Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
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.
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..
#BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor...
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.
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.
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.
* I should caveat that by stating that I'm not OK with signing fellaini under any circumstances.
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.
#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.
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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