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Rafa. He's still not happy

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Hoon said:
Could have been better, could have been worse. I can see why he's been annoyed as he'd identified cheap/frees only for the club not to get the deal done at the beginning of the summer. Despite that, I think it's been plain to see we're not going to spend big (fees or wages) compared to the teams who were in the PL last season. At the moment I'd have us touch and go to stay up, with another first team forward and a starting keeper I'd like to think we'll be lower midtable but not scrapping.

Got to admit I know little of Lejeune or Merino but the former looked good until Kane knacked him.

Just as pressingly we need to get all of the shite that Carr & former managers stacked up off the books which isn't helping - De Jong, Riviere, Saivet, Haidara, Colback, etc.
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Who did Carr sign?

Kane knacked him :lol: Give ower, it was a good tackle.

Lads and lasses, 94 pages on this, as funny as it is come on. Surely there are better topics?
 

Mallard said:
Who did Carr sign?

Kane knacked him :lol: Give ower, it was a good tackle.

Lads and lasses, 94 pages on this, as funny as it is come on. Surely there are better topics?
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Its NUFC , it means everything to around a dozen on here, everything
 
What A Waster said:
Sent him out on loan last season "to regain his fitness" and now he's training with the reserves. They have fallen out and be keeping it private. It's a baffling footballing decision
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He's been a mag for 10 years or so hasn't he? Plus he's a Dutch international and easily the best keeper, but can't get in ahead of Elliot.

It's like Pardew and fatty Ben area except 10 times worse.
 
Skellington said:
He's been a mag for 10 years or so hasn't he? Plus he's a Dutch international and easily the best keeper, but can't get in ahead of Elliot.

It's like Pardew and fatty Ben area except 10 times worse.
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Yep, made his debut at 17 in 2006. Can only imagine it's for reasons being kept from the public rather than footballing reasons.

Ben Arfa is different as every single club he's been at and even with the national team he's fell out with people, even going back to time as a kid at Clairefontaine academy.
 
G Force said:
Very few managers have the luxury of getting all of their first choices. He's still laid out £95m on players since last summer.

I'm aware that's not net spend, but you should still have a stronger squad for the money lashed out
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Stronger than what we had? we do. Stronger than we have, given the money spent? Not in this market. People were talking about Sigurdsson going to Southampton or Everton for £15m in March/April, now look at it.

And every discussion about spend has to include the caveat that Benitez overhauled the squad last summer. Big players leaving and 11 players coming in... that's going to cost money. We came up at the first time of asking, as champions.

He's now trying to build a squad that can survive in the Premier League and doing it in a dramatically inflated market. He'd have been better off spending in January, before the explosion in fees, giving him 6 months to work with the new player(s) in preparation for the 17/18 season. Ashley didn't allow that, and now we're paying the price. 1st choices gone or out of our transfer or wage budget, relying 3rd or 4th choices to carry the burden at a cut price. How often does that policy work out?

If we'd spent £10m on Tammy Abraham in January (and somehow convinced him to come), people would have raised an eyebrow, cried we were buying the league, but in reality we'd have locked down a talent before the market went nuts. How much would he be worth now, in this market? A young, promising, English, striker? £20m? £30m?

CARLOS CLASS said:
World class management in action -

1) fail to persuade the players you want to sign that they should sign for you
2) tell everyone that the players you have signed aren't the ones you wanted, that will surely motivate them

What a clown!
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You a big Isley Brothers fan?
 
He's not going.

He'll keep dropping hints that he's not being backed by the owner (sound familiar?) but he won't leave.

He'd have left a while ago if things were as bad as people suggest I reckon.
 
The Fish said:
Stronger than what we had? we do. Stronger than we have, given the money spent? Not in this market. People were talking about Sigurdsson going to Southampton or Everton for £15m in March/April, now look at it.

And every discussion about spend has to include the caveat that Benitez overhauled the squad last summer. Big players leaving and 11 players coming in... that's going to cost money. We came up at the first time of asking, as champions.

He's now trying to build a squad that can survive in the Premier League and doing it in a dramatically inflated market. He'd have been better off spending in January, before the explosion in fees, giving him 6 months to work with the new player(s) in preparation for the 17/18 season. Ashley didn't allow that, and now we're paying the price. 1st choices gone or out of our transfer or wage budget, relying 3rd or 4th choices to carry the burden at a cut price. How often does that policy work out?

If we'd spent £10m on Tammy Abraham in January (and somehow convinced him to come), people would have raised an eyebrow, cried we were buying the league, but in reality we'd have locked down a talent before the market went nuts. How much would he be worth now, in this market? A young, promising, English, striker? £20m? £30m?


You a big Isley Brothers fan?
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No, you neatly sidestepped my point ( have I made you uncomfortable?)
 
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