Another manager realising he's all huff and no puff.
Amazes me that we're even linked to him given Nuno got bored of him in the same manner.
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Another manager realising he's all huff and no puff.
Amazes me that we're even linked to him given Nuno got bored of him in the same manner.
Dele & dier for a combined 9m looks overpriced. We got screwed there!
Hello Newcastle, dele & dier double act for 50m? They have great bantz & are lol on insta.
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Clueless.
Both could leave for a free tomorrow and we'd already have had amazing bang for our buck.
Yeah the issue isn’t spending big, it’s spending it badly. Good luck trying to win the league buying cheap 10m type signings.
florian wirtz now thats a signing we need
His issue may be that he feels we waste our time on lots of 10m signings with a much too small hit rate, rather than saving our money for ones in the higher ranges. Our record of signing players in the 10-15m range is truly horrendous, going back to Pochettino if you look at the names it is mostly either total wastes of time or we managed to sell them on again in a season or two for about 1 mill in profit.
Some of the only capable ones from that category are Davies, Dier & Alli. And they're all just mediocre squad fillers now, and I'm not sure Davies was ever more than that. Clearly our scouting team isn't doing well enough at identifying the cheap as chips signings, our biggest hits seem to come in the 20-30m range.
if we dont perm get gollini, ilan meslier to take over from lloris.
Journalists are pretty lazy.
Very true, but there's also a world in which we recouped a nine figure combined profit for a couple of very limited players.
And there's also a world where we sold them at their peak for 9 figures, and they went on to win trophies at clubs like United and Chelsea, and we had to listen to years of people slagging off Levy using the Dier and Dele sales as proof of his lack of ambition.
I actually think we will be busy in January. A striker and midfielder are a must, we will not be able to compete in the second half of the season without signings in those positions.
The game against Mura should have got Paratici sweating, our squad is not even good enough to handle a game like that. We had to put our big boys on to be sure of a result against a team that would struggle to get out of League 2.
Exactly, the issue is not that we didn't sell important players. A team should never have to sell important players to improve. The problem is that we have spent a lot of money on rubbish players. Ndombele, Sessegnon, Lo Celso, Aurier, that's £200m just on those 4. Another £70m on Davinson and Sissoko. We have wasted unbelievable amounts of money. To be linked with players like Dybala, Bruno, Grealish, Tielemans etc and end up with that lot is just depressing.
The game against Mura should have got Paratici sweating, our squad is not even good enough to handle a game like that. We had to put our big boys on to be sure of a result against a team that would struggle to get out of League 2.
Exactly, the issue is not that we didn't sell important players. A team should never have to sell important players to improve. The problem is that we have spent a lot of money on rubbish players. Ndombele, Sessegnon, Lo Celso, Aurier, that's £200m just on those 4. Another £70m on Davinson and Sissoko. We have wasted unbelievable amounts of money. To be linked with players like Dybala, Bruno, Grealish, Tielemans etc and end up with that lot is just depressing.
I think your going to end up disappointed mate.
most likely more of the same linked with a good player but if anything happens it will be a cut price version of the linked player not the real one of course .
I'd rather Vlahovic
Selling key players will always generate complaints from certain quarters, sure, but let us not pretend there aren’t black and white objective figures to demonstrate the extent to which those sales could have been reinvested.
There’s no way around the dramatic, singular gulf between us and every single other club in the league in expenditure relative to revenue. Try to make it about whiny glory hunters all you want, you’re only fooling yourself.
It's almost like we have very highly paid professionals at the club who should have a fantastic insight in to the true ability and value of the players they watch on a very regularly basis, and are paid to assess. And said professionals should be able to, with some consistency, inform the club when it's worth selling and re-investing what you make.
Other clubs manage that. And I honestly don't think the fans would accuse Levy of not having ambition providing he then went and spent the vast majority of what we made from those players. Back then we had regular CL football and were in a great position to attract talent.
I think we’ll be busy too
I reckon another two golf courses will be bought at a minimum and perhaps a new sports complex or two if we are very lucky
Exciting times