Welcome Kyle Walker

[Tricky_Trev]

The investment in the academy began with our current U18 squad. They're not ready yet but give it time.

Annoying thing is we look likely to lose Sancho to Arsenal or someone like that :(

 

[dublinblue12]

Is he overrated yet?

 

[dublinblue12]

barton stayed an scrotum, bellamy turned out to be our scrotum

Two players who gave it 100%

 

[dublinblue12]

we needed a good rb , weve got a good right back and I don't give a fuck how much it cost.

This

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Ideally we need to be producing our own players of the right quality. Our record of doing this since the takeover is very poor. Very disappointing given the investment in the academy.

To be fair, the vast majority of that money was spent on a huge academy building and facilities which opened 2 years ago. I'm no expert in player development, but I'd say we'll have to wait a bit longer than 2 years to judge it. Any player getting into our team now (like Iheanacho) would say far more about our recruitment of talented young players from other clubs than our ability develop players.

 

[SWP's back]

simple fact is Walker fell out with Pinocchio when he was dropped for the FA Cup Semi Final against the Chavs and Walker then wanted out

Nope. Not a fact at all. Terms had already been agreed with City by then and Spurs being told of Walker's wish to leave led to him being dropped. You're the wrong way around.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Yesterday, I read a range of journalists picking the one striker they'd love at their club. All bar two picked Harry Kane! It's no wonder we get what we get from our media.

To be fair, Harry Kane did score 35 goals in 38 games last season. You can hardly blame them for that.

 

[SWP's back]

To be fair, Harry Kane did score 35 goals in 38 games last season. You can hardly blame them for that.

Weren't 1/4 of them or so in his last three games? But you are still correct.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Weren't 1/4 of them or so in his last three games? But you are still correct.

He did get a few hat tricks last year, and yeah, I remember at least two of them were in the final weeks.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Only us Prem teams ruining it for ourselves...Ac Milan got Bonucci for £35mil when many on here were saying we should pay like £60mil for him about a month ago

No. It's the TV companies paying for it, that is "ruining it". Every man and his dog know how rich the Premier League clubs are.
So the fees go up accordingly.