BottledDog

Makes no difference at all to the outcome. Just winds people up that the so called manager of the team is complicit in dismantling it. Amazing that this needs explaining. Amazing that people think he is 'complicit in dismantling it'. It's just nonsense man.

Spurs sell their best players and spend every penny they get from the sale to try and bring the club closer to Champions League football. That's the difference. I agree with that totally. But it's not the point here. Most PL clubs are vulnerable especially if a player wants to leave as Cabaye obviously does. Yeah I agree, but it's not necessarily a negative thing. It depends on the mindset the selling club has. I get the impression we'd rather hold on to the cash and see how we get on (because we're safe), and if we struggle then buy in the summer. Probably buy cheaply too, hoping to get someone we can sell in a couple of years similar to Cabaye. It's desperate and it's a cowardly way to run a football club. They should take losing Cabaye on the chin and go out and replace him properly. They should be working on that right now. Who's to say they won't. We've got progressively better players at the club over the past few seasons. Doub't we'll get anyone as good as Cabaye, but hopefully a player or players will come in with the potential to match or surpass him down the line.

Might come back to haunt you that one. A decent player by all accounts. It's not that we can't compete, we choose not to, which is infinitely worse (not specifically in the case of Scocco, more in general, which again, is infinitely worse). Having just watched 'Ignacio Scocco best goals 2011', you might well be right. Looked good on a camel too.

Why aren't we able to compete with clubs for the Ignacio Scoccos of this world?

Reckon discussions have finished for the day. Pie and a pint for Olivier Létang! Might even get a chance to piss himself, as is the custom.

hoe many times has he been out of position defensively? http://www.thescrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/IDontKnow.jpg

Eventually found them in the 3 Bulls mate. The one with the beret on was sipping a nice Merlot and looked pretty happy, but the two drinking lager said they thought the English, brewed under licence, Kronenbourg was shite. They looked like they were settling in for a session and one of them said that they like Newcastle so much they may just hang around and buy the club if Ashley wants to sell. A nice Merlot in the 3 Bulls. Pfffft.

In the table for prem left backs (since 2012/13), Santon comes 5th in terms of successful tackles, 2nd in terms of goals, and 3rd in terms of chances created. Not too shabby! /Disclaimer: selective stats don't always paint the full picture.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGG. That's not what I wanted to hear.

At least. I could probably get my head around him earning his move in the summer, but not now ffs.

SSN sources and as we know that usually is the club You guys. The press make up any old shite, but ok, let's say the club leaked that. What purpose does it serve other to piss on every supporters chips when it doesn't happen? Plenty of evidence showing that Ashley enjoys doing that tbf Ah, I see.

SSN sources and as we know that usually is the club You guys. The press make up any old shite, but ok, let's say the club leaked that. What purpose does it serve other to piss on every supporters chips when it doesn't happen?

No. We didn't.

Sounds a fun summer. Looking forward to it.

This doesn't seem to be about Pardew when you wouldn't even see him playing much yourself. Can't see Ince agreeing to a loan just to be a sub here.

The point I'm making is that we had an opportunity to push on and failed to do anything about it. Our failure to capitalise on our position years ago doesn't mean we can't try to progress now and fail we did. Agreed. But it's undeniable that that the oportunity we had then to be part of the top group of clubs is lost, and can only be achieved now with an insane amount of investment.

2 seasons ago we went into our last game 1 point off a CL place. Not sure what point you're making there. Any club can flirt with getting into the competition, but even if we had got a CL place it wouldn't suddenly have given us the spending power or draw of those clubs that pulled away from us back when the mega money first kicked in.

David Young warned United "If the club is to maintain its position, it's very important it returns to the European Champions League as soon as possible." "The financial rewards of the Champions League have become so great there is a danger that those clubs who are participating in it now will become so rich that clubs will be unable to challenge them." How right he was. Sadly we missed the boat long before Ashley turned up Bimpy. And ever since. The opportunity to establish as/remain one of the few rich clubs died during that period. The longer we failed to get back into the ECL consistently, the harder it was to compete at that financial level and get back to that position. Only an enormous injection of cash along Man City lines might manage it now.

David Young warned United "If the club is to maintain its position, it's very important it returns to the European Champions League as soon as possible." "The financial rewards of the Champions League have become so great there is a danger that those clubs who are participating in it now will become so rich that clubs will be unable to challenge them." How right he was. Sadly we missed the boat long before Ashley turned up Bimpy.

Are you suggesting we did the dirty on Cabaye so that nobody would offer anything for him and we get to keep an unhappy player? Sounds about as plausible as some of the other ludicrous conspiracies demonising the club on here.

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Because we don't tend to sell our top players?

I'm sure you're right, the players we have bought and sold have consistently left the team considerably weaker. Pardew has been doing an astonishing job with the shit players hes been given.