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Post by Sergeant Muttley on Sept 1, 2015 17:48:38 GMT
Lets hope its not this season with the riches on offer next season.Very very risky strategy as i keep saying. On Sky now that we couldn't agree terms with Jedenak!!!!! I expect season tickets to be significantly reduced in price come April. The Supporters Council need to start lobbying the club now. Yes just watched it mate and Scholes didn't want to talk on camera about it  |
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Post by wearepremierleague on Sept 1, 2015 17:49:55 GMT
Massive balls up of a window. Sold players for half the amount they would of been worth if they weren't in the last year of their contract.
Didn't get rid of the waste of wages (Bardsley, Sidwell) and offered Odemwingie a new contract which I again will turn out to be a waste of wages.
Signed Afellay as a winger no doubt about it but he doesn't look like he will have the legs to play there.
Sold Huth and Signed Wolly who isn't anywhere near good enough for this league.
Have left ourselves in a terrible situation where we have replaced our best player with a 22 year old injury prone player who has shown absolutely nothing so far this season. In fact he is averaging 50% less passes a game than Whelan. If he gets injured we are left with Sidwell who is useless or Cameron who I like but not at CM. An injury at either CB or CM also means Wilson plays- again no where near good enough. A Cb partnership of Wolly and Wollscheid scares me
But it will happen at some point in the season.
Looking at our team compared to last season we are weaker no doubt about it. Shaqiri and Bojan need to be firing soon if we hope to get anywhere near our position last year. Other teams on the other hand are looking massively improved. Palace, Swansea and West Ham have all taken points from the big boys away already, even teams like Leicester and Villa look much stronger than last year.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 17:50:47 GMT
All I will say it is now up to the new lads to prove their worth. I've also got to say that I'm not completely satisfied with this transfer window. Far too many if's and but's for my liking! Roll on Ryan getting fit, and hopefully back to his best, as I'm not convinced by our defensive options at all. Hope the squad prove me totally and utterly wrong though!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 17:52:57 GMT
Low net spend + a reasonably unbalanced squad = a relatively disappointing window. The fact Hughes was still trying, unsuccessfully, to add to it at 17.59, reinforces the point.  How anyone can argue with that FM i'm not sure but some will. but it makes a change from trying until 17.59 EVERY fucking window then spunking tens of millions of squad players who are workhorses but will spend years on the bench (if they're lucky) or playing out of position and then we can't offload for years afterwards doesn't it? staggering how so may seemed happy and excited when every window we'd go to the wire for average (at best) players who got unsettled by a breeze on matchday, fans forgot even existed when they were playing and ones that most on here whinged like fuck about when we couldn't get rid but when we have a window where we sign Shaqiri and Affelay it's suddenly shit! and this net spend bollocks.......it's a low net spend becuase we actually managed to sell some fucking players and their sell ons cancel out some of our spending. we'd have had low net spends in the Pulis era (when you were all jizzing about how excited you were) if he'd actually been able to fucking sell some of them but he couldn't because N'Zonzi didn't want to play for him and Bego was just a catch the ball and hoof it up the park merchant and most of the rest we'd been fucking eft with until recently as no-one wanted any of them as everyone forgot they existed as Uncle Tone had just snaffled them up then never fucking played them after wasting bloody millions in the process....amazing how these quite valid factors are completely ignored by some! |
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Post by riccyfuller93 on Sept 1, 2015 17:52:43 GMT
We are weaker in one area.
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Post by wearepremierleague on Sept 1, 2015 17:57:57 GMT
We are weaker in one area. Centre back? Centre midfield? Gk arguably although Butland has been brilliant so far |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 17:58:00 GMT
Massive balls up of a window. Sold players for half the amount they would of been worth if they weren't in the last year of their contract. Didn't get rid of the waste of wages (Bardsley, Sidwell) and offered Odemwingie a new contract which I again will turn out to be a waste of wages. Signed Afellay as a winger no doubt about it but he doesn't look like he will have the legs to play there. Sold Huth and Signed Wolly who isn't anywhere near good enough for this league. Have left ourselves in a terrible situation where we have replaced our best player with a 22 year old injury prone player who has shown absolutely nothing so far this season. In fact he is averaging 50% less passes a game than Whelan. If he gets injured we are left with Sidwell who is useless or Cameron who I like but not at CM. An injury at either CB or CM also means Wilson plays- again no where near good enough. A Cb partnership of Wolly and Wollscheid scares me But it will happen at some point in the season. Looking at our team compared to last season we are weaker no doubt about it. Shaqiri and Bojan need to be firing soon if we hope to get anywhere near our position last year. Other teams on the other hand are looking massively improved. Palace, Swansea and West Ham have all taken points from the big boys away already, even teams like Leicester and Villa look much stronger than last year. how many times??????? both players were offered contracts on many occasions... THEY chose to not sign them (you may have noticed that N'Zonzi had wanted to leave every bloody transfer window for 2 years!)
