You may well be right but the players we are buying aren’t of the calibre we need and this ain’t going to help Peps replacement unless (I don’t know not checked) we are only offering shorter contractsI agree that I think the cartel clubs know the likely outcome and have splurged accordingly.
By the next transfer window, Newcastle could have the system upended in their favour.
I think we’re taking a pragmatic view with our net spend with potentially a war chest being accumulated for our next manager e.g. Vinnie bringing Olise with him.
It took him a year but people forget that he had Silva, KDB, Aguero, Sterling, Kompany, Fernandinho to name a few quality, senior players in that team to build around. You can quote bargain buys like Gundog but a major shift came with the likes of Walker, paying what was perceived as too much at the time but buying proven prem class to add to a quality set of players already. Ake was prem proven too. Not sure how you misread my post of saying prem proven quality players, that we need right now as spend hundreds of millions on the very best. We rarely do that anyway but we are shopping down a level than before. If we wasn't spending money you would understand it but we have spent poorly recently. I am hopeful this window is the start of it turning around on that front.How many of our fans are actually satisfied with the result of our ruthlessness over the last two windows? I get the impression that the only thing that would satisfy some of our fans is buying some A-list players at more than £100 million each. It may be as well to remember that we bought Ilkay for £20-odd million in preference to Pogba for really big bucks and I think our club's judgement was vindicated.
I think it took Pep 2 years to build the Centurions, but what a superb team that was, and then he tweaked it a little and we got the Fourmidables. In 2023 we won the CL with a team including those mega costly defenders Ake and Akanji, bothe central defenders but one of whom played at full back!
If any manager in world football has earned the right to try and build another great team it is our Pep and he should be trusted to get on with it in his own way. And we should stop obsessing about Liverpool and wait and see if their spend spend spend approach really gets the better of us in the long term.
As fans we didn't, but the decision makers should have been looking at it. Pep has declared since how the rebuild started too late. The people being paid a fortune should have recognised this. Walker wanted to leave, we persuaded him to stay. Bernardo wanted to leave but the same, we asked these older ageing players to stay when in hindsight it may have been better to being the rebuild then slowly. Not dismantle it, but recognise the position we was in. Not allow Gundogan to leave and his replacement be Gundogan a year later. Not allowing Mahrez and Palmer to go and we bring Doku in etc.At the time of winning the treble, though, no-one, and I mean no-one, said,”Hey, I know what we need to do. We need to totally and ruthlessly dismantle this fantastic team that has just won the treble.”
Craig David likes this post.Hearing ended in January.
Result expected in February.
Result expected in April.
Rumours result was imminent in June.
We're now September.
enough about my wife.I had a dream last night nothing to do with the charges but equally satisfying.
Yeah and I have said that previously that given the choice, I would take the 4 in a row. We created history and that can't be taken away. In doing so though it has pushed us back a couple of years, trying to scramble together a large rebuild in a short space of time has hampered us.We won our 4 on the row that no other team has done straight after our treble.
Yeah and I have said that previously that given the choice, I would take the 4 in a row. We created history and that can't be taken away. In doing so though it has pushed us back a couple of years, trying to scramble together a large rebuild in a short space of time has hampered us.
Viana go for Chris Wood?Did you wake up with wood and a smile on your face?
It's where I was ahead of the curve a bit and got pelters from my mates. After we beat Wolves, sat top of the league last season and unbeaten I spoke of my concerns My concerns that we had come from behind a few times already early on in the season and that not being sustainable. I spoke of not being impressed with our recruitment the year or two previously allowing quality to leave and replace them with unproven potential. I mostly spoke of how boring we had become to watch, this sounded crazy considering we was top of the league after winning 4 on the spin but I could see our standard of playing was declining. We might have scraped wins but I wasn't enjoying watching us at all and feared a decline incoming. That's why I hate being called entitled because I started this viewpoint whilst it was still rosy! I get a lot wrong so seeing this coming isn't anything special but in my basic eyes I think if I could see it, why couldn't the club, and they probably couldn't because the results up to that point was still ok. I just thought we wasn't ran in a reactionary nature.I felt like them we had another year & this was the year to rebuild. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but I thought they were right & I still thought it last October when were top & unbeaten.
