Hard to disagree with this.
Quite the damning indictment of the Levy/Enic regime.
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Transfers January Transfer Thread 2024
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Quite the damning indictment of the Levy/Enic regime.
Djed.
The player called Warnock out when Forest were promoted (Warnock had sent him there on loan,
from Middlesbrough).
Warnock congratulated him and said ‘Well done. I did always say you were premier league or non-league’.
Looks like he’s actually non-league.
Yes...his bun will need adjusting...
Where did I say that I expect every signing to work?
My point was there is a certain brand of signing that Levy excels at, we all know it. Its the £12-£15m pound youngster with "Potential"
It's out of the same playbook as the French winger on loan.
He makes these signings to pad out windows, throwing darts at a board hoping he hits the next Gareth Bale or Dele
Bullshit of the highest order
We were going after Maddison the season prior - Conte did not want him
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/coys/comments/11laxzu/paul_o_keefe_talking_about_james_maddison_conte/
Why do bayern want dier? Must be part of kane agreement. Have our shittest player.
That says it all about conte. Probably wanted a defender instead. Not sure who was worse...conte or Mourinho. Probably Mourinho as conte got us in top. Mourinho was a bag of nails.
Agreed.
But only idiots believe the second half of your sentence will happen.
Honestly, do you even understand how the club is working right now? Do you understand how our scouting works and what we are looking for in players?
You have two absolutely phenomenal youngsters who are regular first-team starters right now in Sarr and Udogie who, in my opinion, perfectly encapsulate our transfer tactics at present.
Literally, no one is. saying that we haven't bought duds in the past - we quite clearly have, but your refusal to move with the times and recognise the progress we are making as an outfit is just stubborn. pig-headed nonsense.
Not a single team on the planet gets every signing right. Every single team takes punts on young talent....
When we don't and some other team happens to get lucky one of their punts goes to plan - it's a case of 'we should be taking more chances with those types of signings'.
Don't care, he will be off our books hopefully.
His best years are far behind him and I wish him well, Served us for 10 years, but it's time for him to move on.
As Dylan once sang, "For the times they are a-changin'."
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WD_ats6eE
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Tbh dier had 1 top season with us under poch. Should have accepted 50m bid from united though. Maguire and dier at the back for them. Imagine that. 
Do those below us not have those fixtures?
I've never downplayed Pochettinos achievements. He overachieved our expectations and underachieved with the squad he had. Simple as that.
But I'm also not afraid to tell people his last 9 months at this club domestically was fucking shambolic. And that's why he was sacked.
Maddison in the middle of a 343 would have been shit and a waste of his ability.
We were at our best in that system with PeH and Bentancur. Stronger, more athletic all rounders.
Yeah but you can’t win. On the other side people complain we didn’t get Maddison at Norwich, or Alex Scott at Bristol or eze at QPR or Olise at Reading…
We get quoted 80M for Olise and you hear ‘why didn’t we get him when he was pulling up trees at Reading’
Go for Spence ‘why are we buying these punts who aren’t ready! typical Levy always buying POTENTIAL’
Etc
I would actually tend to agree with you!
I’m more on the side of we made signings last summer that had been needed for years (Maddison being one) but didn’t make any serious effort to either replace Kanes goals or strengthen the squad significantly with the money.
Vic, VDV, Maddison should have been signings we made regardless of the Kane money.
Yes, which is why it's too early to say we will definitely reach top 5
You said he fluked his way to a CL final and practically ignored he got 4th in his last season. It's more than a shame we didn't win a league cup or two but who would have thought we would get to a CL final after not buying one single player that summer? Nobody.
Yet he was still the most successful manager under ENIC during that time, so again what better did you expect than 4th place and had he not done enough during his time to deserve more time?
100% agree
Dier is a DM that refuses to accept he's a DM.Tbh dier had 1 top season with us under poch. Should have accepted 50m bid from united though. Maguire and dier at the back for them. Imagine that.
His best performances for us were as a DM, when Walker and Rose pushed on he dropped into a third CB. But was mostly a DM.
He's not terrible in a back three. But heavily exposed in a two.
It goes back to speed for me. He was never that fast to begin with but he read the game well. I don't think he has the mobility to play in the midfield anymore.
Even when he played DM here, he basically dropped back between Toby and Jan so our fullbacks could fly up the wings.
Back three suits him best as either the CCB or RCB
Could we send Højbjerg there too.When I was a teenager growing up watching United Dominate I dreamt of a day like this, where United Turned into a mess where we sent all our rubbish!
Two loans with obligations.