andyginbrasil wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:22 pm
If.....and yet again a big if.....we actually had put bids in for Phillips and Raphinha in the winter, surely they had been targeted by Popeye beforehand, as we are led to believe, so why the fuck were we not going tooth and nail to get them this window.
The price we allegedly bid is about the same as what they are going to other clubs for, Phillips 45m Raphinha 60m or god forbid me for thinking this, was it just a smokescreen for us fans because, yet again they failed to invest in the team and as our learned friends have mentioned, maybe just maybe it was just to try and convince us that they had tried (From their encyclopedia of tried and tested excuses).
Could we see failed final day bids for Naymar Benzena and de Bruyne at the end of August?
It's a classic ploy from Statler and Waldorf. Put in bids that they know damn well won't be accepted. Either ridiculously low or in the case of the Leeds pair, at the very end of a transfer window giving Leeds no chance of replacing them in the middle of a relegation fight. Then let it slip out from their tame journalists that they tried. To think that some actually believe that shit. I honestly think that if Leeds had said ok for Raphinha, Gold would have pegged it from a heart attack.
And don't believe all the shit about Ward-Prowse. 70m for a player...us ? It's fucking laughable. There'll be a budget of maybe 50-60m to get the players the lemur wants. Of which we've spunked half. Which I reckon is the reason it's Lingard or bust because he's free and the wages are on a different budget.
And the jock ain't getting off scot-free either. No idea how to play anything other than Moyesball, a defence-minded game of counter attack after conceding 70% posession which is great when we play the big boys but fucking boring any other time. The cunt doesn't know how to handle a decent attacking player who he doesn't trust to do exactly the things he believes in. Like Benny for example. Whether you rate him or not (I do), the only maverick Moyes could stomach is if he's munching popcorn watching Top Gun.
Di Canio and Payet would never have played for us if he was manager. Dwell on that fact.
Of course I'm happy with the last two seasons but to move on to the 'next level' as that snivelling dwarf turd promised, you have to speculate to accumulate. All he ever wanted to do was make a killing by buying us. Had he not done his homework and realised the ILS was up for grabs, him and dribbly wouldn't have touched us with a barge pole and in Moyes he has the perfect puppet.
As for Kretinsky, I'm not holding my breath either. I hope I'm wrong.