He speaks excellent training ground English, not excellent interview English. Clearly different beasts.
Olly, just tell us your problem and we'll try and help. It might be good to talk about. We are all friends ere.
And perhaps Perez has yet more excellent English.....a bit like Godders vs that Sunderland twit that came on here.
I'd love to win the cup CBK, but I'd rather be in the Champions League in a few years than where Pompey are with their cup win. Odd that you think differently.
I was calling for a International Keeper and CB to be signed a month ago and people were saying that we shouldn't panic buy in the TW.
Why can't people see that the progress of the club is a gradual building of everything toward a stated goal of competing at the top. That's everything from the facilities and squad. If that means that we have to, without a dollup of luck, "sacrifice" the cup for a couple of seasons whilst we build the squad to the requisite level to compete, well so be it. This isn't about panic buying, it's about sustaining our progress of the last few years. Then we'll be able to challenge year after year for the cup, whilst also at the top regions of the league. Yes, I'll happily wait for that rather than a jammy cup win and abject failure elsewhere.
It wouldn't be a panic...it would be an investment...we should be evolving the squad and many January transfers have been successful. Jos and SKD are no longer of the quality that is required.
It's not black and white people, you play the squad that's available. For me, we should have played a weakened team and we did. I would have liked to see Reed/Gallagher given a go as well but obviously pochettino is taking the FA cup very seriously. Had we had a completely full fresh squad 8 would have advocated a full first 11, but with all of our current woes a weakened 11 was the right decision.
Not saying they are, just saying if we want to become a big club in this country and europe, winning something will help.
That's using two very big extremes. It is a massive ask to get this club into the top 4 positions in the league. Do you really think we can dislodge Man utd, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool from those positions? You can be "ambitious" and dream about it, but it's a much harder proposition than winning the FA Cup. Also, winning the FA Cup doesn't mean you will then sink through the leagues afterwards. This club is more than equipped to finish in the top 10 and win the FA Cup, so we should attack both equally seriously.
Its about progression and the long game. The higher up the table we finish this year the more likely we are to attract better players and push on next season. Yes winning silverware is great but the league is not an all or nothing contest where you either win it or not.
Its about progression and the long game. The higher up the table we finish this year the more likely we are to attract better players and push on next season. Yes winning silverware is great but the league is not an all or nothing contest where you either win it or not.
But it's not like we made 11 changes. We made 3, including bringing in our last seasons record signing (though granted now very much 2nd string). Plus we brought on 3 first choice subs. What makes you think it's not being taken seriously? Oh yes, we won by the way.
The big clubs will always have the ability to buy our best players. It's deluded to think otherwise, because even if Cortese rejects offers, footballers still want to play for big clubs. If Arsenal bid for Wanyama (as an example) in the summer, he'll leave. Guarantee it.