YOU CANNOT FORCE A PLAYER TO EXTEND THEIR CONTRACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!the only way we could have got more for him would be to have sold them both a few years back...and quite simply we wouldn't have got more for them anyway.given the fact that Bego wasn't as good a few years back (2 years ago was his prime) and N'Zonzi most definitely wasn't as he didn't want to play for Pulis we'd hacve got sod all back then anyway...and we also wouldn't have finished 9th with our best points total last year either....you can't have it both ways mate, it's either sell N'Zonzi for less because he wasn't as good and finish lower down the table last year or sell him when we did and blame HIM for not extending his contract to ensure we got a good fee. do some people genuinely think you can have your cake and eat it or just honestly not understand how football works???  |
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Post by Pugsley on Sept 1, 2015 18:01:22 GMT
How anyone can argue with that FM i'm not sure but some will. but it makes a change from trying until 17.59 EVERY fucking window then spunking tens of millions of squad players who are workhorses but will spend years on the bench (if they're lucky) or playing out of position and then we can't offload for years afterwards doesn't it? staggering how so may seemed happy and excited when every window we'd go to the wire for average (at best) players who got unsettled by a breeze on matchday, fans forgot even existed when they were playing and ones that most on here whinged like fuck about when we couldn't get rid but when we have a window where we sign Shaqiri and Affelay it's suddenly shit! and this net spend bollocks....... it's a low net spend becuase we actually managed to sell some fucking players and their sell ons cancel out some of our spending. we'd have had low net spends in the Pulis era (when you were all jizzing about how excited you were) if he'd actually been able to fucking sell some of them but he couldn't because N'Zonzi didn't want to play for him and Bego was just a catch the ball and hoof it up the park merchant and most of the rest we'd been fucking eft with until recently as no-one wanted any of them as everyone forgot they existed as Uncle Tone had just snaffled them up then never fucking played them after wasting bloody millions in the process....amazing how these quite valid factors are completely ignored by some! Yep, get used to it. We'll be selling more and more players. Will we be signing adequate replacements though? It appears Denise Coates is really getting her way down the Brit. A reduction in ST prices is in order. |
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Post by Sergeant Muttley on Sept 1, 2015 18:02:25 GMT
How anyone can argue with that FM i'm not sure but some will. but it makes a change from trying until 17.59 EVERY fucking window then spunking tens of millions of squad players who are workhorses but will spend years on the bench (if they're lucky) or playing out of position and then we can't offload for years afterwards doesn't it? staggering how so may seemed happy and excited when every window we'd go to the wire for average (at best) players who got unsettled by a breeze on matchday, fans forgot even existed when they were playing and ones that most on here whinged like fuck about when we couldn't get rid but when we have a window where we sign Shaqiri and Affelay it's suddenly shit! and this net spend bollocks.......it's a low net spend becuase we actually managed to sell some fucking players and their sell ons cancel out some of our spending. we'd have had low net spends in the Pulis era (when you were all jizzing about how excited you were) if he'd actually been able to fucking sell some of them but he couldn't because N'Zonzi didn't want to play for him and Bego was just a catch the ball and hoof it up the park merchant and most of the rest we'd been fucking eft with until recently as no-one wanted any of them as everyone forgot they existed as Uncle Tone had just snaffled them up then never fucking played them after wasting bloody millions in the process....amazing how these quite valid factors are completely ignored by some! We're talking about now not 2 and a half years a go.We have a better squad of players but a weaker team which a lot of people agree with and if you don't i couldn't give a flying fcuk.We have taken a massive risk which we shouldn't be taking. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 18:02:26 GMT
Low net spend + a reasonably unbalanced squad = a relatively disappointing window. The fact Hughes was still trying, unsuccessfully, to add to it at 17.59, reinforces the point. It's not so much the spend that bothers me. You could sign 25 free transfers, as long as they're all the right quality it doesn't matter. What does matter is that if at the end of the window you have one defensive midfielder, one real centre half that the manager doesn't rate, two converted centre midfielders at the back, one centre half coming off the back of an injury ravaged season, two wingers with no real backup but 3 attacking midfielders for 1 spot and 4 strikers for 1 spot alongside a 12M winger then you kind of end up scratching your head asking why? |
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Post by numpty40 on Sept 1, 2015 18:05:20 GMT
Just glad we haven't spent for the sake of it, Jedinak smacked of that. We could also have signed a 33 yr old Lescott on a long expensive contract.
