Quote from: Drummond on February 26, 2020, 12:20:30 PMJota would still be with us. He may not be Premier League but he'd do just fine in the Championship.O'Hare would be back and ours. Young Barry would no doubt get games too. I don't want us to go down but to suggest it's the end of the world is typical doom mongering. We survived last time with vastly shitter owners. This time we'd be fine. The trick would be recruitment for the next season in the top flight with a largely settled squad.The club was on the verge of being wound up the last time we were down there. If it happens this time, all decent players will leave and we will be very much under the cosh FFP wise. The revisionism towards our time in the second tier is astounding. It was a complete and utter shit show.
Jota would still be with us. He may not be Premier League but he'd do just fine in the Championship.O'Hare would be back and ours. Young Barry would no doubt get games too. I don't want us to go down but to suggest it's the end of the world is typical doom mongering. We survived last time with vastly shitter owners. This time we'd be fine. The trick would be recruitment for the next season in the top flight with a largely settled squad.
Quote from: Risso on February 26, 2020, 12:42:17 PMQuote from: Drummond on February 26, 2020, 12:20:30 PMJota would still be with us. He may not be Premier League but he'd do just fine in the Championship.O'Hare would be back and ours. Young Barry would no doubt get games too. I don't want us to go down but to suggest it's the end of the world is typical doom mongering. We survived last time with vastly shitter owners. This time we'd be fine. The trick would be recruitment for the next season in the top flight with a largely settled squad.Jota couldn’t get into a shit Blues team. Buying him was entirely pointless.O'Hare? Barry? Or is everyone that we have on the books (excluding Grealish, Mings and McGinn) shit?
Quote from: Drummond on February 26, 2020, 12:20:30 PMJota would still be with us. He may not be Premier League but he'd do just fine in the Championship.O'Hare would be back and ours. Young Barry would no doubt get games too. I don't want us to go down but to suggest it's the end of the world is typical doom mongering. We survived last time with vastly shitter owners. This time we'd be fine. The trick would be recruitment for the next season in the top flight with a largely settled squad.Jota couldn’t get into a shit Blues team. Buying him was entirely pointless.
If we had this squad going into a championship season, we'd be right up there i reckon, as long as the recruitment was at least fairly successful...Heaton, Steer, SarkicGuilbert, Elhammody, Hause, Konsa, Engels, (New Player), Targett, TaylorNakamba, Hourahane, (3 new players)Jota, Trezeguet, El Ghazi, (New player), Wesley, Davis, Samatta, Baston.The new players being a centre back, ball winning midfielder, box to box midfielder, creative midfielder and another winger.Use the money from selling Grealish, McGinn and Mings who i think would want to go. I also think Luiz wouldn't hang around so he'd probably be sold, Reina wouldn't stay on and we would offload Drinkwater and sell Lansbury and Hogan as well.But let's hope it doesn't come to that.
Quote from: Drummond on February 26, 2020, 12:20:30 PMJota would still be with us. He may not be Premier League but he'd do just fine in the Championship.O'Hare would be back and ours. Young Barry would no doubt get games too. I don't want us to go down but to suggest it's the end of the world is typical doom mongering. We survived last time with vastly shitter owners. This time we'd be fine. The trick would be recruitment for the next season in the top flight with a largely settled squad.Jota couldnt get into a shit Blues team. Buying him was entirely pointless.
Quote from: Drummond on February 26, 2020, 01:07:23 PMQuote from: Risso on February 26, 2020, 12:42:17 PMQuote from: Drummond on February 26, 2020, 12:20:30 PMJota would still be with us. He may not be Premier League but he'd do just fine in the Championship.O'Hare would be back and ours. Young Barry would no doubt get games too. I don't want us to go down but to suggest it's the end of the world is typical doom mongering. We survived last time with vastly shitter owners. This time we'd be fine. The trick would be recruitment for the next season in the top flight with a largely settled squad.Jota couldn’t get into a shit Blues team. Buying him was entirely pointless.O'Hare? Barry? Or is everyone that we have on the books (excluding Grealish, Mings and McGinn) shit? No they're not all shit. Hourihane would still do a job at that level, as would the likes of Targett and Gilbert. Picking somebody like Jota who IS shit by virtue of being too physically incapable at either Premier League or Championship level isn't a great way of reinforcing your point though. He's probably the worst player to make an appearance for us this year.
Quote from: Risso on February 26, 2020, 01:24:22 PMQuote from: Drummond on February 26, 2020, 01:07:23 PMQuote from: Risso on February 26, 2020, 12:42:17 PMQuote from: Drummond on February 26, 2020, 12:20:30 PMJota would still be with us. He may not be Premier League but he'd do just fine in the Championship.O'Hare would be back and ours. Young Barry would no doubt get games too. I don't want us to go down but to suggest it's the end of the world is typical doom mongering. We survived last time with vastly shitter owners. This time we'd be fine. The trick would be recruitment for the next season in the top flight with a largely settled squad.Jota couldn’t get into a shit Blues team. Buying him was entirely pointless.O'Hare? Barry? Or is everyone that we have on the books (excluding Grealish, Mings and McGinn) shit? No they're not all shit. Hourihane would still do a job at that level, as would the likes of Targett and Gilbert. Picking somebody like Jota who IS shit by virtue of being too physically incapable at either Premier League or Championship level isn't a great way of reinforcing your point though. He's probably the worst player to make an appearance for us this year.I picked Jota as he (along with O'Hare and Barry) is the closest we have to Grealish.Jota did well at Brentford in the Championship, I'd argue that he could still be useful. If you go through our squad, I'd say they are good enough to get us promoted.
I disagree. Even with Tammy the majority of that squad was mid table at best without Grealish. I can't see that team being anywhere near the likes of last seasons Norwich & Sheffilield or this seasons Leeds or West Brom. If the recruitment was brilliant then maybe, but otherwise I'd seriously fear for that team.
Crikey paul, we agree.