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  1. El-Reacho
    Yeah they're wasting their £100m way more than we or Spurs did with ours. They should've parted company with Moyes after they won the EC and got a decent Sporting Director/Coach combination to invest that money properly. Moyes will be gone before Christmas and they'll have an ageing squad on huge long term contracts.
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    He would be a superb signing for United and would make complete sense on and off the pitch. Thankfully there isn’t the brains at Man United to realise this - therefore I reckon it’s total BS.
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    We’ve struggled badly with the first game of the season ever since we came back up. We’ve lost three of the last four - it was ridiculous how unprepared the team was against Bournemouth last season (and Watford under smith for that matter). Going to be a nervy one as both teams have high hopes going into this season and a defeat would be sore. Reckon we’ll play out a tentative draw.
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    Good chart that - had missed quite a few of those transfers. I tell you what - Everton need to get the finger out. Needed a big summer after last season, and they’ve signed a loan deal and a free transfer…
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    Lowton - Clark - Baker - Cissohko Senderos will have to earn his starting place. Hopefully Bennett will come good this season.
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    Yeah - demonstrating you're good enough for top six in the PL over a couple of seasons gives a player insane value, and in fairness if you can do it there these days you're good enough for any league in the world. I can't get my head around players like Darwin Nunez being worth £85m despite never playing PL football. The risk factor is huge there, whereas the risk for Chalobah at £45m is far less as you know what you're getting.
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    This is a great shout - I was thinking more along the lines of Hourihane who has a more recent connection. Remember doing a double take when I saw the 'Paul McShane signs for MUFC'.
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    Cos we’re so used to the live sound while the replay’s on, when the crowd go wild for the goal it makes you think you’re missing a chance in real time. Not sure if I’m making sense there…
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    Lol - they picked the wrong team talk to listen in on. What the hell did Emery say to them?!
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    Yeah that Luiz/Diaby link will really help us against the likes of City and Liverpool as there’s no way they can play with the high line they want to without us picking them off. Changes those games totally and hopefully will make us much more competitive against them.
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    Yeah definitely agree re Dendonker - and probably the other 80% of our squad. However when we've managed to recruit John McGinn, Ollie Watkins, Emi Martinez, Douglas Luiz - these players are worth more to us than their market value in cash - they directly contribute to PL points on a regular basis. It's extremely hard for clubs like us to buy players as good as these with no risk - as we showed with the Grealish money. If those particular players are happy here we shouldn't consider selling them.
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    The problem with that approach is we'd be selling those players to the teams we're trying to compete with (or jump above), and would have to spend the same amount of money we'd get by selling Martinez/McGinn/Luiz to get players to replace them like for like. We weren't able to replace Grealish when we sold him, Spurs couldn't replace Bale, and West Ham won't be able to replace Rice. If we're trying to jump above the teams above us we have to keep hold of our best players - not sell them to those clubs.
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    Peak Villa?

    El-Reacho replied to ccfcman's topic in Villa Talk

    I’m a couple of years older - but peak villa for me was the ‘96 league final with Savo and Yorke up front. Can’t really remember the title challenge of the early 90s that well.
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    Think a lot of the guys mentioned were probably just over-hyped to begin with. They ultimately just found their level and it was below AVFC's. I'm thinking Gardner brothers etc.
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    Jordan graham was still at Wolves until a couple so years ago strangely enough.
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    Edit - trying and failing to embed that Webb and Mitchell Nazi sketch....
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    Odd that no one has ever taken a punt on him. I've seen him linked with ManUre and Arsenal, and I was pretty sure that Newcastle had all but signed him last summer. Wonder why he's still at Norwich - just noticed he's 23 now.
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    Seems like the type of player that would quietly have moved on to Sevilla before delivering on his initial potential.
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    Not sure if I’m missing humour/sarcasm here but are you suggesting that he has no right to square up to another player because he’s not as good as them?
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    Also one of the stupidest decisions of all time - if they’d bid something remotely sensible, even £15m they’d have a generational talent up front with son and Kane. Crazy opportunity missed because Levy thought he was too clever.
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    It’s depressing when you see good players sign obscene long term contracts that are way above what their level of performance deserves. Sure it sets them up financially (unless it’s Barcelona paying the salary) but will pretty much destroy their careers. It leaves them stuck at clubs they’re not good enough to play for and not able to go anywhere else without taking a pay it which they won’t do.
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    The lack of any action is because we’re going big for the forward positions. Ferran Torres, Harvey Barnes, Gnonto etc all there for the taking and it seems we’re not interested….
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    The chances of Archer or Duran being a top 6 PL level striker really aren’t that high. If we lose Mings we’ve still got Torres, Konsa, and Carlos, if we lose Douglas Luiz we’ve got Tielemans, Kamara etc. Don’t understand why we wouldn’t want that same depth up front.
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    Surely we’ll want someone to strike fear into the opposition when he’s coming on after 60mins. Archer and Duran aren’t there yet - so it’ll likely be a £40m+ forward I reckon. Or maybe someone in their 30s that would have a cheap transfer fee but hefty wages and will be happy to come off the bench for the majority of games.
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    Think Archer’s still a season away from being Watkins’ deputy I reckon. If he did have to step up and lead the line for 8-10 weeks in the PL it would be a huge gamble. I think we’ll spend big on a player to take the burden off Watkins with Archer playing cups and Euro Conf. If we get to the business end of the Europa Conference or the cups then Emery will be using Watkins in those games too so he’ll will want a proven deputy to take the pressure off him.
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