I think MVG will be a better player than Zonz and Butland has been my major pleasant surprise so far.
Johnson is the best right back we've had for years and Shaqiri is absolute class.
a bit indifferent towards Afellay but I still see a decent footballer in Joselu.
Don't really know what to make of the Wolly signing, reminds me of the Andrew Davies signing with the same outcome but hope I'm wrong.
More than happy personally
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Post by Pugsley on Sept 1, 2015 18:04:58 GMT
Low net spend + a reasonably unbalanced squad = a relatively disappointing window. The fact Hughes was still trying, unsuccessfully, to add to it at 17.59, reinforces the point. It's not so much the spend that bothers me. You could sign 25 free transfers, as long as they're all the right quality it doesn't matter. What does matter is that if at the end of the window you have one defensive midfielder, one real centre half that the manager doesn't rate, two converted centre midfielders at the back, one centre half coming off the back of an injury ravaged season, two wingers with no real backup but 3 attacking midfielders for 1 spot and 4 strikers for 1 spot alongside a 12M winger then you kind of end up scratching your head asking why? Wonder if Sparky is happy with the business we've done. I'd be amazed if he was, even if publicly he stated he was. Jam tomorrow Mr Scholes? |
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Post by jezzascfc on Sept 1, 2015 18:05:34 GMT
but it makes a change from trying until 17.59 EVERY fucking window then spunking tens of millions of squad players who are workhorses but will spend years on the bench (if they're lucky) or playing out of position and then we can't offload for years afterwards doesn't it? staggering how so may seemed happy and excited when every window we'd go to the wire for average (at best) players who got unsettled by a breeze on matchday, fans forgot even existed when they were playing and ones that most on here whinged like fuck about when we couldn't get rid but when we have a window where we sign Shaqiri and Affelay it's suddenly shit! and this net spend bollocks....... it's a low net spend becuase we actually managed to sell some fucking players and their sell ons cancel out some of our spending. we'd have had low net spends in the Pulis era (when you were all jizzing about how excited you were) if he'd actually been able to fucking sell some of them but he couldn't because N'Zonzi didn't want to play for him and Bego was just a catch the ball and hoof it up the park merchant and most of the rest we'd been fucking eft with until recently as no-one wanted any of them as everyone forgot they existed as Uncle Tone had just snaffled them up then never fucking played them after wasting bloody millions in the process....amazing how these quite valid factors are completely ignored by some! Yep, get used to it. We'll be selling more and more players. Will we be signing adequate replacements though? It appears Denise Coates is really getting her way down the Brit. A reduction in ST prices is in order. Southampton have been a real selling club these past few years (Swansea too with Bony, Vorm, Davies and Sinclair), and it has really done them some harm! Midtable clubs, if they are dong well, will always be selling clubs to the big boys - it is how you replace such players that counts. The SNZ replacement is a bit of an issue, but otherwise we've done well. |
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Post by daveypotter on Sept 1, 2015 18:06:40 GMT
Being ever the optimist I'm quite happy with our window, we've signed some good quality players who once gelled along with Bojan will quickly move us up the table. The net spend thing also doesn't bother me; we've spent more this window than we have in all the others put together since Sparky came in and the fact we'd got £18m back in sales shows good business.
