windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
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deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
Possibly mate, but swap deals just don't happen.
Well you're saying that the window has been disappointing and we haven't spent the money, without taking into account that these quality player may not want to come here
You've then said you only want the club to purchase "the right players".
Point still stands, what if these players don't want to come here. Do you want us to just buy anyone?.or keep the current squad?? Whatever your answer is you'll still complain about it
Foot Long Hot Dog
Player Valuation: A packet of pork scratchings
The more pragmatic can see it for what it is. The impatient bed wetting "we demand it now" generation are laughable to us.
Blaming paying match goers for us not winning the league in the age of oil clubs and the CL gravy train creating a chasm for years between them and the rest is truly hilarious.
Durham Toffee
Shameless Wool
Yeah but Mata and Witsel.
A mod wouldn't wind us all up for weeks on end.
Bedtime butters
And i'll agree with you should we be in the same position this time next week (although we've got a good squad and much better manager it could feel like a missed opportunity)
But until then we might as well just sit back and wait for the dust to settle
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
Infamy, infamy! They've all got it infamy.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
I would have hoped we would have concluded more of our transfer business, however far down our list of targets we needed to go, before selling our biggest asset. If he got the huff about that, tough. I am particularly disheartened if the sale of Stones was primarily a mechanism to increase wages in light of STCC, I have no idea if that was the reason and I do not believe there is a single poster on this forum who knows for sure either, and then we either fail to increase the wage bill by close to that surplus or do so by paying crazy wages to middling players. I would have kept Stones rather than do that. Even if that made him a bit grumpy.
In direct answer to your questions. I do not want to just sign anyone. I would have rather kept the squad we had prior to the Stones sale with a few, maybe less glamorous signings, that would have been accomodatable under our old wage structure + £7M if it was clear we could not attract a higher quality of player.
We have gaps in our squad. At centre back, in central midfield and up front (and probably in nets too). That makes me unhappy, I'm sorry if that irritates you.
Thats a bit too much on the money Chris, don't be making people confront their true selves
We all in here for rumours and nonsense, lets keep it light
Stones wanted to go, he wanted to go last year. People are forgetting that koeman stated he told the club to hold off transfers until he'd assessed the squad. He did that, primary targets failed to materialise.
I think a lot of people underestimate our squad, it was an unfit, unorganised mess last year. A bit if structure and increased fitness and we'll have no problem challenging for Europe. A couple of more additions will only increase out likelihood.
There will be more incoming, our manager knows this and we'll be stringer come the end if the windiw
Durham Toffee
Shameless Wool
Really not sure what the point of selling Stones is if we aren't able to get in players to use for that vaunted STCC. Surely there would have been some indicators from the supposed targets whether or not they were interested. Just a bit boggling that they all say 'sure', we supposedly go over the top with wages and then, for no apparent reason, they turn us down.
Lets assume we sold Stones to sell to buy, do you consider trading John Stones for Stickle, Gana, Williams and Bolasie a decent trade?
I do, for the record.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
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