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Transfers January 2020 transfer thread

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Mate, we cannot afford to slip too much

If that means an element of short term fix so be it.

If not we will end up paying top dollar for all players because we will be seen as desperate.

And worse allow the few nuggets we still have questioning their futures.

The worst case scenario to build from next season in terms of league position is around 7th or 8th.
I'm lost here. Are you saying slip too much from a likely 7th or 8th now? If so, then you make a good point. But I'm willing to accept it because I see no other way forward with this group of players. I'm am and have been ok with any and all leaving. I've been all in on a painful rebuild for some time now. This is going to have to be a massive rebuild and it will have to balance that old triangle of time, money, and quality.
 
It's all in Levi and mourinio hands , we can make top 4 this season only if mourinio will push and show new ideas and trust some young players and if Levi will provide .
 
You keep saying that
The important thing is did I say it before or did I wait to hindsight it? That's right buddy i told you it in the summer...THAT'S WHY I KEEP SAYING IT. We weren't good enough then and we aren't good enough now.

but if we hadn't had such a disastrous start to the season,
And if hell froze over we could all have popsicles. What's your point? If something that didn't happen actually had happened then things coulda, shoulda, woulda been different? Good to know. But you know what's more important to know? How things actually are...or even better, how they will be.

we would be right in contention for a top 4 spot.
But we aren't.
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The important thing is did I say it before or did I wait to hindsight it? That's right buddy i told you it in the summer...THAT'S WHY I KEEP SAYING IT. We weren't good enough then and we aren't good enough now.
I have no recollection of you saying we hadn't a hope of finishing in the top 4 when the summer transfer window closed. Find the quotes.
And if hell froze over we could all have popsicles. What's your point? If something that didn't happen actually had happened then things coulda, shoulda, woulda be different? Good to know. But you know what's more important to know? How things actually are...or even better, how this will be.
We are still in the race for a top 4 spot. Very much in it. If Poch hadn't been trying to get fired, we would probably be ahead of Chelsea.
 
I have no recollection of you saying we hadn't a hope of finishing in the top 4 when the summer transfer window closed. Find the quotes.
That's because I didn't say that and that's not what I believe now. What I said was I didn't expect us to get top 4. Those are totally different statements and you know that. And I will find nothing you disingenuous ****. You know exactly what i said and if not that you know the sentiment...I've been reminding you every week.

We are still in the race for a top 4 spot. Very much in it. If Poch hadn't been trying to get fired, we would probably be ahead of Chelsea.
Race? More like limp. Hope we do get it. it would be a great save/feather in Mou's cap and significantly more shit to give the chavs and gooners but I don't expect it. And beyond that I question the wisdom of short-sighted sanctioning of a mob of 30-plusers. Suck it Five.
 
That's because I didn't say that and that's not what I believe now. What I said was I didn't expect us to get top 4. Those are totally different statements and you know that. And I will find nothing you disingenuous ****. You know exactly what i said and if not that you know the sentiment...I've been reminding you every week.
I have just been going through my private messages from you. When the transfer window closed, you did not say we had no hope of finishing in the top 4.
 
ehhhh. Is that what our play has said to you? I'll get back with you Saturday evening and pick your brain. If we show some life there I will have some hope. Still not expectation though as we've bottled like 3 on the bounce.

Well we can debate the likelyhood, but we are currently "in the race".

Chavs & United have to play the Dippers too.

Get back to me at the end of the season instead. :mourthumb:
 
Get back to me at the end of the season instead.
Yeah, but this doesn't address what I'm saying about planning now. The point being made was how we should address transfers now. Do you think that as a club we should throw the money to attain top 4 this month or should finances be focused longer term? That's the context within which those points were being made. If we do or don't is not the point. I'm jsut saying it's more prudent to address longer term goals.
 
Vidal would be great in our midfield. He's so hateable and good, especially that haircut...what a tool. Where are the ITK's on this, he's available we should be on that.
 
Yeah, but this doesn't address what I'm saying about planning now. The point being made was how we should address transfers now. Do you think that as a club we should throw the money to attain top 4 this month or should finances be focused longer term? That's the context within which those points were being made. If we do or don't is not the point. I'm jsut saying it's more prudent to address longer term goals.

Depending on how much the total package of fee + wages are for a DM we think can make a difference; I think it's worth a punt, yes. (Sure, the thought of e.g. Matic may curl a few toes, but if he get's the job done then any snobbery will have proved foolish.)

More broadly speaking tho', nope; I don't wanna see us contract a handful of underwhelming, ageing players.
 
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