OFFICIAL DEADLINE DAY THREAD!!!!

[Esteban de la Sexface]

We were never going to get one of those in this window. Hughes' ambition is fairly obvious, build progressively towards a side capable of breaking the top 4. I like the way he is going about his job. He is a good sensible manager. This was a good sensible window.

I am not knocking his approach, but might another approach not have been to buy loads of great players all in one fell swoop and get on with it?

I mean, why does it have to be a long hard road that takes years? Surely you could throw 2 or 3 hundred million at it and win the Premiership next season? I don't get this steady building 10 year program stuff. "building progressively towards a side capable of breaking into the top 4???" Jeez didn't we have that ambition 17 months ago already?

Chelsea were not much better a side than us and in 1 or 2 seasons they won the premiership. Why do we have to take years?

Chelsea were already in the Champions League before they got all the money and had been building a good squad for a while before that. they'd been winning cups and the like. We've been yo-yo ing between the leagues and have changed owners and managers a lot. Suffice to say we have not been a stable club. Hughes is changing how the club works and trying to build a solid stable base. We will reap the benefits. It's just about being patient and not throwing 300 mil at it. If that was to fail where would we stand?

 

[The Game 77]

There's a rumour on one site saying source's close to the ashavin deal say he is on the way the mcr for talks and a medical

 

[Lancet Fluke]

We were never going to get one of those in this window. Hughes' ambition is fairly obvious, build progressively towards a side capable of breaking the top 4. I like the way he is going about his job. He is a good sensible manager. This was a good sensible window.

I am not knocking his approach, but might another approach not have been to buy loads of great players all in one fell swoop and get on with it?

I mean, why does it have to be a long hard road that takes years? Surely you could throw 2 or 3 hundred million at it and win the Premiership next season? I don't get this steady building 10 year program stuff. "building progressively towards a side capable of breaking into the top 4???" Jeez didn't we have that ambition 17 months ago already?

Chelsea were not much better a side than us and in 1 or 2 seasons they won the premiership. Why do we have to take years?

Weren't Chelsea already a Champions League team? I may be wrong about that but I do think we are quite a way off the point that they were when they started the big spending.

 

[mossley_blue]

wonder how true this is?http://www.fansfc.com/story/5826.html

Beat me to it. I hope so would piss wenger off big time. Good signing too.

Would be great signing but i wouldnt say it would be a massive PR coup for ADUG, like they are reporting!!

 

[The Game 77]

SSN just say airports closed to normal flights are open to private flights and from abroad

 

[basher]

I predict no big surprises, since everyone is looking for it now.

 

[Chippy_boy]

wonder how true this is?http://www.fansfc.com/story/5826.html

Beat me to it. I hope so would piss wenger off big time. Good signing too.

Would be great signing but i wouldnt say it would be a massive PR coup for ADUG, like they are reporting!!

Decent player for sure, but another midget.

 

[bizzbo]

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Chelsea were not much better a side than us and in 1 or 2 seasons they won the premiership. Why do we have to take years?

Weren't Chelsea already a Champions League team? I may be wrong about that but I do think we are quite a way off the point that they were when they started the big spending.

when abramovich brought chelsea in 2003, the had finished in the top 6th EVERY season from 96/97, and in the same time won the league cup once, won the FA cup twice (beaten finalists once) and won the cup winners cup.

what have we done in the last 8 years?

 

[mossley_blue]

SSN just say airports closed to normal flights are open to private flights and from abroad

Doesnt really make sense and i thought he said that private flights were still ok but normal/domestic internal flights have been cancelled?

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

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Chelsea were not much better a side than us and in 1 or 2 seasons they won the premiership. Why do we have to take years?

Weren't Chelsea already a Champions League team? I may be wrong about that but I do think we are quite a way off the point that they were when they started the big spending.

when abramovich brought chelsea in 2003, the had finished in the top 6th EVERY season from 96/97, and in the same time won the league cup once, won the FA cup twice (beaten finalists once) and won the cup winners cup.

what have we done in the last 8 years?

that's it, we need to build a base to work from.. Also, this throwing the 300 million approach is a load of shite. The players won't come until we are a solid club, so it wouldn't work anyway