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So we had £25m to spend.
Dendoncker, who Moyes has said we were after, was available at £18m.
Am I missing something?
Oh hang on...
Such a pointless statement to make. I was expecting it earlier to be honest; the 'we tried' line. But what does he think it will achieve? He must be aware of people's opinions on our transfer window and how the mood is amongst the fans; did he really think this would help the situation?
'We tried but a relegation rival wouldn't sell us their best midfielder to us'.
Of course they wouldn't; only an idiot would sell to a relegation rival in January.
Oh...
IMO, a lot of the issues fans have at the moment is because he (Sullivan) says stuff he can't or won't back up with action.
It's like look people we have the money but whether we are actually going to spend it well that's a different story. ;whistle
We don't give a flying unicorn on who we nearly bought/who we bid on/who we missed out on. The fact is _______ (enter player) isn't holding up a shirt come the end of the window.
It's a non-event. Pointless. It just annoys people, myself included.
He cannot resist the celebrity of being a football club owner.
Should keep his pie hole closed and get on with the job in hand.
It’s not that groundbreaking.
He’s had a fantastic career, won plenty with Man City and a great international career. He has had good games for us and clearly is a great professional.
But the fact remains he is now playing positions, and has for the majority of the season, which he was not signed for, nor has he played for the majority of his career.
He was signed to play in a 4-2-3-1 but that was not possible because, mainly, him being exploited in several games and his lack of pace in his legs making him vulnerable. That was the main reason we then went to 3 at the back.
He is now playing ‘ok’ at RWB, but it’s not his position or what he was bought for. He’s playing there because he couldn’t play the position he was meant to in our side.
If we were thinking of going 3-4-3 at the start of the season, we would’ve signed a proper RWB.
Fonte / Collins / Zabaleta are all going to need to be replaced at roughly the same time. I cant see any of them going beyond one more season (if they do then the club has limited aspirations to push for a top half getting onto the coat tails of a European spot)
Hart, loan
Joao Mario, loan
Kouyate and Byram don't look that great for me to say they should be apart of a team aiming for a top 10 top 8.
Carroll should have been moved on a long time ago
Already down a Striker / DM / Creative midfielder to begin with and has not being addressed. In fact we sold 2 strikers to bring one in. DM issue rumbled for 2 windows, creative midfielder is a loan currently.
Then we have to hope we don't lose Hernandez / Lanzini and so on to not have to replace them.
Realistically Moyes could gut the squad of 6 or 7 players and would need to sign 10 to get us back to a reasonable level to contend for that top 10 top 8. The board don't have the money to do it and the Loans / Age of players signed will hit them hard in the future.
I would presume that we would target our top priority first and work our way down the list. Maybe Dendonker and Amadue were low down the list behind Allen, Cairney and Maddison none of whom we were successful with for whatever reasons.
I don't agree for one minute with those who believe or like to believe that we did nothing until about 5pm on deadline day.
After the Wigan game Moyes said we'd had 10 bids in.
The point is that if we believe Sully we had £25m to spend.
Irrespective of where Dendoncker or Amadou were on that list, we had £25m to spend on either of them, but didn't.
All the time, players lower down your list are likely to do their own deals and be unavailable by the time you get round to giving up on your 1st and 2nd choices.
I imagine the transfer window is like spinning plates, and even more so in January.
To bid £25m for Allen suggests to me that there was an acknowledgement of how desperately we needed a CM, and whilst I agree that there were plenty of plates spinning, to let them all crash to the ground is just not acceptable, IMO.
Just boot the ball out, how hard is that. ;weep
Maybe I'm overly forgiving having made so many mistakes myself
Yet ended up in profit...nice
Hes a clown
that is why the fans cant take to sully
we tried and failed again to get someone
and the money for dendocker was always there
Please for the love of god get off the radio