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Should we sell Benteke in Jan...?
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 bristol59  NAILSEA 29 Dec 17 11.51am |
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Fully agree with Spartakev2, Sako should start in place of Benteke for the City game. Sako gets into the box, makes himself available, does everything Benteke doesn’t. Sako’s goals per minutes on pitch compared to Benteke’s speaks for itself.
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| Pikester Worthing 29 Dec 17 11.52am |
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Originally posted by Kermit8
You missed out the important 'with the squad we have as it stands' bit. Who knows, we might get some better players in January and stay up. If only we could raise £25-30mill from somewhere. Quick before this becomes yet another tedious Willo thread. It's a tricky one - we need 3 functioning strikers and we have none. We need to act quickly though - not something we've always been good at.
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| Beastie 29 Dec 17 11.59am |
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Originally posted by Kermit8
You missed out the important 'with the squad we have as it stands' bit. Who knows, we might get some better players in January and stay up. If only we could raise £25-30mill from somewhere. ‘The squad we have, as it stands' is now on course to stay up. I would back Benteke to improve as well.
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| Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 29 Dec 17 12.03pm |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
Exactly. He knows f*** all more than the rest of us, he just wanted to look as if he knew something and when I called him out on it he immediately lost his temper. Never lost my temper at all. Anyhow, will not post any further comments on this particular matter.Will concentrate on Benteke which I had been doing prior to an intervention laced with slurs.
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chateauferret  29 Dec 17 12.20pm |
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Originally posted by Willo
Never lost my temper at all. Anyhow, will not post any further comments on this particular matter.Will concentrate on Benteke which I had been doing prior to an intervention laced with slurs. Further comment on this obvious attention-seeking troll is clearly unnecessary save to observe that the ITK remark was of course *not* about Benteke. It does look FWIW as if there is activity and commitment to getting something done. Roy's words after the match, various names linked, although some of them aren't all that inspiring, a clear sense of priorities. Hopefully we're not going to be caught sitting on our arses like last time. But of course we can all get that by looking at NewsNow, listening to TalkS***e or even reading Transfer Talk.
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| Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 29 Dec 17 12.28pm |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
Further comment on this obvious attention-seeking troll is clearly unnecessary. It does look FWIW as if there is activity and commitment to getting something done. Roy's words after the match, various names linked, although some of them aren't all that inspiring, a clear sense of priorities. Hopefully we're not going to be caught sitting on our arses like last time. But of course we can all get that by looking at NewsNow, listening to TalkS***e or even reading Transfer Talk. Hence your comment ! Laced with ludicrously inaccurate assertions.Marvellous. Returning to the subject under discussion, we all know what would happen if Benteke returned to 'Selhurst Park' with another club ! It's all very well bellowing out "Sell Benteke ! " but one has to have a buyer willing to pay the price and the player has to agree to the move.
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| chateauferret 29 Dec 17 12.45pm |
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Originally posted by Willo
Hence your comment ! Laced with ludicrously inaccurate assertions.Marvellous. Returning to the subject under discussion, we all know what would happen if Benteke returned to 'Selhurst Park' with another club ! It's all very well bellowing out "Sell Benteke ! " but one has to have a buyer willing to pay the price and the player has to agree to the move. Well after your first remark you either have to put up or shut up, but you have chosen to throw your toys about instead. I didn't recommend selling Benteke and I don't think I would so recommend (not since the Leicester game, anyway). Bringing in another, maybe slightly different kind of striker would provide both competition for his place and the option of playing a proper striker up front with him instead of shoehorning Wilf into that position (which is a terrible idea given the damage he does from wide positions). As well as the advantage of selecting the right horse for the right course. Sell Beneteke and his replacement would probably cost more and need to be bedded in. Unless, of course, the player wants to leave, of which his present performance may be a symptom; but I would expect my cat to tell me if that were the case.
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| Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 29 Dec 17 12.52pm |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
Well after your first remark you either have to put up or shut up, but you have chosen to throw your toys about instead. I didn't recommend selling Benteke and I don't think I would so recommend. Bringing in another, maybe slightly different kind of striker would provide both competition for his place and the option of playing a proper striker up front with him instead of shoehorning Wilf into that position (which is a terrible idea given the damage he does from wide positions). As well as the advantage of selecting the right horse for the right course. Sell Beneteke and his replacement would probably cost more and need to be bedded in. Unless, of course, the player wants to leave, of which his present performance may be a symptom; but I would expect my cat to tell me if that were the case. I'm not taking any advice from you about what I should or shouldn't do. Not throwing any toys about - you have been throwing insults about and I am within my rights to counter the ludicrous allegations. Anyway I have NO intention of giving any credence to your slurs so I will concentrate on the subject matter and leave you to de-rail the thread with your incessant barbs.All further risible bile will remain unanswered.
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| Lyons550 Shirley 29 Dec 17 1.05pm |
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Originally posted by Willo
I hear there might be an addition early in the 'Window'. Parish has said it'll be a busy New Year Window...yes i heard the same
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| chateauferret 29 Dec 17 1.07pm |
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Originally posted by Willo
I'm not taking any advice from you about what I should or shouldn't do. Not throwing any toys about - you have been throwing insults about and I am within my rights to counter the ludicrous allegations. Anyway I have NO intention of giving any credence to your slurs so I will concentrate on the subject matter and leave you to de-rail the thread with your incessant barbs.All further risible bile will remain unanswered.
It is tempting to say "Tekers is off the boil, we need someone else in *now*, we had better do a deal on 1 January" but I would be fearful this resulted in a poor decision made in haste of which we could spend the rest of the season repenting. I don't think that Hodgson, Parish, Freedman et al are stupid enough to act in such haste though and will give appropriate weight to the idea of making sure that the players coming in are the right ones, and they won't repeat the mistake of trying to do everything in haste on 31 January. So if you were trying to raise our expectations that there would be an announcement very soon, and given that you have provided your usual complete lack of specifics and evidence, I think you're talking bollocks. HTH.
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cryrst  The garden of England 29 Dec 17 1.16pm |
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IMO tekkers still doesn't look 100% fit.
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| NEILLO Shoreham-by-Sea 29 Dec 17 1.18pm |
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Without etc etc zzzzzz......but really Willo, don't come on here making out to be privy to something if you are not prepared to divulge what it is and in what context you have the information. You end up looking foolish. Having messed up in the summer, it's pretty bleedin' obvious that we need competition in certain areas, striker being the main one. As for selling Benteke, based upon last night's showing it's hard to make a case for keeping him. However, prior matches he had shown improvement. I say ' keep ' but provide him with some genuine competition for his place.
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