What a farce this entire project is shaping up to be.
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Big big summer ahead.
the forum is moaning about the manager and the players this is the guy that needs to be blamed, if we don't make the CL next season we will still need to rebuild the squad, but who will come to us playing EL football, If we do drop into the EL I hope no-one attends the home matches that will hit Levy where it hurts him
They bet the farm on us being better than 2 out of Chelsea, Woolwich and Manchester United.
They shouldn’t pay themselves on the back for only just getting away with it.
They shouldn’t pay themselves on the back for only just getting away with it.
Can someone help me out? Can you tell me what Hoddle is saying at @6mins and @6:30? I think I've got wax in my ears and I can't make out exactly what he's saying. It sounds like he's saying that Poch has had the money to spend but he's chosen not to and then it sounds like he's saying "no, no I know". Obviously, I couldn't have heard this correctly, right?
Cheers, muchly.
Cheers, muchly.
No mate, he said Levy's a tight cunt that's only interested in the profiit margins. Glad to help.
Thanks for clearing that up Chivers, thought I was hearing things again. It's so easy to get these things mixed up ain't it?
He looks baked
You're exactly right.
I was watching this at the time,
hoddle said there is money available for players, Lineker questions that
Hoddle then says Poch had money but didn't want to spend it, Lineker questions that,
and hoddle says NO NO I know that, Its sounded as if he had been told by the horses mouth,
Doesn't matter how many times the club, the manager, ex-players and informed media say it, those with an agenda just won't hear it ...
We have plenty of money, unlike Fulham (102m) West Ham (96m) Leicester (81m) Everton (81m) we decided (I guess Poch) that there was nobody available at the right price who would improve the squad ... it's not that we didn't want to sign players, but just who could we have signed?
The major deals last summer's window - pre-agreed Mahrez 45m, Keita 58m, Alisson 54m so not available, but players we could have bid for Kepa 72m, Fred 53m, Fabinho 41m, Richarlison 35m, Batshuayi 27m, Yarmolenko 21m, that's over 200m right there, how many would have been good value signings?
Sure in hindsight there was a bunch of decent players who went for less but at the time these were the 'big' transfers, so looking back on nearly all of them we dodged a fair few bullets .....
Make you right they'd have helped, but not changed anything ....
Maddison (22) was a great buy for 20m, but with Kane fit and starting then playing Maddison would have meant not playing two from Dele, Son, Moura, Eriksen, Sissoko ... attacking midfield is not our problem area barring half the squad being injured ...
Grealish (23) for 40m this summer he is certainly a possibility, he posted big claps straight after the Ajax win on Twitter, which I guess most pro-footballers were watching ... he's still relatively unproven and as with Maddison it's a position we are not weak in ...
Barkley (25) to me the worst deal of the three, older and far less productive in front of goal, no thanks.
At the end of the day do you think that even if we'd signed all three of them we'd have done better than top four and a CL final? Sure the first two would have been good additions for the future, but I doubt they would have changed very much this season.