For a second there I read it as fall apart.
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For a second there I read it as fall apart.
I think Levy wanted Paratici because he respects his experience and ability in the shady underbelly of the sport, an area where I think Levy has genuinely changed his view and given up on avoiding entirely (remember when that was a big thing, that we’d never sign a player represented by agent X or Y?) and I think Levy also likes Paratici’s taste for overcomplicated too-clever-by-half schemes.
It’s neither a 100% positive nor 100% negative marriage. But I don’t think Conte would be here without it, so it’s a load-bearing part of the project.
Levy isn’t blind, he can see he’s no longer capable of managing the transfer market himself the way he could in 2006. But the ideology and control obsession still goes bone marrow-deep. The club is at war with itself in many ways. And the time bomb keeps ticking.
I hope you are right, but it smacks of ENIC.
It's as if we are operating COMPLETELY without any kind of indexing and scouting-ahead of players.
Need a right back? Flip through the Outlook "deleted" folder and look for an agent mail subject "fullback", "wingback" or "defender"
In the highly unlikely event the two Mancs, Chelsea, the Scousers leave the Premier League and take the TV money with them we're fucked. The new stadium is secured against future income from competing at the highest level with all the income that comes with it.
If the Premier League is no longer the highest level and the TV and Sponsorship goes we're fucked.
But it's not happening.
Mediocre, like most of their midfielders. Not bad, improves Villa and definitely would improve us (we have worse midfielders than Villa, lol) but absolutely miles away from when they had Vidal, Marchisio, Pirlo, Pogba.
I watch Juve a lot, Serie A is genuinely a very exciting league anymore .. except Juventus matches because Allegri is fucking dull and the players are all so average. Their decline has been shocking, aside from Chiesa and Dybala there's so few exciting players in the squad.
The Sky sports transfer show you tube channel automatic subtitles called Japhet Tanganag, Jaffa Cake Anger :contelol:
Good one
Good one
Yeah, we do have to credit Paratici with getting Conte here. Agree it doesn't happen otherwise. He clearly has contacts and a reputation, I'm just dubious about his shady nature and some of the contracts he handed out like sweeties at Juventus.
Not completely without, just understaffed and underpowered relative to our competition, and with a bad leadership structure not implementing it in the right way.
The way we never, ever, under any circumstances, regardless of need or simplicity of the deal, have a deal done early in the window is extremely telling and we are absolutely alone in that.
You may well be right about the financing part (although IMHO I know as a nordic supporter, that a massive amount of the foreign TV buyer base here would be very interested in the remaining English league product).
Still, I am admittedly quite sick and tired of the league in it's present form with the cynical discrepancies, VAR and the dodgy application of FFP.
Thinking of that lot fucking off does sothe the soul a bit.
Getting serious Nelson + Saha window vibes about this one.
And it's been noticed by some of us for 21 years now, and excused almost as long by other parts of the fanbase.
Maybe, but it wouldn't be as much as it used to be and £1bn is a shit load of money.
Wouldn't mind either for 5 months, tbh
As I said, you may be right, but I don't know the specifics.
Either way we are unlikely to find out.
I fully expect Spurs to be in the ESL, sold or both in 3 years.
Not sure how much I will be around by then.
That would be a great window, seeing how we're nowhere near even two players.
Who is Mohamed Ali Cho? Another Papa Mate Sarr?
It'll be Adama and that's that.
It wasn’t always this bad either. It’s gotten consistently worse over the last decade.
Ndombele and Clarke on 2 July 2019 are the only “early” deals we’ve had, and Ndombele was a multi-window saga.
Lots of other clubs have deals ready-to-go as windows open.
And Jack Clarke's boot was untied.
This game live on youtube.
You would hope 3 or 4 loans will follow.
Our best players so far have been Scarlett and MFs White and Bowden (though he was a bit lazy for their goal).
Devine had our best chance. Lavinier has been OK