But I suppose as he has now said it more or less throws things up in the air mate now we need answers
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But I suppose as he has now said it more or less throws things up in the air mate now we need answers
ijjysmith
Calm
He's definitely got dosh.
Whether he actually wants to spend it on us is perhaps the more interesting question.
ijjysmith
Calm
Just feels unnecessary with games still left.
I wouldn't be arsed at all if he'd said all this at full time on the last day.
Exactly the latter mate is what we need to know we know he's richer than kenwright but you know....
I know the timing is odd. Which to me means he wants out. But then there's now loads of questions and no answers
ijjysmith
Calm
Feet sorry for Koeman in today's press conference. He's going to get asked them all. But won't have any answers.
vintage-toffees
Player Valuation: £10m
Get the impression he genuinely cares and would have committed if we had shown we had the ability to kick on like Man City did.
But city were fortunate that ffp was brought in to counter what they did not hinder it like it is now doing for other owners who may have the funding to do a city.
Sadly we are 3 or more seasons behind lukakus ambitions and financially probably the same time in being able to attract the players he knows we need and that will take us to we're he wants to be and we're he wants us to be playing.
Can't really blame him or berate him sadly we're a few years apart in ambitions and timescales I wish him well just hope he gets a winner across the park as a parting gift
But city were fortunate that ffp was brought in to counter what they did not hinder it like it is now doing for other owners who may have the funding to do a city.
Sadly we are 3 or more seasons behind lukakus ambitions and financially probably the same time in being able to attract the players he knows we need and that will take us to we're he wants to be and we're he wants us to be playing.
Can't really blame him or berate him sadly we're a few years apart in ambitions and timescales I wish him well just hope he gets a winner across the park as a parting gift
paulbefc
Player Valuation: £60m
I don't for a second believe he's playing anyone here or "slamming" the club any more than they deserve. He's saying the exact same thing he was 4 years ago. "While I'm here I will work hard and play my best, but I want to play for a team in the CL or a team with genuine ambition to get there, so if we're not doing that, obviously I will want to go". The only difference now to 4 years ago is that now he's every inch a CL player.
He's explaining his not signing the contract by pointing out something we all know: we're not really close to qualifying for the CL or showing genuine ambition to. A tiny net spend on players like Gueye, Williams and Bolasie in the summer followed by a decent if unspectacular January where we pass up the chance to improve the squad further isn't going to cut it.
It's up to the club to convince him we're serious now, although it might be too late. They should and will now see that they can't keep players of Lukaku's calibre without backing up their words with action and keeping promises. If they've been overselling our ambitions and their capacity to meet them, there'll be no hiding it after this summer if Lukaku's gone and we haven't spent big.
He's explaining his not signing the contract by pointing out something we all know: we're not really close to qualifying for the CL or showing genuine ambition to. A tiny net spend on players like Gueye, Williams and Bolasie in the summer followed by a decent if unspectacular January where we pass up the chance to improve the squad further isn't going to cut it.
It's up to the club to convince him we're serious now, although it might be too late. They should and will now see that they can't keep players of Lukaku's calibre without backing up their words with action and keeping promises. If they've been overselling our ambitions and their capacity to meet them, there'll be no hiding it after this summer if Lukaku's gone and we haven't spent big.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
I think he's bang on with what he says, because I want that same ambition, but what you said is exactly what went through my head too. We could have possibly done what city did but it would still have taken patience.
Then on the flip of the coin, lukaku needs to see realism too. We were trying to but witsel, Carvalho, mata, gabbidiani, brahimi, koulibaly etc if reports are led to be believed but we're not quite there yet in terms of attracting these players.
The game has also changed to stop doing what city did as well, but I have no issue with his comments, I was fairly disappointed with our summer dealings, I thought we had a lot more to do. But we can use this summer to put it right and get in some big names using Europe as a pull as well, but we need to show ambition, a name like rooney would show that tbf.
But who knows what's went on, what's going on, and what's likely to happen in the summer. Maybe it has been a disaster off the field. Maybe there have been huge cock ups.
Basically we don't know. Maybe it is bad timing and simply to orchestrate a move like I suspect. Or maybe it's a fair account of what is going on and did need to be said publicly to ensure this summer is different. I'm not sure exactly myself.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Esk did initially say that Kenwrigth had now nothing whatsoever to do with transfers, then subsequently backtracked though remember
ALANSTUBBS
Player Valuation: £5m
The implication here is that he has somehow masterminded this.
I may be the naive one now but I honestly thing it's not that calculated. He was at a club endorsed public event and was asked questions to which he responsed honestly.
I really don't think the fans opnion of him matters that much that we would want to play public relations and I cannot think of another player where a "come and get me" is not required.
I still think this could go either way.
ijjysmith
Calm
Esk says a lot of things mate.
Well when this happened I thought his presser will be interesting but I mean what's he supposed to say? I don't know mate but I know I wanna punch jim White right in the nose!
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Aye also seems to be writing a lot more things than he did before the summer, for the Echo, talking on various podcasts etc, all in all he had the best summer transfer window of anyone
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