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Post by Pugsley on Sept 1, 2015 18:07:25 GMT
Yep, get used to it. We'll be selling more and more players. Will we be signing adequate replacements though? It appears Denise Coates is really getting her way down the Brit. A reduction in ST prices is in order. Southampton have been a real selling club these past few years (Swansea too with Bony, Vorm, Davies and Sinclair), and it has really done them some harm! Midtable clubs, if they are dong well, will always be selling clubs to the big boys - it is how you replace such players that counts. The SNZ replacement is a bit of an issue, but otherwise we've done well. Have we done well though? Shaqiri apart. |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Sept 1, 2015 18:07:54 GMT
How anyone can argue with that FM i'm not sure but some will. but it makes a change from trying until 17.59 EVERY fucking window then spunking tens of millions of squad players who are workhorses but will spend years on the bench (if they're lucky) or playing out of position and then we can't offload for years afterwards doesn't it? staggering how so may seemed happy and excited when every window we'd go to the wire for average (at best) players who got unsettled by a breeze on matchday, fans forgot even existed when they were playing and ones that most on here whinged like fuck about when we couldn't get rid but when we have a window where we sign Shaqiri and Affelay it's suddenly shit! and this net spend bollocks.......it's a low net spend becuase we actually managed to sell some fucking players and their sell ons cancel out some of our spending. we'd have had low net spends in the Pulis era (when you were all jizzing about how excited you were) if he'd actually been able to fucking sell some of them but he couldn't because N'Zonzi didn't want to play for him and Bego was just a catch the ball and hoof it up the park merchant and most of the rest we'd been fucking eft with until recently as no-one wanted any of them as everyone forgot they existed as Uncle Tone had just snaffled them up then never fucking played them after wasting bloody millions in the process....amazing how these quite valid factors are completely ignored by some! Afellay fits the average at best bit for me.....and he certainly was never needed. And Pulis should have nothing to do with this. We've gone from having a team that looked like genuine challengers for a European place with 2 or 3 additions to one that will do well to finish 10th. 10th is good yeah but it's hardly aspirational or any of that bollocks. It just feels like a massive let down from last season. |
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Post by potterblade on Sept 1, 2015 18:07:59 GMT
We are weaker in one area. Lot of pressure now on Van Ginkel (and whoever deputises game by game for Ryan at CB) Players with MVGs potential need pressure to flourish. Some of the perceived omissions in recruitment may work to get the best out of what we have. The development of MVG is my biggest hope for the season. |
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Post by wearepremierleague on Sept 1, 2015 18:08:43 GMT
Massive balls up of a window. Sold players for half the amount they would of been worth if they weren't in the last year of their contract. Didn't get rid of the waste of wages (Bardsley, Sidwell) and offered Odemwingie a new contract which I again will turn out to be a waste of wages. Signed Afellay as a winger no doubt about it but he doesn't look like he will have the legs to play there. Sold Huth and Signed Wolly who isn't anywhere near good enough for this league. Have left ourselves in a terrible situation where we have replaced our best player with a 22 year old injury prone player who has shown absolutely nothing so far this season. In fact he is averaging 50% less passes a game than Whelan. If he gets injured we are left with Sidwell who is useless or Cameron who I like but not at CM. An injury at either CB or CM also means Wilson plays- again no where near good enough. A Cb partnership of Wolly and Wollscheid scares me But it will happen at some point in the season. Looking at our team compared to last season we are weaker no doubt about it. Shaqiri and Bojan need to be firing soon if we hope to get anywhere near our position last year. Other teams on the other hand are looking massively improved. Palace, Swansea and West Ham have all taken points from the big boys away already, even teams like Leicester and Villa look much stronger than last year. how many times??????? both players were offered contracts on many occasions... THEY chose to not sign them (you may have noticed that N'Zonzi had wanted to leave every bloody transfer window for 2 years!)
YOU CANNOT FORCE A PLAYER TO EXTEND THEIR CONTRACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!the only way we could have got more for him would be to have sold them both a few years back...and quite simply we wouldn't have got more for them anyway.given the fact that Bego wasn't as good a few years back (2 years ago was his prime) and N'Zonzi most definitely wasn't as he didn't want to play for Pulis we'd hacve got sod all back then anyway...and we also wouldn't have finished 9th with our best points total last year either....you can't have it both ways mate, it's either sell N'Zonzi for less because he wasn't as good and finish lower down the table last year or sell him when we did and blame HIM for not extending his contract to ensure we got a good fee. do some people genuinely think you can have your cake and eat it or just honestly not understand how football works??? Fine, but is it me or have we refused to let Walters go which is going to cost us 1.5m next year. Well we gained 8m from Zonz which is what 4 league places? Will selling him cost us 4 league places? Good chance. Maybe the decision to sell was right, but the decision to not replace is absolutely stupid. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 18:09:35 GMT
