I apologize for the personal attack and if you’re willing to drop it I am. God knows I don’t have time for a petty personal feud on here.
Forget about it... I have thick skin.
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I apologize for the personal attack and if you’re willing to drop it I am. God knows I don’t have time for a petty personal feud on here.
100%. Then the little cunt rakes up a 20% price increaseundeniably the case.
After finishing 2nd with Poch, its been a steady decline caused by bad decision making at the top and the refusal to change the things that lead to those bad decisions.
Diaby only had one year left on his contract though.
Tapsoba has 3 years remaining and they have no real reason to sell. They're hardly poor.
The other thing is that is mad about not just paying the 45-50M for Tapsoba is that in the long run levy loses out anyway going for a number of ‘cheaper’ options just means you waste the money anyway just on more players
For eg Rodon, njie, nkoudou, Jannsen, Fabio, stambouli, chriches etc etc all cost money .
Everyone.
Should we need Kane's money to be able to afford our top target for CB?
Maybe that kind of budgeting is the reason we have reached a point of Kane wanting to leave?
Exactly, we don't want to do it, Woolwich have, villa have.1. In isolation, yes. This CB search isn't in isolation, it's a string of reasons why it hasn't happened.
2. That is still my attitude, I just avoided that debate because it goes down the same alley every time.
3. It is fair to say that. That was my entire point.
Conte wanted Bastoni, I do wonder how things might have worked out of we had managed to get him. He also wanted Gvardiol. Maybe if we had bid 80-90m last summer we'd have got him because City were focused on Haaland. We can afford 80-90m on a Cb if we want to.We just don't want to do that.
Maybe we don't trust our scouting, maybe we lack conviction to signing the best players we possibly can.
Gave up on trying to decrypt his posts, just strewn with failed autocorrect and aloofness not to make the subject intelligible.I honestly thought he was listing not believing in god as a positive attribute.
Have now worked it out.
Chelsea also wanted him last summer and they couldn't sign him. Don't think 80-90m would've been enough. I'm also not sure paying so much for him would've been a smart move.1. In isolation, yes. This CB search isn't in isolation, it's a string of reasons why it hasn't happened.
2. That is still my attitude, I just avoided that debate because it goes down the same alley every time.
3. It is fair to say that. That was my entire point.
Conte wanted Bastoni, I do wonder how things might have worked out of we had managed to get him. He also wanted Gvardiol. Maybe if we had bid 80-90m last summer we'd have got him because City were focused on Haaland. We can afford 80-90m on a Cb if we want to.We just don't want to do that.
Maybe we don't trust our scouting, maybe we lack conviction to signing the best players we possibly can.
Sticky thinking, like some every window until now long for getting the crew back together (Eriksen, Dele…).Why are people here trying to convince people we should buy fucking Maguire?
Do you know much about Oihan Sancet? Noticed he was starting ahead of Veiga in all the Spain u21 games in the u21 Euros last month
Chelsea also wanted him last summer and they couldn't sign him. Don't think 80-90m would've been enough. I'm also not sure paying so much for him would've been a smart move.
As to how things might've worked out: pretty much the same. Bastoni is not a defensive rock. He's better defensively than Lenglet, but he's no VVD, and our issues defensively were literally all over the pitch, people just focus on the LCB position cause there's an obvious improvement yet to be made there.
Levy has managed to negotiate the transfers of Berbatov and Son out of Leverkusen, they weren't easy deals but they got done and there seems to be a good relationship between the two clubs.
True Bayer are not poor but they are used to selling players. They know when players want to leave it's best to let them go. Im just not sure if Tapsoba is the number one target for us.
If he's impressed by him at LB I assume Reguilon and Sess will be moved on.
3 Things we need to improve from the first game:
1. our defense need to improve.
2. the speed of play need to improve we need to play faster.
3. we need to be sharper in front of goal and take our chances.
Yes, I mean of course we can afford to spend 80-90m on a CB, but we all know, especially Levy, if that were to happen then that means a new standard of expectation has been created and we would expect us to be making an 80-90m signing almost every other season. We're very comfortable from a financial standpoint as we are, business is going well, why rock the boat and take risks to start challenging for the title?!? Only mindless hooligans do such a thing!Maybe if we had bid 80-90m last summer we'd have got him because City were focused on Haaland. We can afford 80-90m on a Cb if we want to.We just don't want to do that.
Maybe we don't trust our scouting, maybe we lack conviction to signing the best players we possibly can.
