James Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 OK, this thread will either fall flat on its arse or pretty interesting, but is worth a try so be nice You are Glenn Roeder. It is 2006. Alan Shearer has just had his testimonial. You've had a bit to drink and fall into a deep sleep. In your sleep, you dream about the next 3 and a half years. You see whats gone wrong at Newcastle, and you see all the transfers that happen at other clubs. Then you wake up. The challenge, is to use that knowledge from your 'dream' to produce the best 2010 team possible using a transfer pot of £15m (approximate net spend pre-relegation) You can only buy players for the fee they were bought for by a club since Summer 2006. Plus you have to realistically justify that player signing for a UEFA Cup level club. Additionally, you can only sell players for the exact fee you sold them. The squad is: Given Harper Krul Carr Babayaro Bramble Taylor Moore Boumsong Ramage Huntington Elliott Solano N'Zogbia Dyer Parker Emre Patisson Butt Faye Clark O'Brien Bowyer Owen Luque Ameobi Chopra Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 No. No, I am not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 although its been a while. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Too much work having looking up fees and so on, otherwise this could've been a fun thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 i hope he doesn't look in. he'll get another tumour reading that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Geremi, Xisco, Gonzalez, Best tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.S.R. Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 i hope he doesn't look in. he'll get another tumour reading that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Glenn Roeder got West Ham relegated on 42 points. Glenn Roeder also likes referring to himself in the 3rd person. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishmael Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Faye would probably be the only person I would consider selling from that team. The rest I feel I could man-mange into a solid top half of the table squad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belfast Boy Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 First thing I'm going to do is go take a look or three at Kuyt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishmael Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 First thing I'm going to do is go take a look or three at Kuyt. I agree Kuyt would be an excellent signing as those 4 forwards aren't really enough. Especially when they're all super injury prone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Liam Liam O Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 If he wants to pretend to be 'a N00b' can his post count not be reset so he can't start threads? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 I think James is trying to imply Glenn Roeder is an alcoholic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Can I lock this yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 If he wants to pretend to be 'a N00b' can his post count not be reset so he can't start threads? It was Andy that did that. I'm completely innocent there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Can I lock this yet? Why not just leave it, if people don't like it will drop to the bottom and be forgotten about. It isn't offensive is it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Liam Liam O Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Can I lock this yet? Not until someone has a go at doing it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishmael Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Can I lock this yet? I suppose you could... but the real question is why should you lock it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishmael Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Looking at the squad in a bit more detail... The defence and forwards are very week in depth. The midfield is awesome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Can I lock this yet? I suppose you could... but the real question is why should you lock it? Well if I pretend I'm Glenn Roeder and I dream ahead to 2010, I can see plenty of reasons why this is a waste of time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Liam Liam O Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 I'll have a go then.............. "Mr Shepherd, please can I go back to the academy, that's what I'm good at and that's where I want to be" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishmael Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Can I lock this yet? I suppose you could... but the real question is why should you lock it? Well if I pretend I'm Glenn Roeder and I dream ahead to 2010, I can see plenty of reasons why this is a waste of time. Well that would be a very narrow minded view to take. Treat it as a retrospective view on what we had then to what we have now. If I'm honest I'd say most of the negative posts in this thread carry an air of prejudice, which is really sad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Mongo Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 I'd not buy Duff and save £5M on transfer fees and £60K a week. Then I'd sell Fatty Pattison so that I wouldn't have to use him in an injury situation. I'd invest some of the money in a big TV and show the team highlights of Duff's game every week, letting them know that I could have bought him but oh look how shit he is. This would boost the team's morale so much that further transfers would be unnecessary, and then I'd spend the rest of the transfer budget on beer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Liam Liam O Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 I'd not buy Duff and save £5M on transfer fees and £60K a week. Then I'd sell Fatty Pattison so that I wouldn't have to use him in an injury situation. I'd invest some of the money in a big TV and show the team highlights of Duff's game every week, letting them know that I could have bought him but oh look how shit he is. This would boost the team's morale so much that further transfers would be unnecessary, and then I'd spend the rest of the transfer budget on beer. That's a good point about Duff. If we didn't sign him, N'Zogbia would automatically turn into the World class player Duff clearly stopped him being & we wouldn't need to buy anyone else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishmael Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Yes, but look at Duff now... It's a sad state of affairs that some many talented players have underperformed for us (since SBR left). Duff would have been a fantastic player if used and motivated well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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