gdm Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 If they fuck Rafa around and he walks, I am done with the club like. I think many would be, me included. Putting off buying a membership at moment Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 If they fuck Rafa around and he walks, I am done with the club like. I think many would be, me included. Putting off buying a membership at moment Likewise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoot Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Rafa's talk in on Thursday of this week, could be interesting! Hope its recored and made available online. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 If they f*** Rafa around and he walks, I am done with the club like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Ill give it until the transfer window closes and ill see what we are left with. Its smells a little off and the same old same old appears to be happening but they also say very little. I'm hoping something in is happening in the background where the club is in the process of being sold If Rafa is prepared to stay I'll probably get on board, regardless of how the signings go objectively. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 There's not that much wrong TBF we've made three good signings and I'm confident we'll make more, some of the dead wood needs to go but that will happen during the last week of the window when clubs are desperate. I would have prefered us to have our best first team with new players by the Spurs game but like a lot of other teams this wont happen till September. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 There's not that much wrong TBF we've made three good signings and I'm confident we'll make more, some of the dead wood needs to go but that will happen during the last week of the window when clubs are desperate. I would have prefered us to have our best first team with new players by the Spurs game but like a lot of other teams this wont happen till September. I'm hoping this too, just hard to avoid the creeping sense of dread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 There's not that much wrong TBF we've made three good signings and I'm confident we'll make more, some of the dead wood needs to go but that will happen during the last week of the window when clubs are desperate. I would have prefered us to have our best first team with new players by the Spurs game but like a lot of other teams this wont happen till September. That's the case most of the time though, problem is we never do anywhere enough. Which looks like happening again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
morla84 Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Anyone got tickets for Thursday fancy periscoping/taking minutes? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Anyone got tickets for Thursday fancy periscoping/taking minutes? I doubt anyone would be allowed to periscope but minutes would be fantastic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 There's not that much wrong TBF we've made three good signings and I'm confident we'll make more, some of the dead wood needs to go but that will happen during the last week of the window when clubs are desperate. I would have prefered us to have our best first team with new players by the Spurs game but like a lot of other teams this wont happen till September. We've signed 2 players with virtually no experience of top level football and another who did OK in Spain. Stop exaggerating. The summer's been an abject failure so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Agree with that. People can try and sugar coat it as much as they like, but so far it's been an atrocious window. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 There's not that much wrong TBF we've made three good signings and I'm confident we'll make more, some of the dead wood needs to go but that will happen during the last week of the window when clubs are desperate. I would have prefered us to have our best first team with new players by the Spurs game but like a lot of other teams this wont happen till September. We've signed 2 players with virtually no experience of top level football and another who did OK in Spain. Stop exaggerating. The summer's been an abject failure so far. Rubbish, it's a good start, a bit slow but the majority of clubs are finding it hard to sign players Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 There's not that much wrong TBF we've made three good signings and I'm confident we'll make more, some of the dead wood needs to go but that will happen during the last week of the window when clubs are desperate. I would have prefered us to have our best first team with new players by the Spurs game but like a lot of other teams this wont happen till September. We've signed 2 players with virtually no experience of top level football and another who did OK in Spain. Stop exaggerating. The summer's been an abject failure so far. Juxtaposition of those two sentences is interesting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Difficult to call something a success or failure when there's so long left to go. And that's not me defending anyone Ronaldo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ndegwa Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 There's not that much wrong TBF we've made three good signings and I'm confident we'll make more, some of the dead wood needs to go but that will happen during the last week of the window when clubs are desperate. I would have prefered us to have our best first team with new players by the Spurs game but like a lot of other teams this wont happen till September. We've signed 2 players with virtually no experience of top level football and another who did OK in Spain. Stop exaggerating. The summer's been an abject failure so far. Juxtaposition of those two sentences is interesting. Was literally thinking that :lol: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottledDog Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Feels more of a 'when' than an 'if'. Just been spotted tipping cows on Dukes moor. Dude's clearly frustrated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 There's not that much wrong TBF we've made three good signings and I'm confident we'll make more, some of the dead wood needs to go but that will happen during the last week of the window when clubs are desperate. I would have prefered us to have our best first team with new players by the Spurs game but like a lot of other teams this wont happen till September. We've signed 2 players with virtually no experience of top level football and another who did OK in Spain. Stop exaggerating. The summer's been an abject failure so far. If you are judging what has been accomplished on July 25th with the criteria of what you expect from the window in its entirety, then of course it is a failure. The squad clearly needs to strengthen in a variety of areas, but there will also clearly be more signings. Only the most ardent of pessimists can really believe we are fully done. In my view, we've made two good deals and one mediocre one thus far, and need three to four more to be satisfactory. My real disappointment, is that it seems the club seemingly need to sell in order to buy, a financial reality that is worrying when competing in the richest league in the history of world football. