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_mehstg said:
They play their kids and we piss around with ours... 5 mins here, 5 mins there, fuck off to Swindon and play with a load of inferior plodders who are just going to boot you... after 5 years of that we sell them to Club Brugge for 2m and a 10% sell on fee.
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They put them in a position to learn and to succeed by playing them important minutes in meaningful games -- but alongside proper quality players like Caicedo, James, Neto.
What we will do with Williams-Barnett is bring him on 2-0 up with a minute to go so he can wave to the crowd and get a picture taken or throw him on when we are 3-0 down and it's a lost cause. Either way he learns nothing.
 
Crockett said:
They put them in a position to learn and to succeed by playing them important minutes in meaningful games -- but alongside proper quality players like Caicedo, James, Neto.
What we will do with Williams-Barnett is bring him on 2-0 up with a minute to go so he can wave to the crowd and get a picture taken or throw him on when we are 3-0 down and it's a lost cause. Either way he learns nothing.
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They have chalabah and james that are their 'kids' all the others are bought with hefty fees
 
Chelsea aren't amazing but they play with far more purpose and tempo than we do.

Unless we start paying the money and beating Chelsea to signings, and actually signing better quality footballers, we have zero chance of closing the gap
 
Notabadsquad said:
Get real mate.

Honestly this forum is absolutely losing its mind.

We spend plenty. We just recruit badly.
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We do recruit badly but it's related to the spending, can't you see? You are falling down that trap of thinking it's just about the fees, it's also the salaries that we never paid under Levy and the agent fees. It's also to do with the quality.

When you are continually forced into signing players the other top clubs choose not to prioritise, there is generally a reason for that. Kudus, talented but flawed, you can see why he wasn't a top target for the top clubs and we had a free run. Chelsea were rumoured but clearly didn't prioritise him.

It's hardly a secret that for decades we have failed to compete with the other big clubs for the better players, so we are continually shopping on the next ladder or two down.

Look at Chelsea with Caicedo and Hernandez, both £100+ million players. We have Bentancur, a Juventus cast off for 20 million and a fucking loan reject from Bayern in CM. Liverpool wanted Caicedo and City wanted Hernandez, but Chelsea won the race. Same with Neto who walks into our team. We ended up signing Odobert.

It's about ambition. Woolwich with Rice, beat City to him.

I mean genuinely which players have we got in our squad where we beat other big clubs to? I mean ready made players, not kids like Bergval where Barca wanted him for their academy.

Yes, clubs can get it wrong with big signings but the reality is we just are never at the table.

We signed Simons but he was only ever far down the list of priorities for Chelsea, they focused their funds on other players, which is why Chelsea and Simons dragged it out until the last possible moment in the window until he finally gave us a yes. Judging by Simons so far, Chelsea looked like they were correct in not prioritising him. Remember we wanted Eze over Simons. We lost out on Eze. Eze has been the better signing, we lose out on the better player.

Solanke, Odobert, Richarlison, Johnson, none of them were wanted by the top clubs.

So we are buying inferior quality with the money we spend. And we don't spend the salaries to attract the proper top talent.

We sometimes get it right like with VDV, but you can't build a squad to compete by continously signing players that the tpp clubs aren't in for. You need to be at the top table fighting and winning the race for the Semenyos, Caicedo's, Rice's, and that is where our strategy is a con.

We recruit badly because we are taking bigger gambles on signings, the ones that the bigger clubs deem too risky or not good enough.
 
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