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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8610 on: July 04, 2020, 04:25:40 PM »
Enough about Cahill! He was not going to move from London and we weren't going to pay him the £100k a week that Palace are.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8611 on: July 04, 2020, 04:40:33 PM »
agreed but for me Konsa was like pissing £12m up the wall - we needed another player from Brentford and he's scored a hat trick today.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8612 on: July 04, 2020, 04:49:38 PM »
Enough about Cahill! He was not going to move from London and we weren't going to pay him the £100k a week that Palace are.

Ok, calm! I think the point is that we needed more experience, it was obvious, but we all went along with the recruitment & didn’t moan to much because of the play off final & it’s Dean. Well that isn’t doing us much good at the moment. Unless you are good mates with Cahill and he told you he wouldn’t come, you are guessing. Please don’t make out that you know for certain when you don’t, it’s your opinion, which is fine, but not a fact. For me, and my opinion if we didn’t try then I think that’s a mistake, of course we may have spoken to him.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8613 on: July 04, 2020, 04:51:45 PM »
Enough about Cahill! He was not going to move from London and we weren't going to pay him the £100k a week that Palace are.
Maybe, maybe not.  But I hope someone at the club at least asked the question rather than assuming he wasn't interested.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8614 on: July 04, 2020, 04:53:59 PM »
Enough about Cahill! He was not going to move from London and we weren't going to pay him the £100k a week that Palace are.

How much are we paying Drinkwater?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8615 on: July 04, 2020, 04:55:55 PM »
Too much, whatever the amount is.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8616 on: July 04, 2020, 05:08:22 PM »
Enough about Cahill! He was not going to move from London and we weren't going to pay him the £100k a week that Palace are.

How much are we paying Drinkwater?

40k a week at a guess.

I just find it reductive to play the "Why we didn't sign x?" game. The bigger issue for me is Dean failing to get the best out of the players that he actually  did sign,  including Danny shagging Drinkwater.

Offline Three Spires Villa

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8617 on: July 04, 2020, 05:12:07 PM »
I agree, as I said more that we needed more experience, Cahill, sorry to mention his name 👍🤣 Is just an example of what and where we should have been looking. The idea that players without experience of the premier league with a manager without the same experience is going to end well, is very short sighted.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8618 on: July 04, 2020, 05:18:06 PM »
Once it was seen Chester's fitness wouldn't stand up to premier league football (which we'd have probably known this time last year) we should've got in an experienced CB from somewhere. Signed three all under 25 and it's certainly showed for much of this season. Even Mings wasn't that experienced at prem level.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8619 on: July 04, 2020, 05:33:07 PM »
Heaton most experienced, Mings, Jack, Targett and errr is that it for players who have played games in the premier league? and those three hadn’t got that much premier league experience.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8620 on: July 04, 2020, 05:55:23 PM »
I'm not sure if it's already been mentioned but seeing Thomas Frank marching Brentford towards the Prem does slightly make a mockery of the view that Deano was performing miracles keeping them in mid-table doesn't it?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8621 on: July 04, 2020, 06:27:25 PM »
I'm not sure if it's already been mentioned but seeing Thomas Frank marching Brentford towards the Prem does slightly make a mockery of the view that Deano was performing miracles keeping them in mid-table doesn't it?

What’s interesting also is that every recent Brentford manager has done well and gone on to fail. Frank was Dean’s assistant and has taken the club to new heights. What would be shit is if they come up and we go down in the same season. We have certainly helped them improve, not just by taking their manager allowing Frank to take over but the £27m or so we gave them for Hogan and Konsa.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8622 on: July 04, 2020, 06:28:00 PM »
I'm not sure if it's already been mentioned but seeing Thomas Frank marching Brentford towards the Prem does slightly make a mockery of the view that Deano was performing miracles keeping them in mid-table doesn't it?

I don’t really know anything about Brentford, and I guess they haven’t spent a lot of money, so yes I get your point.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8623 on: July 04, 2020, 06:28:52 PM »
I'm not sure if it's already been mentioned but seeing Thomas Frank marching Brentford towards the Prem does slightly make a mockery of the view that Deano was performing miracles keeping them in mid-table doesn't it?

What’s interesting also is that every recent Brentford manager has done well and gone on to fail. Frank was Dean’s assistant and has taken the club to new heights. What would be shit is if they come up and we go down in the same season. We have certainly helped them improve, not just by taking their manager allowing Frank to take over but the £27m or so we gave them for Hogan and Konsa.

How depressing!

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8624 on: July 04, 2020, 07:08:43 PM »
Enough about Cahill! He was not going to move from London and we weren't going to pay him the £100k a week that Palace are.

How much are we paying Drinkwater?

40k a week at a guess.

I just find it reductive to play the "Why we didn't sign x?" game. The bigger issue for me is Dean failing to get the best out of the players that he actually  did sign,  including Danny shagging Drinkwater.

I seem to recall at the time that it was reported that we were paying all his wages, which are about £100k a week.

 


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