You have to remember Abel was poor in his first Premier League season - Long was immense for us. Many (including myself) wouldn't have been devastated if he had left that summer. Fair play to him he settled in and turned it around and looked good in the Championship. He has looked a different player to the one that graced the Premier league last time and finally looks like the player we thought we had bought and is living up to the promise he showed on his debut against West Ham.
And when did I say that either? ahh, the good old Syd 'take what someone says and come to a completely unrelated conclusion'.
When you said they were after Robertson because the bloke whose name you can't spell is off to Milan. Unless you really did mean holgate.
Perhaps having £10million in his pocket means Silva could go back to Van Der Wiel (was that his name??) - his preferred target?? Although his wages would be the biggest stumbling block.
You see, the key word you used is 'replace'. If we sign a right back now is he 'replacing' Jake and will slot into the exact same position? Have you considered that perhaps Koeman wants to switch focus of his crossing and look to over load in different areas?
No, but we wouldn't describe signing someone as "being because we've let McGregor go on loan" unless it was to replace him. The good old BCC "I said something stupid but I'm going to deny that that's what I meant"
Not in the slightest. If you can show me any post where I said what you claim I said, then that would be super.
I wouldn't say Long was immense. He scored 4 in 15 for us, just short of 1 in 4, hardly immense. The common consensus was that we had paid too much for him and then we doubled our money, it was a miracle really. People forget though that we did also bring in Diame, Ben Arfa and Ramirez.
Ehab is quite clearly a manical, bitter, spiteful, malicious, hypocritical and deluded individual with an inferiority complex. He finally gets the power he so clearly wants and loves because of his fathers ill health and it's gone to his head. He feels an innate need to demonstarate his power to inflate his own ego and self worth. Like there is someone there scoring him for just how much of a hard faced business man he can be. His interviews and actions are remanisant of someone with a personality disorder. Ingrained behaviors and traits of failing to show compassion, guilt, remorse and any sense of wrong doing. He shows no ability to actually follow through with what he says. His mouth says one thing and his actions say another. He now treats to club as a play thing. The Allams started their tenure at the club as heros and messiahs who would have surely had statues and the key to the city in years to come. But the rise in profile and the success that came with it became too much to bare and it poisoned their minds and actions. Riding rough shod with a flagrant disregard and contempt for the people of Hull. They tried to change the heart, soul and tradition of the club. Something a hundred years old and something that will go on a hundred years after they have gone. So their smokescreen of being kind and giving a gift to the city was soon found out and their real motivations to purely own the ground and develop the area to sell on at a profit were soon found out. Through their wicked lies of deception. And out of bitter spite they now dismantle the club to its bare bones. Failing to adequately invest in the clubs playing staff. Allowing the backroom staff numbers dwindle and Asset stripping the playing staff. Taking out as much money as possible and escalating futre debts. In a callus move to leave us how they found us, in turmoil. When thousands of people including the fans of the club, other clubs, pundits and media see that Ehab's behavior and actions are clearly distructive, unreasonable and aggressive. Anyone else with a sense of self would hold their hands up and realise they have messed up. But the guy can't. The master of spin sees that he is in the right and the thousands of others are in the wrong. A manipulative highlight and stain in the clubs history.
It was Longs partnership with Jelavic that was immense. With Longs pace we could hit teams on the break particularly away from Home - his running destroyed Sunderland at the Stafium of Light. We looked dangerous in attack and since his departure we have always looked a bit toothless in attack. Game to goal ratio doesn't really tell the whole story.
Players will naturally always want as long as possible on a contract. Good luck to Jake and all this just another symptom of the club being run 'a different way', Rehabs way, which is on the cheap. Still think we are odds on to go down.
Silva's words at the press conference appear to mark as "bollocks" the suggestions that Jake wasn't part of his plans, the money was needed so we'll be able to fill other positions & we have adequate cover in that area. His words appear to suggest we seized the opportunity to cash in on one of our better assets, as selling clubs do.
We haven't been a selling club at all Whether we become one we'll know by the end of this window ...actually "selling club" is an irrelevant term...what I really mean is that we'll know whether Ehab is cutting his losses and trying to get as much cash paid back from his loan by letting expensive assets go, and by taking out loans to pay some back too. No idea whether that is the case or now, but we'll know soon enough.
Great post, and if this does go tits up (and I'm sure it will), we should keep reminding him, the general public and the media of the legacy they have left the community which will demote the gifts to the university, hospital etc to distant memories. They will not like that
