Duppy Conqueror

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I would have at the start of the window but then I didn`t think at that time we were going to let so much go. we also sort of added Christiansen Charley..(I just got off 14 hour flight and my brain is too frazzled to remember how to spell his surname. and you forgot our supersub for penalties GK Willy C

most of his salary will go towards protection for his home when Scumpool are playing away. it`s quite sad if a player prefers what part of the pitch he covers over league titles and other major honours.i would have liked to have him but if that`s true about him then we better off without that type in the long run. our board are well below par for a club of our stature..wish Roman would pull the plug on them the way he has on many of our coaches who have been far better at what they do than our board.

we should have worked on a deal for him when we loaned them Tammy..something like 10m and Tammy for 2 year free ( they pay salary only ) loan. in those 2 years we can build our team around a frontline that has an aerial threat and then in 2 years we have Tammy matured and the team built to help his transition into 1st team matchday squad member. as it is by signing Llorente we would help Tammy anyway..more minutes for him.

the VVD situation hasn`t really encouraged him to say he wants to leave. I think like most players at Southampton and similar level clubs.he would be delighted if Chelsea made an offer Southampton accepted.just doesn`t want to risk spending time in the doghouse.

I enjoyed many moments watching him play for us..Man City away was possibly his Chelsea career highlight but I want players who are fully committed to us..i`d sell better players than him if they weren`t fully committed..seems the unwanted drama is coming to an end at last.

I think Man City are trying to emulate the Ossie Ardiles coached Tottenham that played with 5 attackers. Ardiles got sacked before the end of the season with them near the bottom of the league,his legacy tarnished..i`d like to see Pep go down the same route..but let him blow their fortune first.

nice addition for Tottenham..sold their back up RB/RWB for 50million and replaced him with twice the player at less than half the price. they now have about 14 good players.

if they want Remy they can have him and a bit of cash.both Morata and Llorente good to great in the air so work on our crossing in particular from the right side and the goals will flow. he would be a great guy to have on the bench to read the game like a true veteran and make an impact. also wouldn`t block Tammy`s path to the first team but help our team prepare for him by improving how we play with a big target man.

William could very well do a Willian. although it`s not as close as Willian was..

I would love to have him but we should have started the ball rolling much sooner than this. perhaps when we had midfielders to offer them in a package deal.

Kante is and probably will be for years to come,the least of our problems. I was thinking who in recent times would be his best CM partner and I`d go with Ballack.

I have never bothered to compare `Yoko and Matic..and am not going to now,all I know is `yoko alone for that DM spot bothers me if we want to play 60 plus games this season and challenge for silverwear. I`m sure he`ll be fine for the games he plays in but wouldn`t put it past our rivals to target his legs in contests between us,knowing that it will knock us out of the race if we lost him for any significant time with what we have behind. Matic may have wanted to leave but we could have held onto him until a replacement was found.or atleast held onto Pasalic. Kante and Fabregas are great at what they do best but as a combo they are about as suitable as gravy and fish.

Marchisio would be great.somebody to improve us for a few years as we integrate youngsters into the team. I think late 20`s,early 30`s is the kind of players we should be looking at.rather than signing 23-27 year olds who will block them out and to succeed elsewhere. as for Clasie..nothing against him personally,i see a little sense in it .but really think we should admit we fucked up and try to bring pretty much any of our loaned out midfielders if he`s the best option for us in this window. Pasalic or Van Ginkel in particular.

angling for a move to Barcelona I`d say after some tapping up they`ll get away with.

I think we have bought a fair amount of players..4. on a par with City and United and more than Liverpool (atleast I think so,i don`t really follow what other teams do that closely) just the other teams haven`t let so many go as us. at the end of the season we as fans thought we only really needed some more wing backs,possible upgrading at very few other spots but not so much of bad situation as we are now in..,we knew JT was leaving but we had Zouma and Ake so we had ready replacements for his spot,on the field anyway,we may never replace him for everything he gave us.let those two go but bought Rudiger and brought back AC so about even there I`d say..then the Costa shit became public knowledge,bought in Morata..so up front we even,Begovic (fair enough on his part wanted 1st team football.) Willy C not as good as Begovic but we still got one of the better deputy keepers in the prem..and if as thiings look we are hoping for at best a domestic cup win this season..he`s great at saving penalties.then Matic left and pretty much all our young candidates for a depth spot on our 1st team squad. we are running a formation that relies on Wingbacks and a solid true DM and are yet to see our only one play his first game in English competitive football. I think a lot of who we are linked to is media seeing our representatives in discussions with teams and so because we need wingbacks we are linked to theirs..kinda surprised we haven`t been linked to Leicesters FB/WB`s but really when it`s stuff like "Chelsea may be looking at so and so player" they could type that about any club.