It's not so much the spend that bothers me. You could sign 25 free transfers, as long as they're all the right quality it doesn't matter. What does matter is that if at the end of the window you have one defensive midfielder, one real centre half that the manager doesn't rate, two converted centre midfielders at the back, one centre half coming off the back of an injury ravaged season, two wingers with no real backup but 3 attacking midfielders for 1 spot and 4 strikers for 1 spot alongside a 12M winger then you kind of end up scratching your head asking why? Wonder if Sparky is happy with the business we've done. I'd be amazed if he was, even if publicly he stated he was. Jam tomorrow Mr Scholes? It depends on what the manager has asked for. What hasn't helped is Scholes battering his chops about next level players and only delivering one real next level player amongst past next level players on their haunches. The one part I'll really lay into the club about is replacing Steven Nzonzi, a player down the spine of the side, with a 12 month loan of a player in his first full season in this league. That's a massive risk and screams "cheap", and quite frankly..." Stupid". |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Sept 1, 2015 18:12:12 GMT
Yep, get used to it. We'll be selling more and more players. Will we be signing adequate replacements though? It appears Denise Coates is really getting her way down the Brit. A reduction in ST prices is in order. Southampton have been a real selling club these past few years (Swansea too with Bony, Vorm, Davies and Sinclair), and it has really done them some harm! Midtable clubs, if they are dong well, will always be selling clubs to the big boys - it is how you replace such players that counts. The SNZ replacement is a bit of an issue, but otherwise we've done well. In what way? We've signed a centre back we don't need. An attacking midfielder we don't need. A striker we don't need. A right back that we did need but could hinder us more than help when we're missing Shawcross and are vulnerable. And a central midfielder that is a work in progress and extremely lightweigh. And then there's Shaqiri. The shining light. We still need a centre back, central midfielder and left winger but we've done well? Nah! |
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Sept 1, 2015 18:15:25 GMT
Strongest squad ever and a starting 11 with less bite but more technical ability than last year. Whether this improves our position in the table remains to be seen.
If the team gels its going to be an exciting season. There's some genuine quality in there - if Hughes and the back room staff can get it right (and last two seasons suggest they can) we're in for some cracking football.
Of course it could all go wrong. But I'd far rather be facing a season that promises some genuinely exciting performances (and possible disaster) than the likelihood of 40 points and certainty of dire football. I'm not knocking Tony Pulis - he made all this possible - I'm just glad we had the balls to take some risks and step into the unknown.
Of the signings the only one I'm not convinced by is Joselu. Johnson has settled in well and looks like he'll add some attacking options (and some defensively nervy moments - but that goes with the territory). There have been some brief glimpses of genuine class from Affelay, Van Ginkel and Shaqiri. It took until November last year before Bojan started to show what he can do - I'm more than happy to give this lot the same amount of time to settle in.
The only downer for me is the club not covering the Shawcross situation. But I'd rather believe he'll come back fully fit and raring to go after Xmas than dwell on the darker outcomes.
I suppose its how you see risk and uncertainty. Personally I'm a happy camper. But I recognize for some its all a bit scary. A bit like taking the stabilisers off your first bike after your dads decided to fit a set of slick tyres.
I think we've already witnessed a few skid marks on here - and we're probably in for a few more before the end of the season.
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Post by st3mark on Sept 1, 2015 18:16:06 GMT
My thoughts on the window:
Delighted with Shaqiri and the prospect of seeing him for a year.
Dissatisfied with v.ginkel, think he's been garbage so far. He may well improve but I feel we are weaker in the middle of the park.
Happy with the youth additions such as Moha and Mollina, it'll be interesting to see how they develop.
Underwhelmed with Wolly. I felt last season he did ok overall but I would not have signed him based on what we saw from him. His signing combined with the injury of shawcross and the fact that Cameron is in the team over him just leaves me baffled as to why we signed him.
Unimpressed so far with Joselu. I'm hoping that he adapts to the league but the miss against Norwich and the chance he blazed over when he was offside against Luton were bread and butter to any professional forward. I think he's going to need a lot of patience from us all and for us to stick with him before we see the best of him. He showed he's got some skill at Spurs, but it's the net bulging that I want from him.
Affelay has actually impressed me apart from his silly sending off. He is up there with the highest passing accuracy in the league so far, and that's not too shabby considering two of his games were Liverpool at home and spurs away.
Given, thought he did very well in the 120mins at Luton. A great pro to have at the club.
Feeling a tad deflated, but there's plenty of time for these players to prove their points.
