Yoda
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Bony would be a comfort blanket type signing.
It is the type of idea that a transfer committee or director of football is supposed to stop. Fully developed, but clearly inferior to Sturridge, whilst unlikely to work as a partnership with him. We’ve got too many great attacking midfielders to justify playing two that high up the pitch; unless both are of the quality of say a Suarez or a Sturridge.
He would no doubt expect to be playing every week if we bought at £20m, so would soon be pouting on the bench before fucking off to the African Cup of Nations. This would no doubt coincide with a Sturridge injury; leaving us with Lambert up top to try and keep in the chase in January and avoid another early FA cup exit.
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I suspect this is going to be a monumental disaster.
Classic cost cutting exercise pandering to the Daily Mail style belief that the 'feckless' poor will be motivated by the infliction of financial pain.
The 'wealth creators' are of course motivated to 'invest' in the countries future by a flexible taxation system.
How about solving the actual problem - build some more houses; rather than relying on inflamatory spin, such as Rico's Mercedes on the front drive.
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Haggling over a million or 2 for this player is embarrassing' date=' just get it done, he looks as though he has it all there to be one of the best.
Even if it doesn't work out we wont take much of a hit when we flog him.[/quote']
Or we'll give him a decent salary, he flops and then we pay him £3m to go and play for a middling Ligue 1 club.
Amazing how quickly talk shifts from flushing unflushable turds to paying 'just a couple of million' over our valuation for a player.
What could possibly go wrong?
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What cheese would you use to hide a horse?
Marscapone.
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I know.
But I am a sad old man these days with two kids, what can you do?
Monkey cave sounds awesome, and an elephant ride would rule too. I will look into it.
Cheers Remster.
Check out Ankhor in Cambodia. Amazing place - your kids will love it you can go for a few days trip from Thailand or Nam. Siem Riep (cannot quote remember how spelt) is the town close to it and is a pretty chilled place.
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It is disappointing that if Suarez or Borini are unavailable we are seriously light for strikers but it's not the end of the world.
I'd far rather us build slowly, finally give some younger players a chance. For me if Morgan, Ngoo, Yesil are ever going to be any good they will be able to contribute now.
We cannot compete with the City, Chelsea and Man U's by buying up 6-7 lower tier players a window and paying off our latest expensive flops.
I'm hoping this is a sign that we have finally got a decent strategy in place - an opportunistic one where not just pick up players for big money that 'may' be of the required quality.
I seriously doubt Dempsey would have made any marked difference in our results until Christmas - would he have even gone into a first choice 11?
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Let's see how our defence copes against Carroll when we play West Ham this season.
Very well I'd imagine, since he won't be playing.
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Display some patience and don't spunk more money on dross which we'll only have to sell on at a loss in the future.
Loan a striker towards the end of the window. There will be someone available.
Finish 5th.
Invest another £30m next summer.
Repeat.
No more punts or buying 'nearly' good enough players.
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Instead of this nonsense about Carroll and Jones. Why don't you admit that Liverpool fans haven't got the culture of patience with young players? That if a player is not a wonderkid like Owen or Gerrard and doesn't hit the ground running like Torres, won't be given enough time to prove himself before they start calling him names and ruin his confidence?
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I suspect it's a lot easier to display patience with developing players when you are at the top of the league and competing in the CL.
The booing is frustration at results not necessarily aimed at the players. If you're frustrated you lash out at the easiest target.
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If you were going to set up a sports website you've got to question why someone would name it Crunch Sports. It's not screaming credible to me
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I will never get the maths of our transfers... I see Chelsea get Hazard for something around £32m who is one of the most gifted young talents out there, who has several great seasons at a top french club and almost 200 caps at highest level already.
We are being linked to Joe Allen, for £15m. A player who just proved himself in a decent Swansea side, and would obv, be a decent player who potentially be a good signing.
But i honestly believe there should be more than £17m apart from Hazard to Allen. Whether it is us who is being cheated, or Hazard was a bargain, i don't know but it doesnt make any sense.
All supporters want us to splash some cash around, but why waste £15m on Allen just because he have had one good season? He has not proven anything yet, and worst case is he will be an expensive squad player. We need key players, who can improve. Not boom or bust signings, who always have a tendency to fucking bust at our club.
And this is not meant to be a rage post, because i actually think Joe Allen can be a good player, and would love to see him at our club, but i don't see how he can be worth £15m. Not by playing one good season for Swansea.
Hazard will be on at least £100k a week more than Allen if we buy him. That is £5.2m a year or £26m over a five year contract - so the difference is not £17m.
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The critical difference is H&G were trying to make a profit at the expense of the club, while FSG are trying to make a profit with the club.
That makes all the difference. FSG's interests are aligned with ours. If we do well so do they. H&G didnt give a fuck, they were running us into the ground waiting for a wealthy buyer.
Were they? Surely their motives are exactly the same. Increase the value of the asset and then sell?
Difference is that H&G didn't have the cash to back up their risky loans when the credit bubble burst and then were too greedy or thick to sell when they needed to.
FSGs interests are aligned to the clubs as were H&Gs. Luckily FSG appear so far to have a bit more about them.
They'll build the stadium when it makes commercial sense and invest in the club the value that makes commercial sense.
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What the fuck are you on about?
