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Online Clampy

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1710 on: January 17, 2017, 10:58:10 AM »
If the dough has run out by his second transfer window some of the questions many of us were asking when he bowled up will be asked again.


Considering we went on to spend £50m, those questions went unfounded so I'm not sure what point you're making.

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1711 on: January 17, 2017, 11:00:11 AM »
Maybe, rather than running out of money, we've gone from a club that splashes it about willy nilly with poor returns, to one that's a bit more careful with it?

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1712 on: January 17, 2017, 11:01:33 AM »
If the dough has run out by his second transfer window some of the questions many of us were asking when he bowled up will be asked again.


Considering we went on to spend £50m, those questions went unfounded so I'm not sure what point you're making.

This is the part of the transfer window where panic sets in and the rumours of the Docs demise emerge. I hate the January window because it is so difficult to get things done and without it being at an absolute premium. And worse when the seller and agents smells any level of desperation, coupled with identifying the buying club as having a few quid.

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1713 on: January 17, 2017, 11:41:45 AM »
It could just be Bruce shaping the squad in to what he wants. There are still 2 weeks to go.

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1714 on: January 17, 2017, 01:49:42 PM »
This is beginning to look like our usual January transfer window. I'm starting to lose confidence as it looks like a sell to buy policy now. Dr Xia's tweets have really dried up - last one was nearly a week ago.

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1715 on: January 17, 2017, 01:52:27 PM »
Very few deals have been done generally. Not concerned about that side of things at all, more concerned that we'll just keep buying players that sound promising and they'll mainly turn out to be shit and we'll take one pace forward at best.

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1716 on: January 17, 2017, 02:13:36 PM »
How many clubs have had a complete turnaround as a result of the Jan transfer windo?

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1717 on: January 17, 2017, 02:19:14 PM »


I don't know what frightens me more, the thought of Bruce saying 'fuck spending for the sake of spending, i'll work with what I have' or potentially spending something ludicrous like 10m on the likes of Rhodes with no real thought again

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1718 on: January 17, 2017, 02:33:20 PM »
Maybe, rather than running out of money, we've gone from a club that splashes it about willy nilly with poor returns, to one that's a bit more careful with it?

Id like to think that but jedinak cost 3 million plus 40k a week and he will be a bit part player next season due to his fitness

Elphick looks a waste
Adomah overpriced

kodija is fine but overall still hit and miss

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1719 on: January 17, 2017, 02:39:43 PM »
How many clubs have had a complete turnaround as a result of the Jan transfer windo?

Agreed.  I don't think we can turn this squad into a promotion contenders within the next two weeks.

(Though there were plenty on here who were advocating spending big to achieve just that this time last year.)

On that basis it seems sensible to ship out those who're not part of the long term plans, and trim costs if that means there's more available in the summer for better value/higher quality replacements.


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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1720 on: January 17, 2017, 05:11:21 PM »
It could just be Bruce shaping the squad in to what he wants. There are still 2 weeks to go.

A rhombus 

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1721 on: January 17, 2017, 05:34:07 PM »
I think the Doc has just become tired of twitter. Like a lot of things on the internet you can easily suck the life out of it at the beginning and eventually become bored of it quite quickly....I used to love the Voyeur and MILF's section on xHamster but now I much prefer Femdom and Shemales.

Offline villabear

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1722 on: January 17, 2017, 06:22:16 PM »
He's just tweeted:

I can assure we'll done b4 the deadline but can't promise anytime earlier becoz clubs may want keep them playing more games costing nothing.

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1723 on: January 17, 2017, 06:49:33 PM »
There hasn't been a great deal of business done across the board so far this month really and generally, January is normally quiet anyway. Looks like we're going to have to wait until deals fall into place. It's not ideal but there you go.

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Re: Tony's Tweets
« Reply #1724 on: January 17, 2017, 06:51:43 PM »
He's just suggested we kidnap any players we want, in response to a muppet who has told him 'u r full of shit'!!

 


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