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There are a few of those Dutch players that Lambert should be trying to tempt with his pennies.
RVP and Robben.
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Lescott = Senderos
Same level of player so if one is cheaper then great we'll have that one and the boogies can pay twice as much.
Plus I hope Senderos is cover for Vlaar and Okore not first choice? Lescott is arrogant enough to think he is a first choice player.
Senderos and Lescott the same level of player?
Name me a club Senderos has played for that rates him, Wolves, Everton and even Citeh fans love Lescott.
Meant they would be back up players for us. Lescott is overrated imo and I don't care what fans from other teams think?
Well you should do, Fulham fans were delighted to see Senderos go, Everton not so much.
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Lescott = Senderos
Same level of player so if one is cheaper then great we'll have that one and the boogies can pay twice as much.
Plus I hope Senderos is cover for Vlaar and Okore not first choice? Lescott is arrogant enough to think he is a first choice player.
Senderos and Lescott the same level of player?
Name me a club Senderos has played for that rates him, Wolves, Everton and even Citeh fans love Lescott.
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Apparently Brazilian striker Jefferson's agent is in England and we're set to sign him, another free transfer. Played for Latina in Serie B last season.
Exactly what we don't need. Brilliant.
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I still believe that okore will become quality.
So...
Vlaar or lescott? vlaar for me
Okore or lescott? Okore for me, younger and seems highly talented
So why would we sign him to sit on the bench? He wouldn't sign for that either, that's why he's leaving citeh.
Senderos presumably doesn't care about being back up, he has been most of his career.
Become being the operative word.
When a quality player is available on a free (and I do believe he is quality) then you sign him. Can come in for 2 years and, along with Vlaar add real steel and experience to build on. I think having two solid defenders would breed confidence throughout the entire team.
Okore will be that one day, I believe and hope but it is going to be a big ask for him next season.
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Howard Hodgson has said something along the lines on TBAR that a British consortium are interested in buying a 51% stake in the club if they're allowed to pay in installments, that doesn't sound too promising but he also says that there are other interested parties from around the globe wanting to purchase the whole club but nothing finalised yet.
Apparently he met with Faulkner who isn't involved with the sales process and has just been told to carry on as if everything is normal.
I will match that offer if I can pay it off installments.
500 pages and this is still the kind of guff we have to speculate on.
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‘‘But I can look back and say I experienced it, that I played at Anfield and that St James Park was crammed with 50,000 Geordies going crazy. In one way it was a bad thing, but I did see Manchester United win a title when they bashed us at Old Trafford and Robin van Persie scored a hat-trick.
‘‘It was all an experience and while it might not have been the best of seasons for me there were some good memories.’’
Getting smashed by United constitutes as a good memory for him. What a loser.
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i liked brett, always worked hard and kept going, although his best position was never clear to me, support striker, right winger, centre attacking mid, he only had half the qualities to fulfill any of these positions
i think had we played 4-4-2 and probably got relegated, he would be perfect sitting just behind the striker
He was one of the worst 'footballers' I have ever seen. Sure he could strike one every know and again, but so could Craig Gardner, and Holman made Gardner look like Iniesta when it came to first touch and passing abilities.
Typical Mcleish tripe, will run through brick walls for you but don't ask him to pass a ball...to feet...from 5 yards away.
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West Ham are close to signing Marcus Alonso for £1.5m according to The Mirror. That would've been a nice solution to our left-back woes.
Slowest LB in the world.
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Lukaku, flat track, one dimensional bully who doesn't do it when it counts.
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The love Albrighton has had on here the last few months is laughable.
He has four or five seasons here, I can count on one hand the amount of great games he had.
Really radical concept I know, but he got better over time.
So good he got farmed out to a Championship club, sat on our bench, played about 80 minutes worth of decent stuff and got released,
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a bit part player who did very little for a relegation rival last year...
i dont believe thats its true but i would be very disappointed, i'd take some convincing that he's better than albrighton
Let me convince you......he's much better than Albrighton......
not based on his performances at the baggies that i saw last year he's not, 29 years old and the baggies couldnt agree a £2.5m deal for him
Baggies couldn't agree a deal to pay for Sherwood's backroom staff and have just signed a coach who flopped at PNE tbf.
He is much better than Albrighton, he will fade in and out throughout the season but he can be a match winner. I would take him for a few mil.
This is starting to get a bit tiresome. The actual Albrighton, the one who played the second half of last season, didn't fade in and out, and was in fact one of the most consistent performers in the squad. Replacing him with a 29 year old who you're already acknowledging regularly goes missing seems particularly unlikely to be an improvement.
The love Albrighton has had on here the last few months is laughable.
He has four or five seasons here, I can count on one hand the amount of great games he had.
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a bit part player who did very little for a relegation rival last year...
i dont believe thats its true but i would be very disappointed, i'd take some convincing that he's better than albrighton
Let me convince you......he's much better than Albrighton......
not based on his performances at the baggies that i saw last year he's not, 29 years old and the baggies couldnt agree a £2.5m deal for him
Baggies couldn't agree a deal to pay for Sherwood's backroom staff and have just signed a coach who flopped at PNE tbf.
