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£43 million to try and replace Glenn Murray
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 iheartcpfc  SE25 07 Sep 16 4.47pm |
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also, people need to quickly get used to spending £5-10m on backups
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 Cucking Funt Clapham on the Back 07 Sep 16 4.49pm |
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I have carefully considered the contents of the OP and have come to the conclusion that it's absolute bollocks.
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| Username Horsham 07 Sep 16 4.50pm |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
What on earth are you on about? DF scouted Murray in League 1 for the Champ and got him to agree shortly before his contract ended. That doesn't happen very often and happens hardly ever in the Prem. The nearest you get is bringing Defoe back but he is proven anyway. Or you sign bargain after bargain and never find the answer, and haven't we just done that? And we are not the only ones to do that either. It can be the difference between Prem survival or Championship oblivion. And end result is you're left with 3 or 4 mediocre to not good enough at Prem level strikers on more wages than 1 that IS PROVEN. Now we have 1 on a huge wage and one on a medium one and one on loan. There is no problem upfront fella. Defoe was hardly free anyway considering they had to give him a 5 year deal on huge wages. We paid under £10m for a 22 year old kid who has shown massive potential. When fit last season and after a run in the side he showed he is as good if not better than Murray and at ten years his younger is a good bet to improve. Mental money for Benteke? We paid £30m for a player who has scored 51 in 118 Premier League games and in his 'terrible' season when he was a flop at Liverpool, still banged in more league goals than anyone in our squad. Seems a pretty fair deal to me.
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| tonymikejoe UK 07 Sep 16 4.53pm |
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Originally posted by Cucking Funt
I have carefully considered the contents of the OP and have come to the conclusion that it's absolute bollocks.
While I'm on here a quick message to everyone: Nowhere in the original post did I express a desire for Glenn Murray to still be our centre-forward.
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| Dan89 Se25 07 Sep 16 4.57pm |
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Forward line has been a big problem since promotion and now the board has addressed it. It time to get behind the boys. COYP
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| Midlands Eagle 07 Sep 16 5.08pm |
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Originally posted by tonymikejoe
What? Are you seriously suggesting the four big target men (Sanogo, Wickham, Adebayor and Benteke) were not attempted replacements for Murray. Connor Wickham was bought on 1st August 2015 whilst Glenn Murray wasn't sold until one month later so he obviously wasn't bought as a replacement. I think that the main problem wasn't Wickham but Fraiser Campbell who has never really been a great success for us and Adebayor and Benteke were probably brought in to replace him
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| Sedlescombe Sedlescombe 07 Sep 16 5.09pm |
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Originally posted by tonymikejoe
While I'm on here a quick message to everyone: Nowhere in the original post did I express a desire for Glenn Murray to still be our centre-forward.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 07 Sep 16 5.37pm |
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Originally posted by iheartcpfc
also, people need to quickly get used to spending £5-10m on backups Exactly. This is the most expensive league in the world and tv money has to be spent to keep up.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 07 Sep 16 5.41pm |
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Originally posted by Username
Defoe was hardly free anyway considering they had to give him a 5 year deal on huge wages. We paid under £10m for a 22 year old kid who has shown massive potential. When fit last season and after a run in the side he showed he is as good if not better than Murray and at ten years his younger is a good bet to improve. Mental money for Benteke? We paid £30m for a player who has scored 51 in 118 Premier League games and in his 'terrible' season when he was a flop at Liverpool, still banged in more league goals than anyone in our squad. Seems a pretty fair deal to me. I was talking about wages. And end result is you're left with 3 or 4 mediocre to not good enough at Prem level strikers on more wages than 1 who IS PROVEN. Now we have 1 on a huge wage and one on a medium one and one on loan. There is no problem upfront fella. Benteke £130k or £140k Adebayor £67k
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 07 Sep 16 5.43pm |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
Connor Wickham was bought on 1st August 2015 whilst Glenn Murray wasn't sold until one month later so he obviously wasn't bought as a replacement. I think that the main problem wasn't Wickham but Fraiser Campbell who has never really been a great success for us and Adebayor and Benteke were probably brought in to replace him And Gayle not leaving to Bristol City.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 07 Sep 16 5.45pm |
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Originally posted by tonymikejoe
While I'm on here a quick message to everyone: Nowhere in the original post did I express a desire for Glenn Murray to still be our centre-forward. Give up mate. Bottom line is we tried to do it on the cheap and nothing worked so now we pay for goals like everybody else or we risk getting relegated. Which would you prefer? Or we could've spent quite a bit more than we did and wasted more on average or less strikers.
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| Painter Croydon 07 Sep 16 6.07pm |
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Originally posted by tonymikejoe
While I'm on here a quick message to everyone: Nowhere in the original post did I express a desire for Glenn Murray to still be our centre-forward. The position we are in, is very different from when Murray arrived. Ever since he got injured in the play offs, he was never the same player again unfortunately. He hasn't set anywhere alight since he left, so selling him was the right move. We have gone from a turnover of about £12m then to £120m now. Players are going to cost more, as clubs know we have money. Sometimes you need to take a gamble on players Sanogo and Adebayor didn't pay off, but strikers are hard to come by. Ferguson took many gambles that didn't pay off, but he is regarded as the best Premiership Manager ever. I don't see why you feel the need to try and make out, the club has no idea what its doing.
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