Virgil van Dijk

[Delphacito]

A few of us said it at the time. And others (probably correctly) argued we had to see if he was good enough at a higher level first.

This is bound to happen with late bloomers, we simply aren't going to get them cheap if we want them.

Yep and we went ahead and bought the best defender from La Liga instead. Imagine the outrage had we bought the defender from the Scottish Premier League instead.

 

[Easy]

Going by the bitterness in the media, we must be close.

£100m Transfer of VVD, most expensive in history,,,of course including wages and transfer fee, they only do this for us.

£70m transfer fee and £200k per week in wages,,,, again far from the truth.

Once we sign all our players, get ready to hear City are buying the league, City are ruining football, etc. Bitterness x 100

 

[Blue Coop]

Really hope our defensive targets are true, would love to see us test this out.

------------- Ederson
Walker-Kompany-VVD-Mendy
------------- Stones

 

[waspish]

Going by the bitterness in the media, we must be close.

£100m Transfer of VVD, most expensive in history,,,of course including wages and transfer fee, they only do this for us.

£70m transfer fee and £200k per week in wages,,,, again far from the truth.

Once we sign all our players, get ready to hear City are buying the league, City are ruining football, etc. Bitterness x 100

And if we do happen to win the league it will be so they should and should been by more points then none of our player be in any squad of year or player of the year with Hughes being manager of the year for getting them 8th.

 

[JC2]

Really hope our defensive targets are true, would love to see us test this out.

------------- Ederson
Walker-Kompany-VVD-Mendy
------------- Stones

I like the idea of Stones as a defensive midfielder, I have thought for some time that this is where he will end up, both for club and country.

 

[Easy]

And if we do happen to win the league it will be so they should and should been by more points then none of our player be in any squad of year or player of the year with Hughes being manager of the year for getting them 8th.

Exactly, I can see it now, they'll be saying... with the squad City got and the money they spent last summer, they should be winning the Champions League,,, Can we really say Pep has had a successful season by winning the title? City brought him in and gave him all this money to win the Champions League and he came up short again.

 

[waspish]

Exactly, I can see it now, they'll be saying... with the squad City got and the money they spent last summer, they should be winning the Champions League,,, Can we really say Pep has had a successful season by winning the title? City brought him in and gave him all this money to win the Champions League and he came up short again.

Yep thats the Narrative that been happing since we taken over why our players and manager get no accolades at the end of the season because the people who actually vote are sheep and lap it up.

 

[blueparrot]

Exactly, I can see it now, they'll be saying... with the squad City got and the money they spent last summer, they should be winning the Champions League,,, Can we really say Pep has had a successful season by winning the title? City brought him in and gave him all this money to win the Champions League and he came up short again.

Think we would join that group of six teams that should be competing every c/ l for semi final places and have a chance of winning it, there isnt any team that 'should be winning it though' but yes that narrative will be pushed be some in the media.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Think we would join that group of six teams that should be competing every c/ l for semi final places and have a chance of winning it, there isnt any team that 'should be winning it though' but yes that narrative will be pushed be some in the media.

And unfortunately most of those top CL teams play in leagues that are frankly a lot less demanding; technically better than the stokes of this world, but a lot less physically demanding

 

[Yates]

Think we would join that group of six teams that should be competing every c/ l for semi final places and have a chance of winning it, there isnt any team that 'should be winning it though' but yes that narrative will be pushed be some in the media.

Yep. Real Madrid have so many top 5 ( even top 3 ) players for their position so we are playing immense catch up on them alone. It's odd with Madrid because if you're not viewed as a "Galactico" you don't really get spoken about as much. Case in point, Modric. Best CM for the past 3 years but only cost around 25-30M?