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The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - DEADLINE DAY 31st August 2021

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t79boy

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Trix said:
That's not the issue though. If we haven't got the money then lets cut our cloth accordingly. If this was the case we shouldn't have been in for him at all. It's the U turn's that bring about the frustration.
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Conte fiasco all over again
 
mil1lion

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Aphex said:
Chelsea's midfield versus ours is just embarassing on paper this season. Such a shame we don't show more ambition.
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In what world should we compare ourselves to Chelsea? We have always been a team at our best who take a chance on young talent and develop them. Chelsea are a team that buys already developed players at a premium.
 
Jules77

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Trix said:
That's not the point I was making. Having multiple players on a list in case of a U turn from the selling club, is not the same as moving on to other targets once Levy U turns on spending.
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redundancy is redundancy, for whatever reason in my book. Of course
JayB said:
It's important to keep in mind here that Adama was the alternative. We were in for Lautaro and Vlahovic earlier in the window but were priced out of the deals. We then turned to Adama and, according to ITK, actually struck a deal only for Levy to refuse to sign off on it. It's not Paratici's fault that we haven't signed an attacker.
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yeah, maybe... it's pretty hard for us to know how it all went down. but we have a narrative to feed in 'blaming' Levy (not necessarily you, just a general comment) and prob it's fine right now to give Paratici the benefit of the doubt. But we are all drawing pretty toxic conclusions on non-concrete info with a lot of filling in the gaps.
 
topper

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ofosh said:
So earlier in the window, we were led to believe we were talking to Inter and Fiorentina about Martinez and Vlahovic and we weren't relying on outs to finance the deals.

Roll on 3-4 weeks and surprise surprise...same old same old.
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Surely no one believed that nonsense?
 
Guntz

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mil1lion said:
In what world should we compare ourselves to Chelsea? We have always been a team at our best who take a chance on young talent and develop them. Chelsea are a team that buys already developed players at a premium.
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We had a better squad than Chelsea a few years ago.

They improved and we regressed, simple as that.
 
ajspurs

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Aphex said:
Chelsea's midfield versus ours is just embarassing on paper this season. Such a shame we don't show more ambition.
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Yep. It's not great when I feel I can say I'd happily get rid of all our midfielders other than Hojbjerg and Skipp. Such a problem area, we won't get away with Skipp, Hojbjerg and Dele for long IMO, without sounding really overly negative.
 
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