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Who mentioned Alex song on here a couple of days ago? Anything in that?
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Azzurri
Player Valuation: £70m
Might have been me. I made it up.
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Ooh you rotter!
applecrumble
Player Valuation: £10m
It would be nice if we could sign a creative/attacking midfielder. I don't want to see Osman start one more time this season.
Here's something that May or may not have already been said but what happens come the summer and Martinez realises that he doesn't have the money he taught he had or he has none does he jump ship ? Not been negative here but we've seen this happen down through the years
Please don't start him off again
Seems pretty clear to me what he's saying there really.
All of this 'bedding in' is speculation, the black and white is that Martinez has said he'll feature in the last 10 games. If we get an injury to Lukaku between now and the end of February we're in a very uncomfortable position.
He's taken a gamble and no mistake.
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Aidey9
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Ive heard O'Keeffe say that all window. And Martinez from the off did say he wanted 2 short term signings this month to replace Gibbo and Kone. Weve now got Traore & McGeady (although he's not a direct replacement for Gibson) and I think Martinez will be happy with that.
Don't forget, in the next 2 weeks we'll start to see the likes of Deulofeu and hopefully Barkley being fit and ready to help out aswell!.
But weve got a fair amount of cash in the kitty already and then we get the next instalment of the tv money so Bobby should have a fair bit to spend in the summer and he will hopefully buy some exciting, quality players!
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Oh yeah 'starting off'.
There's me thinking it reasonable that this and the last window's surplus generated in player sales should be spent by the manager who generated it on a European bid in the next few months.
How unreasonable to 'start off' like that.
Gis a smile Dave
Leave it Dave, I think most of these people would be happy to loan a Mars Bar.
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Aidey9
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Well said. Im sure weve all got an idea of how many players we want to sign or who we'd like but like you say, this month is an hard month to buy players and Martinez knows that. He knows the better deals will be in the summer and that's what he's waiting on.
He's got 2 players in like he wanted and once we get the likes of Barkley & Deulofeu back and fully fit, are squad will look strong again and hopefully we'll kick on, and who knows, we still might make the CL this season? Big win next Tuesday and results elsewhere go our way, weve every chance?!!
In terms of the personnel boost for the squad this season, it is off the scale compared to last, now that we are using the loan market effectively. We got rid of one first teamer, but have boosted the squad in both windows to the value of about a hundred million pounds, if you judge Barry by his performances and not his age. Obviously most will go back home at season end, but that is irrelevant if we are just looking at season end
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We seem to be divided into 2 camps here.
1. We should be trying to strengthen with players to give us a proper crack at pushing on for a CL place from the position we are in. If Martinez thinks that is McGeady and Traore then we have to trust him, he hasn't done too bad so far. However, a loan for 10 weeks and a player signed for a nominal fee is not going down too well with some as a proper crack, but, the window is still not closed so hope springs eternal.
2. Others are buying the line that the money is being saved for Summer and they are happy with that as Martinez will go for the targets he really wants. Having seen the start made under Martinez it's hard to disagree with that theory too.
My only reservation being that the funds will disappear if option 2 is followed.
Last word on it from me.
1. We should be trying to strengthen with players to give us a proper crack at pushing on for a CL place from the position we are in. If Martinez thinks that is McGeady and Traore then we have to trust him, he hasn't done too bad so far. However, a loan for 10 weeks and a player signed for a nominal fee is not going down too well with some as a proper crack, but, the window is still not closed so hope springs eternal.
2. Others are buying the line that the money is being saved for Summer and they are happy with that as Martinez will go for the targets he really wants. Having seen the start made under Martinez it's hard to disagree with that theory too.
My only reservation being that the funds will disappear if option 2 is followed.
Last word on it from me.
kenada_blue
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To be fair, I think Moyes should have used the loan market better and more often.
We've always had a small squad and so far we've sold 3 players and brought in 9. Most of which are a millions times better than your Straq's and Anthony Gardner's.
When you've got no dosh, its something we should've been doing years ago.
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