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Petereagle Flag Brockley 10 Aug 20 7.05pm Send a Private Message to Petereagle Add Petereagle as a friend

Originally posted by OldFella

Apologies. For "rice" please read "price". Sounds like a potato advert : )

Just to say I am pinning my hope on Dazza, who seems to have a reasonably reliable inside link? Hopefully, if this is to be believed, we are near to signing Eze and trying hard to land Nelson and Watkins? If we manage to land these three it would be a pretty good window.

 

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Canterbury Palace Flag Whitstable 10 Aug 20 7.12pm Send a Private Message to Canterbury Palace Add Canterbury Palace as a friend

Originally posted by monkey

I always disagree with this decent service thing, what does he want the ball plopped straight on his head 5 yards out all the time?? He doesn’t attack the ball in the area, he doesn’t break sweat to try and make something happen, yes we’re not creating a lot of chances at the moment, but even when we were he was missing them after that first season. He just hasn’t got that fire in his belly, he’s now on easy street largely thanks to the crazy money he’s earning and no competition

Of course he does. However even just occasionally would be nice. In honesty Zaha can't cross, Townsend can't cross and Bolasie couldn't either. Our entire game plan since promotion has revolved around wingers feeding target men but we've never had anyone who can even semi-consistently deliver decent crosses. Hence the lack of goals for Benteke, Wickham, Sorloth, Chamakh etc.

 


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PZ Eagle Flag Penzance 10 Aug 20 7.26pm Send a Private Message to PZ Eagle Add PZ Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Petereagle

Just to say I am pinning my hope on Dazza, who seems to have a reasonably reliable inside link? Hopefully, if this is to be believed, we are near to signing Eze and trying hard to land Nelson and Watkins? If we manage to land these three it would be a pretty good window.

BBC Site saying Palace only value EZE at 10 million but QPR want 20 million. Loos like a non starter.

 


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palace chick Flag South Croydon 10 Aug 20 7.43pm Send a Private Message to palace chick Add palace chick as a friend

Originally posted by Canterbury Palace

Of course he does. However even just occasionally would be nice. In honesty Zaha can't cross, Townsend can't cross and Bolasie couldn't either. Our entire game plan since promotion has revolved around wingers feeding target men but we've never had anyone who can even semi-consistently deliver decent crosses. Hence the lack of goals for Benteke, Wickham, Sorloth, Chamakh etc.

Plus we haven’t had a decent midfielder since Cabaye who can pass to an attacker without the opposition having 10 minutes to getting into a defending position to cut out said pass - grrr!

 

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croydon proud Flag Any european country i fancy! 10 Aug 20 8.38pm

Originally posted by daven

I dont think that our lack of goals is purely down to Benteke. If we changed the way that we deliver crosses into the box then we might see a different Benteke. If we assume Zaha wont be here next season and we get a different style of winger who could get crosses in quicker then we might see a different Benteke.

Indeed!

 

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bashy2 Flag London 10 Aug 20 8.50pm Send a Private Message to bashy2 Add bashy2 as a friend

I would get rid of him personally his had enough chances to prove himself think we should get what we can get for him and fresher up the forward line with more hungry forwards and not a forward who is just here to take a pay check

 

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ex hibitionist Flag Hastings 10 Aug 20 9.10pm Send a Private Message to ex hibitionist Add ex hibitionist as a friend

he wouldn't need a taxi to his new place, there'd be plenty who'd take him free of charge

 

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BelfastEagle Flag 10 Aug 20 9.16pm Send a Private Message to BelfastEagle Add BelfastEagle as a friend

We should have let him go when his contract expired. Could have saved ourselves a years wages. To think that anybody is actually going to pay a transfer fee for him is pure fantasy.

 

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Canterbury Palace Flag Whitstable 10 Aug 20 10.07pm Send a Private Message to Canterbury Palace Add Canterbury Palace as a friend

Originally posted by palace chick

Plus we haven’t had a decent midfielder since Cabaye who can pass to an attacker without the opposition having 10 minutes to getting into a defending position to cut out said pass - grrr!

Absolutely. Great shout about Cabaye, we miss him so much. Really hoped Meyer would take over that role.

 


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Forest Hillbilly Flag in a hidey-hole 11 Aug 20 7.19am Send a Private Message to Forest Hillbilly Add Forest Hillbilly as a friend

Originally posted by The Dolphin

No one will take him - not because of the £8m - it is the wages they won't stomach and he won't take a drop - why should he when he can stay with us and still earn a basic £6m/year!
Massive error giving him a contract extension.

spot b0II0ck ^^^
He has become a massive financial liability

 


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Den1923 Flag 11 Aug 20 8.24am Send a Private Message to Den1923 Add Den1923 as a friend

Originally posted by Petereagle

It's difficult but I think we have to be patient. If no one but Ferguson has come in before next Monday, when preseason starts, then we have a problem

I do try and be patient, expecting it to be better next time, however next time seems to never come along and the antecedence now says otherwise. Why we never seems to have a strategic plan in place for succession planning in our squad, this amazes me, and I do wonder what on earth the DOF actually does apart from polishing Parishes shoes and cleaning his car!

 

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Badger11 Flag Beckenham 11 Aug 20 8.39am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by Den1923

I do try and be patient, expecting it to be better next time, however next time seems to never come along and the antecedence now says otherwise. Why we never seems to have a strategic plan in place for succession planning in our squad, this amazes me, and I do wonder what on earth the DOF actually does apart from polishing Parishes shoes and cleaning his car!

Agreed every club can have a bad window as they fail to sign their key targets. We seem to have had 4/5 on the trot which suggest our strategy is wrong.

If we can only afford a Mondeo there is no point shopping in the Ferrari store and hoping the salesman will knock 50% of the valuation.

If we don't have much money then it is better to look at cheaper targets. I would love a striker that scores 30 goals per season but unless you are incredibly lucky they are expensive. So I would settle for 2 strikers that score 10-15 goals per season each. Burnley have 3/4 strikers who just creep into double figures but it allows Dyche to rotate when they are out of form.

Edited by Badger11 (11 Aug 2020 8.40am)

 


One more point

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