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Eire is truly pissed off. As captain of the good ship hms reality or depression as some refer to her as soon as we’re promoted every single one of you jump onboard. Sadly this ship was never designed for such numbers and to prevent sinking I am forced to jump overboard. Hoping for a rescue from the Irish navy. Till we meet again aboard a different raft bye bye it’s been a pleasure
 
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Eireleeds1 said:
Eire is truly pissed off. As captain of the good ship hms reality or depression as some refer to her as soon as we’re promoted every single one of you jump onboard. Sadly this ship was never designed for such numbers and to prevent sinking I am forced to jump overboard. Hoping for a rescue from the Irish navy. Till we meet again aboard a different raft bye bye it’s been a pleasure
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You’ll be picked up soon, put in a hotel, given a mobile phone for free and a weekly food voucher to enjoy. You’ll also get some private healthcare if you are feeling poorly
 
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Eireleeds1 said:
Are you having a go at the owners there
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Open minded who is at fault. They’ve (owners) spent a huge chunk of money and they’ve listened to who Farke has wanted to bring in.

I’ve no idea if we’ve screwed up in a few transfers, if we’ve been unrealistic, if we’ve pissed about or been played by agents.

Whatever the reason, it’s been a shambles for the main part. I can’t hit them with your stick for not backing Farke as they’ve spent a lot, if it’s not been well spent (which I don’t think it has) then questions need asking

If Farke asked for these signings, if you are the owners saying you’ll back him, how can they back him and also say no. A shambles right down to Harrison coming back and then the last two signings from the previous window Schmidt and Largie not being needed. Then we have Bamford who needed paying off and allowing Wober and others to go out on the cheap.

If it’s down to Farke and it fails he’ll be out soon enough, if it’s down to the recruitment team and it fails I’d expect them to receive their marching orders
 
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Hold on, didn’t the ITK guy from WACCOE say Buanotte was a done deal?? Was the flight hitch that after taking off from the south coast it couldn’t cross Chelsea??
 
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Leedsoflondon said:
Hold on, didn’t the ITK guy from WACCOE say Buanotte was a done deal?? Was the flight hitch that after taking off from the south coast it couldn’t cross Chelsea??
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He did give it the bullseye and was the first to say its gone to **** too. I guess a lot can change, but Smyth rolling out the rescheduling of the flight was obviously bollocks and things had changed

He was at least 5 hours ahead breaking both bits of news and has enough in the bank regarding all the signings this year bar our first one
 
ristac said:
Open minded who is at fault. They’ve (owners) spent a huge chunk of money and they’ve listened to who Farke has wanted to bring in.

I’ve no idea if we’ve screwed up in a few transfers, if we’ve been unrealistic, if we’ve pissed about or been played by agents.

Whatever the reason, it’s been a shambles for the main part. I can’t hit them with your stick for not backing Farke as they’ve spent a lot, if it’s not been well spent then (which I don’t think it has) then questions need asking

If Farke asked for these signings, how can you back him and also say no. Right down to Harrison coming back and the last two signings from previously Schmidt and Largie not being needed to having to pay off Bamford, and allowing Wober and others to go out on the cheap.

If it’s down to Farke and it fails he’ll be out soon enough, if it’s down to the recruitment team and it fails I’d expect them to receive their marching orders
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I think when you look at who comes in you can often have a stab at who has the biggest say.

With Marsch we signed a few guys he’d worked with previously. Though strangely aaronson was apparently coming anyway. It was pretty clear we had Marsch led signings and orta led ones.

With Farke it’s less clear cut - we don’t have a DOF… but as he’s German and came to us from gladbach I think we can say he likely led the interest in the Bundesliga signings.

As for the rest of them. Who knows? He’s declared himself satisfied with defence/midfield but pointed the finger at the lack of attacking signings.

Seems most likely options were presented to him as and he approved them. But you have to consider what that means. If you’re given the choice between DCL or nothing, you’re gonna say DCL. Maybe.
 
