Sergio Picasso Aguero
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All the better for Vinny's return.
Seems a consistent view is the desire to get this season out of the way, I seem to remember it was a view expressed this time last year.
That shows how bad things are
Hopefully we can get a draw (just feel this is the best we can hope for away), and smash em at our place in the replay.Resurfacing from the mood dip last Sunday. Getting ready for the next one this Sunday.
Frustrated & disappointed.
We've let the league & the rags off the hook again !!
In this era we should've had four more trophies. Should've had back to back Prems. Should've won this years Prem by 7 points. Should've built a sustaining dynasty & a fantastic legacy and all during a period when the rags have been in the biggest mess for 50 years.
These opportunities don't come round very often & we've let too many go.
We should be the most respected,feared & popular team in the UK by a mile. We should be the ALL BLACKS of Football.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh.
It's a masochistic streak that I've inherited from an ancestor, the Marquis du Bois.I love it when you roll with the punches, Gaylord.
This, and to the point I nearly couldn't be bothered to even write this. Never thought I see the day. Bothering me I actually feel like this.Apathetic
Hazard moved to Chelsea in 2012, not the year after van pussy went to the rags.Very frustrated, mostly about the missed opportunity to dominate this league.
Going back to the summer of 2012 we've handicapped ourselves by spending vast sums on players that are not good enough. You don't improve as a team if you buy worse players than ones who leave.
We haven't adequately replaced Tevez, Bellamy, De Jong or Barry. In that time we've signed a plethora of random players ranging from utter shite (Fernando, Savic, Sinclair, Maicon), permanently injured (Rodwell, Jovetic) or average (Mangala, Otamendi, Bony). It's not like we've been tight with the purse strings, we just haven't scouted or pursued with enough determination and ambition enough players that would have improved us.
Again, going back to summer 2012, all we needed was to sign van Persie like Mancini desperately wanted - that would have guaranteed back to back titles.
The following year we were so close to getting Hazard, we should have done whatever it took, fair means or foul, to keep him out of Chelsea's dirty hands and get him signed up. Give the agent what he needed to get the deal done. Instead of spending £10m on Rodwell, for example.
Summer 2014, we should have got Fabregas, home grown, relatively cheap considering his ability and experience, again we fucked about, ended up with Fernando.
Last summer was better, KDB and Sterling, but injuries, age and a lack of a striker good enough to fill Aguero's role when he's out injured have cost us. Better signings over the past few years would have reduced the current impact of all these injuries.
Let's not piss about this summer - learn the lessons of the past; if we want to dominate, we need the very best. So Pogba, Alaba plus one of Müller, Lewandowski, Neymar, Bale or (wishful thinking perhaps) Messi himself for Pep to work with. No more 'promising but relatively unknown' youngsters or average randoms from Portugal. Blow the rag scum and cockney bastards away and make a fucking statement.
Hazard moved to Chelsea in 2012, not the year after van pussy went to the rags.
You're saying we've bought shite and not pushed on from 2012, barring last summer's acquisitions, and we should've bought van pussy and Hazard?Well fair enough, but I believe the general point remains valid.