If we'd got rid of out of form and out of favour loanees, and used the money to buy the leading goalscorer from a rival on the cheap, a player coveted by other clubs, and then bought another solid experienced reliable consistent English player at a cheap price, we'd all be deliriously happy and excited about staying up.
So sell established British settled international player, our leading goalscorer, goal maker and a major influence on the team, on the off chance we can sign an unproven 19 year old Jamaican winger costing several million more? Utter ****ing certified madness.
Will you be apologising if we have a better, younger squad at the end of February ? Besides hand cuffing Livermore and Snodgrass to the training ground gates I don't see how we could have kept hold of them once they had it in their heads to leave. Both of them have very short memories and both took a decent salary out of the club without kicking a ball for months. Didn't hearing any whispers about wanting 'security ' then. £10m for a 30 year old with a dodgy knee is good business. Remember a lot of you crucifying City for paying half that for a player not so long ago. At his age I can see why Snodgrass was looking for a four year plus contract, more fool the club that have agreed to it. But that's football, thanks for the memories and so on and we move on. As for Robertson, if he wants to go and we are offered another £10m, goodbye son and thanks for the memories. As for Harry Maguire, both of our previous mangers couldn't even find a place in the team for him. I hope Harry stays until the end of the season, which isn't long, and if we are relegated he can then choose which direction to take. I might be alone in this but I think by this time next week our squad will look a lot better then it does tonight. Who was it who said Keep the Faith ?
My point exactly. We are selling our best players for risks. It's not like we are punting Bruce and Dave m
Yeah if the squad looks better then then of course I will apologise and be happy with it. I can't see how it will be better if we sell our best players and ram the squad with ****e loanees
The loanee's looked the part on Sunday against the runaway leaders of the Premier League, despite only being with us for a few hours. Would you rather have young loan players with something to prove or stick with the regular players who had only won four games all season and wanted to be away from the club ? The transfer window hasn't shut yet either.
3 things: 1. We have never been relegated in our first season after promotion in the PL. 2. We have never stayed up in the PL when we've had a betting company as our sponsor. 3. Robert Snodgrass has been relegated in his last 2 years in the PL!
I think you're speaking a lot of sense here, its obviously disappointing to loose likeable players that are performing well but when you step back and analyse each deal on its merits then its not actually bad business. We need some signings for sure, the quality of which will determine if this window has been a failure or not.
I'd rather have tried and trusted players who have been instrumental in keeping us in touch against all odds in the first half season. The same players who were part of the 'Algarve 7' team spirit. FFS, it's not Football Manager.This is not an attempt to raise funds to rebuild, its a way of clawing back some of the debt. If anyone's not sure, consider the timing of the debt restructuring. The manager who takes over from HiHo in 5 months is gonna have a hell of a job stopping a slide down the divisions with a squad built around the under 23's.
Hardly anyone I've heard in the world of football has said we've been offered 'good money'- on R5 earlier they were calling the Snodgrass situation 'ridiculous', 'baffling', and stated, 'I don't understand what their transfer policy is'. Similar on Talk Sport. £10m for a hard working top scorer who has been involved in 50% of a low scoring teams goals is not a good deal, regardless of whether you think Silva wants to change the way team plays etc. If the £10m is dependent on the other club staying up, even worse. At the moment, anyone happy with this situation is relying on blind faith
only boro have scored less goals than us.. let's hand them our top scorer.. the guy who has more than double the goals that our second highest scorer has.. let's help them out
Agreed. Massive exodus at season end of foreign loanees and management, literally no one left to rebuild except the cleaners. I could have sworn I'd read our chairman say 'We're not a selling club' a week ago. He's right - we're a charity, which gives away its best players to its rivals. Ehaw's unstated strategy has been revealed with Livermore, get rid of our best players, trouser the funds because he can/won't sell the club, trouser the tv money, and employ out of form/out of favour players on a 6 month contract. Then accept a knock down price in the Championship after he has recouped all the money his dad loaned us (at 5% interest).
Tonight we barely have a ****ing squad- it can hardly look any worse can it? £10m for a hard working winger who is a rivals top scorer by miles and is directly involved in 50% of that clubs goals, whilst also delivering corking set pieces seems like a ****ing bargain to me...especially when you are looking at coining in at least another £90m in TV money if you stay up at this rivals expense. If the roles were reversed and we were the buying club we would be pretty ****ing happy methinks
said it last week when we go down.. what squad will we have? maguire, robertson 100% gone, half our team is ****ing loans will have no manager scunthorpe will maul us
We all are, and have been for years. Whatever they do there's always a few apologists. It's hard to imagine anything they could possibly do that someone on here wouldn't find some good in.
i don't understand why people are happy that snodgrass is going... especially to a rival 'oh we'll buy a much better player' ... would sunderland sell palace defoe?
