Manager in "buying better players" shocker!By the way greg, he didn't buy players to replace Bouma, Mellberg and Laursen for any reason other than they were injured or leaving. But when he needed to replace those players, he did so admirably. Thats also worth noting.
Quote from: "Mazrim"Manager in "buying better players" shocker!By the way greg, he didn't buy players to replace Bouma, Mellberg and Laursen for any reason other than they were injured or leaving. But when he needed to replace those players, he did so admirably. Thats also worth noting.maybe, but behind collins and dunne, there's davies and knight.. behind warnock and cuellar there's shorey, young, beye. None of the replacement's replacements couldn't have been bought when he arrived, not last summer.
Quote from: "gregnash"Quote from: "Mazrim"Manager in "buying better players" shocker!By the way greg, he didn't buy players to replace Bouma, Mellberg and Laursen for any reason other than they were injured or leaving. But when he needed to replace those players, he did so admirably. Thats also worth noting.maybe, but behind collins and dunne, there's davies and knight.. behind warnock and cuellar there's shorey, young, beye. None of the replacement's replacements couldn't have been bought when he arrived, not last summer.Knight was back up who was sold at profit. He did alright then we sold him and upgraded. Laursen and Davies did well as a pair so I'm not sure what you're getting at there. Shorey was bought because Bouma was injured whereas Warnock was bought to truly replace Bouma. Beye was a back up who could have been needed but wasnt. Should have played more perhaps. So?What you mean by this:"None of the replacement's replacements couldn't have been bought when he arrived, not last summer"Christ alone knows.
Sunday night crack smoking greg?Why would we have bought Dunne to replace Laursen a few years ago when Laursen was doing just fine? Or are you saying we should have bought Dunne as back up instead of Knight? How do you know he was available? And for less than the £5m we paid for him? I doubt it.Did you know Collins was a good player a few years ago? You shoud have said. Nobody esle did. And Warnock. We didnt need to replace Bouma then either.The fact is, when MON had to replace the defenders we lost long term, we replaced them with one of the best defences in the league and for less than the price of a Lescott. True or false?
Forget Laursen, he could have bought Dunne instead of Davies.
The point i'm making is the likes of Davies, Shorey etc., weren't the best we could afford at the time or some sort of transitional players before we could buy the likes of Dunne, Warnock and Collins which is how some are making them out to be. They were the players he wanted at the time and he could have quite easily have bought who he did last summer earlier if need be as the fees we bought them for and the size of clubs they were at show.
heh. i love the way you just decide who's a replacement for who. Couldn't collins have been Laursen's replacement?Look the bottom line is we're not shopping in a different market last summer to the one where we purchased Davies, Shorey etc.., In august 07 Citeh were a skint club finishing below us, while we had a billionaire and were paying top wages as we've found out since. If anything it should have been easier to buy him than last summer. the fact that he then paid more for Davies than a lot of established premier centre halfs shows he really wanted him, and i don't believe collins or Dunne were even considered. The likes of NRC weren't cheap either even now so weren't any sort of stop gaps. And its not just me who thinks Davies has failed or he wouldn't be on the transfer list no?
Yes greg, you've "won" the argument. You did it with all your wonderful logic and reasoning allied to your deep knowledge of football.By the way, Davies cost £8m. What are we asking for him?