He was managing fucking Swansea last year, you hysterical quacking loon
The spelling Borinin sent a Ukrainian shiver down my spine too
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A loan frees up wages which the manager can use to pay players he actually sees fit in his team. Obviously a sale would be better, but that's hard if noone wants to pay decent money.
If we must get rid and cannot sell loan him to someone good ish - Stoke etc - at least the wages will be off the bill and he'd be taking points off our rivals
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Strikes me as though this Spurs thing is a bit of a red herring. I don't buy that Spurs would offer that much more than us - 50% - whoever their new manager is wouldn't be that desperate for him surely. If he was that hot a ticket - you'd have more teams than us in at circa £7m plus modest-ish wages.
He's obviously got a lot of time for Rodgers as he agreed to sign for Swansea earlier this summer and given how quickly he pulled out after we brought Rodgers in I doubt he wanted to live on the Gower that much.
Looks like a public contract negotiation to me.
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He's not going to get 'better' at running though!
This isnt an open discussion on the failings or shortcomings of Carroll, it's about how a tiki taka system could ever include a player 'like him'.
If it can't, and I don't think it can, then surely the sensible and proper thing is to sell while his stock is high and allow Rodgers the cash to build the side he wants, and not just make do with spare parts from another regime.
I think he's pretty tidy on the ball actually - pace and movement seems to be the issue -
For me integrating him into the style would help because I do think he has almost unique qualities. We need to do something to challenge City, Chelsea and Man U and it's not going to be through acquiring better players than them going forward as we don't have the resources.
Shipping Carroll out and bringing a second tier poacher in won't improve our effectiveness in my opinion.
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fair enough, i would probably have taken the piss myself in your position given what i said, but you must agree if FSG are speaking to the likes of tompkins, and the dickhead does'nt know what he is talking about, it cant be a good thing for the club, surley
He can probably spell quantifiable though
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People can be such mongs. Personnel is the most important thing.
If you ahve good scouts, coaching, management and players, it doesn't matter what fucking formation you use, or WHAT THE STRUCTURE IS.
Structurally yes however you can definitely win more than you ought to from smart tactics. Probably why we seem to be interested in Martinez and Rodgers.
Commoli looked like a pussy cat to me - you need the top man - Director of Football, Head Coach - whatever - to be a strong person who'll railroad the vision through
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Changing the manager every ten minutes won't get over any perceived problems. It will just cost to pay off coaching contracts and probably the players that the new man doesn't fancy.
The players were bought for a reason with a plan in place. You cannot just keep changing the plan every year if it doesn't go exceedingly well. Keep the core and add strength around it when the need and opportunities arise.
If we haven't performed markedly better by the end of next season then maybe you could start to consider whether the strategy was successful or not. He hasn't even got his feet under the table yet and it is a very competitive league.
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The negativity stens from finishing 8th or maybe worse. No amount of cup runs can disguise how poor we have been in the league.
Yes, but there are obvious reasons for that other than poor management. The basis for Kenny's team is in place and there is evidence from how we have played more often than not that next year we will continue to improve. Getting someone else in now will disrupt that.
The only signing that is questionable to me is Downing. Although I suspect he will be useful and effective coming off the bench, especially where we are ahead and he has a bit more space to operate in. He has played as a counter attacker his entire career so it is a bit of a change now for him to be desperately trying to unlock the two banks of four every team seems to employ against us.
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I agree he should be given another season to turn things around.
The problem is I dont think he will be given much money for new players to do it.
The owners have had there fingers burnt once already giving money to invest in new players and I cant see them bank rolling him again somehow.
We do not need a lot of new players though. Hopefully he will get another season as until the confidence drained out of the team we defended well and were consistently dominant; even against the better teams.
Carroll and Suarez works we just need to replace Spearing with a DM to back up Lucas and we will be set. A top attacking wide player with pace would obviously help and I'm sure with Kuyt and Maxis wages off the bill we can do that.
I don't understand all the negativity - getting to two cup finals in a season where our best two players have missed massive chunks of the season and we've played without a specialist DM for most is hardly bad.
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Here we go. The original story is, unsurprisingly, a pack of lies.
Nah. They are going to have a central database, but the LDs have managed to fight for the crucial safeguard that the trusty, reliable and ethically sound police will ensure that it is not abused.
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Two cats are going to have a race to see who can swim from Dover to Calais. First is called one two three, the other une deux trois.
Which one gets to Calais first?
One two three because une deux trois quatre cinq.
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Blatant case of murder covered up by such a monumentally ridiculous story the Feds bought it
Coronavirus
in GF - General Forum
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Yes, not tested positive but have def had it. Started off with tight chest, very slight cough 5 weeks ago Saturday coming. Very mild version, just couldn't have gone out for a run. Like nothing I've ever had though, lungs periodically burn and feel like you are downing absinthe whilst the back of your throat is closing / restricted. Stayed about the same for 10 days then fine for a few days and since then dizzy spells and same very occasional involuntary cough. My wife almost identical.
I reckon I'd have normally just gone to work scratching my head. The even milder version must be a massive reason for its spread as it has to be easy to miss, particularly as the symptom list is wide and even more so re reports of lots of asymptomatic cases.
I think the kids passed it on to us as they had temps a few days before and very slight coughs after we showed symptoms. And I'd definitely have sent them to school in normal circumstances with how not unwell they were.