r0cafella

Really? cracking deal we got for ASM. Another failure from the club, we should have been multi club long ago for precisely this reason. City got a cracking deal for Savinho didn’t they?

Your properly in love fair enough. You’ve been hit with so many contradictions and are cool with it.

Just wish the board would faster get on with telling us the plan for sjp so I can crystalise my opinions about the future direction of the club.

It’s not about that though, he’s gone and done exactly what I expected and mocked he’s gone crying about FFP whilst shopping in the most expensive possible market and failing it’s basically a bullshit response.

This will be checked as it’s a related party deal.

Young Elliot in the mud.

This isn’t true though beren, we never get back 70m on mark Guehi, it’s a massive overpay it’s obvious we are the only people in the running at those kind of numbers.

It’s nonsense and you’ve actually summed it up perfectly. We aren’t in the market to sign forever players; and if this is mentally we have we are fucked. Yes we need players to improve us but that isn’t difficult is it? We need players who are of a profile that can be sold on down the line to buy us headroom. Im really concerned we have no plan to move forward to be frank, he was asked what would you learn from this and the answer was basically nothing to learn he speaks well you course but when you scratch the surface of what’s been said it’s hilariously poor.

It means at some point we are failing, personally I’m not too interested in who’s to blame but something is going wrong at some point whereby we can’t sign anyone despite multiple attempts.

To be very Frank, it’s quite clear that if we want to keep on improving the squad which obviously should be a priority for us we have to player trade like Villa are, we’ve shown an absolute refusal to do so and is the thing slowing our progress. Benitez made nothing stretch so fucking far, and he we are crying the poor tale whilst offering 70m for centre half’s. Literally mad.

They make absolutely zero sense, crying the poor tail when we’ve offered 70m for someone is fucking nuts

I’m not sure anymore tbh, according to Eddie we were in for multiple players and couldn’t land any, that’s a pretty big failure to be honest mind.

Couldn’t be reaching here but he doesn’t come across as if he’s been fucked over mind.

To warm the bench as the superior Isak starts? Toney makes no sense for us unless we were selling Isak and obviously that would be a horrible deal. It’s be akin to trading Gordon for 30m and Joe Gomez.

I’m talking about at a societal level. I’m not on board with the play for the glory and get less mindset.

1, 10m for a sporting director is incredible business. 2, Minteh was always bought as an FFP flip, what an incredible investment he turned out to be. 3, what choice do we have? We want to grow rapidly in order to do so we have to push the line, we actually need to be more aggressive than we have been and be open to trading even our best players to give us headroom to improve (after the shambles of this window I can imagine our fans being even more concerned about such an approach kind)

We had an offer for Miggy we turned it down. Wilson is injured and Targett has been injured for 2 years. No way the club expected 70m from those players either btw.

What makes you think that?

We live in a world where the MO is to make as much money as possible, he’s just doing what’s expected. I think because we have the best league in the world we tend to get a bit snobby when we are snubbed but he’s an employee at the end of the day and like most employees they go to the guy who’s giving the most money.

Getting 30m a year isn’t wasting anything. The money will do more for him than the trinkets and medals ever will if we are being honest.

I don’t think so no, they get to live in a bubble like China before them until they realise they are literally pissing into the wind. The league is totally irrelevant.

Fee is super low mind, arse has well and truly fallen out of the market.

Fair enough, maybe I’ve been on the copium anarl? I really don’t want to believe Eddie’s refused alternatives for a player who is massively overpriced.

My point was pretty simple like, the void will be filled if the club opt not to do so themselves. I’m not demanding an official explanation nor do I expect to receive one, I know exactly how this plays out the face saving will begin. I think what we have achieved though is we’ve removed positivity and excitement from our fan base and filled with it with rumour and hearsay and we’ve nobody to blame for that other than ourselves. We’ve had an entire summer to improve a team which everyone knows can be improved; we are not 1972 Brazil and we do have money and for whatever reason we haven’t managed to achieve that simple task. We should also take a step back and re examine the clubs own words and goals, YAR said the goal is to be number one; the fans believe that this window has done absolutely nothing to bring us closer to that goal.

Yeah I watched it and I still feel like he’s stopping short of what hope implied. Eddies main and only target doesn’t suggest to me that Eddie refused other alternatives mind, I read it as this is the guy Eddie brought forward as the one he wanted. the other sentence which starts with “ I get the feeling” can be pretty much ignored imo.