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jigen

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29 minutes ago, Gawalls said:

So you’ve just ignored the signing of non prem players Bruno, isak and botman in that story. None of us have seen enough of Tonali yet so don’t close the score on him just yet.

 

 I’ve read in a few places that he’s looked amazing on the training ground and is raring to go.

 

Your first signings were fantastic: the right players at the right prices. But then Howe started to make the market and you started to buy in the inflated PL market. If you had FFP problems, you never, never should spent 40m for Barnes, another LW very similar to Gordon. 

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The Prophet

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1 hour ago, The College Dropout said:

We needed a RW more than we needed a LW. Lots of us said that at the time. 
 

ASM barely played yet we spent £40m for his replacement to sit on the bench. That doesn’t make sense. 
 

From a PSR and footballing perspective. Committing £60m for Barnes over the next 5 years was a bad idea considering we don’t have a viable RW option. 
 

We needed a CM. We didn’t need to spend £50m on a CM though.  
 

Ultimately the ends justify the means. If we managed to finish 4th and got to the CL QF we wouldn’t need to sell and we would say spending so much on the squad got us there. That didn’t happen. And with the transfers we made imo that was unlikely.  So you have to say that was a misjudgment and poor decision making.  the decision making in January seems to be even worse.  Someone needed to go. 

 

1) We did need a RW and still do. I have absolutely no idea what that has to do with PSR compliance.

 

2) Was Barnes signed to sit on the bench? Or did Gordon make the position his own during his somewhat unfortunate injury layoff? I don't think we'll ever get an answer to that.

 

3) We needed to elevate the quality of the first team to compete in the Champions League and players like Isak and Tonali cost top dollar. Fans are absolutely gasping for us to chuck huge fees at players like Marmadashvili, Maddison, Szaboszlai and Paqueta, while alternatives are frequently sneered at. The club are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

 

4) A potent mix of hindsight and conjecture does a lot of heavy lifting here. If we breach PSR, it's a failing from those running the club, but blaming individual transfers and factors outside of our control when we've had August 2023 along with January 2024 and June 2024 to line up sales seems a bit daft.

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KaKa

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1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

 

1) We did need a RW and still do. I have absolutely no idea what that has to do with PSR compliance.

 

2) Was Barnes signed to sit on the bench? Or did Gordon make the position his own during his somewhat unfortunate injury layoff? I don't think we'll ever get an answer to that.

 

3) We needed to elevate the quality of the first team to compete in the Champions League and players like Isak and Tonali cost top dollar. Fans are absolutely gasping for us to chuck huge fees at players like Marmadashvili, Maddison, Szaboszlai and Paqueta, while alternatives are frequently sneered at. The club are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

 

4) A potent mix of hindsight and conjecture does a lot of heavy lifting here. If we breach PSR, it's a failing from those running the club, but blaming individual transfers and factors outside of our control when we've had August 2023 along with January 2024 and June 2024 to line up sales seems a bit daft.

 

Great post. 

 

Point 3 is particularly infuriating to me.

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KaKa

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3 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

 

 

Would be good news.

 

Need to move past all this noise now.

 

Brentford just forked out £35 million for Archie Gray. £30 million for Minteh is decent.

 

Need to sort this all out and start focusing on incomings.

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If that's literally all there was to it then they really needn't have put me through the ringer. :lol:

 

Everyone should have known full well why we signed Minteh in the first place. 

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SUPERTOON

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1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

...and just like that everyone is gasping for him to go. 

 

Narrative masterclass from the club today. We can't be putting ourselves in this position again though.

I do feel a sporting director is necessary to help avoid a situation like this again.

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STM

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Just now, The Prophet said:

...and just like that everyone is gasping for him to go. 

 

Narrative masterclass from the club today. We can't be putting ourselves in this position again though.

 

IF that's what the club have done... I'm almost impressed.:lol:

 

But yes, not a fucking ideal situation.

 

I want nothing more than for this whole episode over.

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STM

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Just now, SUPERTOON said:

I do feel a sporting director is necessary to help avoid a situation like this again.

 

We had a sporting director, who one could argue, put us in this situation.

 

I just think there is so much more to it.

 

I think we all agree that this needs to be avoided at all costs.

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KaKa

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1 minute ago, Yorkie said:

If that's literally all there was to it then they really needn't have put me through the ringer. :lol:

 

Everyone should have known full well why we signed Minteh in the first place. 

 

Think there were some people that really needed to reckon with the reality of the alternative scenarios :lol:

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2 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

If the club released the Gordon and Isak rumours to soften the blow of Minteh going, then it worked a treat on me.

 

It worked on everyone. The fucking arseholes!

 

:rant:

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STM

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Just now, Theregulars said:

On a serious note, it does in theory confirm he has a high ceiling and is probably ready to compete now. It’s a real shame.

 

Confirms nothing other than Brighton like him. 

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Bunk Moreland

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3 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

...and just like that everyone is gasping for him to go. 

 

Narrative masterclass from the club today. We can't be putting ourselves in this position again though.

 

On the one hand it's kind of patronising from the club, but on the other when you see the clip of some of the takes (mostly elsewhere) about selling Minteh in the first place you realise it was probably needed.

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KaKa

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Just now, STM said:

 

We had a sporting director, who one could argue, put us in this situation.

 

I just think there is so much more to it.

 

I think we all agree that this needs to be avoided at all costs.

 

Yeah, there were murmurs the club weren't happy with his work towards selling players and it was a concern.

 

The Muppet was too busy emailing back and forth with Ratcliffe and his gang to join Man Utd.

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