Here poch, heres your new CM.
No no no, don't say a word. Your welcome!
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Transfers Summer 2019 transfer thread
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No no no, don't say a word. Your welcome!
As I have been saying all along, it will cost double, triple, quadruple now to accomplish what could have been accomplished two years ago.
ENIC have three choices.
1. No chance of finishing in the top 5 (and maybe worse) ever in the forseeable future and a half full billion pound stadium
2. Massive investment on par with those top 5
3. Sell the team
It's over. The magical gravity defying is over and will never return.
This has got to be most appaling end of season collapse under his chairmanship, surely.
Nothing to do with him of course.
Excuses are coming to an end. We now have the big infrastructure in place at the club. We have the big stadium. Yes it needs paid off, but I'm sure there is a plan for it, that's Levy's big strength. And now we have the taste of what we want, we are nearly there, we need a final step t be taken.
It would be a fucking shocker to get this fara nd then fuck it all up because we don't want to spend money on the squad. It's decision time, where does those in charge see us in ten years time? Up there with the best with trophies to show for it? Following the Ajax model, rich with a youthful squad, constantly getting dismantled and rebuilt, but with a few trophies to show for it. Or a "nice" team of bottle merchants who "do things right" while staring at a bare trophy cabinet waiting for our "Leicester moment"?
It would be a fucking shocker to get this fara nd then fuck it all up because we don't want to spend money on the squad. It's decision time, where does those in charge see us in ten years time? Up there with the best with trophies to show for it? Following the Ajax model, rich with a youthful squad, constantly getting dismantled and rebuilt, but with a few trophies to show for it. Or a "nice" team of bottle merchants who "do things right" while staring at a bare trophy cabinet waiting for our "Leicester moment"?
Knowing Levy, he'll have a Europa League tab in his spreadsheet where the spending is adjusted for that revenue stream. And he'll expect Poch to wave the magic wand again.
If it comes to it, Having the most expensive season tickets in world football aint gonna be easy to justify for a Europa League team
Why would it be any different?
Actually, you're right. Levy's prudent approach has us spend like we're in the Europa League every season, no matter what happens with the UCL.
I read that as Faces originally and just wasted around 3 minutes of my life trying to figure what you were getting at.
So your eyes have seen the profit, but not the "e"I read that as Faces originally and just wasted around 3 minutes of my life trying to figure what you were getting at.
We've lost more games this season than Wolves have. A team that was in the fucking Championship last season.
Levy needs to either pull his finger out of his arsehole this transfer window and back Pochettino or just admit to the fans that he isn't serious about us competing for silverware, let Poch move on to a club that'll back him and ship our best players off to a club that matches their ambition.
Dier, Wanyama, Aurier, Foyth, Janssen and Llorente are mid-table quality at absolute best and should be shipped out during the summer transfer window.
Trippier has talent but has gone off the boil this season. Alli has been a passenger for most of the season, same as Eriksen to a slightly lesser extent. Walker-Peters, whilst full of potential, should not be playing week in, week out for a team aspiring to win the Premier League. I have a massive soft spot for Lamela but the lad is injured 24/7. If he hasn't got the body to cope with Premier League football, he needs to move on. Davies, whilst being a reasonably solid defender, doesn't exactly set the world alight and Rose is as temperamental as anyone else.
Add to that the potential to lose Eriksen and Alderweireld this summer, particularly if we fail to qualify for the Champions Leagued, then simply put, we are fucked.
Most crucially IMO, there's a Dembele-shaped hole in our team. A hole that even an in-form Sissoko cannot come close to plugging. If Dembele was fit and playing (and not playing "football" in China). We'd have qualified for the Champions League weeks ago. He had this beautiful ability of sucking players in (not off) and creating space for his teammates, giving players like Alli and Eriksen time on the ball. Failing to replace/improve on Mousa was arguably the biggest mistake we've made.
The sad truth is that we are probably £300m short of where City are in terms of squad depth and talent.
It's all well and good having the best training facilities and stadium in the country but if your team is dog shite, you will not win anything.
I'll be praying to the footballing gods all week for a decent turn out against Ajax and more crucially, against Everton next week. But even if we do somehow manage to scrape into the Top 4 - it will all be irrelevant if Levy refuses to back Pochettino in the transfer window... again... With everyone fit and in-form we can beat anyone. But aside from that incredibly unrealistic scenario, we're simply not good enough.
Levy needs to either pull his finger out of his arsehole this transfer window and back Pochettino or just admit to the fans that he isn't serious about us competing for silverware, let Poch move on to a club that'll back him and ship our best players off to a club that matches their ambition.
Dier, Wanyama, Aurier, Foyth, Janssen and Llorente are mid-table quality at absolute best and should be shipped out during the summer transfer window.
Trippier has talent but has gone off the boil this season. Alli has been a passenger for most of the season, same as Eriksen to a slightly lesser extent. Walker-Peters, whilst full of potential, should not be playing week in, week out for a team aspiring to win the Premier League. I have a massive soft spot for Lamela but the lad is injured 24/7. If he hasn't got the body to cope with Premier League football, he needs to move on. Davies, whilst being a reasonably solid defender, doesn't exactly set the world alight and Rose is as temperamental as anyone else.
Add to that the potential to lose Eriksen and Alderweireld this summer, particularly if we fail to qualify for the Champions Leagued, then simply put, we are fucked.
Most crucially IMO, there's a Dembele-shaped hole in our team. A hole that even an in-form Sissoko cannot come close to plugging. If Dembele was fit and playing (and not playing "football" in China). We'd have qualified for the Champions League weeks ago. He had this beautiful ability of sucking players in (not off) and creating space for his teammates, giving players like Alli and Eriksen time on the ball. Failing to replace/improve on Mousa was arguably the biggest mistake we've made.
The sad truth is that we are probably £300m short of where City are in terms of squad depth and talent.
It's all well and good having the best training facilities and stadium in the country but if your team is dog shite, you will not win anything.
I'll be praying to the footballing gods all week for a decent turn out against Ajax and more crucially, against Everton next week. But even if we do somehow manage to scrape into the Top 4 - it will all be irrelevant if Levy refuses to back Pochettino in the transfer window... again... With everyone fit and in-form we can beat anyone. But aside from that incredibly unrealistic scenario, we're simply not good enough.
Levy, get a cheque... and keep writing a number with zeros on the end until they say
May just be one of the best dribblers I've ever seen.
Looks like the smart option now. Wan Bissaka on the radar of clubs we can't compete with.
The new Pereira?
Certainly.
He may actually be better further forward. He's only played 1 game at RB since January.
Scored a hattrick last week ffs.
Yep. Levy runs Spurs off a spreadsheet with a Europa League tab.
:avbfacepalm:
Can he defend? Because that's the problem we have at right back.