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Offline Ads

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1320 on: June 10, 2019, 07:25:51 PM »
Twitter rumours of a medical on Wednesday

For who?

He hasn't said, but there are pictures of Houses up, suggesting Hause is now done.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1321 on: June 10, 2019, 07:29:44 PM »
Twitter rumours of a medical on Wednesday

For who?

He hasn't said, but there are pictures of Houses up, suggesting Hause is now done.

Ah, ok. Thanks.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1322 on: June 10, 2019, 07:33:54 PM »
MON wasn't responsible for the relegation but you can't write him out of the story. He is responsible, however, for missing our biggest chance at doing something big for ages, as we were spending the most money in the league on overpriced, uninspiring signings with zero resale value (for the most part) to play football at least a decade out of date, right down to the lack of squad rotation. That's entirely on him.

Add to that he thought it a personal insult that he should sell the players (most on high wages) that he wasn't using and had no intention of using.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1323 on: June 10, 2019, 07:47:06 PM »
Mon also walked out on us a week before season started, very helpful that.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1324 on: June 10, 2019, 07:59:17 PM »
If he signed duff players and played outdated tactics we did pretty well to finish 6th those times.

Actually he had some strengths as a manager which got us up there but he also had severe limitations which meant we were never going to go any higher.  I thought that was becoming clearer at least a year before he left.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1325 on: June 10, 2019, 08:02:19 PM »
If he signed duff players and played outdated tactics we did pretty well to finish 6th those times.

Actually he had some strengths as a manager which got us up there but he also had severe limitations which meant we were never going to go any higher.  I thought that was becoming clearer at least a year before he left.

That's about right I think. The world had started to move on and he's barely Championship standard now. See the relief in Ireland at Mick McCarthy's samba football having returned!

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1326 on: June 10, 2019, 08:24:56 PM »
If he signed duff players and played outdated tactics we did pretty well to finish 6th those times.

Actually he had some strengths as a manager which got us up there but he also had severe limitations which meant we were never going to go any higher.  I thought that was becoming clearer at least a year before he left.

He signed some good players, a lot of rubbish and made up for his tactical limits with genuinely remarkable team motivation. It was nowhere near enough though.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1327 on: June 10, 2019, 08:41:50 PM »
His name has not been mentioned  for a while and he's not a player I know very well but what opinions are out there regarding Sawyers of Brentford?
As regards MON....FOMON!

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1328 on: June 10, 2019, 08:56:20 PM »
Championship player imo

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1329 on: June 10, 2019, 09:36:48 PM »
Twitter rumours of a medical on Wednesday

For who?

He hasn't said, but there are pictures of Houses up, suggesting Hause is now done.

Is that from Dr Tony?

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1330 on: June 10, 2019, 09:42:31 PM »
😎🐅🧨%£@¥ = q.....👍

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1331 on: June 10, 2019, 10:04:20 PM »
It is bonkers when you consider the wages we were throwing around back then that the only two strikers he spent money on, and we were rigidly playing 442 as well, were Heskey and Harewood.
Exactly, this is something I’ve also always thought - the guy can’t sign strikers. Carew was a swap, and these two were the only others. At Leicester the only strikers of note he bought were Claridge (29), Cottee (32), Collymore (29), whilst he inherited Heskey. At Celtic he bought Sutton (27), Hartson (26), whilst inheriting Larsson. At Sunderland he bought Wickham (18), Fletcher (25), Graham (27) and Saha (34), whilst he inherited Gyan.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1332 on: June 10, 2019, 10:36:08 PM »
Gregg Evans suggesting we are now after Butland.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1333 on: June 10, 2019, 10:48:10 PM »
Gregg Evans suggesting we are now after Butland.

That'll teach Stoke for thinking they could get Chester on the cheap this time last year.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #1334 on: June 10, 2019, 11:09:53 PM »
Butland... No thanks. Not at the money being reported anyway.

Why we seem so intent on replacing Steer with Kalinic also in reserve is strange to me. We have other priorities surely.

 


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