Not sure why we are comparing Davies and Rose. From September-December we have 2 international breaks which nearly all our players are affected. Premiership matches every other weekend + Xmas fixtures and 6 CL matches. No one player can play all of those matches and we therefore need 2 players. Do we really want to play KWP at LB or move Vertonghen? If Rose goes he needs to be replaced .
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One of footballs omnipresent questions.
How did Leicester win the league with Simpson and Fuchs as FB's? Chelsea with Moses as a RWB?
Davies is certainly no less viable than Rose, but that says as much about the vastly overrated Rose as it does Davies who is a solid but pretty ordinary LB. We were helped in 16/17 by having less Dier plodding about midfield and playing where he is better as a CB, with better players in midfield.
Good coaching, good tactical application, some talented team mates, all of the above.....
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You’re mellowing
No Sissoko bashing!!
lol
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Nabil Bentaleb
I was responding to.)Comparrisons to Rose have nothing to do with this....
Fergie's many squads weren't wall-to-wall Scholes & Cantona's either.
....Ultimately what works, works (as much as you won't admit this, your post above as good as concedes it anyway). Fuck player snobbery!
Any of you fuckers that expect a squad exclusively comprising world-class players will be banging your heads against a wall for a very long fucking time.
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Fucking hell let's see how this one pans out
Annoying to miss two targets to the scum but both deals didn't benefit us at all. Developing Cebellos for Real without the option to buy him is desperation and spending a large sum of money on a young defender you then loan back, when you need them ASAP is also fucking stupid. So well played Emry keep it up.
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What we actually want is our best players not to be sold and replaced in the starting 11 by inferior players. Isn't that the very least supporters of a club of our size deserve?
We want a better squad of players at the end of a TW than when we went into it.
Sometimes that means we strengthen one position at the expense of another - a normal standard compromise in football and indeed life.
Looks like Betis in nickel and diming Lyon over a 30m fee and trying to reduce a very fair fee ,( indeed possibly on the low side as he has only one year left on contract and a dodgy knee) have delayed the deal and allowed someone else to try to highjack it.
Bore off John....
I addressed this in direct reply to you in the Eriksen thread and you ran a mile without further comment as usual.
Again, "Stop wasting my time".
I have no idea why people aren’t lining up to sign him to be honest
When you stop making pathetic, childish, exaggerated generalisations like this one
Maybe I'll stop calling you out.
You're a self confessed WUM, John....
You blatantly don't even care what my point was... You just saw a way in to drop one of your tired, stock memes.
People exaggerate to underline a point some times.
Why you gone quiet over your prior comments to me about Ben or the sale of Eriksen?
Why....?
Same old, same old, John....
Exactly. Let’s not act like a loan for a player that wants to stay at Madrid and a player we never made an actual bid on are a huge loss outside of Twitter banter.
Isn’t he one more knee injury from retiring? I don’t get the hype
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Comparrisons to Rose have nothing to do with this....
Fergie's many squads weren't wall-to-wall Scholes & Cantona's either.
....Ultimately what works, works (as much as you won't admit this, your post above as good as concedes it anyway). Fuck player snobbery!
Any of you fuckers that expect a squad exclusively comprising world-class players will be banging your heads against a wall for a very long fucking time.
You were responding to his comment about Davies, you called him No1 selection, presumably that is in direct relation to his position in the pecking order of his position, ie v Rose.
As for the rest....pfftttt
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For what it's worth another update that's a non-update ....
Brief conversation last night, more of the same, nothing new to share. We are moving forward on multiple players, not all of whom will sign, contracts are on the table for multiple current players again not all of whom are expected to sign. The one piece of newish news is: we have a salary budget target in our accounts of between 44-52% that means we can spend a huge amount on increased salaries. Salaries are the red-line for all top clubs now not transfer fees, we could spend 300m on transfers if we wanted (we won't) that's well within our financially capability, however if that meant 5 new 60m players each on 10m a year then the wages budget couldn't take it .... plus our squad is large, we would then have too many players to meet EPL and UEFA squad regulations.
Spending another 100m? 150m? that is a very real possibility .... making spaces in the squad is required either through sales or loans. The expectation is that a lot more will happen this summer, however if a few players decide to stay then that expectation of squad changes could rapidly change ...
So in summary - he still knows feck all - but everything behind the scenes remains very positive ....
Brief conversation last night, more of the same, nothing new to share. We are moving forward on multiple players, not all of whom will sign, contracts are on the table for multiple current players again not all of whom are expected to sign. The one piece of newish news is: we have a salary budget target in our accounts of between 44-52% that means we can spend a huge amount on increased salaries. Salaries are the red-line for all top clubs now not transfer fees, we could spend 300m on transfers if we wanted (we won't) that's well within our financially capability, however if that meant 5 new 60m players each on 10m a year then the wages budget couldn't take it .... plus our squad is large, we would then have too many players to meet EPL and UEFA squad regulations.
Spending another 100m? 150m? that is a very real possibility .... making spaces in the squad is required either through sales or loans. The expectation is that a lot more will happen this summer, however if a few players decide to stay then that expectation of squad changes could rapidly change ...
So in summary - he still knows feck all - but everything behind the scenes remains very positive ....
Overlooking the above misquote, you have the complete wrong end of the stick.
Point all along was that Ben proved good enough to start when Rose was out for 18 months. I didn't so much as imply that he is better/worse than Rose or was keeping him out.
Pffftt yourself.... We both know that you'd reply with an essay and reems of stats if you had a viable retort.
The truth is, the fact that the likes of Davies, Dier and Sissoko can contribute effectively within a side at the top end of the table in a bastard tough league offends your footballing principals.