There' s sooooo many more of these too.
Damiao
Downing
Barkley
Come on folks, who else did we spend forever not signing who turned out absolutely shite?
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There' s sooooo many more of these too.
Damiao
Downing
Barkley
Come on folks, who else did we spend forever not signing who turned out absolutely shite?
I think to some extent where we unlucky. Ndombele was smashing it for Lyon, he was in the French League team of the year, the Champions League team of the year I believe and playing for France. He showed all the press resistant qualities we loved about Dembele. That he would take his £200k a week contract and do a Abamayang and retire is unfortunate.
Lo Celso was also doing great in Spainish, I asked a Spanish friend at work about him who is a RM fan and he said Lo Celso is probably in the top 5 AM’s in the league or was that season.
Both had been killing it and in a big way. They passed the eye test but obviously not the mentality test, for that I could only guess our scouting needs to be better. But finding out about a players personality off the pitch can’t be easy.
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I'm not retracting anything, I said he flogged all of our goal threats, that was poor wording on two fronts, the first that it implies he sold them when in reality 2 were ended loans that he simply didn't replace (I also said Lamela "sort of" as he wasn't a prolific scorer as such, but an attacking option still).Seems like you're just retracting your initial own "correction" now....
We sold Lamela..... Who many would complain didn't score much.
Your overall jab at Parratici was grossly embellished for effect (beyond the semantics of your "goalscorers" comment too).....
His 1st window was described as "mixed".....
Romero: Good (injury hardly FPs fault)
Gil: (Promising, but needs time)
Sarr: (TBC)
vs
Emerson (disappointing)
Gil (dissapointing)
Failed to bag an ST2
"Mixed" seems a reasonable enough to me; but you saw fit to shit all over the guy as a means to disagree (your prerogative, granted)..... All in the spirit of you "keeping things light" though I guess?
Not really the point...... I have thick enough skin thanks.... It seems however you were triggered by me saying Eccleshare's tweet (whoever the fuck he is!) was no big deal.
Why that would be; I don't know. ......Not that you're making a "BIG THING" out of anything though.
(I think this is the part where you may as well call me a "cunt" and we move on.)
The second error was that I meant back ups, as selling all of our goal threats would have included Kane and Son too, which obviously didn't happen.
He replaced the 3 with Gil, who I like, but who has provided nothing as of right now no matter how good he may become.
So his dealings have left the squad in a poor state in an attacking sense, you can disagree if you like but the actual stats back this up.
I don't think I ever said anything about his first window being mixed? The sole piece of business that people point to in his favour is Romero, it's generous to claim this as a success given he's probably played almost as many minutes for Argentina as Spurs this season. It'd probably be just as fair to put him in the same boat as Gil, potentially good but nothing proven so far.
Mixed might actually be a generous appraisal of his work, for the here and now anyway.
Regardless, I believe my initial point was that his reputation based on being on the phone a lot and being awake a lot wasn't going to last for long when considered alongside his actual outputs of weakening our attacking options, spunking a load on Emerson, and installing Nuno to bring us attacking football.
Now if you like, you can continue to argue over some poor initial wording, or, you could demonstrate to me which of the bolded points aren't true?
It’s always easy to narrativize after the fact, but in different ways none of Ndombele, Lo Celso, Sessegnon or Clarke seem to have the required mentalities to be big time Premier League players
I have a massive problem with these kind of videos, surely he should be singing that in B flat major
NDombele and GLC were both 1 season wonders playing for teams well outside the top echelons of their leagues.
Big fish for a season in small ponds.
I wonder if our targets shouldn't be stand out players for smaller teams, but maybe ones that just failed to cut it at top clubs. IE VDV and Bale and those kinds of players.
Absolute mess- we're sinking as a club
Our problem is we do not have midfielders that can play Conte’s system. Our wing backs are not a good match for the current tactics and we do not have a backup to Kane. The fact is Conte has been pleading for some help that the squad is not good enough and Levy and Paratici have done didly squat to support him and we saw last summer what happens with Conte when he does not believe in the project.
I thought Lo Celso at least would be successful, particularly given he was our best player for his first 3 months under Jose. Really odd and disappointing. Does highlight though how character is as important as talent.
Ok, but again someone from a the EPL; right under our nose.
.....At the same time McGuire & Robertson were the obvious moves (also for dirt cheap from Hull) and we got neither.
Dele was 100% a pleat job.
Besides; is that actually true though? (See the Mane thing.... )
Sat scouting EPL players on Sky Sports doesn't sound like much "hassle" to me.
People also always seem to overlook the part where he and Poch were supposedly bickering (*with Poch happy to assume the "manager" mantle in the wake of his exit no less) and another report that PM didn't leave for "sporting reasons".......
Ok, maybe as a trio Levy, Poch & Mitchel hypothetically weren't clicking..... I just don't see him as being particularly relevant to our current predicament (for the reasons noted in my initial post).
If we don't sign Luis Diaz by 31st January 23:59, I am going to wet the bed.
Remain Hopeful FC
Does your wife know or is it a surprise.
I'm back-translating here from Marca's report on what KT said to The Athletic but this is the quote...
"I know 100%, without a shadow of a doubt - and this is what most annoyed me - that two months before the end of the season Daniel was offering me to other clubs"
We live in a world of possibilities
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.”
- Mark Twain
Just laughed out loud and spat out a mouthful of chamomile tea down my duvet cover
Thanks.
Thank you very much
That and getting to 1,000 posts
This window's been an absolute disaster....
No cooking tips.
No movie reviews.
No "Favourite Bond" debate....
......And not even a single reference to the "Gonna need a bigger boat" Jaws meme.
Was Mark left handed or right-handed?We live in a world of possibilities
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.”
- Mark Twain
