The new Chelsea Pensioners that is! We already have the 37 year old Jussi, now we are being linked with the 35 year old Guti! Yakubu is approaching 30, Collins looks as if he's in his forties...
Never mind the Academy, we will be the Hospice of Football at this rate!
HF you were so positive in a post earlier in the week, whats happened?
ReplyDeleteI would be absolutely ecstatic if we get Guti! Surround him with young legs, but we need this guy in our midfield to put through those balls with surgical precision. Just what we need, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteCollins is the wrong side of thirty? You do know James Collins is 28, right?
ReplyDeleteNow HF I thought you of all people would know not to believe everything you read. If Guti does come on trial with us, then I am sure he'll have to go above and beyond to prove he could do a job for us and then I expect it would be a 1 year deal at best, a la JJ. This would be alongside younger talent to help ensure next year goes to plan. JMan43
ReplyDeleteAgreed, we can't be having this.
ReplyDeleteNext we will be turning the Boleyn into a bowls club.
Sorry 14.41, I'm suffering from a pain in the Guti!
ReplyDeleteStani, he's 35 and was released by Besiktas in November!
1531, I must admit I thought he was older than that. He seems to have been around for ever and looks ancient! I've corrected, thanks.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure he'd last 60 minutes HF...and do a world of good for our younger players, being a 3 times champions league winner.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can't rely on transfer decisions Turkish clubs make...they're like Italian clubs but more bonkers. Plus, he did well in his first year, but the new manager didn't fancy him.
How can it be possible that a 35 year old who is released by second rate Turkish Club Besiktas, suddenly is good enough to play in a Premiership club which is supposed to have ambition?!!!
ReplyDeleteI think that criterion is the wages and nothing else. The formula is:
1. Expand the stadium capacity to get more suckers in.
2. Bring in some names that are well past it and therefore will agree to very low wages (remember that Egyptian guy who helped get us relegated? He was willing to play for nothing if I remember correctly).
3. Have a manager who is expert in keeping a team on a very low budget clear of relegation. Who better than Sam. He did it for so many years at Bolton.
Result: Jackpot! Pretty soon the owners of the club don't owe anything and they don't know where to put the money they are making.
Simple! So, there you have it. It's all economics.
Just for you to sav and stani who would you rather have in the midfield noble or guti bearing in mind guti plays attacking mid and doesnt do much defending
ReplyDeleteCome on Fred, you know the answer to that! I'd play a one legged Guti instead of Noble!
ReplyDeleteRemember, we're in the Prem now, Nobes will be out of his depth again.
What the fcuk has this to do with Leeds,I thought this was a Leeds site ??
ReplyDeleteWhat a guy always talking shit y don't u u focus on your own team. Your the person who was moaning about the way big Sam was managing the team n now your licking his fucking arse. We'll always B marching on together rather than always blowing farts.
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ReplyDeleteTrouble is HF we need numbers and don't have the unlimited funds needed to just buy players that are not only capable but young as well. Signings purely of that ilk would be too expensive.
It'll be a Summer of usual Sam type transfers I suspect- a mix of young players with potential and experienced bargains who can do a short term job over the next season or two.
If we can stay up this year, we can build year by year. The year after next with this mad new TV deal the bottom placed club is guaranteed a minimum of £65 million. That's more than City earned from the current deal whilst winning the league. Now that kind of dough would allow us to get the debts that have impeded our club for too long down and build the team presuming we don't spunk it all on increased wages.
Fred, I would prefer we play with 10 players. At least, this way, we know no-one covers that part of the field!
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