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Completely right.
We need 3 players including N'Koudou so unless we are to fail to dare we better have players of quality lined up.
Once again our yearly spend will be minimal.
This time last year people were calling for Rudy Gestede.
Issue is not that other than Bentaleb none where first teamers, main thing is we need to get more first team players to compete with Eriksen, Alli etc. Winks in pre season was our best player IMO, we have great young talent but we need perhaps two ready made attackers. Here's hoping.
It will be very unfair on poch to expect him to get us in the top 4 with what he has at his disposal.
They are about to. No ITK bollocks (cos I know fuck all actually other than a chat last month with the U21 kit man) but I have heard from a number of sources this afternoon (in the pub) that Berahino has played his last game for WBA. I think he has. I watched that cackfest this afternoon. In an already dreadful game, he was treated like shit by his manager & then by his fans. They will take any amount of money for him. The alternative is to watch him fuck about for another season kicking the chalk on the touch line every time he is brought on as a sub. Frankly, I'm half beginning to understand his shit attitude.
If Poch still fancies him, then let's do it. I'm just unhappy that Chadli is likely the makeweight in any deal. He deserves more than Pulis.
I don't think they did. I think they said it be better to have him rather than just 1 striker.
I don't think anyone wanted him if they could choose who we got.
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Throwback to our last squad going into the 2010 Champions League,
1) Gomes
2) Cudicini
3) Pletikosa
4) Corluka
5) Hutton
6) Walker
7) King
8) Woodgate
9) Dawson
10) Gallas
11) Kaboul
12) Bassong
13) BAE
14) Rose
15) Sandro
16) Palacios
17) Huddlestone
18) Jenas
19) Modric
20) Bentley
21) Bale
22) Lennon
23) Piennar
24) Dos Santos
25) Naughton
26) Van Der Vaart
27) Defoe
28) Keane
29) Pavlyuchenko
30) Crouch
31) Kranjcar
32) Townsend
33) Caulker
34) Livermore
Before the straw man is built, I'm not condoning the current squad, I was pointing out that we have more than 18 players in it!
As for that list, let's not get silly - 10 of those players don't count! Many of them were Academy players who were out on loan practically all season, and are just household names now. Some of the others I've crossed out were already exiled and made perhaps 1 or 2 appearances before being shipped out on loan, and Pienaar didn't join until January.
1) Gomes
2) Cudicini
3) Pletikosa
4) Corluka
5) Hutton
7) King
8) Woodgate
9) Dawson
10) Gallas
11) Kaboul
12) Bassong
13) BAE
15) Sandro
16) Palacios
17) Huddlestone
18) Jenas
19) Modric
21) Bale
22) Lennon
24) Dos Santos (Went on loan to Racing Santander)
25) Naughton (went on loan to Leicester)
26) Van Der Vaart
27) Defoe
29) Pavlyuchenko
30) Crouch
31) Kranjcar
33) Caulker (Went to Bristol City)
34) Livermore (Went on loan to Ipswich)
So that leaves perhaps 24 players, which is roughly what we have at the moment. That's before you look through Redknapp's squad and say that many of them were unlikely to play 90 mins consecutively (King, VDV, Kaboul etc.)
Progression is evolution, if we rely on saying our starting 11 was excellent last season, yes it was, but why didn't we win the league when it was in our grasp? Because our squad wasn't strong enough, this transfer window has not addressed that matter so far. Teams have started to work out how we play, that's why we must evolve the squad. Again the bench looked thin on Saturday, if we draw Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Barca, Juve in the last 16 of the CL will these players change a game??
Have we signed Isco yet? And McGinn, is he next?
Who's this McGinn you talk of ?
I think the bench was thin by design. We decided not to include Mason and Chadli, and I assume Wimmer isn't quite back yet.
It sounds like something is cooking, and you just have to have faith in Poch having it all mapped out.
I'd be very surprised if we started September without bringing in more than Nkoudou and Lopez - it doesn't make sense at all why we'd sell so many CM/AM players unless we were bringing at least one decent player in - especially if the Son stuff is true (and if it isn't, why didn't he play on Saturday?)
James would actually be more realistic than Isco, that's how unlikely Isco is.
And I was very surprised when we started September without a real backup for Kane, but it happened anyway. Definitely agree that Poch/Levy are planning something, the only question is whether they're going to sign somebody good or if we're going to get the AM/CM equivalent of N'jie.
And I was very surprised when we started September without a real backup for Kane, but it happened anyway. Definitely agree that Poch/Levy are planning something, the only question is whether they're going to sign somebody good or if we're going to get the AM/CM equivalent of N'jie.
Anything happening ?