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Post by jezzascfc on Sept 1, 2015 18:17:15 GMT
Southampton have been a real selling club these past few years (Swansea too with Bony, Vorm, Davies and Sinclair), and it has really done them some harm! Midtable clubs, if they are dong well, will always be selling clubs to the big boys - it is how you replace such players that counts. The SNZ replacement is a bit of an issue, but otherwise we've done well. Have we done well though? Shaqiri apart. Given and Haugaard behind Jack - yes, good blend of youth and experience, as before Johnson instead of Bardsley - yes, upgrade Wollscheid instead of Huth - maybe not, but manager wants certain type of CB Afellay instead of Palacios - good god, yes MVG instead of SNZ - jury's out for now, showing signs of settling in Joselu - promising Crouch replacement long-term, needs time to settle Shaqiri - no words needed Youngsters added to under-21s (Telford, Waddington, Moha, Molina) and under-18s (Verlinden) show a welcome sign of youth development for the first team, along with Lecygne, Shenton and N'Goy. |
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Post by Pugsley on Sept 1, 2015 18:16:59 GMT
but it makes a change from trying until 17.59 EVERY fucking window then spunking tens of millions of squad players who are workhorses but will spend years on the bench (if they're lucky) or playing out of position and then we can't offload for years afterwards doesn't it? staggering how so may seemed happy and excited when every window we'd go to the wire for average (at best) players who got unsettled by a breeze on matchday, fans forgot even existed when they were playing and ones that most on here whinged like fuck about when we couldn't get rid but when we have a window where we sign Shaqiri and Affelay it's suddenly shit! and this net spend bollocks.......it's a low net spend becuase we actually managed to sell some fucking players and their sell ons cancel out some of our spending. we'd have had low net spends in the Pulis era (when you were all jizzing about how excited you were) if he'd actually been able to fucking sell some of them but he couldn't because N'Zonzi didn't want to play for him and Bego was just a catch the ball and hoof it up the park merchant and most of the rest we'd been fucking eft with until recently as no-one wanted any of them as everyone forgot they existed as Uncle Tone had just snaffled them up then never fucking played them after wasting bloody millions in the process....amazing how these quite valid factors are completely ignored by some! Afellay fits the average at best bit for me.....and he certainly was never needed. And Pulis should have nothing to do with this. We've gone from having a team that looked like genuine challengers for a European place with 2 or 3 additions to one that will do well to finish 10th. 10th is good yeah but it's hardly aspirational or any of that bollocks. It just feels like a massive let down from last season. I agree. Is it once again Stoke City have failed to build on something decent and really achieve something special? It appears we are happy to exist in the PL, treat the fans with contempt by throwing in the odd crumb (Shaqiri) while hoovering up the cash. |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Sept 1, 2015 18:19:04 GMT
Afellay fits the average at best bit for me.....and he certainly was never needed. And Pulis should have nothing to do with this. We've gone from having a team that looked like genuine challengers for a European place with 2 or 3 additions to one that will do well to finish 10th. 10th is good yeah but it's hardly aspirational or any of that bollocks. It just feels like a massive let down from last season. I agree. Is it once again Stoke City have failed to build on something decent and really achieve something special? It appears we are happy to exist in the PL, treat the fans with contempt by throwing in the odd crumb (Shaqiri) while hoovering up the cash. Indeed. And I think we haven't done enough to merely exist this season without a battle. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 18:20:56 GMT
Same, there's been a dead wasp on the window sill for about a week now, along with a Wispa wrapper. I need to look where I went wrong in life. That's deep emotional shit there! Start to worry when you have 4 wispa wrappers and 7 suspect public-like hairs there. Which reminds me, i really need to tidy my flat! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 18:22:00 GMT
We are a weaker team than the team that finished last season, how can anyone honestly say it's been a good window... +1 apart from shaqiri |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 18:23:12 GMT
Joke really. Owners who want Premiership Football by scrimping and saving and filling the the squad with free signings. Poor net spend expected more  |
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Post by stokie25 on Sept 1, 2015 18:24:49 GMT
I'm suitably happy. I can't understand why everybody is getting their tampons in a pretzel! We made good on the sale of N'Zonzi and Begovic and have acquired very good potentials with the cash. Opposition fans were seething when we signed Shaqiri so why, because it's deadline day, has this become a damp squid? Affellay deserves a 3 game lay off to realise what this league commands regardless of whether he thinks he was in the right (I'd have wished I'd have nutted Gardiner for the ban if I was him) In any event, we have the personnel to compete and surprise this league, and the very fact that Walters hasn't left to premier league competition is a bonus! I know everybody thinks he's a comedy wanker for his tweet, but I thought it was funny  Vis Unita Fortior |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 18:24:55 GMT
We are totally unbalanced
Up front - class
Defensively- poor
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