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Baba dropping sense-bombs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottledDog Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Baba dropping sense-bombs. Big-Baba-Booms. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 There's not that much wrong TBF we've made three good signings and I'm confident we'll make more, some of the dead wood needs to go but that will happen during the last week of the window when clubs are desperate. I would have prefered us to have our best first team with new players by the Spurs game but like a lot of other teams this wont happen till September. We've signed 2 players with virtually no experience of top level football and another who did OK in Spain. Stop exaggerating. The summer's been an abject failure so far. If you are judging what has been accomplished on July 25th with the criteria of what you expect from the window in its entirety, then of course it is a failure. The squad clearly needs to strengthen in a variety of areas, but there will also clearly be more signings. Only the most ardent of pessimists can really believe we are fully done. In my view, we've made two good deals and one mediocre one thus far, and need three to four more to be satisfactory. My real disappointment, is that it seems the club seemingly need to sell in order to buy, a financial reality that is worrying when competing in the richest league in the history of world football. We also have a very large squad currently, many of which were deemed surplus to requirements last season. The issue for me, so many players have question marks over them. We didn't exactly have a glut of players ending last season in form, only Atsu, Ritchie & Clarke really ended in form imo and because of that I'm worried that many will be overawed by the league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
themanupstairs Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 There's not that much wrong TBF we've made three good signings and I'm confident we'll make more, some of the dead wood needs to go but that will happen during the last week of the window when clubs are desperate. I would have prefered us to have our best first team with new players by the Spurs game but like a lot of other teams this wont happen till September. We've signed 2 players with virtually no experience of top level football and another who did OK in Spain. Stop exaggerating. The summer's been an abject failure so far. If you are judging what has been accomplished on July 25th with the criteria of what you expect from the window in its entirety, then of course it is a failure. The squad clearly needs to strengthen in a variety of areas, but there will also clearly be more signings. Only the most ardent of pessimists can really believe we are fully done. In my view, we've made two good deals and one mediocre one thus far, and need three to four more to be satisfactory. My real disappointment, is that it seems the club seemingly need to sell in order to buy, a financial reality that is worrying when competing in the richest league in the history of world football. We also have a very large squad currently, many of which were deemed surplus to requirements last season. The issue for me, so many players have question marks over them. We didn't exactly have a glut of players ending last season in form, only Atsu, Ritchie & Clarke really ended in form imo and because of that I'm worried that many will be overawed by the league. I would totally agree there had Alan Pardew been our manager and not Rafa Benitez. He's the only saving grace about the club at the moment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 There's not that much wrong TBF we've made three good signings and I'm confident we'll make more, some of the dead wood needs to go but that will happen during the last week of the window when clubs are desperate. I would have prefered us to have our best first team with new players by the Spurs game but like a lot of other teams this wont happen till September. We've signed 2 players with virtually no experience of top level football and another who did OK in Spain. Stop exaggerating. The summer's been an abject failure so far. If you are judging what has been accomplished on July 25th with the criteria of what you expect from the window in its entirety, then of course it is a failure. The squad clearly needs to strengthen in a variety of areas, but there will also clearly be more signings. Only the most ardent of pessimists can really believe we are fully done. In my view, we've made two good deals and one mediocre one thus far, and need three to four more to be satisfactory. My real disappointment, is that it seems the club seemingly need to sell in order to buy, a financial reality that is worrying when competing in the richest league in the history of world football. Season starts in two and a half weeks though, the fact that we've failed to get anywhere close to what we need at this point is a massive failure. There'll not be anywhere close to time enough for anyone we might sign to integrate fully with the squad before the season starts. This is made even worse when you consider that we've actually got a manager that wants to make sure his team plays exactly the way he wants them to. Edit: this is made even worse by the fact that our season finished fucking ages ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odear Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 The problem is that we or the media started throwing figures about. 70 million, 100 million etc.. Rafa never said he had this much, the club certainly didn't either. We're not broke, but not spending what we don't have yet. Rafa will get the club to spend big when there's no risk of a bidding war happening. When all the other clubs have spunked their budget on ponies we should be able to find some value. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 The problem is that we or the media started throwing figures about. 70 million, 100 million etc.. Rafa never said he had this much, the club certainly didn't either. We're not broke, but not spending what we don't have yet. Rafa will get the club to spend big when there's no risk of a bidding war happening. When all the other clubs have spunked their budget on ponies we should be able to find some value. Don't even know where to start with this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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