hilarious OP !!
However we could have and should have bought him last summer but they wanted 18M and we (DL) didn't want to pay that much......ho hum
hilarious OP !!
However we could have and should have bought him last summer but they wanted 18M and we (DL) didn't want to pay that much......ho hum
Meanwhile we were offering £14million for a unproven striker in Brazil but couldnt stump £18mill for a proven European strikerhilarious OP !!
However we could have and should have bought him last summer but they wanted 18M and we (DL) didn't want to pay that much......ho hum
hahahahilarious OP !!
However we could have and should have bought him last summer but they wanted 18M and we (DL) didn't want to pay that much......ho hum
For every one of Isco, Lewandowski and Moutinho there were probably thirty other players who we were 'offered' and who were at a similar level of ability and stage of development and who have disappeared without trace.Isco before Malaga, Lewandowski before Dortmund, Moutinho before Porto, Cavani before Napoli were all affordable. They were not pipe dreams. They were not at the top end of the market like they are now.
Every club on the planet apart from Dortmund didn't take a punt on him, who cares? Can't win them all! Look at Bale, we took the punt.. Win some lose some.
No scouting network?! Half our fucking team made their names at Spurs. Walker, Naughton, Dawson, Vertonghen, Kaboul, Ekotto, Rose, Lennon, Huddlestone, Holtby, Sandro, Sigurdsson, Bale, Defoe are all the type of signing we apparently don't make according to some. Modric and Berbatov before them. Fans of most clubs in the Premier League look at us with jealousy and say that they wish they could be in our position. Nothing is ever enough for some. Yes we can aspire to be better, but don't act like what we are doing isn't pretty impressive. Get a bit of perspective.
I was going to say that saying no to Lewandowski years ago isn't a biggie, until JJ said what he said. £18m isn't too bad to pay for a player of his ability. But hindsight is lovely. If I told you yesterday we could have had him for £18m some people would wonder whether he is worth that much. So 4 goals in a CL semi can elevate price expectation.
For me the biggest loss was turning down Suarez. I don't know if the rumours are true, that Harry thought he was too similar to VDV but if they are I hope his dog gets turned down for the next bank account it opens.
No scouting network?! Half our fucking team made their names at Spurs. Walker, Naughton, Dawson, Vertonghen, Kaboul, Ekotto, Rose, Lennon, Huddlestone, Holtby, Sandro, Sigurdsson, Bale, Defoe are all the type of signing we apparently don't make according to some. Modric and Berbatov before them. Fans of most clubs in the Premier League look at us with jealousy and say that they wish they could be in our position. Nothing is ever enough for some. Yes we can aspire to be better, but don't act like what we are doing isn't pretty impressive. Get a bit of perspective.
Neither was sig, and Walker/Naughton were in the team of the year for the championship, vertonghen.. "_".. Sigurdsson had an amazing season last year...Holtby is German U21 Captain, played for Germanys second biggest club (as far as membership goes), a club who also got through to the knock-out stages of the Champion's League, beating sides like Arsenal to get there and had at the age of 22 already played three games for the German national team. Sly bit of business from Levy's side, yeah, but Holtby was not an unknown player when we signed him.
hilarious OP !!
However we could have and should have bought him last summer but they wanted 18M and we (DL) didn't want to pay that much......ho hum
Back in the 60s we scouted John White and in the 70s Glenn Hoddle. The last player we "scouted" was Sandro. Since then our scouting system seems to have amounted to recommending a series of strikers we can't afford. We have obviously needed strikers since Berbatov's departure and yet our global network has turned up nothing. Worse still our chief scout, albeit a pretty useless one other than finding Sandro, left last summer and still hasn't been replaced so we seemingly have no scout in place.
Of course if you think the role of a scouting network is to "unearth" hidden gems like Ajax's captain when he is Holland's player of the year then we have very different views on the role of such a function at the club. In fact if that is your view we should add that unknown French player we signed in goal because I have to admit he is pretty tasty.