sparrow1988 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 1 hour ago, KenjiOgiwara said: This is obviously true, as you can easily see the lack of movement in the market. There is however the argument we're not in the position of most other clubs. We survived by 1 point and looked dead and buried for large parts of the season. Our recruitment from last summer failed more or less and the very few that looked half decent took a long time to gel with the squad and settle down. Our strikers have been a complete failure all season. We don't have a lot of room for errors in terms of preperations for next season, so getting in a few faces as early as possible would be a huge advantage. Our recruitment from last summer succeeded. It may have been by the skin of its teeth but they succeeded. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 9 minutes ago, sparrow1988 said: Our recruitment from last summer succeeded. It may have been by the skin of its teeth but they succeeded. Not sure about that. We survived in spite of our recruitment. Our recruitment last summer was dreadful. Summed up by the fact we’re trying to replace everyone we signed in this window. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 10 minutes ago, sparrow1988 said: Our recruitment from last summer succeeded. It didn't succeed, far from it. You can't use the fact that we stayed up as justification for the largely poor signings we made. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow1988 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 (edited) 26 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said: Not sure about that. We survived in spite of our recruitment. Our recruitment last summer was dreadful. Summed up by the fact we’re trying to replace everyone we signed in this window. Are we? F**k me. That's a big task. I missed it where this got mentioned though. Edited August 22, 2020 by sparrow1988 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Getting off topic but I’d say we are looking to upgrade ElGhazi, Davies & Lansbury. We’ll keep all our signings from last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dounavilla Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 I'm just going to add this here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow1988 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, villa89 said: It didn't succeed, far from it. You can't use the fact that we stayed up as justification for the largely poor signings we made. What criteria are you basing your assessment on? I would say we made signings on the basis that they would be good enough to stay up (succeeded) and that they increased in value - tough one to gauge but probably as a whole the squad is worth more than last August (succeeded). Although there is the fact that the global pandemic has had an effect on player values but no club is immune to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMelvillan Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Has anyone been on the RB forum to see how their rashica thread is coming along? Bet we are kicking their arses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow1988 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 3 minutes ago, TheMelvillan said: Has anyone been on the RB forum to see how their rashica thread is coming along? Bet we are kicking their arses! To have a fan's forum, you need to have fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazrim Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Our recruitment succeeded in its most basic sense. To put a team together that can survive its first season and begin the process of building a PL squad. Clearly we expected a better return and Suso has paid for it. But it's harsh to be over critical. We had a lot to do and lost key players to long term injuries. So not great but just good enough. And now we have a nucleus of something to build on. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 (edited) 13 minutes ago, TheMelvillan said: Has anyone been on the RB forum to see how their rashica thread is coming along? Bet we are kicking their arses! The one I looked at had 9 pages, they seemed to think that €15m was as high as the club should go for him in the current state of the market. They rather use the money to resign Angelino and Schick Edited August 22, 2020 by sne 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 22, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted August 22, 2020 53 minutes ago, TheStagMan said: OK, if you insist That is top quality. The banter on this thread is immense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheStagMan Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 54 minutes ago, DaveAV1 said: You’ve certainly carpe diemed with that little beauty. I’ll be expecting all your posts to be in Latin from hence forth. It adds a touch of class to the place. Which is not the kind of thing you’d find on a SHA site, that’s for sure. meus, gratias tibi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheStagMan Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 56 minutes ago, It's Your Round said: A bit like one of Neil Taylor’s crosses then. Oh, very very good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, sparrow1988 said: Our recruitment from last summer succeeded. It may have been by the skin of its teeth but they succeeded. I think that's a weird train of thought. While staying up was everything that mattered, we stayed up because of Jack Grealish, not Samatta, Trez, AEG, Wesley etc. We would have absolutely slaughtered our summer recruitment if Sheffield United had more luck with the tech. or Watford scored one more goal. Trying to pretend it wasn't cause we stayed up with one point is absurd. We achieved the big goal of the season, but that does not mean the summer recruitment was successful. The season might have been a success, but it was more in spite of our recruitment than because of it. Edited August 22, 2020 by KenjiOgiwara 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 23 minutes ago, sne said: The one I looked at had 9 pages, they seemed to think that €15m was as high as the club should go for him in the current state of the market. They rather use the money to resign Angelino and Schick He should realise we want him more than they do . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Yeah it was pretty much down to Jack. We signed what 5-6 defenders last summer and had second worse defence in league and our strikers scored six goals all season so pretty poor in two key areas. In any case we need to be signing players now who have potential to lift us into a top half team in next 2-3 years so that needs a massive upgrade on what we signed last summer. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted August 22, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted August 22, 2020 At midnight tonight we should all dance naked in Milot Rashica face masks starting off with the slow chant of RASHICA, RASHICA then slowly upping the crescendo until it is a quick very loud scream (a bit like the Haka) ending abruptly at 12.01. These should be captured on film and then sent to his twitter account 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCollins29 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Just lock the thread lads 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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