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Management Levy out?
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We did Joe but not on Jose, he would have made Soldado look prolific.
If you say so, but Soldado wasn’t bought as a back-up. I guess we’re all a bit frustrated.
Because by then Sociedad couldn't bring anyone in and anyway weren't keen on selling to FCB, so they insisted on a sum very close to his buy out clause. Barcelona wanted to pay the €25 million that Sociedad were willing to sell to us for
You have no idea what you're talking about, you've made up a narrative to suit yourself, it doesn't correspond to reality tho.
Until we fucked him over he was RS's top scorer at just over a goal every other game. The whole debacle has left a bad taste in a few mouths here between RS and WJ and anyway, in the interim Isak has come into the team and is on fire.
The idea that he's unprolific (or unfit) is utterly ridiculous, he's been RS's top scorer for four years, again with a strike rate of something like 0.47 goals per game
So Jose wanted him, but we didn't buy him cos he's shite?
Doesn't sound like the club has much confidence in the manager then does it.
The more likely reason is that we weren't prepared to pay the modest fee required.
It's called not backing the manager.
But they could have paid his buy out clause and just got him. Like they had to do with Braithwaite.
Maybe they didn’t want to spend a load of money on an average striker, only to bench him when their other strikers were fit again.
Good strategy if you ask me.
Piss off Bill we didn't fuck him over what utter shit .... half the players on the planet would be "fucked over" every transfer window if that was the case.
Why does he average just 51 minutes a game this season .... is it because RS are walking the league and can take off their prize asset every week? go on you tell us why, he wasn't much better before we 'fucked him over' so is that still on us?
RS top scorer for four years with 46 La Liga goals ... big deal you think 46 goals in 4 seasons is prolific? there are players in the same league with well over 100 goals in four years ....
We dodged a bullet so did everyone else ... move on
I agree with the first bit. We are looking for a prolific striker who will play second fiddle to Kane when Kane is fit.
Everyone in world football knows we don’t drop Kane. And they know we won’t play with two strikers up top. So you are coming here to be a sub. It’s going to be very difficult to persuade a top quality striker to come here.
Why do you keep saying Jose wanted him? Jose wanted a "young player with potential for the future" how the feck does he fit that description?
Jose wants far better players than a second rate La Liga striker ... so do we all.
So what you appear to be saying is that Poch wanted a striker in the summer and Levy point blank refused but at the same time said "You can spend over £150m on players but you can't get a striker"
It doesn't make sense.
Well clearly they felt he wasn't worth €70 million (he isn't, but then hardly any player is worth their buy-out clause, as I've explained countless times) but that he was worth €25 million (which I'd say he is, just about, in today's market).
Genuine question mate
I've never seen him play
Do you think he's good enough for us in the long term, regardless of price ?
Not just as a stop gap to get us over our injury crisis up top.
Mate all of what you wrote is pure speculation and in your head. Let's put some facts to you to see what you make of this:
Summer incomings:
Ndombele £54m
Lo Celso £14m loan
Sessegnon £30m
Clarke £10m
January incomings:
Gedson loan £4m
Lo Celso permanent £27m
Bergwijn £27m
£166m worth of incomings in a 2 window period. If money was the issue, what do you make of the £166m we spent?
You also say that the reason we didn't sign a striker is because they were too expensive. Piatek cost LESS than Bergwijn did so I'll ask again, why was that £30m, the same £30m that could have signed Piatek, Samatta, Braithwaite and apparently Willian Jose according to some spent on one of those instead of the Bergwijn & Gedson deals? Clearly the money was there, that's obvious because the money was factually spent.
At the rumoured £22-£26m price tag, Willian Jose would have been anything from our 9-13th highest ever fee paid for a player. The numbers weren't small fry compared to what we and plenty of others fork out, especially for an emerge, knee jerk player.
We haggled all summer for a similar fee for Sessegnon, it's not as if it was a couple of quid for someone we may not have been entirely sold on and someone who wouldn't have had a resale value after his time with us.
Plus maybe up to £10 m signing fee? And £12m - £15m in wages over four years. So that’s us now at around £50m. Brutal money.
I ain't sure what the fees, wages & singing on etc would be but it would all stack up, not to mention having a player on our books that would make it far harder to bring another nonHG in with quota limitations etc.
If think we should have taken a chance but equally I understand if there are reasons why we didn't,
Didn’t even consider the HG thing. I think the chances are that he would’ve scored a few goals, but probably doubtful he’d have been the difference between success and failure. Our non HGs have to be of the highest quality.
We had an emergency situation, we opted to take a chance on Sonny being the spearhead and literally within 2-3 games of the window closing he gets ruled out for the season. It's shit luck but at the time of the window closing we were actually averaging 2.5 goals a game and our plan B to Kane had actually scored 6 in 5 so the need wasn't that crucial at the time. Obviously Sonny's injury changes that but £25m-£50m all in all for a Plan C is a fair old bit of dough to spend on a play it safe option.
You know what. You make some good points except for the transfers in the Poch era which is a little irrelevant to Mourinho's need for a striker. Still Im glad you replied instead of that Bangkok wierdo who thinks Levy doesnt have the final say in transfers.
The squads need for a striker was far greater than the need for Bergwijn. If what you are saying is true that there is money and we chose not to buy a striker, then its sounds like Mourinho has been promised some big things in the summer and decided on a target of a non-embarassing league position and a decent cup run and write the season off.