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saintanton said:
It's all very well to say match the offer, but I don't think we can. It's not that long ago we teetered on the brink of oblivion under the wise stewardship of Laurel and Hardy, our new owners took us out of that with the express intention of putting us on a sound financial footing. Surely nobody wants us to take us back to the bad old days of putting the club at risk by throwing about money we don't have?
We simply cannot compete with certain other clubs when no matter how much we offer they can trump it. If they really want the player then whatever we offer they'll increase it. How far do we go in a bidding war before we've overstretched?
Also, with the players you listed there were a wide variety of reasons between them -you can't jump to the conclusion that we're just rubbish at it.
Most young players weren't even born the last time we were really big. We don't have the pull we once had, nor the financial muscle to compensate for that.
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No I'm not suggesting that at all, I'm not a fan of all this buying 10 players every bloody season. Imo we should be using the academy and not bothering with a lot of the so called potential we are buying. I'd have rather us not have bought Lallana, Balotelli and Markovic last summer summer, we could have used that money better and signed Sanchez at all costs, take those players out and the finances are there, I'm saying use the money better, use the academy better and get the quality in other than quantity.
 
luvgonzo said:
No I'm not suggesting that at all, I'm not a fan of all this buying 10 players every bloody season. Imo we should be using the academy and not bothering with a lot of the so called potential we are buying. I'd have rather us not have bought Lallana, Balotelli and Markovic last summer summer, we could have used that money better and signed Sanchez at all costs, take those players out and the finances are there, I'm saying use the money better, use the academy better and get the quality in other than quantity.
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I agree with this. I said throughout the summer that I was alarmed at the number of new faces. I had hoped it would work out ok, but I believe that this was a major factor in our troubles in the first half of this season.
I would have preferred 2 major signings in crucial areas rather the number of bodies we bought, but we just couldn't get them.
Now I just feel that even if I didn't want them, they're our players and I want them to do well.
 
saintanton said:
I agree with this. I said throughout the summer that I was alarmed at the number of new faces. I had hoped it would work out ok, but I believe that this was a major factor in our troubles in the first half of this season.
I would have preferred 2 major signings in crucial areas rather the number of bodies we bought, but we just couldn't get them.
Now I just feel that even if I didn't want them, they're our players and I want them to do well.
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And that's my point really, did we do enough? Especially with Sanchez. Perhaps we did though I'm not in the know and perhaps it just wasn't going to happen.

I agree on the point that I want who we have to do well though, I have nothing against Lallana or Markovic, I was just using them as an example. Balotelli is another conversation. <laugh>
 
luvgonzo said:
And that's my point really, did we do enough? Especially with Sanchez. Perhaps we did though I'm not in the know and perhaps it just wasn't going to happen.

I agree on the point that I want who we have to do well though, I have nothing against Lallana or Markovic, I was just using them as an example. Balotelli is another conversation. <laugh>
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Nah- even Mario's one of us for the time being.
Come on, he'll play better if he knows you love him.


P.S. "Doing enough" to get Sanchez would have involved moving to London.
 
saintanton said:
Nah- even Mario's one of us for the time being.
Come on, he'll play better if he knows you love him.


P.S. "Doing enough" to get Sanchez would have involved moving to London.
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or slapping an extra 20k pw on his wages to help compensate. We were offering same wages as Arsenal apparently.
 
saintanton said:
Nah- even Mario's one of us for the time being.
Come on, he'll play better if he knows you love him.


P.S. "Doing enough" to get Sanchez would have involved moving to London.
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Sir_Red said:
or slapping an extra 20k pw on his wages to help compensate. We were offering same wages as Arsenal apparently.
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I heard it was his missus that wanted London if they were to leave Spain
 
Anyway, fun though it is, this isn't really the right thread for this stuff.
Perhaps we should take it into the pub- who's buying?
 
BCR said:
When the **** are we signing Konoplyanka!!!!! <grr>
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Speak of the devil:

BACK TO THE FUTURE? One from a previous transfer window for you here. Yevhen Konoplyanka won't be joining Spurs or Liverpool after Dnipro said he won't be going anywhere. According to the Evening Standard, Inter and Moncao were also interested. Dnipro executive director Andriy Rusol said: “Nobody sells Konoplyanka. He remains in our club.”
 
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