Quote from: montague on April 27, 2016, 09:49:44 AMThierry Henry was bigging him up a few days ago, along with Kante, when talking about the players Arsenal used to sign.They can have him!
Thierry Henry was bigging him up a few days ago, along with Kante, when talking about the players Arsenal used to sign.
Quote from: aj2k77 on April 27, 2016, 10:06:51 AMQuote from: montague on April 27, 2016, 09:49:44 AMThierry Henry was bigging him up a few days ago, along with Kante, when talking about the players Arsenal used to sign.They can have him!I think he would be a decent player in a decent team
They all give up to be fair
Quote from: Steve R on April 27, 2016, 02:35:42 AM...That's the amazing thing. Mid to low-end teams tend to pick over the bones of those that are relegated. We have done it ourselves. Normally there is only 1 or 2 players worth a look. We get relegated with most likely only three wins to our name but there are 5 or 6 players that are easily good enough for mid table PL side - or better.Seriously, how the fuck did we manage to be so bad?That's the whole point though isn't it. This season we've had 5 or 6 players (at the absolute maximum) who'd get into a mid table side. None would get into a top 8 side. The rest, either through attitude or ability aren't even good enough for the championship.....
...That's the amazing thing. Mid to low-end teams tend to pick over the bones of those that are relegated. We have done it ourselves. Normally there is only 1 or 2 players worth a look. We get relegated with most likely only three wins to our name but there are 5 or 6 players that are easily good enough for mid table PL side - or better.Seriously, how the fuck did we manage to be so bad?
Let him go for 5 or 6m and then what, though?Where does that money go, what does it get us?There's no way we can be flogging all of our players, we are going to have to keep some of them. Gueye is easily of the quality we will need to get out of this league. He's precisely the sort we should be holding on to. There's no point flogging the likes of him and using some of the cash to buy Championship dross just because that's where we are. Unless we fancy being the new Forest or Leeds, we are going to need as many players who are close to the best in their position in that league as we can get, otherwise we might as well just give up even trying.
I agree. Unless it is for more than we paid, I would not let any of the "foreign lot" go depending of course on their release clauses.
Quote from: pauliewalnuts on April 27, 2016, 11:08:17 PMLet him go for 5 or 6m and then what, though?Where does that money go, what does it get us?There's no way we can be flogging all of our players, we are going to have to keep some of them. Gueye is easily of the quality we will need to get out of this league. He's precisely the sort we should be holding on to. There's no point flogging the likes of him and using some of the cash to buy Championship dross just because that's where we are. Unless we fancy being the new Forest or Leeds, we are going to need as many players who are close to the best in their position in that league as we can get, otherwise we might as well just give up even trying.Well we don't know what the budget is going to be, obviously with new owners we're in a better position to keep some of the better players as suddenly the club is a more positive place to be and we can look upwards again.I never said get rid of them all, I'd keep Okore (looks like he's off), Ayew (as his quality would make a difference down there), Gestede (just for his record at Blackburn), Adama and Amavi. I'd also get Baker and Gardner back, particularly Gardner as he's been playing week in week out for Forest and I think he could do just as good a job as Westwood who I'd move on.You have to remember Lerner has on average been giving out 20m net budgets for the last 3-4 years so with him wanting out what makes you think he's going to give a good transfer budget to a manager, if anything it would be cut to about 10m net so that's why we have to bring some money in.It's inevitable anyway, when a team goes down it sells players, the key is to sell a couple and then re-invest. Hull sold James Chester for about 8m to WBA, keep most of their other main players and re-invested.Let's remember this isn't the premier league anymore. You don't need to spend 50m to be top half (or bottom as the case may be). You can be in the top 6 or close to it (SHA) by barely spending anything, Brighton are up there with a good number of free transfers and loans. Probably why we're looking at a few managers with that sort of experience I'd say....