next game with a stronger team / performance. It’s why you always used to see the reserves / U21s in the early stages of cups.

Crazy pressure at Atletico - anyone could have told him that. Maybe different if we were at home, but a solid performance, even if we got beaten would have worked wonders. Like Micky on Sunday, one players mess up has cost us confidence as well as (as you say) the expected points.
 
So glad we didn't spend the extra 5 million on Raya... Just another recent example of this club messing around and picking the cheaper option for it to back fire massively.
 
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