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I mean that old man has a big mouth, what do you want to do? Joking aside, they can pay us 14m less than what we paid and we break even. If my memory serves me that's less than the gap in the valuations between Bayern and Stuttgart last summer. Bayern are also sending Jackson back to Chelsea and Kane is a year old, they might want to do something.

On here? Maybe I am too selective with the comments I read Or tend to take those comments in the immediate aftermath of games with a dose of salt.

That's where the difference in opinion come in no? I perfectly understand the mitigations as mentioned I just don't agree they warrant such a poor campaign. And it's fine right, I respect your opinion and the other posters who are rock solid with what they believe.

I can see what you mean from the Italian perspective, particularly in the Liverpool case. I also believe stocking with Eddie is risky but so is sacking him, the ownership probably concluded sticking is the lesser of the two evils. For Wolte, if Bayern are keen I can imagine we break even on an accounting bases however if they aren't interested we have an expensive problem. Signs point to us not changing our approach tactically so Woltemade is almost dead weight for us.

That's the thing Yorks, I don't think anyone on here (from what I recall reading) is dismissing them. personally I can't be arsed writing a proviso at the start of every post acknowledging them. I use this place as my yardstick because by in large I know the people posting on here support the club and aren't bots farming for engagement, the same can't be said for other cesspits.

Fair critique, we ended up with 130m net I think? I don't think anyone expected us to be able to replace Isak like for like, but that's the point where your leaning on the manager to come up with something, not just plug in too inferior players and say crack on. Even if we took this naive approach I still wouldn't expect such a fall off and that's the rub. Morons like True Geordie aside I haven't seen many people (particularly on here) dismiss the mitigations, it's more a question of does the mitigation warrant such a underperformance and those skeptical amongst us have concluded no, not to this extent.

I wouldn't call it Bizarre personally, to me the decision to keep him is the payment coming due, he's done a lot for us and our owners are obviously aware of that hence wanting to be as patient as possible. The Woltemade thing makes no sense to be as seems to be a much bigger issue than it actually is. I like the lad and think he's a talent but him being moved on isn't going to make or break anything and thus I struggle to care too much about his future with us :lol:

Your bang on, the money spent is my Benchmark for him and how I judge the progress. As of now our par is 7/8 and this is where I anticipate us to end up at this stage, I don't imagine this expectation I have will change next season either.

Yeah this is my concern, the fact we spend more and back what we have and it goings tits up. I'm in the odd position whereby i understand the logical and reasoning for backing him further but also can't help but think it's a gamble. IF we are changing tact recruitment wise I find it a very puzzling decision, can't help but think things could snowball against us extremely quickly . Really hope he can turn it around though, bevause the other option is unthinkable...

This is pretty close to worst case scenario.

Hope nothing is broken and we give this lad a new contract and have him starting again.

Good to have some clarity hopefully we come back next season with some genuine new ideas.

Massive relief mind take the 3 points and run

Deary me.

Ai nonsense. We aren't paying 70m

Let's get em bought them, we arent getting Europe and nothing stopping us buying players outside of windows.

Really need something to cling on to today like. We obviously shouldn't get relegated but lose this and results to against us elsewhere and you better believe we will be sweating.

I didn't particularly want Elanga and I definitely don't want Ugarte. My policy towards former Manchester united players is pass.

Nah, you can keep him

Absolutely the blame is to be spread around for sure, but ultimately squad building and understanding value cant be solely the responsibility of those holding the purse strings. I should have also pre faced my original post by saying it seems the penny has dropped and we have to look for more value, I'm just wondering what took them so long

This is nonsense, as you've got no way of knowing who actually voted and who they actually support.

I must admit, I'm perplexed by the situation if I'm honest. Are the recruitment department as a whole that bad at maths they thought our business was sustainable? Massively concerning that long term planning is evidently not a thing at the club.

We better hope he does like, because if it doesn't we are up shits creek.

They are issues for Sure but again anyone who's watched us know that those 3 year old wide attacking patterns are stale. The face we can't progress the ball centrally is another issue. Let's not forget about those wingers either.

I actually think that's dangerous thinking. Anyone who's watched us play this season know our issues are deeper than poor goal keeping/finishing.