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milkyboy said:
I think when you look at who comes in you can often have a stab at who has the biggest say.

With Marsch we signed a few guys he’d worked with previously. Though strangely aaronson was apparently coming anyway. It was pretty clear we had Marsch led signings and orta led ones.

With Farke it’s less clear cut - we don’t have a DOF… but as he’s German and came to us from gladbach I think we can say he likely led the interest in the Bundesliga signings.

As for the rest of them. Who knows? He’s declared himself satisfied with defence/midfield but pointed the finger at the lack of attacking signings.

Seems most likely options were presented to him as and he approved them. But you have to consider what that means. If you’re given the choice between DCL or nothing, you’re gonna say DCL. Maybe.
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Dogs breakfast

slow start then pace picks up and before long we have new CBs, new LB, freebie CF, 3 new midfielders. Slow for a bit and then a new keeper, then a freebie CF and then a new LW. Still plenty of time though but zero happens and still nothing happening and then yet another forward goes elsewhere then according to reports we go back months and go for Hamer, try again for BEK. Dogs breakfast but so far we are pointedly worse off in forwards than we should be
 
Wolves have signed Tolu Arokodare. Thats a striker i would have taken a punt on. If he adjusts to the PL he will be a proper handful.

West Ham have signed Mateus Fernandes from Southampton. Very good midfielder.

Brentford splashed out on a striker I know little about.
 
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ristac said:
Think the entire transfer window has been a shambles and we’ve not managed to get anywhere near the quality required in
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But…… you’ve spent the last two years slamming Farke because anyone could get this side promoted and he failed not doing it first time, how does that work?
 
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Ramazani played the last 10 minutes for Valencia tonight, got an assist, hadn’t even trained with the team yet.
 
We were always going to be linked to every man and his dog with transfers but until they are over the line, that's all they are, rumours. Sometimes I feel they were put out there to take the heat off anyone coming in. I wanted us to keep the spine of the team and bring a few gems in but we have gone down the Radz route of getting a quantity of players in. It does worry me that we are going that way altogether, because it feels like we have lost that ambience in the dressing room. We were altogether at the end of the season but it all seems so disjointed now along with the ballots for away tickets. In their quest to get new fans in, they seem to have forgotten that it is our loyal fans who are there through thick and thin and should be nurtured not kicked in the teeth. It has all the signs of turning toxic very quickly so I only hope tomorrow goes our way as it is too soon to make hasty judgements however bad it may look.
 
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Marcos Barber said:
But…… you’ve spent the last two years slamming Farke because anyone could get this side promoted and he failed not doing it first time, how does that work?
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Not sure I follow mate, can you elaborate.

We easily had the best team in the Championship (in my opinion) and that was proven in a way by the final points tally and distance to 3rd - Farke did what I expected he should have done.

There is a big gap between top of the Championship and the 4-5 teams who avoided relegation though, a gap we needed to close with 3-4 signings who’d be first name on the team sheet.
 
Betis at it again. They put a bid in for Antony from scum and have haggled all summer. Eventually scum accepted a low ball offer to get Antony off the wage bill only for Betis to withdraw the accepted offer and now want scum to pay most of Antonys wages until 2027.

I hate both clubs but its about time clubs just refused to deal with Betis at all. Hope scum dont bow to them.
 
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Typical clickbait today as Leeds now so desperate we are back in for BEK who Palace refused as fee too high, Kalvin Phillips, Hamer, Buendia or Uche who played last night. Going to be a mad weekend
 
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Doc said:
Typical clickbait today as Leeds now so desperate we are back in for BEK who Palace refused as fee too high, Kalvin Phillips, Hamer, Buendia or Uche who played last night. Going to be a mad weekend
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Never fear. Tuesday morning we’ll have the january transfer thread launched where some of europes finest will be discussed for four months
 
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