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What is it with these Germans & he played well on Saturday too. Good luck Felix and congrats

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Whitejock said:
Not convinced about this. The figures seem low.

Hasn't done the top 2 much good either, has it? :D
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We know Wolves are breaking football fair play rules but odds on to be promoted so meaningless. The stats quoted I assume have taken Wood & Taylor cash which is wrong. We offloaded a few, we spent around £6m on 4 players but still had cash over from last season too.

One problem signing is Ouasim Bouy who we loaned to Spanish sister club, he has only played once and has gone missing for the 3rd time. Seems he wants to play for Leeds and thats why he left Inter Milan, but being in Spain he dont like. Wonder how Orta will deal with this
 
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Whitejock said:
Not convinced about this. The figures seem low.

Hasn't done the top 2 much good either, has it? :D
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WJ. It’s net spend so offset by player sales, with what we got from the sales of wood and Taylor we would be no where near the top of that.
 
Doc said:
What is it with these Germans & he played well on Saturday too. Good luck Felix and congrats

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Think something got lost in translation TC said go forth and multiply meaning goals Ha Ha
 
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Leedsoflondon said:
WJ. It’s net spend so offset by player sales, with what we got from the sales of wood and Taylor we would be no where near the top of that.
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Sorry, I wasn't clear.

I meant that the net figures were a lot lower than I expected. For instance, didn't Villa spend about £40m? If so, can't imagine them recouping anything like that. You never get a players full value once you get relegated - you can't afford him, and other clubs know that they've got you by the balls, hence the low sale prices. There were a few big spenders, but I don't remember them selling big to offset that cost. Have to admit it's just an impression. I have zero evidence to support this.
 
Whitejock said:
Sorry, I wasn't clear.

I meant that the net figures were a lot lower than I expected. For instance, didn't Villa spend about £40m? If so, can't imagine them recouping anything like that. You never get a players full value once you get relegated - you can't afford him, and other clubs know that they've got you by the balls, hence the low sale prices. There were a few big spenders, but I don't remember them selling big to offset that cost. Have to admit it's just an impression. I have zero evidence to support this.
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When put like that you're right. Probably why there are so many 'undisclosed' transfer fees, hides the money.
 
milkyboy said:
Yep very true, though it’s chicken and egg, sometimes it’s hard to tell whether a side is poor or being put under pressure and made to look poor.

My personal experience of individual sport is that if you play someone who is just a bit better than you... or better on the day, you always feel you played badly - because you were having to do everything a split second faster, under more pressure... it creates errors, rash decisions etc. in team sports it’s compounded as not only is the pass to you less accurate, given at the wrong time, over hit etc, you witness your team mates flustered and it impacts on you mentally. You can see nerves spread through a team sometimes.

Barnsley's Passing was poor, they were trying the Hollywood pass too much too early but no doubt our pressing restricted their options and forced their hand. So let’s take some credit for that.

The difference between our good performances and bad ones seems to me to be how effective our press is. Ie like a lot of sides, we’re much better at taking advantage of broken play than of breaking down sides in possession.

Some days it doesn’t look like we are really trying to harry the opposition in possession.. maybe we are and some teams are better at dealing with it? Dunno.
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A very thorough response to a less than serious post but you are quite right
 
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I'm hoping this is one to develop and not to go straight into the 1st team. In January if we are going to get a new striker I would really like a player who will hit the ground running. To do this I think we need a player who is/ or has played in the championship and been successful.
 
Eric Le Merde said:
I'm hoping this is one to develop and not to go straight into the 1st team. In January if we are going to get a new striker I would really like a player who will hit the ground running. To do this I think we need a player who is/ or has played in the championship and been successful.
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You're right of course but who is available / which team would sell to one of their rivals??
 
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