Mark or Ashley? Ashley was a bench player in the promotion season who I can't remember ever playing for us bar coming on as a sub once.
The promotion team was full of young lads putting in shifts.
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Stupid player sales
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The promotion team was full of young lads putting in shifts.
GaudinoMotors
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Mark - apologies if waded in with the wrong Ward.Mark or Ashley? Ashley was a bench player in the promotion season who I can't remember ever playing for us bar coming on as a sub once.
The promotion team was full of young lads putting in shifts.
solley attwell
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Surely Gary Flitcrofts sale to blackburn 2 months before we were relegated in 96 when he was probably our best player ranks as one of the dumbest pieces of business by us ever
lancs blue
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The sale of Earl Barrett to Oldham for about £30k, in the same era, was as bad.Might not fall in to the category of stupid sales but some of youngsters we have let go over the years is quite galling especially given the careers they went on to have.
Gerry taggart. Neil Lennon. Ashley ward. Paul warhurst. To name a few from when weren’t particularly good.
BlueMoonRisin’
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I wasn't that bothered. Hard as nail and good in the tackle but limited passing range. A year or so later we signed the best DM ever to have graced the Premier League. Fernandinho was a world class player who made us tick. I miss him.I still remember the pains I felt from De Jong's sale.
BlueMoonRisin’
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Yep. Oldham had Warhurst, Barret and Steve Redmond off us. And we got Rick Holden off them: /The sale of Earl Barrett to Oldham for about £30k, in the same era, was as bad.
It's not hindsight, it's the current situation we've helped create by selling them two quality players with winning mentalities.
I think most would have agreed that Jesus and Zinchenko would strengthen Arsenal but nobody would have said they were going to have achieve an 8 point lead in the table before the season was half way through. Nobody went into this season season them as serious title rivals with or without those players.
I think most would have agreed that Jesus and Zinchenko would strengthen Arsenal but nobody would have said they were going to have achieve an 8 point lead in the table before the season was half way through. Nobody went into this season season them as serious title rivals with or without those players.
Maybe we should have expected it to some extent?
Hindsight obv, but Arteta learnt off Pep and has got his team playing a very similar system. We know it took City a year or so to adapt to Pep's ideas, so maybe we should have expected an improvement from Arsenal also.
The Light Was Yellow Sir
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And, if we’ve beaten Everton, Villa and Brentford we’ve got 7 points more and we’re big favourites to win it, regardless of the stellar start Arsenal have had. Mind you, I think, according to many media outlets anyway, last January we were 14 points ahead of Liverpool and still needed a ridiculous last 15 minutes of the season to win it. I suspect there’ll be a few ups and downs yet..I think most would have agreed that Jesus and Zinchenko would strengthen Arsenal but nobody would have said they were going to have achieve an 8 point lead in the table before the season was half way through. Nobody went into this season season them as serious title rivals with or without those players.
Not from 8th to first no.I think most would have agreed that Jesus and Zinchenko would strengthen Arsenal but nobody would have said they were going to have achieve an 8 point lead in the table before the season was half way through. Nobody went into this season season them as serious title rivals with or without those players.