The normal cycle has returned, now we're doing well, probably better than expected not only does the forum go quiet ( yeah I know some spat may have quietened Nev down a bit , come back Nev, you're sorely missed even if we rarely agree ) but it always goes quiet in this scenario but also news about the Club goes quiet as well.
Where's all the speculation, shouldn't we be buying every player in sight as we're losing 70% of the squad who are going to 'real' Football Clubs now the fairy tale is over ( is it you Muppets? ).
Haha, as I type this Musa is confirmed to be going on Loan to CSKA to the end of the Season.
Where's the threads slating the Club, Rudkin and the owners because we're not buying anyone?
Aren't we heading for relegation with so many weakness's in the squad in key areas?
Why can we only loan players out, does it confirm our terrible transfer dealings that no one will bid for even our fringe players, is Rudkin now confirmed as totally useless ( Nev bait and costing the Club and owners millions in lost transfers?
Where's the poll of who we'll miss out to by 7 seconds this window,a 100% improvement by the DOF though.
yeah, I know a bit of time on my hands as my first appointment cancelled at the last minute.
Up the City!!
Why So Quiet?
posted on 30/1/18
Plenty to be happy about at the moment and that does explain the absence of certain posters who only appear when things aren’t great. So, to balance the mood, I’ll try and find some reasons to be pessimistic:
1. Still too reliant on Mahrez and Vardy: we may have seen a glimpse of the future with Diabaté and Ian, but there is not yet a convincing argument to suggest that we’d threaten the top half without our big two. Our squad depth is improving, but still shallow in some areas.
2. Still not considered a big club: it’s still assumed that any good player we get will walk away as soon as a big club comes calling. Despite 2015/16 can we ever truly threaten the established world order again? Or are we destined to be a feeder club for the top six. Kante and Drinkwater have gone. Mahrez may be next. Then who? Ndidi and Maguire?
3. Summer of 2016: I’d contend that we’ve not done much wrong as a club since promotion. That is with the huge exception of the transfer window after we won the league. If ever there was a time to capitalise that was it - and we failed. In a way we just need to forget that now and move on as a club, but it still leaves a depressing legacy. If you consider Ron Robert Zieler, Luiz Hernández, Bartosz Kapustka, Nempalys Mendy, Ahmed Musa and Islam Slimani - they’ve all failed to a greater or lesser degree. The evidence of the current transfer window makes it clear that we’ll never get our money back. Oh well ..:
Apart from that it’s all brilliant
posted on 30/1/18
Just for you TB i took a break for a while when i started wasting time getting wound up.
I thik success this window is not selling anyone we don't want to go. No point in buying now given that all the squad has had a run out and the manager knows what we have got.
Better buy in the summer and have a pre season.
I have said i think King will go to Derby but Brighton might want him or go to Belgium and do his coaching badges with NP?
posted on 30/1/18
Just for the avoidance of doubt i will not be giving anyone any stars unless i tell them first have 5* TB
posted on 30/1/18
Good to hear from you Nev.
I’m sure I’m not alone in saying I’ve missed ypur threads recently, even if the puns are getting worse get back to normal please.
The thing we all know that with a couple of bad results it’ll all turn and Players will be deemed not good enough again and the Club will be slated for not strengthening the Squad.
I seem to have read about most positions having a weakness when times are bad, now everything’s rosy?
posted on 30/1/18
Dunge. Wash your mouth out.
We need to panic and replace Amartey at right back immediately.
Otherwise I agree that we don’t need to rush in anywhere unless we sell. It’s weirdly quiet around all the players we want to keep. It feels like massive fees have been slapped on Mahrez and Vardy for us to even begin talking in January so it may all remain quiet until the summer. Then we’ll see how Purl wants to shape this team.
So it’s all good isn’t it.
That said, Rudkin is still to blame for all world poverty and war.
posted on 30/1/18
comment by Merseysidefox (U4842)
"Then we’ll see how Purl wants to shape this team."
Mersey - I think it's "plain" he wants to "knit" the squad
together!!
posted on 30/1/18
Solid punnery Gally. Solid.
posted on 30/1/18
Looks like things are about to liven up. Rumours about Man City sticking in a £50m bid for Mahrez.
posted on 30/1/18
Mahrez has handed in a Transfer Request, this will be interesting, Puel has said he's going nowhere
posted on 30/1/18
Oops