Plus, that argument is predicated on the basis that the replacements would have all be top notch. The same posters who bemoan our recruitment in the last two windows also stridently claim that the answer to all our problems would simply have been resolved with an aggressive transfer programme in the previous three.At the time of winning the treble, though, no-one, and I mean no-one, said,”Hey, I know what we need to do. We need to totally and ruthlessly dismantle this fantastic team that has just won the treble.”
So -
FA lose appeal against Forest which will cost them 6 figures
FA lose appeal against commission to clear Paqueta of match fixing
PL lost APT case which City brought against them & have cost the PL millions in court case costs
Things are looking very bad for our football organisations.
It's where I was ahead of the curve a bit and got pelters from my mates. After we beat Wolves, sat top of the league last season and unbeaten I spoke of my concerns My concerns that we had come from behind a few times already early on in the season and that not being sustainable. I spoke of not being impressed with our recruitment the year or two previously allowing quality to leave and replace them with unproven potential. I mostly spoke of how boring we had become to watch, this sounded crazy considering we was top of the league after winning 4 on the spin but I could see our standard of playing was declining. We might have scraped wins but I wasn't enjoying watching us at all and feared a decline incoming. That's why I hate being called entitled because I started this viewpoint whilst it was still rosy! I get a lot wrong so seeing this coming isn't anything special but in my basic eyes I think if I could see it, why couldn't the club, and they probably couldn't because the results up to that point was still ok. I just thought we wasn't ran in a reactionary nature.
Fingers crossed, it's worrying that they are still playing well (I didn't watch sunday though) and winning. The problem with us snatching late wins or coming from behind was it was against the likes of Wolves, Fulham, Brentford etc. They have just came out of Arsenal home, Newcastle away with 6 points, still with new players to gel and Isak incoming...... the fuckersThe Dippers have 9 points & all late goals. I’m hoping it’s a sign ;)
The Forest issue seems to be about a disciplinary panel member having an ‘apparent bias’ against them. Lawyers sited an ‘unjustified, inappropriate and personal attack on the club’. There’s been massive bias and unjustified, inappropriate and personal attacks on our club for years.So -
FA lose appeal against Forest which will cost them 6 figures
FA lose appeal against commission to clear Paqueta of match fixing
PL lost APT case which City brought against them & have cost the PL millions in court case costs
Things are looking very bad for our football organisations.
I wouldn't say they were playing well. Didn't see the Bournemouth game but they were battered by Newcastle who couldn't finish and with a modicum of luck would have won.. Arsenal looked a better team but looked a little toothless with their finishing although they didn't create loads of good chances and were beaten by a great free kick.Fingers crossed, it's worrying that they are still playing well (I didn't watch sunday though) and winning. The problem with us snatching late wins or coming from behind was it was against the likes of Wolves, Fulham, Brentford etc. They have just came out of Arsenal home, Newcastle away with 6 points, still with new players to gel and Isak incoming...... the fuckers
Fingers crossed, it's worrying that they are still playing well (I didn't watch sunday though) and winning. The problem with us snatching late wins or coming from behind was it was against the likes of Wolves, Fulham, Brentford etc. They have just came out of Arsenal home, Newcastle away with 6 points, still with new players to gel and Isak incoming...... the fuckers
Presumably you've missed the word 'not' out of the first sentence?Fingers crossed, it's worrying that they are still playing well (I didn't watch sunday though) and winning. The problem with us snatching late wins or coming from behind was it was against the likes of Wolves, Fulham, Brentford etc. They have just came out of Arsenal home, Newcastle away with 6 points, still with new players to gel and Isak incoming...... the fuckers
True, although to come out of that Newcastle game with a win, after drawing there last year and the atmosphere was a big positive for them. Granted Newcastle had ten men and chances. Sometimes just getting out with the win is all that matters. In isolation. I despise them too, Arsenal aren't far behind so it isn't a nice position knowing it will probably be one of them twoI wouldn't say they were playing well. Didn't see the Bournemouth game but they were battered by Newcastle who couldn't finish and with a modicum of luck would have won.. Arsenal looked a better team but looked a little toothless with their finishing although they didn't create loads of good chances and were beaten by a great free kick.
Hopefully their luck doesn't last and they stop getting late winners.
I fucking despise the Scouse bastards..almost as much as I hate the fucking rags