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TheSpurEst said:
As someone who works as financial analyst and whose hobby is watching football... I cannot disagree with you more.

From financial side, sure he keeps his books balanced.
But the gambling part comes in play in terms of impact of this on footballing side of things.
He is gambling quite often with how he chooses to strenghten the side or moving on players - buying players on last hours of deadline day that has been his operating method quite often IS risk in its essence. There is less time to negotiate and more things are out of your control than usual.
Plus we have seen for number of times how he decides to bluff instead of playing it safe while selling deadwood players. While he has been good with selling HG players such as Carroll, Prichard etc he has often failed with maximizing gain for overseas players (N'ije, N'Koudou, Janssen, Soldado etc). Many times he has overplayed his hand and as a result of that we have been stuck with paying wages to useless player who has no place in the squad and who is not trusted by the manager.
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Then we shall agree to disagree. :thumbup:
It's really two entirely different worlds from a financial viewpoint. One is being under a constant pressure from both supporters and club ambition to sell and buy players during a transfer window and determining what time is best to do so. Gambling is making an unforced financial risk that could either bring rich rewards or lose your entire stake.
I understand your viewpoint from an investment angle but I believe buying/selling risk and reward decision making to be completely different from gambling in its purest form.
 
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TheSpurEst said:
Is it insane though ?!?

Cause I look at the team, and I seriously doubt we would do extremely well even with this exact lineup.
Who is controlling the tempo in this side, tell me?

I hope Hjojberg will grow into the expectations still, but deary me - first 2 games in EPL he has been invisible. Who is the player who stands in the midfield and yells "Fuck it, give me the ball!!" and who is then able to take the ball under control, fends off opponent midfielders and then is able to do something with the ball?
Up to now, Hjojberg will not be it. Lo Celso is energetic and decent player but not it either. Ndombele is good and I actually liked what he did vs Soton in 1st half (okay all passes did not reach the target but he was always aiming to play the ball forward), and at times he is able to break the line of opposite team formation. But I feel that if opposition midfield is stronger, he would struggle as well.

Back in the day we had engine room with 2 players who could do what I described in Dembele and Wanyama. Now I still feel we have none and it is a worry.
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The era of Modric/Dembele is in our past, we have to find a new way to play. Very few teams have a quality playmaker in that deep position, if you look at last season's top 4 only De Bruyne is doing that role. Liverpool now have Thiago but United and Chelsea don't have that type of player. They are like gold dust.

With the players we have now (and the ones we are linked to) I think we will have enough quality to be competitive in every game, that doesn't mean we are going to play the way we did in our pomp. That isn't possible with the players we have.
 
Belgrano said:
Comparing to our best team of the last few years, 2020 is not as good defensively, but that front 3 is best we've had. First eleven probably still not as good but our squad depth has improved.

2017. 2020
Lloris = Lloris
Walker > Doherty - 1
Toby = Skriniar
Jan > Sanchez - 1
Rose = Reguilón (peak Rose vs 1st season Reg)
Wanyama > PEH - 1
Dembele > Ndombele - 1
Eriksen = Gio
Dele < Bale +1
Kane = Kane
Son < Son +1
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In the 16/17 season Dier actually made more appearances than Dembele,
Plus you can really compare Dembele and Ndombele , anyhow the season has just started so we wont really know who is better yet, and if we beat Newcastle on Sunday we would have had a better start than when we did to the 16/17 season!
 
TheSpurEst said:
Never been so happy to receive 5 disagrees :D . Seriously - I am happy that people are positive (except cretinousgoat cretinousgoat - you can literally go fist yourself with cactus. I was raising a question/ issue I have, to call fickle and to suggest deleting account is just a good indication of your mental issues) it totally might be that the start has made me too pessimistic. In terms of PEH you can go to his thread and read that I was quite optimistic about his purchase and preseason performances...I absolutely hope that you guys are totally right and me totally pessimistic :thumbup:

Just felt that how our midfield played in first 45 min against Soton, decent teams would comfortably hit us with 3-4 goals and comfortably retreat to defensive shape.
P.S just honest question to 4 normal responders - wouldn't you feel more comfortable going into new season with proper DM in the side instead of say ... Sissoko?
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Fist yourself you fat git. You're a fat Rik waller. Fatty.

Don't bother replying. Wouldn't want you to get out of breathe typing.
 
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