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Alexandre Mendy (transfer rumour)

leerik_canamole said:
How is he a con artist?

I'm pretty certain from the off he's said he wants the club to be self sufficient which he is doing and improving us at the same time.
Yet people still love to spout shit about him having no money, being a fraud etc, when all he's doing is what he said he would from day 1.
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leerik_canamole said:
How is he a con artist?

I'm pretty certain from the off he's said he wants the club to be self sufficient which he is doing and improving us at the same time.
Yet people still love to spout shit about him having no money, being a fraud etc, when all he's doing is what he said he would from day 1.
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Improving us?

Did the last 15 months not happen to you?
 
There is no con, KLD is just relatively conservative with his spending, fixed up the AOL last summer, doing the SoL this. Brought in young players to develop to make the club sustainable which he's said from the start was his plan. Prioritised the academy. It's more Bob Murray than Ellis Short, looking more to the long term.

Tried to sign forwards, none of them have worked out yet. They failed in bids for Stansfield and Moore last season, brought in Simms the year before, which shows they can identify good forwards at least.
 
leerik_canamole said:
How is he a con artist?

I'm pretty certain from the off he's said he wants the club to be self sufficient which he is doing and improving us at the same time.
Yet people still love to spout shit about him having no money, being a fraud etc, when all he's doing is what he said he would from day 1.
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All the appointments, stadium upgrades, commercial activity and money coming into the club getting our name out there is great and I dont think anybodys complaining about that - however, we finished 16th last season and have supplemented that whole squad with one proven player at this level...we need more than that on the pitch, much more to get us fighting up and around the promotion places - as it stands we are relying on a new manager to get a 16th place team 6th position or above, thats not sustainable its treading water for a club with the biggest outlay in the division
 
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scott934 said:
There is no con, KLD is just relatively conservative with his spending, fixed up the AOL last summer, doing the SoL this. Brought in young players to develop to make the club sustainable which he's said from the start was his plan. Prioritised the academy. It's more Bob Murray than Ellis Short, looking more to the long term.

Tried to sign forwards, none of them have worked out yet. They failed in bids for Stansfield and Moore last season, brought in Simms the year before, which shows they can identify good forwards at least.
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Anyone can identify good forwards, its the continual excuses like we tried and we don't play with a number 9 for example. It comes across as ineptitude at best , sorry but to most people they are now taking the piss especially when the owner is coming out with statements saying lessons have been learned .
 
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Hongkongphooey said:
Anyone can identify good forwards, its the continual excuses like we tried and we don't play with a number 9 for example. It comes across as ineptitude at best , sorry but to most people they are now taking the piss especially when the owner is coming out with statements saying lessons have been learned .
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To be fair to KLD, he’s got other things on his mind at the moment.

His beloved Mags start their season on Sunday.
 
Weststand said:
All the appointments, stadium upgrades, commercial activity and money coming into the club getting our name out there is great and I dont think anybodys complaining about that - however, we finished 16th last season and have supplemented that whole squad with one proven player at this level...we need more than that on the pitch, much more to get us fighting up and around the promotion places - as it stands we are relying on a new manager to get a 16th place team 6th position or above, thats not sustainable its treading water for a club with the biggest outlay in the division
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So what's the con?
 
scott934 said:
There is no con, KLD is just relatively conservative with his spending, fixed up the AOL last summer, doing the SoL this. Brought in young players to develop to make the club sustainable which he's said from the start was his plan. Prioritised the academy. It's more Bob Murray than Ellis Short, looking more to the long term.

Tried to sign forwards, none of them have worked out yet. They failed in bids for Stansfield and Moore last season, brought in Simms the year before, which shows they can identify good forwards at least.
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Its no good telling us they tried to bring in x, y or z - its an excuse.... that only means they didnt try hard enough, didnt want to pay the money or both.

Them actions will keep us in this division - we need to supplement the youth coming through with proven quality and unfortunately that costs money
 
Hongkongphooey said:
Anyone can identify good forwards, its the continual excuses like we tried and we don't play with a number 9 for example. It comes across as ineptitude at best , sorry but to most people they are now taking the piss especially when the owner is coming out with statements saying lessons have been learned .
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Ineptitude is arguably fair, I don't see where the con is.
 
MurtonMark said:
Improving us?

Did the last 15 months not happen to you?
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I'm sick of everyone thinking we're this 16th place squad, for 18 months we were in and around the play offs, yes they fucked up with the manager situation in January and that is the only reason we finished where we did.

If anyone honestly believes this squad is a 16th place squad then you need to stop watching football.

We have some excellent championship players, which is looking like the club have somehow managed to retain.

They're all a year older and we will sign a cf this window, we will be in and around the play offs, I've got no doubt on all of that.
 
leerik_canamole said:
I'm sick of everyone thinking we're this 16th place squad, for 18 months we were in and around the play offs, yes they fucked up with the manager situation in January and that is the only reason we finished where we did.

If anyone honestly believes this squad is a 16th place squad then you need to stop watching football.

We have some excellent championship players, which is looking like the club have somehow managed to retain.

They're all a year older and we will sign a cf this window, we will be in and around the play offs, I've got no doubt on all of that.
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Gerrin!
 
Weststand said:
Its no good telling us they tried to bring in x, y or z - its an excuse.... that only means they didnt try hard enough, didnt want to pay the money or both.

Them actions will keep us in this division - we need to supplement the youth coming through with proven quality and unfortunately that costs money
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I can't decide if its a lack of money or a lack of desire to even bring one in.

Clearly isn't much money there but the money we do have they don't even spend on a striker. They'd rather pay £3m combined for a backup winger and backup defender.

I don't get it tbh
 
leerik_canamole said:
I'm sick of everyone thinking we're this 16th place squad, for 18 months we were in and around the play offs, yes they fucked up with the manager situation in January and that is the only reason we finished where we did.

If anyone honestly believes this squad is a 16th place squad then you need to stop watching football.

We have some excellent championship players, which is looking like the club have somehow managed to retain.

They're all a year older and we will sign a cf this window, we will be in and around the play offs, I've got no doubt on all of that.
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The last 15 months didn’t happen to you, then.

There’s one.

Anyone else?
 
Mowgli said:
The first line of the post you replied to was asking how is it a con, after somebody called KLD a con artist.
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Never said he was a con - I was explaining he needs to focus more on quality footballers to get us out this division rather than trying to turn a team around with one player and a new manager
 
Weststand said:
Never said he was a con - I was explaining he needs to focus more on quality footballers to get us out this division rather than trying to turn a team around with one player and a new manager
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They clearly think the squad is better than 16th as it had a nosedive once dodds came in. I agree with them tbh but it's not a promotion squad at all, probably 8-10th.
 
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