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Why?

Aye, could live with a loan as long as no forced option to buy

Krul was a very good keeper until Woodman and Pards got his hands on him. Anita is a decent player who is completely unsuited to this league, he only really works playing as the deepest central midfielder in a 433 imo. De jong captained ajax to titles and impressed at Champions League level.

Given how easy it is to become an England international these days its no coup. This is a really short sighted Sunderland-esque signing . Could say the same thing about a couple of our Dutch internationals. Which?

Given how easy it is to become an England international these days its no coup. This is a really short sighted Sunderland-esque signing

A lad we could have had in the summer for free, and come January we want to spend 12 million on Townsend. That planning

That 1 in 8 goal threat

That's damming on Townsend given how bad Lamela was when he first came over

The biggest problem though, and clearly the elephant in the fucking boardroom, is that owld 'Island Heed' has not shown he's capable of improving talented players nor finding a system to at least entertain the idea of giving a Thauvin, De Jong, Marveaux etc a run. They might very well be shite or too flimsy/not suited to our league but at least give them a run of 12-15 games to show something. Cracking posts from you two lads, this is exactly what is at play here.

Aye he's no where near Spurs standard and he shouldn't be anywhere near ours either.

The best players we can get within the budget regardless of where the player is from. Averages 1 in 8 goals and this includes over 50 games I'm the championship Armstrong had more goals for Coventry than Townsend has in his career

He has about 10 career goals and he's 24 these purple patches didn't last long did they? I guess we are finally accepting our position as perennial relegation strugglers with signings like this.

Ffs I feared we'd go from buying cheap foreign with potential to buying into the we need more British players crap. He's absolute gash, payout good money for Spurs reserves team players now.

That feeling will soon change if we buy him.

Of course we have however expanded our transfer model to include British players though so we should all be grateful. I miss the model which used to just get the best players you fucking can.

He's shit.

English so must be better. Knows the league etc Fucking terrible, everything about it. I will say that we shouldn't discount the possibility the player is pushing to leave. Pretty sure he wants to leave and how he's been managed won't have helped. That being said it's another unsuitable signing Townsend will be if we get him

English so must be better. Knows the league etc

Would love to gloat about this cunts shitness but out plight takes the shine off it

Townsend ffs. Because average English players are inherently better than average French ones

Can't be right its not possible to compete unless your a sovereign state.

Cheers Steve. Just heard from a reliable source that McClaren never wanted him, he did want Shelvey though. Fairly impressive lying to the player then. Indeed. Can't imagine fat mike would be thrilled with us spending more on a player the manager refuses to start. How much was Thauvin? Thauvin is behind Moussa and Gini. This lad would be behind Colback Anita and Tiote

Cheers Steve. Just heard from a reliable source that McClaren never wanted him, he did want Shelvey though. Fairly impressive lying to the player then. Indeed. Can't imagine fat mike would be thrilled with us spending more on a player the manager refuses to start.

This, he's had one good season and was rewarded handsomely.