Fair enough, but you don't seem to acknowledge that, by his own standard announced at the end of the season, Ehab has failed. Failed to get 90% of their transfer dealings done by the start of pre-season, then it was 2 or 3 in time for Portugal, all in line with a plan to be extremely competitive at the top of the Championship this season. As things stand, we have 1 young and inexperienced right back on loan from Chelsea. Meanwhile, we have allowed a mini-exodus to take place, leaving us without enough senior pros to actually fill a starting eleven and bench. Chances are, we still have more to leave, with Clucas, Grosicki and Elmo at least 50/50 to go before the season starts. Hardly an encouraging environment with which to entice these 'quality' signings to the club is it?
He made a mistake by putting a time frame on it, he is and has been his own worst enemy, but on the other hand he was Mybe just trying to give fans reassurance and telling them what they wanted to hear? The mini exodus has been players we couldn't stop did to contracts or players that will not be missed if we sign the quality I think we will, obviously Harry is a huge miss and can't be replaced nor did we have to sell him, but he was always going to go during this summer and we got good money
In my original post (5282) that you commented on. I as good as said what your last line in this post says As you understand drink analogies, the rest of my post basically said , if the milk turns out to be sour, I ain't the kinda pussy to drink it. Rory Breaker, lock stock.
Good post. I am sure all fans are disappointed thay Ehab has failed in his early pre-season predictions and we have not already signed a new squad of world beaters for peanuts. I dont think he will be happy about it either. But the bigger picture is more important. Why bring in Slutsky if he just wanted a yes man? I think we will be ready for Villa. It may be more loans than signings but I think we will be giving it a go without breaking the bank. Deals like Ryan Kent are clearly their current thinking.
Workmate from St Helens and Liverpool obsessive says word back home is Robertson deal done Tuesday and does include loan to us.apparently most Liverpool fans not that overwhelmed.
Personally, I think the likes of experienced pros like Davies, and Huddlestone jumping ship has been quite telling, as well as unnecessary. On both occasions we have belatedly chucked a contract at them after we appeared to be caught by surprise when Derby hit their very low release clauses. If we actually wanted them to stay, it would have been prudent to sit them down at the end of the season or as soon as Slutsky arrived to outline their role and offer them a new deal then. Both have alluded to the chaos of the transfer window (Huddz comparing our previous relegation where we kept the nucleus of the squad, and Davies seemingly unwilling to go through the chaos of last summer again. Even Maloney talked about issues around the club at the end of the season.) With Robertson, I think we all expected him to go, though £8m to Liverpool seems, again, very low given the market, and Tymon justs seems a mess-up all round. As for Harry, I don't think Leicester will be thinking we pulled their pants down over the £!2m + add-ons they paid. I don't think any of this is very encouraging to the likes of Clucas, Hernandez or Grosicki who could be key to us this season, let alone any 'quality' signings we might want to pursue.
