No. The one which is relevant to the point made by hovetiger.................'If Robertson goes............
I'm not sure what your point is when that wasn't the part of his post I was criticising? I read that part. It still didn't mean his post made much sense. Perhaps read my post again (the one you quoted).
So you're telling me you've never seen a ****e player attract interest and thought 'why the **** do they want to sign him?' Also, as for Bilic being interested, yeah his signings this season have worked out great haven't they... "cough" Simone Zaza "cough".
Who said that at the time we were debating it then? (Apart from me) Whose 'them'? When I questioned you it wasn't obvious to me you were suggesting he shouldn't be sold this window at all, because you didn't say that. You said you wouldn't be gutted if he left, and sounded confident he'd be replaced...not exactly obvious at that time that you were saying that he shouldn't leave this window. No big deal, it often takes a lengthy conversation on here to get what people mean, it's impossible to interpret everything with a series of small quotes, but I certainly don't misinterpret things for the sake of it. I simply thought I disagreed with you.
No I just saw that sterling had already cleared it up and didn't think it worth dragging on anymore. To wrap it up, it seemed clear to him and me that he didn't want Robertson sold for sub par value when we can't replace him, to you it wasn't clear. And we move on.
Yes he is, I wasn't just talking Italians but anyone transferred from seria a to England in the last 15 years
I would say that the jury is very much out on Mbokani. He's a striker who hasn't scored for us. I thought if we brought another striker in then they may try to cancel the loan
I'm slightly perplexed by this Rannochia thing. On the one hand people are saying he's awful, the laughing stock of Serie A, yada yada. Forget the Italy caps for a minute (though I haven't), he's also played for Inter Milan 130 times. That's ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY TIMES. And yet he's ****e, apparently. Doesn't stack up.
As you said yourself, ( in interview by burnsy thread) you don't have the required attention span to read it! Think it was you.
The injuries were shocking that year. Not unprecedented and a league table showed us just above halfway. But all the teams above us in our mini league (Lester/ WBA/CP/ Sunlan West Spam etc) were well below us in the table. We also lost out marquee signing within a few mins of the season kicking off. It was weird how players bang in form would get injured..Jela had a fantastic start to the season, got injured, and that practically finished him. We had players in one position all going down at the same time, etc. Hats off to Bruce for never blaming injuries as the reason, but it was very significant. Only anti Brucites could come up with the term 'poor promotion', I didn't realise there was such a thing. Our performances were poor at times and we lost to poor teams. That happens to a freshly relegated club. Still a good achievement going back up first time. Not great, but recall it was against the backdrop of the malaise the owners created (as was everything over the last few years). Had the owners not created that then who knows where the cub would be now.
Does it help if I explain that this period has been the worst Inter side in living memory? When Ranocchia was playing it was the first time IN HISTORY that neither Milan side qualified for Europe. Also Walther Mazzarri was strangely obsessed with playing him and this was partially the reason he was sacked? Inter have just turned the corner and won 9 straight games. Ranocchia hasn't played. Just to get something straight nobody - and I mean nobody - will be happier than me if I'm proved totally wrong and he suddenly plays a blinder. It does happen. A good flipside example is Ramirez, I was over the moon when he signed and I thought he'd be a revelation, and Sunlan fans couldn't have been more scathing about Elmo if they'd tried. But the fact is he has been absolutely woeful for Inter.
It seems we are signing players that have lost confidence, obviously have talent, and it just depends whether MS can turn their performances into confident ones. If he can do that then he is the messiah in my eyes, if he doesn't then he will be a very naughty boy.
