Its not Ten Hag exclusive. It's just the club. Look at when Mourinho (who admittedly bought a lot of the circus himself) had the whole Pogba fiasco. Then poor Ole had to make big calls with Lukaku and then HE had to contend with a Pogba fiasco.
New owner wanted to cut off the old regime and bring in all new staff. It does happen I'm afraid and its worrying for Ten Hag but we should be okay.
Yes. We should definitely spend 600m on transfer fees alone - our entire yearly revenue - in a single calendar year. Anything other than that is “spending restraints” and it would totally be legal under FFP.
And I would agree with that notion. There's a tendency to assume a trophy can never ever be won in a manager 1st season. Then in the 2nd season they expect the FA Cup. It's only in the 3rd season when a title challenge is expected and if that doesn't happen and the manager gets the sack, we start "rebuilding" all over again and shouldn't expect a trophy in the shortterm.
He will be given time. Everyone knows that he took over a shit show
Yeah he still has previous managers players,also there was the constant Ronaldo circus and now the ownership is up in the air too.
I was with you until you said Iqbal and McNeil. They're alright but they're not likely to make it here.
Guarantee we don't sign number 9 in January
My thoughs exactly. I have a lot of faith in EtH but he needs to be backed.
Why won’t we?
I personally not expecting much change to the way we play atleast immediately and think lot of the players will show up only by December 3rd week where we play on Dec-27th. Also thought ETH has not been in Carrington last few weeks himself. May be by end of the season we might see the style of play by end of the season. This isn't saying that you are wrong or anything rather just my opinion.
Because top targets aren't available until the summer,hoped we might get a loan/short team deal for one but zero links thus far.
Who said they aren’t available?
Because he lives in the land of misery.
because only Middle East owners buy top strikers without fail, everyone knows this
Sand snek. Didn't know there was a band by this name.
Yes, what you say is completely fair.
There is no way Spurs sell Kane, Napoli sell Osimhen, Juve sell Vlahovic, AC Milan sell Leao, Brentford sell Toney or Lille sell David, if there is anyone left let me know
So you mean we won't sing a top number 9.
Wouldn't class Depay or Felix as your typical number 9. Can't really comment on Thuram as don't know enough about him.
This chestnut keeps coming up - the Glazers spent a lot but spent badly. It ignores the intimate connection between the commercialisation of the club and the bad spending decisions. It gave us Ole, the coach who rolled over because he knew he was there as a yes man not a top coach. It gave us Ronaldo mark 2 and a whole load of other big names at the fag end of their careers. It made us miss out on Klopp and who knows how many players who cared about winning more than they cared about their pay packet. And it gave us Woodward in charge. The list goes on and on.
Mate, I think you're agreeing with him. His main point that our woe is not about financial but the non-existent strategic management. The later includes spending badly, getting a Yes man manager, focus more on commercialization above football success, etc.Er, what part of “Our problem isn't financial. Its strategic management” fails to account for the issues that you've (correctly) mentioned?
Rightly or wrongly, Kane will be one of our top targets this summer. Also everyone has a price as we saw with Antony. Ajax had half of their squad bought in the summer and were adament that no more would leave - enter John Murtough dressed as the Monopoly Man with a suitcase and 100m and its deal done.
Thuram is the obvious answer to your obvious problem. No brainer.
True but you have to factor that our spend last window was inflated by inaction and the resulting late window panic spend. It wasn't a true 200m and it could have been prevented if the Glazers had a clue how to structure the club for continuity of action. We're constantly overhauling because they bring no expertise on the business side of the game. Can't wait till they leave so we are no longer having to back their structure on crappy questionable decisions like staking an entire summer on Frenkie De Jong. Without a breakthrough that situation could be in court till long after his retirement.
We still spent big, regardless of inflation or not. If we acted earlier we could've saved ourselves probably 50m, but that's about it. 150m is still a good spend per summer.
The point you are missing (still) is that the strategic management problem was caused by the financial problem that you don't think exists. They're not two seperate things.
It's been a baptism of fire tbh. I hope he's enjoying it.
Well, we do have a history of Dutch managers being full frontal.
he just wanted to say it in his own wordsSo what you are saying is that if we hadn’t got the debt to service we could have bought Neymar, Mbappe and Haland?
