abdulaziz1 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 2 hours ago, TheAuthority said: Was a bit bored tonight so I found a replay of the game from back in February vs Spurs at VP. I honestly couldn't remember what happened but we are absolutely destroying them playing wonderful football. 35 mins gone and we should have been 4 by now up (Louiz missed an absolute sitter.) We were one up and they scored a freak equalizer. (Might give the 2nd half a miss as I seem to remember now that we lose.) My point is, I can't understand how we played this well and find ourselves in the position that we currently do. Grealish is on fire in the 1st half - does he look so lacklustre since the lockdown because he doesn't have an England squad to play for? We're not mentally strong. That mentality which we had two spells last season. During November, then when Jack came back and we won 10 on row. We felt that we're winning before the game start. That's what gave me a bit of hope more than before the stop. We came back at Newcastle, we were about to against Chelsea (and didn't fall apart). We were unlucky against Spurs, another goal then would make a huge difference. We're missing two goals lead. Heaton, Guilbert, Mings, Targett, Luiz, McGinn, Grealish, Samatta are all good players. I think if we had Samatta or even a fit Davis at the beginning of the season, things would've been much different. We had chances but without strikers scoring. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted June 27, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27, 2020 Which players left in 2016 when we went down? Hard to remember but I think it was; Ayew, Traore (Jan?), Carlos Sanchez, Guzan, Bennett(?), Idrissa Gueye, Scott Sinclair, Westwood, Gestede... I think they all got sold when we went down, but that’s just from memory I might be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 (edited) 15 minutes ago, alreadyexists said: Which players left in 2016 when we went down? Hard to remember but I think it was; Ayew, Traore (Jan?), Carlos Sanchez, Guzan, Bennett(?), Idrissa Gueye, Scott Sinclair, Westwood, Gestede... I think they all got sold when we went down, but that’s just from memory I might be wrong. Veretout, Gollini, Clark if you include Jan departures and loans. Edited June 27, 2020 by sne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted June 27, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27, 2020 3 minutes ago, sne said: Veretout, Gollini, Clark if you include Jan departures and loans. God, forgotten about Veretout. And yes, of course Clark went to NUFC. I think Gollini only signed when we went down if I remember correctly though? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 Just now, alreadyexists said: God, forgotten about Veretout. And yes, of course Clark went to NUFC. I think Gollini only signed when we went down if I remember correctly though? Ah yes, and then was loaned out in Jan after RDM was sacked? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted June 27, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, sne said: Ah yes, and then was loaned out in Jan after RDM was sacked? Yeah, pretty sure that’s the case Bruce had got Sam Johnstone in on loan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 Kieran Richardson, Cissokho, Crespo, Guzan, Okore, Bennett, and Callum Robinson are some others that left after we were relegated, although Cissokho only went on loan, If you include January loan departures McCormack and Tshibola als left, and we had only just signed them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwi1890 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 58 minutes ago, alreadyexists said: Which players left in 2016 when we went down? Hard to remember but I think it was; Ayew, Traore (Jan?), Carlos Sanchez, Guzan, Bennett(?), Idrissa Gueye, Scott Sinclair, Westwood, Gestede... I think they all got sold when we went down, but that’s just from memory I might be wrong. Ayew was swapped for Taylor in January, and Gestede sold to Boro in January Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted June 27, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27, 2020 7 minutes ago, gwi1890 said: Ayew was swapped for Taylor in January, and Gestede sold to Boro in January Yeah, and Adomah for Traore with Boro too I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwi1890 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 11 minutes ago, alreadyexists said: Yeah, and Adomah for Traore with Boro too I think. Yes that was beginning of the season though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_Afro Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 15 minutes ago, alreadyexists said: Yeah, and Adomah for Traore with Boro too I think. Blimey. Let me read that again.........Adomah for Traore............we are terrible at transfers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 20 minutes ago, M_Afro said: Blimey. Let me read that again.........Adomah for Traore............we are terrible at transfers! Ayew for Taylor. Our recruitment is so bad at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 8 minutes ago, DCJonah said: bad at times Not great, not terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 46 minutes ago, M_Afro said: Blimey. Let me read that again.........Adomah for Traore............we are terrible at transfers! At the time it was hailed as a fantastic bit of business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted June 27, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27, 2020 (edited) 40 minutes ago, DCJonah said: Ayew for Taylor. Our recruitment is so bad at times. I think Ayew was desperate to go so we took someone for a position we were light in. It does seem silly in hindsight but Ayew wasn’t going to hang around in the Champ with us, unfortunately, as he was one of our (marginally) better players in that dreadful season Edited June 27, 2020 by alreadyexists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted June 27, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27, 2020 1 hour ago, M_Afro said: Blimey. Let me read that again.........Adomah for Traore............we are terrible at transfers! To be fair at the time I think we thought we’d done them over! Lol. Plus, Traore wasn’t the player he is now back then, and we needed instant players not promise. Time was a luxury with didn’t have 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCollins29 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 2 hours ago, alreadyexists said: Which players left in 2016 when we went down? Hard to remember but I think it was; Ayew, Traore (Jan?), Carlos Sanchez, Guzan, Bennett(?), Idrissa Gueye, Scott Sinclair, Westwood, Gestede... I think they all got sold when we went down, but that’s just from memory I might be wrong. Think westwood and ayew both played in the first season for a bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted June 27, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, GingerCollins29 said: Think westwood and ayew both played in the first season for a bit Yeah, I think it was just a few games before the window closed if I remember... might be wrong. Maybe it was Jan? EDIT: just looked, it was Jan. maybe they stick around until it didn’t look like we would come straight back up! Edited June 27, 2020 by alreadyexists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 18 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: People have absolutely deluded themselves about how much we are likely to get for Grealish once we have been relegated. EDIT: I should say, I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I will be. I agree, I’d be amazed if we got £50m for Grealish if we get relegated. £35-40m if we are lucky. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_Afro Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 11 minutes ago, jim said: I agree, I’d be amazed if we got £50m for Grealish if we get relegated. £35-40m if we are lucky. If all that people offer is £40m then they will not be getting him. Simple as that. Double it and we may be prepared to open negotiations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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