The only problem with a deal for Sturridge is that the Chavs will not want to sell him to us. They are still smarting about us finishing above them in the league last season. Lets face it they bought Oscar who will probably end up warming their bench to stop us getting him to replace Modric. Everyone we become interested in they are buying in an attempt to sabotage our season. Bring on FFP.
I think Oscar's a replacement for Fat Frank, Deedub. He'll be phased in over the coming season and then eventually take his place, though I'm not sure how their midfield fits together, to be honest.
He played as a holding midfielder during his early days a Le Mans before being used further forward. He also went on strike at PSG refusing to join a training camp so he might be the perfect replacement for Modric.
You might well be right but I also struggle to see exactly what RDM is trying to do. They've had a ****e pre season, long may it continue.
I have another hunch. (LOL me and my hunches!) I reckon RDM will prove to be out of his depth relatively quickly, by January or thereabouts. Harry will come in for them. Just a hunch. I'll probably be wrong. I'd like to be wrong. It wouldn't surprise me though.
So do people still think I'm crazy for claiming a few weeks ago that we wouldn't sign anyone till Modric gets sold? At this point it's probably more likely that we'd sell Defoe instead of signing another striker!
Due to being higher than they are in the medal table, can we now attract the best that Argentina, Portugal, Greece, Serbia and Belgium have to offer?
That depends, Moorpheus. Did you say it before or after we signed Sigurdsson and Vertonghen? It does seems that we need to shift some players before we bring anyone in though, doesn't it?
RDM may be out of his depth, but I would be very surprised if Chelsea don't outperform us again as they have every season under ENIC. Chelsea have a chairman, like at City, who is happy to back ambition with cash. We are owned by people who won't/can't spend what's needed to get us into the elite of English football. It saddens me to see us in the shadow of City and Chelsea, two clubs who used to be in our shadow.
But (as much as I agree that we could perhaps have spent more), you are actually arguing for unsustainable spending. To pour in more than you're making is long term suicide unless the funds are unlimited (which they seem to be in the other two cases). Fact is, even if we had guaranteed CL football, as Citeh and Chelski have showed, even that isn't enough to cover the sort of spending they've done and wages they're paying. Sadly I don't think there is any sort of even slightly sensible financial regime we could attempt that would allow us to compete with teams that have no financial constraint. On the other hand we are not in the situation where we are a plaything of some rich owner who could one day get bored, or some other calamity befall them, whereupon we would be immediately destroyed. The whole current situation has me so annoyed when I think about it, that one day fingers crossed when either of those two crash and burn, the only sympathy you'll hear is from some to$$er on TalkSport saying its sad to see clubs with such history going down but I won't hear them because I'll be laughing so hard.
The Russian has been there for a decade, there is little chance of his regime going belly up. What a ride they have had on the back of it. If the Putin regime is booted out this may effect his funding but he has so much dosh this is unlikely . At worse they would return to mid table with selling off their best players . What ever we say about him , he acts like a real fan who only wants the best. The Arab owners are the same and to be fair are regenerating the area around them. My gripe is that we have a billionaire owner who never goes that one step further. Just paying an extra million once or twice a year to secure those special players , which we will never afford a couple years later. If they were not so tight we would be playing Champs league next season and recouped any extra funds spent. Also the club value would be higher as all their interesting long term is selling the club for a huge profit. Enic seem to produce a unhappy club always on the verge every season of imploding.
Seems that Everton have accepted a bid from $ity for Rodwell, not quite De Rossi but decent player nonetheless.
Well said SF, all the people who said they didn't want RA at Spurs were sooooooooooooooo wrong IMHO. If they objected on moral grounds fine, that's up to them. But in terms of what has been achieved, it's not even close. We were easily a bigger and more successful club than Chelsea when ENIC took over, despite their few years of relative success 94-2001. But now Chelsea are ahead of us in the trophy table, and I can't be bothered with the 'bigger club' debate, but I doubt that many outside of Spurs think we're bigger than Chelsea. Anyway Chelsea are way more succssful than us, and that's simply a matter of fact. RA has been absolutely brilliant for Chelsea, they've smashed us all over the shop under him, while we've had to live with penny pinching ENIC. Last season was really the final straw, they completely and utterly ****ed us over on so many levels. and this season, they'll continue I've no doubt about it.
I rate Rodwell, good player for City's 2nd XI, like us Everton used to be so much bigger than City, how sickening for them to lose one of 'their own' to City, just to be a squad player. Bad enough losing Rooney to Utd, how more humiliating this must be.
Most Everton fans are fairly happy about this as he isn't a 1st team starter, is injury prone and they are strong in midfield so the 15-20 million is going to allow them to strengthen in other areas.
http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/161656-Jack-Rodwell-going http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewArticle/142111 http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewArticle/142155 Not exactly frothing at the mouth with doom and gloom, is it?
