dn1982 Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 I was about to ask if Tim had open but it seems he hasn't. Very strange bearing in mind we had a game yesterday!! The club has done what it always does at times like this. Shut up shop and refused to say anything. It seems the club were busy affecting the things it could do like signings. Depends if you think the communications team also make the signings I suppose. I was on about Sherwood not the communications team. He's the bloke who manages the team so I'd assume he'd be involved with players joining!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted July 18, 2015 Moderator Share Posted July 18, 2015 Nope. To what? Wage bill being balanced or the money vanishing? Sorry was on phone. The nope was to the idea that Lambert had a set budget, and couldn't identify/land targets so didn't spend the money. As far as I'm aware Lambert never, in the whole time he was here, had a set transfer budget for a window it just didn't work that way. I don't know if that has changed now under Fox but it certainly wasn't that way previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 So he never had a set budget but chose to sign the likes of dawkins and holt and put bids in for hoolahan and lambert? Even more worrying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted July 18, 2015 Moderator Share Posted July 18, 2015 So he never had a set budget but chose to sign the likes of dawkins and holt and put bids in for hoolahan and lambert? Even more worrying. Not having a set budget doesn't mean he had an unlimited one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 I understand that but surely if a budget wasn't set he should have been showing more ambition than those kind of signings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 im sure Randy learned his lesson on giving managers unlimited budgets 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted July 18, 2015 Moderator Share Posted July 18, 2015 I understand that but surely if a budget wasn't set he should have been showing more ambition than those kind of signings. He did but couldn't land them and often ended up with players well down the list of his options. But anyway... back to Sherwood... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Wages were the main issue with Lambert. It's all well and good having £10m to spend on transfer fees but if your wage budget is £15k per week you are going to end up with the likes of KEA or Tonev. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 All this crap this week, just makes it easier when he has to tell players.....you ain't any good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Not really right place but didn't know where else to put it.. Over the last ten yrs we are still 8th in the league..surprised we haven't dropped lower after the last few yrs.. http://www.thesportbible.com/articles/manchester-united-and-chelsea-very-close-in-10-year-league-table 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted July 19, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted July 19, 2015 Not really right place but didn't know where else to put it.. Over the last ten yrs we are still 8th in the league..surprised we haven't dropped lower after the last few yrs..http://www.thesportbible.com/articles/manchester-united-and-chelsea-very-close-in-10-year-league-table Thanks for this. I was wondering the other day where we stand with the other ever presents of the premier league. Obviously would expect us between 5th and 7th, not sure if we would be ahead of Everton & spurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 (edited) Edit read it wrong Edited July 19, 2015 by Jimzk5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DCJonah Posted July 19, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted July 19, 2015 Anyone else think we will be the dark horse of the league this year? I can see a lot of people who don't take much notice of us thinking we're going to be awful without delph and benteke, but I think we've made good signings and will continue to do so. I think Clark, Okore and Grealish will continue to get better and I think Gil will play a big part for us. Sherwood and Wilkins will get the best out of the squad and I can see us surprising a lot of people with how we play and where we finish this year. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yayoboy Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 That article says its taken the last 10 years form 38 games a season x 10 seasons is 380 games? I don't see where they get 420 games from? Includes 2004/2005 season, it's 11 seasons to present day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Anyone else think we will be the dark horse of the league this year? I can see a lot of people who don't take much notice of us thinking we're going to be awful without delph and benteke, but I think we've made good signings and will continue to do so. I think Clark, Okore and Grealish will continue to get better and I think Gil will play a big part for us. Sherwood and Wilkins will get the best out of the squad and I can see us surprising a lot of people with how we play and where we finish this year. I think we need a few more pieces but I agree. Delph in retrospect is not a massive loss and if we can bring in a couple more quality players and develop a more rounded approach then I think we will be clear of any danger next season and looking up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daweii Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 I see us doing very well. Sherwood seems to be getting rid of all the players with a negative losing attitude, replacing them with great talents that are likely used to winning or at least not used to be in relegation scraps. We know that Delph wasn't all that I mean there are players, hell even Sidwell had better stats that Delph for the most part and we largely thought he was shit. So I think a lot of people on the outside will look our losses and think we are done for, when arguably the only real player we will miss in a big way is Benteke but with rumours of Adbeyor, Austin, Embolo and players of that caliber we may actually wind up better off next season. I think we'll do well the pressure will be off with everyone expecting us to fail, but I have every faith that Richards, Amavi, Gueye and whoever else we bring in on top of re-finding Gil make us stronger than we've been in a long time.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Anyone else think we will be the dark horse of the league this year? I can see a lot of people who don't take much notice of us thinking we're going to be awful without delph and benteke, but I think we've made good signings and will continue to do so. I think Clark, Okore and Grealish will continue to get better and I think Gil will play a big part for us. Sherwood and Wilkins will get the best out of the squad and I can see us surprising a lot of people with how we play and where we finish this year. I won't rule it out - God knows we're due an unexpectedly good season at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 19, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted July 19, 2015 Anyone else think we will be the dark horse of the league this year? I can see a lot of people who don't take much notice of us thinking we're going to be awful without delph and benteke, but I think we've made good signings and will continue to do so. I think Clark, Okore and Grealish will continue to get better and I think Gil will play a big part for us. Sherwood and Wilkins will get the best out of the squad and I can see us surprising a lot of people with how we play and where we finish this year. If we make a few more signings then maybe. But as it stands, no. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 It's quite clear we are going to make a few more signings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 20, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted July 20, 2015 (edited) Fingers crossed. As it stands our squad is pretty poor. Edited July 20, 2015 by Stevo985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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