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This certainly would be disappointing news "Hey guys, we tried to get Debuchy but we failed...the silver lining is Simpson is signing a new contract" This place will f***ing erupt. Personally, I wouldn't be happy about it with its long-term implications for the RB slot but who knows, could well be a pile of shite

This certainly would be disappointing news

Big thumbs up on this one. Disappointed will also be how I feel if we don't sign anyone, however, I will have no specific gripes unless it were to continue as such in consecutive windows. I don't believe for a second it would

Nah man, he'd be an excellent signing. saw him a fair amount last season. He's really young but has bags of pace, tricks and really attacks defenders. think he'd add something we don't have

That's reason enough not to go for carroll

Looks to be potentially he a worse man manager than souness, certainly for players he deems not worthy of his team. You don't show all your cards to the press man, I think he must already be feelin a lot of pressure to be pulling out lines which how his hands are tied in the transfer market. Fucking hilarious

The Dilsh is fucking class like. Shame he's not looking very promising with the gloves

Probably done with this thread for a while but just wanted to say, excellent post mate. I may be wrong but I think we once had some lengthy debates about Ben Arfa starting and disagreed but everything you've said here has made perfect sense

I actually think Rodgers has something wrong with him based on those quotes. What a fucking retard

Nah, it was dead in the water about 7 pages back. Since then I've brought lots of straw men into the argument though and childish ideas so I guess it ended up being worthwhile after all

No worries Ian, the only time I ever get properly animated when talking about Nufc is when I'm talking about the transfer window. Quite enjoy talking about it even if it descends into these types of debates

Mate, you've brought in some ridiculous, unnecessary references to Mike Ashley and Dekka. Seems like you've got a deeper problem here than the transfer dealings. Many people who support the transfer regime don't even like Ashley or Dekka, myself included. Stop bringing them into it and making pointless extraneous claims

Aye, and it would take one first teamer to go above Man City into 8th. This discussion is pointless. There are several people on here, Ian W, Gimp, myself, High Five who think that our transfer policy works just fine because we're looking at how we've moved on in the past couple of years. There are several others who have the opposing view based upon what they think will happen if we don't change our policy. We may well sign a player still, we may not. Either way, I've been happy with the signings we've made this window and am happy with the way the club is going. We are looking at sustained long-term success and if it doesn't happen in this window, maybe it will in the next or the one after. No one's apologising for anything, we've gone from getting relegated to finishing fifth. We're not going to finish fifth this year but that doesn't mean we can't build more this year upon last year. Where you finish in the table isn't completely indicative of where your club is at

Nice, let's tie this up and hopefully avoid any suicides in the 'thoughts on the summer's transfer window' thread

Love Martinez, shame he's gone to Bayern. He's a player you could see just slotting into any team and making them better

Feel sorry for him, really do but it's good news for us

Hope that's all true, hope AVB fails. Was speaking to a Portuguese lad the other day and he said that over when he was managing Porto he was incredibly arrogant. I think he really believes he's a great manager already

I remember reading people lose their heads completely like this inthe last four windows where they signed off in a rage. Things haven't worked out too badly since then though

sorry for the inaccuracy on the Pav transfer. Brinkmanship is not exactly an exact science is it. Business is often about risks and so many things in life depend on the consequences as to whether or not it proved to be a good idea. On the whole, I agree with brinkmanship because over time I think you'll benefit from it more, but in short-term terms, it can be frustrating. Dembele is a lovely player but not even close to filling Modric's shoes. We haven't however lost anyone, so we don't know whether we'd have anyone lined up to replace them. I certainly could imagine Llambias going for someone who was a bargain on deadline day as long as he had been properly scouted and was what we needed. Our transfer style is to do very long scouts on people and then make sure we get the best deal, I personally think it works We haven´t replaced the likes of Best ffs. Aye, fair point. But he only played 21 games last season, not sure how many sub appearances, but obviously a fair few. I liked him a lot but he was a huge liability with injuries. Going forward I think we have options with Marv/Ben Arfa/Sammy and to a lesser extent Obertan all able to come through and play a role there

I prefer not to detract from football debate but calling me an 'apologist' is pretty weak. I'm not an apologist for anything other than trying to actually move forward as a club on the pitch and off it

sorry for the inaccuracy on the Pav transfer. Brinkmanship is not exactly an exact science is it. Business is often about risks and so many things in life depend on the consequences as to whether or not it proved to be a good idea. On the whole, I agree with brinkmanship because over time I think you'll benefit from it more, but in short-term terms, it can be frustrating. Dembele is a lovely player but not even close to filling Modric's shoes. We haven't however lost anyone, so we don't know whether we'd have anyone lined up to replace them. I certainly could imagine Llambias going for someone who was a bargain on deadline day as long as he had been properly scouted and was what we needed. Our transfer style is to do very long scouts on people and then make sure we get the best deal, I personally think it works

This, couple of excellent posts mate

Well yeah, they lost Pavlyuchenko, Crouch and brought Ade in very late. Sure if I was a Spurs fan, I'd have been frustrated. I really liked Guthrie but can understand why he left, think Anita is a much better player than him though (certainly will become one as he's much more-rounded). I can only talk about it being fine right now and disappointed if we don't get a RB in if it doesn't happen. Do you want me to say I'm disappointed about something that hasn't happened? Spurs are in a better position to get a player like Dembele because of his London connection + their financial situation and likelihood of a top five finish. I think we operate in a very similar manner to Spurs. They've lost Modric really late in the window which a lot of fans would worry about when they'd have expected it to happen all summer. Every club has its gripes. We have been steadily improving for a while now, we have a lot of talented youngsters who I think may well make an impact this season with all the games we'll have to play

Pardew's quotes don't sound great but then his quotes are mostly meaningless. You make a good point Loki, that is a pretty key difference but I really don't think the squad is in dire straits (even regarding the extra games we'll have to play.) We need a RB, no question but it may still happen