Good afternoon.
I was in analysis, you should know that about me, I was in group analysis when I was younger, ’cause I couldn’t afford private…I was captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you’ve never seen neurotics play softball, it’s really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.
Obviously stolen from Woody Allen, but I am seriously beginning to wonder about the mental health of my fellow fan. The narrow mindedness of many has left me pretty convinced that we are in no small part supported by a gaggle of small mined simpletons. Ha. Maybe this is my Gerald Ratner moment. Well if I wake up after lunch to discover they’ve gone then sentient few that remain are blessed.
Do we need strikers, do we in fact need a bit of need of good transfer lovin’ in any number of departments? Of course we do.
But does anyone seriously believe that Levy & Co. are somehow nonchalantly swanning about only occasionally checking their email during the adverts on daytime television? These critics are the same pseudo commie neo pinko idiots that still believe the Chairman’s only in it for the money and/or that Joe Lewis needs to stick his hand in his pocket. Jesus wept.
Patience isn’t a virtue in football, as in real life it’s a necessity. If you think that footballers sit on shelves in some mystical footballer supermarket somewhere, beneath a shelf-talker with bar code and care instructions printed upon it? Some expectens of millions spent on a man who they can adopt and champion as ‘this seasons Messiah’ with the same expedience they’d employ buying a Happy Meal.
I hear your pain brother, alas Mr Jolly lives next door. The firm are on it.
The first games last season ultimately proved decisive…delaying until the last days of the transfer window cost a lot more to the club than an extra few million saved in the transfer market…when will mr levy realise the impact of such late transfer decisions…
being outplayed by norwich at home was ultimately our undoing
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Ok – we could have got Parker in earlier. But I have a feeling Levy didn’t want to bring him (a lot of money for a 30 odd year old, plus high wages) in until he realised we had no one to be be solid in the middle with Sandro & Hudd out, plus Livermore new to the scene, so he corrected that mistake by buying him.
The Modric Saga hurt us early season, but this wasn’t a case of messing around, this was a case of we are not selling, no matter how much the Media constantly twisted it.
City were never going to let us have Adebayor until the last moment, as before they realised they could win the league, they saw us as a big threat to them getting a CL spot.
Maybe he can put some of his considerable talents negotiating to asking for the season to be delayed until he gets the rite players. Then he can ask for another delay to get the right players. And………
Waiting until the last moment may have been our salvation, not our undoing. If we hadn’t waited until the last moment we might have ended up saddled with Fletcher and Campbell all season, in stead of Parker and Adebayor. The year before, would we have got VdV if we hadn’t waited until the last second?
There are two sides to the story. I’m not advocating panic buys (yes, I remember Raziak and the Berbatoss debacle), but people have to unerstand that there’s no point fighting against the forces of the market. It turns out that many of the best buys simply aren’t avaiable until the last moment.
Agreed but best buys dont make up for losing the opening games of last season heavily….points we could have done with come the end! Market forces sure…but if you pay a fair fee clubs will deal…simple
I think 36 games games with actual quality vs. 2 games with a truncated squad is preferrable to 38 games with deadweight, no matter how settled they might be at the start of the season.
Come back Jurgen makes a very good point further down. Our deadline-day deals have not been great on the whole, but by and large, we haven’t bought key players on deadline day. And when we have bought players for the first XI, we have ususally been successful regardless of the timing.
Agreed ‘Cr’, when Chelsea has DeBruyne, Marin, Hazard and now Oscar getting their rythim for their club and the feel for playing with each other, we’re going out their with a team that’s not certain of beating Newcastle in our opening game. This last minute transfer business that we like to conduct does nothing for the early cohesiveness of the team. Is there a rule that also says Levy should not spend more than £16m-£20m on a player? Because every time a player valuation comes it and it seems big, we back awayb and back away quickly.
Yes Chelsea have spent loads – they have a billionaire chairman with Chelsea as his ‘toy’. The fact you are comparing us with them shows how well Levy has done.
Yes their new players have had time to gel, but so have our 2 new signings and come our first game of the season we’ll probably have either Barndoor or JD up front……..neither need settling in.
Hmmm…. interesting. it is not like we’re flat broke you know. A season ago we sent in a couple of serious bids for superstar players, that with Modric still with is. One bid was reportedly £38m on one player. Sure we can’t match the spending power of Chelsea, but levy didn’t hire AVB to look good sitting on the sidelines, nor did he give him £50-£70m for him to get a feel for what big money is. We look in several directions and can’t decide, and when we decide, we decide on a big name player who suddenly comes with a £47m price tag. We even started looking at Hulk until we heard he would cost £40m and Moutinho may cost us £30m+. All I’m saying is that we can get great dynamic signings without breaking the bank instead of trying to look good for the press and public by purchasing a superstar player we can’t afford or won’t be able to afford for very long after signing him. It almost looks as if AVB is under pressure to produce and produce immediately and is probably why though soon to be superstars in Benega, Herrera, Atsu and Ganso who would each cost somewhere between £7m and £14m, way less that Leandro Damaio and company are being overlooked at the moment. I hope you understand. What a disaster it would be if we did sign a superstar player to a mega deal, like Llorent or Levandowski and Dzagoev and it failed miserably. What a huge let down that would be to say teh very least.
No, we’re not flat broke but we are not Chelsea or Man City.
I have to be honest, I dont understand you. In your first post you question why our chairman bulks at 40mln for a player, then in your second post you say you dont want a ‘mega’ deal. I think you read too much into what the papers say personally, serious bids/superstar players? We cant and wont afford the wages and other teams will always pay said superstar more money. Everyone knew Hulk would cost 40mln, so it would have been no surprise…I very much doubt we even inquired.
We have our direction, it is barndoor – he will be our striker next season – anything else will be back up.
p.s. quote ‘we’re going out their with a team that’s not certain of beating Newcastle’ – havent ever gone to (in my lifetime – 30 years) St James Park certain of beating them, they finished 5th didnt they, one place below us……
any predictions for saturday
It will precede Friday and ultimately result in a 24hr delay before Sunday.
youre going backwards.
Whoa! You’ve just blown my mind… Are we talking here about cancelling Thursday and creating some sort of reverse temporal loop around the weekend?
well it does preced, by six days, every damn week
Wondered whether i was the only one banging this drum….. Would love to see some of these idiots looking for a new car….. “I want a ferrari!”, “yes well seeing as how you have just smashed your piggy bank to smithereens on the floor of the showroom and are now putting 5p pieces into neat little piles of 20, i would say you cant afford one…so fuck off!”
Why don’t we go and get the bean pole back he was banging them in last season. When he was at spurs all he was banging was clancy
she was with child, i thought it was others he was banging
I’m sure Dan is stationed by his FAX machine waiting for Real Madrid to offload a huge pile of wonga and some reserve players as we speak. That is of course if AC Milan take Kaka back, that is of course if they can afford his wages, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Apparently we have accepted 25mil. True or not? Dunno.
For ratface
I can almost tell you’re no Modric fan. then again, I could well be wrong.
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I am just a touch fickle. If he stays and plays to his best then he will be super Luka again. If not….. Could I be arrested for threatening to burn someone at the stake? Not saying I have any intention of doing that mind.