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Wouldn’t have taken more than a bid of £3m or so to blow us out of the water.

 

I remember when NUFC could blow Liverpool out of the water in the face to sign a certain England striker from Real Madrid...

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Wouldn’t have taken more than a bid of £3m or so to blow us out of the water.

 

I remember when NUFC could blow Liverpool out of the water in the face to sign a certain England striker from Real Madrid...

 

Liverpool at most pretended they were interested, they knew he was a little toe rag mercenary.

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Just another example of the uselessness of whatever sporting directorship is at board level or above management/coaching level.

 

Served a job in the Championship, arguably the season we were back up, but should have been moved on end of 17/18, not least should never have signed such a long term deal we shouldn't be in a situation where he's still at the club, and even worse outside the PL registration in 2020/21.

 

Just an example of lack of ambition at this club. Any other club should envisage themselves outgrowing the need for a player such as Atsu and never sign him to a contract that long. Charnley though, sees him as someone who should be going on making 200+ apperances for us, 80% of which are shite 5/10 at best performances.

 

State of our squad is just baffling. We've been over stocked on PL registered players since the summer, and still Saivet is unregistered. So we've got 25 over 21 players, doing what exactly then up until a month or so ago Atsu, Saivet, Aarons and Lazaar just picking up a paycheck and around the training ground.

 

Most other sides will have 25-30 senior squad, but will have a fair share of U21's and/or academy players that are getting game time, serving purpose to the first team who don't need registering. We've literally only Anderson and Matty around first team squads who don't need registering. Then we loan in another clubs youth team player when were f***ing paying Henri Saivet to do nothing.

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Club has treated Atsu like such shit man.

 

How have we? He's been pretty consistently shite and we've phased him out of the squad. Frankly we should have done the same with loads of our others, only our gross incompetence to sign players has seen him return.

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His situation is definitely another symptom of squad mismanagement, like. There's no way an asset like that should be sat there doing absolutely nothing but draining the club of a 5-figure-per-week wage. He's easily a Championship-level/sub-elite league player who will inevitably have had plenty of options had we not allowed him to fritter away. If Atsu has aspirations of playing football I think it is poor treatment to land him in a situation where he can't actually do that.

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For a club who pay next to fuck all, we always seem to have a huge number of shit players on wages “they’ll never earn elsewhere”. Especially when they’ve been signed to be first team players rather than youth who fail to hit the mark.

 

Saivet, Lazaar, Colback, Elliot, Anita all come to mind.

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