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With Soldado looking more & more like a Sunday league player, I just hope that he gets some game time now if needed. Don't like the bloke & hope we can shift him ASAP, but if Harry needs a rest,then tonight has shown that we need another player up front rather than Bobby. Am putting club & head before heart when I say this... A very heavy heart.
With Soldado looking more & more like a Sunday league player, I just hope that he gets some game time now if needed. Don't like the bloke & hope we can shift him ASAP, but if Harry needs a rest,then tonight has shown that we need another player up front rather than Bobby. Am putting club & head before heart when I say this... A very heavy heart.
Or at least shape to shoot and pass, or shape to pass and shoot, but not roll the ball back to the keeper like hansen to clemence.Ade maybe lazy but he never seems to lack the confidence to take a shot. If that Soldado chance was presented to him, I think he will shoot rather than pass.
Is that him signing a pre-contract with Galatasaray in a local hotel?
Which is a massive annoyance if it is number 3, as we have 3 players on the payroll that the manager doesn't want.the fact he, Kaboul and Coupe did not travel yesterday suggests three things
1, they are all injured
2. all three will play at Wembley
3. Poch has frozen them out, for whatever reasons, and they have no future at the club
My money is on 3
Which is a massive annoyance if it is number 3, as we have 3 players on the payroll that the manager doesn't want.
You can discuss transfers when the window is closed, with a view to concluding them when it's open.It’s not as simple as that though is it?
He may have had no choice? If no one wanted to buy / loan them and the players didn’t want to leave or cancel their contracts (why would they?)
Plus Poch doesn’t have a crystal ball; he may have been in a position where he was forced to play them due to injury or suspension. Fortunately that hasn’t happened as contrary to form our injury record has been exemplarily this season. But if adequate replacements weren’t on the cards then I can see why we didn’t just ship them out to the first bidder.
"West Ham??. Nah..."I think it's pointless to pretend to know how hard it is to sell/loan players out. To me it seems there's a lot of people who need to be happy with a deal, all it takes is one of them to not be and the whole thing falls apart.
You can discuss transfers when the window is closed, with a view to concluding them when it's open.
I don't see how it could be that hard to negotiate the loan/sale of these players, even if you don't get as much as you's first hoped. We wrote off Assou-Ekotto's contract, so we arent averse to this kind of thing.
With regard to replacements, is there any point replacing someone who rarely even makes the bench?
If they are around the club day to day, interacting with first team players, they are going to affect morale. We should have either shipped them out, or integrated them back into the squad with a view to moving them on in the summer. What we've done is the worst of both worlds.
I suppose we are just speculating as to the reasons why they are still there.....I agree with what your saying, but we can disucss transfer policy untill we are blue in the face (and some do on here) without actually having any idea what the throught process is behind these sort of decisions.
Although its probably has a lot to do with this.