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Transfers January Transfer Thread 2024
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I don't think they were written off. I think he had a falling out with the people who decide the future direction of the club and they decided he wasn't the man to take us to the next level.
Nothing more, nothing less. Jol was a good manager for what we needed at the time and I will always love him. Took us from middling nothing to hopers. But that was it. He was never good enough to take us further.
But the comparison between Spurs under Jols tenure and getting sacked to Ange and finishing 5th are just ridiculously stupid.
The Bayern Sporting Director wants to gets a pay off from being sacked, money for nothing OR he has suddenly become mentally deranged lol
Who cares about what other teams do, our needs are pressing in that position. We shouldn't be fucking around.
What will the excuse be when we are still fucking around and other clubs start doing business?
Smacks of squad filler primarily to keep the Top Dog happy (Herr Kane).The Bayern Sporting Director wants to gets a pay off from being sacked, money for nothing OR he has suddenly become mentally deranged lol
IIRC Ange said in the summer when questioned about another CB, that if we can’t bring in the correct profile of player he didn’t want one.
Every club has pressing needs, every other club (bar City) needs to fix issues with their first team, we don't.
Harry would not want him anywhere near the squad his joo joo will confirm bayern will will no cups lol
You have hardly been around these last few weeks while we've been winning have you gooner?
The game hasn't been about first teams for decades its all about squads. Hence our problems in recent weeks, but you've had your head so far up your own ass huffing your own farts you've clearly not noticed.
Are you advising Levy? that would explain a lot
Not at all but the season doesn't finish now, we're only in January far too early to say yes we will definitely in whatever position, with so many teams still close together.
It was a disgusting way to treat a manager that had taken us 5th, the highest position at the time in ENIC's history.That's fine. I'll tag you when we do just to confirm the certainty.
That was because of Jol not getting on with Commoli more than anything though, we wanted to start acting like a proper club with a DoF and Jol wanted to sign his own players. Pretty sure we only started to talk to Ramos after the terrible start to the season too.
Either way, 17 years ago was a long time ago and we're light years ahead now than we were back then when getting the likes of Juande Ramos (who was highly thought of at the time) seemed like a step we needed to take to really go to the next level Jol was never going to take us.
We aren't going to sack Ange for finishing 5th when you consider the season we had with injuries, suspensions and losing the clubs greatest goalscorer. Don't be silly
Poch was sacked after he took us to the CL final, fourth place and a league cup semi the previous season, When he was sacked he had only lost 3 games,
I need to stop being so subtle, didn't think I'd need to spoon-feed such a basic argument to you.
None of our rivals with more or equal needs to us have concluded transfers as of yet, that probably tells you more about the market as opposed to us.
In fact you could argue that clubs are in more precarious and make/break positions than us who are most probably working on deals now.
Do you honestly think Bayern would be looking at Dier if Kane not there?
I thought he was one of his BFFs!
Not sure how people can disagree with the truth but there you go, sign of the times I guess. Some don't like Facts!
Our squad is in desperate need of reinforcements but no, let's fuck around and act as if we have already written off the season.
Our squad is in desperate need of reinforcements but no, let's fuck around and act as if we have already written off the season.
It doesn't - but it certainly gives you a decent barometer of what's to happen.
We are 5th having played with half of our squad out, despite knowing that with our squad fully fit, we were topping the league... We have half of our squad returning within the next 30 days, going off the information we have, that tells us that something pretty drastic would have to happen for us to slip up now.
It was.
However, the writing was always going to be on the wall. Martin Jol was a great man manager, a good coach. But he was never going to take us to that next level and at the time that is exactly what the owners were wanting.
Pochettino was sacked because his form for 9 months was fucking shite.
24 games
6 wins
7 draws
11 losses
An average of 1.04 points per game over a 24 game period when things didn't look like they were going to get any better. Over a 38 game season, that's barely enough to survive relegation. Won just 1 away game between 20th January 2018 until when he was sacked.
Unfortunately, it's a results business in the long run and our final 12 months under Pochettino, despite the flukey CL run was fucking miserable. Sadly, it didn't get any better because Mourinho, Nune, Conte followed.
Thank god we managed to get beyond that now and we're finally enjoying things again.
Bald Cunt definitely got some plants on forums (like all clubs tbf), to manage blowback.
The rest are just proper weirdos.
The fact that ten times the business gets done in summer would rather suggest to anyone who isn’t a moron that January transfers are, indeed, harder.
Impactful players are scarce and at a premium. There are fewer sellers and buyers need to decide whether they can integrate a new signing into the team and whether the reward outweighs the risk.
In our case, we have a glaring need to add CB cover due to a summer window that left us short. That was a strategic mistake. If we add another (impactful) player (at LW perhaps?) then I’ll be both surprised and delighted.
Impactful players are scarce and at a premium. There are fewer sellers and buyers need to decide whether they can integrate a new signing into the team and whether the reward outweighs the risk.
In our case, we have a glaring need to add CB cover due to a summer window that left us short. That was a strategic mistake. If we add another (impactful) player (at LW perhaps?) then I’ll be both surprised and delighted.