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[Efcjake]

If any one of those players we signed last year got sold for what we paid for them who here would honestly miss them?

They've not made enough of a difference and that's not asking for perfection but asking for improvement.

I wouldn't miss a single one of them right now because they haven't really made any sort of decent contribution. Not one out of 5 signings, 6 if you want to throw Lossless in for a laugh.

 

[Goat]

Dont have that excuse with Iwobi though. A blatant donkey of a footballer.

Ive been saying that for a while.

 

[Goat]

If any one of those players we signed last year got sold for what we paid for them who here would honestly miss them?

They've not made enough of a difference and that's not asking for perfection but asking for improvement.

I wouldn't miss a single one of them right now because they haven't really made any sort of decent contribution. Not one out of 5 signings, 6 if you want to throw Lossless in for a laugh.

Theres not a single player in the whole squad who I would miss.

 

[Efcjake]

Most people thought it would be a good signing.

But now we have hindsight.

We pay this fella a handsome wedge to avoid these regrets. It's literally his job to make sure we don't sign crap.

 

[Goat]

We pay this fella a handsome wedge to avoid these regrets. It's literally his job to make sure we don't sign crap.

I don't think Delph is crap.

 

[Efcjake]

I don't think Delph is crap.

Agree to disagree on that one.

He's not done anything of note in a blue shirt that I've seen.

 

[Goat]

Agree to disagree on that one.

He's not done anything of note in a blue shirt that I've seen.

As of yet his signing has been a waste, yes, infact I do agree, none of them have worked out, but for me only Iwobi is a bad footballer.

 

[Tubey]

If any one of those players we signed last year got sold for what we paid for them who here would honestly miss them?

They've not made enough of a difference and that's not asking for perfection but asking for improvement.

I wouldn't miss a single one of them right now because they haven't really made any sort of decent contribution. Not one out of 5 signings, 6 if you want to throw Lossless in for a laugh.

I'd miss Gomes for sure. Not on current form obviously but in a proper team he'd definitely be an extremely valuable player in my view.

Indeed, I'd be building our side around him.

I'm still conflicted on Kean. Every scrap of evidence suggests he's basically Niasse, but... I dunno, you see glimpses where he has a low centre of gravity, burst of pace and you think there's a very good player hidden there, but the odds on it ever being unveiled are shrinking by the day.

Gbamin, doesn't really matter what he could have been, the sad fact is he isn't and won't ever be now.

Delph and Iwobi are the only two write offs and, of them two, only Iwobi could have been definitely predicted ahead of signing them.

It really is difficult to condemn or defend Brands. There's a logic in what he does, but obvious mistakes alongside them. Iwobi was a clear panic buy, and I'll never 100% trust anyone who makes a panic buy in a role like that.

 

[Efcjake]

Theres not a single player in the whole squad who I would miss.

Which is a damning indictment of Brands' performance if you ask me.

 

[Tubey]

Theres not a single player in the whole squad who I would miss.

Holgate, Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin.

Think that's where my list ends.

 

[Goat]

Which is a damning indictment of Brands' performance if you ask me.

I blame modern football.

Dont get me wrong, there's players I really like Digne, Rico, Holgate, DCL, Gomes.

But I don't love them like I did Arteta, Cahill, Jags, Baines.

 

[Efcjake]

I blame modern football.

Dont get me wrong, there's players I really like Digne, Rico, Holgate, DCL, Gomes.

But I don't love them like I did Arteta, Cahill, Jags, Baines.

Yeah I'm with you on that one.

I don't think I've felt like a player has actually really cared about how the club is doing besides Coleman for the last 5-6 years.

 

[davek]

Thanks to getting lucky on one player and the Neymar deal pushing the market inflation to insane levels.

Every other player besides Deulofeu we lost money on Dave.

That's not true. Cleverley we got on a free and sold for £8M; Barry a free who was sold. Also, Mori was barely sold at a loss.

He was here 3 seasons and mostly bought in the sub £10M bracket.

It's silly to suggest we didn't do well out of Martinez fees wise, especially given the utter waste we've seen since.

 

[Efcjake]

That's not true. Cleverley we got on a free and sold for £8M; Barry a free who was sold. Also, Mori was barely sold at a loss.

He was here 3 seasons and mostly bought in the sub £10M bracket.

It's silly to suggest we didn't do well out of Martinez fees wise, especially given the utter waste we've seen since.

It is true Dave. If he hadn't hit the jackpot on Lukaku there would be no profit.

Any money made on Deulofeu, Cleverley or Barry was easily cancelled out by what we lost on Kone, McCarthy, Robles, Besic, McGeady, Lennon, Tarashaj and Niasse. All of which basically left for free. That's 8 players he paid money for that we got nothing back in return for.

Take Lukaku out of it and he made a loss and a big one at that.

 

[RomanReigns]

remember when we all laughed at that 1 guy who wanted to vote brands out