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    Quote Originally Posted by Marc Overmars View Post
    Fellaini???

    I’m willing to give the new regime a chance but jeez...


    Based on rumors alone, this new regime is going all over the place. I still want to give them time before I judge them.. Fellaini or not.

    Arsene Wenger, the only football manager that got paid 8 million quid to do nothing but sit on his arse..

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    #BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor...






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    Quote Originally Posted by Cripps View Post
    He's a defensive midfielder. A 6 ft 4 man mountain that's tough and sticks his foot in. He's exactly what we need.
    If that's what you want to call him who am I to argue?

    I have always seen him as a pure CM, he is very good at his defensive duties but is a very good passer and regularly starts and continues attacking moves. He gets about both ends of the pitch very well.

    I have always viewed defensive midfielders as players like Casemiro, Thiaga Motta, Busquets, Maschareno & Makalele etc, more specialist players who's role is to break up play and distribute the ball to the more creative players.

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    We aren't signing Fellaini.
    NOTE: The location of this post has been moved and the thread title (which was previously Wenger is Leaving) has been manipulated by a notorious pro-Wenger moderator. What was previously a message that contained no profanity and made a comment on a real life event has now been manipulated by a deliberately provocative title. An old and crude propaganda and censorship technique.


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    I'd have to have a look at the squad, but I'm OK with the idea of bringing some older players in, provided it's in areas where we have players who fall in the 'highly promising but still in need of some guidance' bracket, and the plan is to basically buy Emery a year or two to work on them. If we're just targeting oldies because they're cheap and that's the best we can do then that's a worry.

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    * I should caveat that by stating that I'm not OK with signing fellaini under any circumstances.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cripps View Post
    We're signing men. Lichtsteiner has won 7 league titles and 9 cups. We're adding a solid, title winning pro to a mentally weak defence that was crap last season. And it'll give Bellerin some competition and it's something he needs because he went from being the best right back in the league to one of the worst. It ticks so many boxes and is a very shrewd signing. If Man City made this signing Pep would be hailed a genius for adding a mentally tough, solid pro to his ranks.

    As for 'and because Wenger failed with some young players we shouldn't sign young players is a dumb argument', where did I say we shouldn't sign young players? I'm saying I can see why they're going with it. It's clear shift in transfer strategy from one that hasn't worked to one where we rely on those that have experience and can deliver. Wenger was hell bent on destroying our mental fortitude in the space of 24 months by selling all of the invincibles, it seems the new regime are hell bent on restoring it.
    I don't mind Lichtsteiner as he's purely backup to Bellerin and it makes sense.

    I didn't mind Auba either because he's obviously world class. And Mkhi was a good deal as we managed to get a good player out of what was a bad situation (Alexis would have gone for nothing in a few months).

    I'm not happy with Sokratis though I can at least admit I can see what Sven's logic there is (we need experience at the back). But I'd be appalled with Fellani or Nzonzi for that matter ........ eventually we have to start thinking about the age profile of the squad and not stocking the squad up with too many 29/30 year olds, who'll be hard to shift and have no resale value.

    As said above Fabinho would have been perfect though it's a sign of how appealing & efficient Liverpool are these days that they were swiftly able to wrap that up. Someone of the profile of Torreira would be a good buy instead though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
    #BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor...





    I feel for Emery, Wenger has left him with a mess of a squad, holes everywhere. What makes it even worse is we have no money to address it as millions have been wasted on duds over the past few seasons.

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    How can have no money when Liverpool have shitloads?
    There's money there if we want to spend it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
    How can have no money when Liverpool have shitloads?
    There's money there if we want to spend it.
    Because Liverpool actually sell well and get good money for their wantaway stars ...... see Suarez, Sterling & Coutinho, which again is driven by them investing in talented youth players, coaching them and making them into world class stars. The sales of those three alone have almost been able finance all the good players in their team now (Mane, Salah, Van Dijk etc).

    That's the approach we need to be taking as well.

    When was the last time we extorted another club for a player? Ox perhaps? But that's it.

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