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If you offered me the chance on May 20th to keep the same squad as last year then I would have taken it as keeping Bale is better than any potential signing in the world and people seem to have forgotten that that we have signed Brazil's Number 1 midfielder.
Levy still has time to find that striker but if not, I'm expecting Adebayor to perform like he did in the latter stages of last season.
Levy still has time to find that striker but if not, I'm expecting Adebayor to perform like he did in the latter stages of last season.
If Bale stays, I reckon Man Utd and Real Madrid fans should lynch their owners as they are just not trying hard enough to make signings. 
Fock that politely. This club is so damn close. Lets get greedy. God knows we deserve after the last two years of almost comical misfortunes
Keep Bale, get that complete Striker and with Paulinho already arriving , this prem Spurs campaign will be absolute tits
Still waiting to see any evidence that we even tried to sign him. The only things I can find is stuff from CB and his ITK pals, and media reports saying "linked with Spurs".
Why everyone thinks we bid and lost is beyond me.
Why everyone thinks we bid and lost is beyond me.
The only upside from this, I guess would the fact it won't drag into an inevitable deadline day disappointment and now we can focus on other targets with plenty of time left.
Personally I don't believe we were ever seriously looking at him - possibly bullshit stories planted in the rags by greedy agents in order to cuckold Villa into a new deal, triple his wages as well as their commission in the process
Personally I don't believe we were ever seriously looking at him - possibly bullshit stories planted in the rags by greedy agents in order to cuckold Villa into a new deal, triple his wages as well as their commission in the process
I wouldn't be surprised if we still buy him - new contract just means a new release clause
If he moves this summer now and does that to their fans, he's a cunt like Modric and Berbatov.
Dont want any more players like that
Robbie Keane signed a new 5 year contract with us and 5 weeks later signed for Liverpool
did he fuck us over or did he do us a favour by increasing the transfer fee?.....
Which may be the biggest thing to reason that they didnt actually want Benteke.
I did, I thought he was perfect for us, thats not to say the club did though
I would have been marginally less pissed off with judas if he'd done the same. He owed it to us but decided to pocket the money himself.
Putting in a transfer request means losing your loyalty bonus when another club comes in for you. I guess withdrawing it and signing a new contract means that he'll get it again when we sign him in two weeks time...not particularly worried if we don't, he seems to have caused strife at every club he has played for.
This thread is fucking great! We'll keep moaning about getting a striker for years to come...
I understand that we would benefit from a new striker I really do. However, I don't think we created as many chances in and around the 6-yard box as in previous seasons.
We seem to have lost the ability to play anything other than the simplest of passes (square pegs in round holes I think) - the reason Dembele looked like a revalation at the start of the season was because he was regularly running with the ball and turning the opposition around. I also think that this is why Thudd looked good when he came on against Man City, because he played a few telling - maybe even 'adventurous' passes. The number of times last season you saw that a good ball was on 'around the corner' or between a couple of defenders that we didn't play and all of sudden the chance was gone and we go back to sideways passes etc.
Ade and Defoe didn't have great seasons (Defoe was excellent for the first couple of months, granted), but I think that is down to the loss of Modric - and the resultant predictability of our attacks - as much as any other single factor.
I've just watched this, and even if we just had his ability to play a pass through a tight gap we would have opposition defenders all over the place again.
Certainly not a criticism of the regime or any of the players, because he's one of the best players in the world and was always going to be difficult to replace - not watched much of Paulinho, maybe he is the one? I just think that the amount of emphasis placed on getting a new striker is a little too high at times, like that is all the team needs to challenge for the league.
We seem to have lost the ability to play anything other than the simplest of passes (square pegs in round holes I think) - the reason Dembele looked like a revalation at the start of the season was because he was regularly running with the ball and turning the opposition around. I also think that this is why Thudd looked good when he came on against Man City, because he played a few telling - maybe even 'adventurous' passes. The number of times last season you saw that a good ball was on 'around the corner' or between a couple of defenders that we didn't play and all of sudden the chance was gone and we go back to sideways passes etc.
Ade and Defoe didn't have great seasons (Defoe was excellent for the first couple of months, granted), but I think that is down to the loss of Modric - and the resultant predictability of our attacks - as much as any other single factor.
I've just watched this, and even if we just had his ability to play a pass through a tight gap we would have opposition defenders all over the place again.
Certainly not a criticism of the regime or any of the players, because he's one of the best players in the world and was always going to be difficult to replace - not watched much of Paulinho, maybe he is the one? I just think that the amount of emphasis placed on getting a new striker is a little too high at times, like that is all the team needs to challenge for the league.