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Unbelievable

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  1. Might be things in his personal life though which he would prefer to keep quiet. Also I think the chances of a move right now are extremely slim due to finances so no need to rock the boat. This summer might be different though. He doesn't have to indulge anything about his personal life. As the captain of this club especially he has an obligation if you ask me to knock this on the head and tell his father/old club to stop putting forward his name in the process if they know he's not a realistic proposition. We 're in enough trouble as it is without rumours about our club captain not seemingly being 100% committed.
  2. Toulouse director trying to make some money of him whilst they can, although contradicts what they have said earlier. I don't think we'll go for him, but if somebody does it could mean he wants to leave now rather than wait for his contract to expire. Coincidentally, being linked with two left backs now I hope it means we are on the verge of selling Simpson on, rather than the talks about Santon going back to Italy being true..
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    Loïc Remy

    You don't remember correctly and I think you underrate Sturridge, not that I'm saying that he's better than Ba. Sturridge has the potential to be an excellent player if he gets the starts through the middle like he did when at Bolton. Fair enough. Apologies.
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    Loïc Remy

    How many clubs can ever really say that though? Honest question. The ones competing for top honours do. The fact we don't and won't anytime soon tells you the extent of Ashley's ambition for his club, sadly. Well we're not competing for top honours, I knew that unfortunately. Oh, I know it too. Doesn't mean I will ever accept it. Shepherd was an idiot, but at least he showed some ambition. Imagine what we could do with our current approach to transfers (good scouting, focus on personality, age policy, etc) combined with an owner willing to subsidise the club to a decent extent? If Ashley had kept his early promise of making the club financially stable and additionally putting 20 million per year of his own money into the club (by means of sponsorship or whatever to make it fiscally attractive for him) we would potentially be rubbing shoulders with those competing for top honours now. Well, if he also knew how to find a very good manager too that is..
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    Loïc Remy

    How many clubs can ever really say that though? Honest question. The ones competing for top honours do. The fact we don't and won't anytime soon tells you the extent of Ashley's ambition for his club, sadly.
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    Loïc Remy

    Both clubs needed a forward, both have them and I'm not sure what "the other one has signed Daniel Sturridge" means, I'll be over the moon if we get somebody in who is as good as he is. We just sold a striker who is much better, yet you weren't that bothered if I remember correctly..
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    Loïc Remy

    What was the last transfer window you were happy with out of interest? Depends how you look at it. There have been windows where we've come out stronger than we went in (January 2012 springs to mind with Cisse coming in and no outgoings), but I don't think I've ever felt completely happy with our squad, in the sense that we have genuine competition for places all over the pitch like the (other?) big clubs do. What I meant though is we always penny pinch, look for bargains rather than focusing on the positions that need strengthening (last summer!), try to unsettle players to force the selling club's hand. We also like to bring in unknown youngsters in the hope they develop well, which in fairness they sometimes do (Krul, Bigi). As fans we always go mad during windows at the apparent lack of progress on our reported targets, but then again we also seem to do a lot of business under the radar too. As I said earlier, our approach to transfers has its merits and its drawbacks. Personally I think we've done pretty well since Ashley came in with regards to transfer policy on the whole. My main gripe is that there seems to be a lack of understanding of the need to build a squad rather than a first team, which is especially damaging with the additional fixtures in Europe and considering a fair few purples are quite injury prone (Steven Taylor, Hatem?) and our back up players are mostly mediocire at best. You just have to look at the benches we regularly have to put out to see where our primary problem with regards to transfer policy lies.
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    Loïc Remy

    Every fucking transfer window is the same with Ashley in charge
  9. Didn't watch, but by the sounds of it it was another case of Ba >>>>>>>>> Torres? Even Torres wouldn't keep picking Torres man..
  10. Wish I could have watched this. Sounds fun..
  11. Meh, about on a par I would say. You have to consider Michu is doing it in an otherwise midtable at best team.. Cisse did it in a relegation team punching far above their weight tbh. Give over
  12. Howay, considering the team he plays in Michu has done a fair bit better than some of those, notably Yaya and Cazorla.
  13. Yep. Lost the first leg 2-1 away, but scored in the 2nd minute of the game, so it's to be expected Celta will fold badly as the match goes on.
  14. Meh, about on a par I would say. You have to consider Michu is doing it in an otherwise midtable at best team..
  15. Yes, he's a fantastic finisher but aside from that many players offer more. Fellaini being a prime example. He's quite a bit more than a fantastic finisher though, although best player in the league is pushing it substantially..
  16. Somebody better tell Hatem, and hopefully Remy.
  17. Damnit, just made my changes and din't think of including him..
  18. Why wouldn't CL Teams look at him though? If he's as good as his reputation indicates? Don't get me wrong, I'm over the moon that we've got him, I'd have just thought that there may have been more competition. Wait, so in one thread you are expressing your disbelief at getting a good French national team player relatively early in the window without much competition and in another you are expressing your dissatisfaction at not getting another? Have you considered that in Remy's case the selling club and player may be waiting to see if better options come their way, just as you apparently expected Debuchy to do? Don't really have the time to go into too much detail right now but I'm not expressing my disbelief at all, it's more a passing comment. My thoughts on Remy are that the Board should have had the deal tied up earlier to give us as much chance of picking up maximum points over the next few games. Also, Remy is a big fee (if the rumoured £10m+ is true) and not in great from hence a risk for any club. Debuchy is a low fee and has played consistently well for years. Which makes it even more understandable from our point of view that we haven't just gone in and bid whatever Marseille quoted without a second thought. As if our Board spend anything without a second thought . The difference between what OM want and what we'd pay is going to be what? A maximum of £2m? If we meet in the middle and find we've overpaid by £1m........so what? The signing, ahead of winnable games, would give great momentum to both the squad and fans, would give an extra option and would potentially enable us to let him play himself into the team and settle in. If we save £1m but sign him at the end of the month, we may be in the bottom 3 before he starts his settling in period. Your figures are pure conjecture though. Marseille paid 15 million euros for Remy in 2010. If you'd gone to them in december saying we want him before the window starts as you suggest they would have named their price, and you can pretty much guarantee it would have been a hell of a lot more than a 2 million difference with what we are looking to offer. As it is we are trying to manoeuver the player into wanting to come to us whilst hoping no other club takes a serious interest. It's how we do business, and it has merits and drawbacks, but no amount of fan whinging will change it anytime soon imho.
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