when we were a club of around Southampton`s stature. I don`t recall us ever standing in the way of a player who wanted to leave and since we have become one of Europes giants we don`t stand in the way..it`s just not good business for a club to do so..you have a cancer inside the club both on an off the field...Southampton need to either invest a lot to become a major club or accept they are seen by the players they sign who have ambition that they are a stepping stone club or they won`t attract rising stars in the future. they have an outstanding tradition of producing good players,i wouldn`t say better than us,about the same,only they are in a position where young players have the freedom to grow there before being sold on. it`s not good for them in the long run to hold onto players who want to leave,VVD has seen the team gutted every year since he`s been there and suddenly now they don`t want to sell when his time to leave is long overdue.

I`d go in with a 90-100m bid with Southampton for VVD,Soares and Romeu. 15m seems too cheap these days for just about any starter at any club in the prem.but if it`s part of a mega deal like 100m for 3 players then we could get away with it.35m then for Ox and we sorted out all our depth and starter issues.

I don`t look at loans with any thought of how they will develop for us anymore,been a long time since...I just see the loan outs as putting our youth in the shop window to sell eventually however good they do. Courtois won the title in Spain..that seems to be what a player has to do to stay here..win a major league title in Spain or Germany..we have loaned out players who have won trophies elsewhere but then not get a sniff..i honestly believe if Courtois had been loaned to Seville or Valencia he would not have made his way into our 1st team squad.regardless of how good he did. even those few who currently look like getting a squad place going into this season I expect to be in that same shop window either January or at the end of the season. the signings I would go for would be veterans who could help us for a few years whilst our youth are being rotated in but we still sign those early 20`s young players.whom we usually sign after impressing for a year or two ..we happily fork out 40m for them but when young players on our books do that on loan..we either sell them or loan out again and again. it`s fucked up..the fastest route to the first team at Chelsea for a youngster here is to be sold to another club then in a year or two we will want them back and try to re-sign them.instead of just giving them a genuine chance. there is minutes for young players with us..we are 3-0 up 30 minutes to go,we don`t need to be bringing on the Pedro`s,Willian`s for Hazard. Azpi didn`t need to play every fookin` minute of last season in the league.. we needed to strengthen..we made the signings that would have strengthened us for an attack on all fronts if we didn`t sell or loan out so much..1 step forward,2 steps back..

if a manager/coach wants a player then I`d rely on him believing he knows what he wants rather than what anybody else says regarding if we need him or not.. when we see players at other clubs playing in a certain way we believe that is all they are..not looking at what they have to play with and what their coach wants out of them,what they can become,. it`s the main reason I`m not a big fan of loaning players out,in some cases not even once let alone the blanket bombing approach we have implemented in modern times. we won the league last season,with a large part of it being from big contributions by players in positions and roles very few if any on here or anywhere believed they would be able to do.. it`s not the NFL where the vast majority of players and coaches are products of the system they play in. the vast majority of this kind of football can play in various positions and roles within a team they can be reshaped a lot more easier.positions are more simpler to learn.

he`s French fried like Drogba was.

it`s not that he`s a terrible player..he`s basically John Bumstead,a solid but unspectacular pro with a somewhat funny name..he can come in and do a job for us in lesser games when regular starters can be rested,but we already had players capable of that role we either sold for less or loaned out. it`s like we sold or loaned out these players then remembered the homegrown quota after it so are now scrambling for some. atleast him and Kante have some understanding..i supported the club when we had Mick Droy,"Sharon" Wood etc..and always hope for the best from whoever we sign..atleast it`s not like he is gonna be expected to drag along a load of rejects to try and fend off relegation..he`ll be surrounded by good to great players and if he don`t get the job done somebody else will. and well..Moses came from lower down in football fans respect to then play his part in a championship winning side.

I totally forgot we had him on our books.

is he even allowed to travel into the country now?

that`ll teach her for texting or getting a "selfie" done. he didn`t do one of his thunder kicks..if she was paying attention to the game it wouldn`t have happened