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C.Kane said:
I'm not too sure either. Watched a lot of them last season and he was bang-average. There's no question he has improved this season but on the rare occasion I watched him play (usually when they played Spurs), I still couldn't see what all the fuss was about. And as you've correctly pointed out, it's one thing performing at a high level for the first half of the season. It is something else entirely maintaining that form when the fixtures start piling up and the legs start to turn to jelly. £50m for 3 decent months of football is an awful lot. But then again, if John Stones is "worth" that amount...

To my mind, your glaring weak spots are at LB and DM. You've got a bunch of very, very decent CM's at Anfield but none of them hold a candle to the likes of Kante or Wanyama in terms of shielding the defense.
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3 decent months <laugh>

He wasn't bang average last season btw <ok>
 
The Liebherr Legacy said:
3 decent months <laugh>

He wasn't bang average last season btw <ok>
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You're quite right. 5 decent months.

I'm not going to argue with a Saints fan about one of their own but what I saw in the 2015/16 season was a player who had stepped up a level from the SPL and showed every sign of catching up with that new reality.

2016-17 as I said he has definitely improved but I've literally watched you a handful of times this year and on the occasion you played us and lost 4-1 I wasn't particularly impressed by him at all. If anything, you were better defensively in the 2-1 win when he was absent. But at 25 he is still young for a CB so plenty of time to improve <ok>
 
To those questioning whether us spending £50m on VVD and £35m on Salah means we can't spend elsewhere on a LB and CM need to have another look.

Thats £85m. We'll recoup around half of that on player sales in Moreno, Sakho alone probably. Add in the negative net spend last summer and should have decent kitty lying around. Throw in potential CL money and above all that, we are just outside top 10 clubs in the world in terms of revenue!

We havent gone big in transfers for god knows how long. We've only gone over 30m for anplayer twice! Compare that to everyone were challenging against, even Spurs can match that with Lamela and Sissoko!
 
InBiscanWeTrust said:
To those questioning whether us spending £50m on VVD and £35m on Salah means we can't spend elsewhere on a LB and CM need to have another look.

Thats £85m. We'll recoup around half of that on player sales in Moreno, Sakho alone probably. Add in the negative net spend last summer and should have decent kitty lying around. Throw in potential CL money and above all that, we are just outside top 10 clubs in the world in terms of revenue!

We havent gone big in transfers for god knows how long. We've only gone over 30m for anplayer twice! Compare that to everyone were challenging against, even Spurs can match that with Lamela and Sissoko!
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We don't talk about that.
 
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InBiscanWeTrust said:
To those questioning whether us spending £50m on VVD and £35m on Salah means we can't spend elsewhere on a LB and CM need to have another look.

Thats £85m. We'll recoup around half of that on player sales in Moreno, Sakho alone probably. Add in the negative net spend last summer and should have decent kitty lying around. Throw in potential CL money and above all that, we are just outside top 10 clubs in the world in terms of revenue!

We havent gone big in transfers for god knows how long. We've only gone over 30m for anplayer twice! Compare that to everyone were challenging against, even Spurs can match that with Lamela and Sissoko!
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revenue is irrelevant only thing that matters is the bottom line & our last 3 sets of accounts show approx £20m profit before tax so hardly built up a warchest.
 
Solid_Air 2 said:
revenue is irrelevant only thing that matters is the bottom line & our last 3 sets of accounts show approx £20m profit before tax so hardly built up a warchest.
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Writing off the old stadium plans, building a new stand, replacing the manager, and we still made a profit

Minted
 
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