And i'd like to add to that along with a shiny new training facility and gin palace being built, we also have one of these....
Is that for the cheese??
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And i'd like to add to that along with a shiny new training facility and gin palace being built, we also have one of these....
So poch reiterating we definitely need to sign players and the calibre of players coming in has to make our star players feel threatened.
Clearly Poch isnt looking for squad players (like some have been claiming the whole summer) and he wants to bring in high quality players that can actually make the first eleven. None of this "we cant possibly improve the eleven" defeatist bullshit with this manager.
A couple of jabronis on here that continuously claimed we can't possibly improve the first eleven therefore we shouldnt even attempt to...and instead focus on bringing in squad players to bulk up the squad. A very defeatist atitude which ive said throughout this thread.
?The difference is that you would care if the NDP had been abandoned due to costs......you wouldnt be celebrating that we had signed Barkley, Lukaku and Siggy for 175M.
You wouldnt be praising Levy for paying the likes of Toby and Dele "whatever they want" to keep them.
You wouldnt be saying "well done" for not selling Walker.
You'd be bitching about how a club of our size has a piddly little 36k stadium and everyone else has a bigger one, and how we are lacking ambition because if it.
Face it, you want it all, and when you get it, you will simply want more.
You said " We will buy at a premium - if we sign Barkley, it'll probably be for around £25m. 12 months ago you would have fallen off a stool at the idea that we'd pay that for a player with 10 months left on his contract.
I understood that you are implying £25m is too high for Barkleys and would have been much cheaper last season for same player who has less than 12 month contract.
I wanted to know in your opinion how much Barkley would have been worth last season with same scenario of less than 12 months contract.
IMO we will be lucky to land Barkley for £25m, it will bargain in today's market. I could be wrong.
I am basing on the fact that Everton paid £30m for Keane who had similar contract to Barkley.
So you'd be happy for the club to spend all the Walker money on Foyth?
A real loser mentality but thank fuck our manager has now clearly stated he doesn't go for that loser mentality bullshit.
I would actually be happy if we paid that and literally did nothing else this window apart from flog some fringe players.
The worst is nazi-in-chief A&C who rigorously patrols the forums, banning any person who dares question the legitimacy of ITK's. He's also a part-time beggarThe Goat isn't a person, it IS the SC people. Apparently they use "The Goat" to release "info" that isn't coming from the household bullshiters.
The whole site is one big fraud.
Laughable that several "ITK's" made posts about that Gazza fella coming after the newspapers wrote it
Instead of calling them out, the retards over there say "Oh they must have gotten it from the same source as the newspapers, seeing as they released it more or less at the same time"
The worst is nazi-in-chief A&C who rigorously patrols the forums, banning any person who dares question the legitimacy of ITK's. He's also a part-time beggar
And i'd like to add to that along with a shiny new training facility and gin palace being built, we also have one of these....
The worst is nazi-in-chief A&C who rigorously patrols the forums, banning any person who dares question the legitimacy of ITK's. He's also a part-time beggar
exactly!Agree. Spending 30mils bring you nothing better than even our bench. pay 100 for 2 players or just skip the window
This would be insane if true. Net spend record is now clearly in Levy's sight.
I think only caring about trophies is a pretty shallow way to support a football club. There are grass roots football fans up and down the country that happened to grow up supporting lower or non-league teams that love their club passionately, despite not having "galactico" players and huge trophy cabinets. Look at clubs like Brighton, who were nearly completely wiped out before rising back to the Premier League, their fans stuck with their club through thick and thin. Plenty of clubs have chairmen that are happy to run them into the ground, ours is not doing that, but preserving and building our future. Claiming that you deserve trophies because you contribute money to the club is pretty bizarre and kinda not the point of being a football fan, in my humble opinion anyhow.
When you consider that Middlesborough have just paid 15 million for Assomgalonga (and 60 grand a week) a player who hasn't attracted any interest from the PL then paying twice that for Barkley a proven PL and England International is a price worth paying irrespective of contract length he has at Everton.
If Levy doesn't see that as good business then he needs to go and find another Ruel Fox or similar who will be cheap and likely heading out on loan in twelve months time, there is already a list of them after just two odd seasons under Poch.
The new ground has fuck all to do with the ring fenced transfer funds that are available to Poch. To suggest that players do not want to come to bench warm is fucking stupid when thats exactly what is happening at other top six PL clubs. That's how competition is bred, and it's a pitiful excuse to say that a last two season CL top four side cannot find one fucking player worth a shit that would move to London in a heartbeat.
On the one hand it gets him out, recognises he was shit for us and underlines how his last-minute signing was an awful mistake.turks dont have money. fucking forget it
i would sell him if we bought someone with the moneyOn the one hand it gets him out, recognises he was shit for us and underlines how his last-minute signing was an awful mistake.
On the other hand, I have ever-decreasing confidence in us signing significant replacements. We can barely scrape together a bench of any recognised strength for Juve, we'll have got rid of four players from last year's squad as things stand by next week. However dismal Sissoko is, you have to think he'd be better coming off the bench against Bayern than say Tashan Oakley-Boothe
Christ yeah, in a shoti would sell him if we bought someone with the money
To be fair he does have a point about the not coming to be on the bench. It's bollocks.So....by your logic Middleborough makes a shitty deal, therefore each chairman at every other club must immediately go out and make an equally impulsive purchase to prove they fucking care.
Seriously - it doesn't even make sense. A player is not worth 2X because he's rated 84 on FIFA while this other player rated 42 went for X.
A player is only ever worth what someone is willing to pay for him...right now we're the only ones pursuing Barkley, therefore he's worth exactly what we say. Eventually even those Everton cunts will figure that out, and maybe he'll arrive.