I agree, even Alasdair Gold's article basically says they realized it while they were doing the loan deal that they had too many out so they switched it to a release. It's not a big deal what-so-ever.
That's great, but I've worked in places (in the UK) where people have been fired for far less. Also there's the Alan Sugar "you're fired" and then there's the British corporate way of doing it, which is effectively the same thing but done more subtly.
It’s moaning for the sake of moaning.
Its not though, that misses the point and gives levy & Paratici a free pass.
I get the overall point but would counter a little by saying:
. I love us making udogie/Sarr type signings and would like to see at least one every window. The peak Poch side had 4 young players we bought cheaply (Walker, Dier, Rose, Dele) and it’s a great way to supplement our own youth policy
Lol what. We don't decide when Beyonce announces her concert dates.
He had loads of offers mate, I didn't know where he was going but then I didn't ask either.
I’m specifically on about the Doherty situation. Which is very much just moaning for the sake of moaning. The majority of fans wanted him gone, and the majority were worried he’d be coming back in June giving us another player to shift then and yet another headache. He’s been released. It’s freed up space. That’s a good thing.
I really don't think this makes a blind bit of difference to most people. It was the same with the guy yesterday complaining that they quoted Kim Kardashian in the Porro announcement - no one cares. They care about signings (or lack of)
Yeah I’m sure Beyoncé wouldn’t have minded putting it off until the Levy out stuff dies down ?
It just seemed like an odd move. I thought he'd be better off getting prem experience.
Yeah, let me just ask Beyonce to hold off announcing it while we process the transfer window (I get that the above was a jk, I'm running with it).
Yeah those types of signings are great and can be the lifeblood of a team like us that's one step below the top echelon of mega money clubs.I get the overall point but would counter a little by saying:
1). I’d rate that window higher than 7 out of 10 if it happened… if we keep Harry (if not we have a whole different problem) and assuming only one out is a little pessimistic. Our starting XI would be pretty damn good with pretty good cover in most positions.
2). I don’t know what an ‘irrelevant position’ is
I think our last few windows have been better than people think on the ins (less said about the outs the better). We’ve added 6 really important players in 12 months (Kulu, Bentancur, Richy, Perisic, Bissouma and Porro) with others still having promise (Udogie, danjuma). That’s half a team replaced/upgraded. Get 3 high quality first team options in the summer plus a couple of younger options and sort some of the outs and things will look pretty good. Do I trust Levy to do that? No, but it’s possible. The issue will be if Harry and Conte go - then we won’t achieve the above and I don’t trust levy to pick a manager at all
That is something I was thinking about yesterday. Will we ever get to the point where there aren't holes in the squad?
If we can keep up our recent hit rate I think we'll get there eventually. We've gone from about 1 in 10 signings being a genuine success (think Hojbjerg is the only current first teamer we signed between 2017-2021) to about 2 in 3 since Paratici came in. Couple more years of that and we'll be in a much better place.