He is much better than Albrighton, he will fade in and out throughout the season but he can be a match winner. I would take him for a few mil.
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Good player.
On a highlight reel he is.
About £4.5m too much, doesn't impact games nearly enough.
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I still think letting Collins go was a mistake
He was a decent bog standard prem defender couldn't see us getting relegated with him and Vlaar at the back better than Baker and Clark anyway
And i do think he is better than Senderos
Cahill is truly the CB which got away though. Smh
Should have put a buy back clause in the sale to Bolton? he went to Chelsea for £8m I think?
Senderos is a small step up from Clark and Baker, though all 3 are mistake prone!
Yeah if we had a buy back clause I am sure he would have chosen us over winning the Champions League
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Both games were tight, at home we got suckered by two goals immediately after half time, the first of which was down entirely to defensive error.
I'm all up calling a spade a spade but let's not lose sight of facts
Well you have clearly airbrushed your memory of the games to suit your narrative. We played five at the back in the away game and served up a McLeish-esque performance with only one team on the pitch retaining possession and trying to win the game.
At home, they were far superior to us in the first half, raping both the full-backs time and again and had the only chances. We were fortunate to go in 0-0 but no surprise that we didn't learn our lessons and were caught half asleep early in the second-half. The game was then pretty much lost so we then brought on Albrighton around the hour-mark and finished as we should've started. 'Going for it' when you have nothing to lose and the other team decide to sit on their lead is something that most teams do.
Feel free to read through the match-threads which I'm sure will back up my recollection of the two matches.
The stats showed we played the better passing football when we lost 2-0 at home, itw as our finishing that let us down
We had all the possession after they settled upon 2-0. Can you point out any of the chances we had before Albrighton came on?
True, we made Jarvis look like Ronaldo that day. It was horrifying to say the least.
Albrighton came on when Sam did his, game's won, lets put 10 men behind the ball ploy and had acres to run at them.
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I still think letting Collins go was a mistake
He was a decent bog standard prem defender couldn't see us getting relegated with him and Vlaar at the back better than Baker and Clark anyway
And i do think he is better than Senderos
He was an improvement on Baker and Clarke but frankly, he was on an O'Neill contract and I thought we done well to shift him and I believe we got a little fee for him.
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If we do sign a left back and a holding midfielder, and bring back the bomb squad, then we will finish comfortably mid table imo.
I'd like to think that but I think we have other concerns.
We don't have someone we can rely on scoring enough goals. With benteke and kozak coming back from injuries I'll think we'll struggle to score.
We have a manager who struggled last year and I worry fans will be on his back if things don't start well.
And although okore will be back and we've signed senderos I don't think we're organised enough at the back.
Give bent some decent supply and he will score goals as he did when young and downing were about.
I think if we can get Nzogbia and Cole fit and playing we should be able to provide DB if he stays
*he would have scored goals.
Not sure he can anymore, Lineker could bang in a goal given the chance too, not sure I would have him up top nowadays. Probably got a quicker turn of pace tbf though.
If we do sign a left back and a holding midfielder, and bring back the bomb squad, then we will finish comfortably mid table imo.
I'd like to think that but I think we have other concerns.
We don't have someone we can rely on scoring enough goals. With benteke and kozak coming back from injuries I'll think we'll struggle to score.
We have a manager who struggled last year and I worry fans will be on his back if things don't start well.
And although okore will be back and we've signed senderos I don't think we're organised enough at the back.
Give bent some decent supply and he will score goals as he did when young and downing were about.
I think if we can get Nzogbia and Cole fit and playing we should be able to provide DB if he stays
*he would have scored goals.
Not sure he can anymore, Lineker could bang in a goal given the chance too, not sure I would have him up top nowadays. Probably got a quicker turn of pace tbf though.
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I have watched numerous games from Lukaku last season where the ball was played into him time and time again, and it was bouncing all over the place, he was laying the ball off and it was going out for throw ins.
He scores goals, doesn't mean he is a good footballer.
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The big question:
Is Senderos and Cole better than Collins and Ireland?
The latter two were a pair of ***** anyway, who had no interest in being a professional at this club so good riddance.
Also, Ireland and Collins were robbing us of over £100k a week so give me Cole and Senderos as squad options anyday.
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Lukaku is pretty crap to be honest, flat track bully.
There is a reason Mourinho let him go and it's because his all around game is appalling, his touch is appalling, his awareness is appalling. If not for his physique he would be playing Belgian semi-pro.
His scoring record at internationals is embarrassing too.
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Our summer transfer budget has been destroyed by the Benteke injury in all reality hasnt it?
No, it has been destroyed by nearly a decade of mismanagement.
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Would have Borini over Gabby in a heartbeat.
A proper big game player.
I cannot see Liverpool letting him though with the CL this year, and if they do they are in a strong position to recoup the £9m(?) they paid.
In short, never going to happen
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It's hardly inspiring to know that the £1000 i've just spent maybe funding signings of the calibre of Senderos. I don't expect the club to make major signings until the pwnership is sorted out but if this is a taster of what we can expect then it's not going to entice those that are still deciding whether or not to renew.
It doesn't though, the sky money does.
Christian Benteke
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Lukaku sucks.