OrangeRab 3,382 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 4 hours ago, BlueThunder said: If we had been shit in Europe for the last 6 years or so I wonder how much less money the filth would have. Sickening that our success has paved the way for their riches by allowing them direct access (and of course our failure to finish ahead of them) We can but hope their signing policy is shit. However they even seem to manage to move on their shit for a decent fee. Yeh absolute shite the way it’s worked out. Post Xmas European runs massively disadvantaged us domestically and laid titles on their plate. And they’ve reaped the financial rewards from our European success. Sick irony GersGuy and Blue Skies 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NixonRFC 1,574 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 3 minutes ago, .Williamson. said: I don’t think their fixtures are that great. How many wins do they need because I can’t see them winning any of their away fixtures Folk were saying 8/9 points is likely to get you a Play-Off spot. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Williamson. 87,169 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 7 minutes ago, NixonRFC said: Folk were saying 8/9 points is likely to get you a Play-Off spot. They’re not getting that GersGuy 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Williamson. 87,169 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 26 minutes ago, DrLaudrup said: It's unfortunately role reversal from the 90s when we were signing Laudrup, Boli and Gascoigne and they were signing League 1 players like Andy Paton and Stuart Slater. We need really good scouting to unearth some gems. Aside from that, money talks. It’s absolutely fuck all like the 90s with the names you just mentioned J-Maestro 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevemac 5,416 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 4 hours ago, DrLaudrup said: It's unfortunately role reversal from the 90s when we were signing Laudrup, Boli and Gascoigne and they were signing League 1 players like Andy Paton and Stuart Slater. We need really good scouting to unearth some gems. Aside from that, money talks. Comparing laudrup and gazza to some mid tier Belgian playing for a lower end German team? Fucking fuck me. .Williamson., LiverpoolBlue, graeme_4 and 1 other 1 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post .Williamson. 87,169 Posted August 30 Popular Post Share Posted August 30 I hope Villa in particular batter them. They’ll be in Birmingham singing IRA songs and theres a disgusting significance to that LiverpoolBlue, Bluekev, OrangeRab and 8 others 11 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
left winger 15,561 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 11 hours ago, DrLaudrup said: It's unfortunately role reversal from the 90s when we were signing Laudrup, Boli and Gascoigne and they were signing League 1 players like Andy Paton and Stuart Slater. We need really good scouting to unearth some gems. Aside from that, money talks. You’ll need to point out their current equivalents of Laudrup and Gascoigne for us? EverestGers and gmcf 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeRab 3,382 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 For all the money they have, their ceiling is capped. They’ll lose their better players and guys like Hatate and CCV will get bored and want a move themselves. It’s a good but not great team. It’s pretty conceivable they get 90 points. Especially if they don’t get pumped out of Europe early. The problem is we’ve dropped to an 80 point a year standard. It shouldn’t need 30 million to get us competitive. Just a bit of long term thinking and smart recruitment. Monty Zoomer, LiverpoolBlue and GersGuy 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plymouthranger 4,226 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 21 minutes ago, OrangeRab said: For all the money they have, their ceiling is capped. They’ll lose their better players and guys like Hatate and CCV will get bored and want a move themselves. It’s a good but not great team. It’s pretty conceivable they get 90 points. Especially if they don’t get pumped out of Europe early. The problem is we’ve dropped to an 80 point a year standard. It shouldn’t need 30 million to get us competitive. Just a bit of long term thinking and smart recruitment. They won’t go out of Europe early, it goes on until end of Jan now because of the 8 group games. Plus they have an absolute piss easy draw (watch, we’ll get a tougher Europa draw today than theirs) which means they’ll make the play off round if they win 2-3 home games. That’s annoying as it makes them a fuck tonne of money, but they also aren’t used to any football post Xmas, which has benefitted them domestically. We need to get 2-3 first teamers in today, stay in the hunt until Jan, hopefully strengthen then whilst they lose another key player, then hopefully win the run in. Said it time and time again, but that’s what they did under fat Ange in his first season and it worked. OrangeRab and GersGuy 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
graeme_4 37,460 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 2 hours ago, left winger said: You’ll need to point out their current equivalents of Laudrup and Gascoigne for us? Forrest and Bernardo obviously. left winger, Bobby Hume, EverestGers and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6superbarry6 14,614 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Not buying this pish that we can’t compete with them, it really shouldn’t be that difficult to build a side to match their results against the dross in this league which means the title will come down to the head to heads we have proven in the past in Europe that we can compete with sides with much bigger budgets than ours, it’s about building a squad with the attributes to counter theirs, this doesn’t need to cost a fortune. Rowley Birkin, bluenose244 and LiverpoolBlue 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
East London Loyal 424 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 14 hours ago, B1872 said: Just seen the scums Champions League fixtures. Even they cunts couldn’t fuck that up…….. in fact they probably could! They are the only team (to my knowledge) to get bumped out of three different European competitions in one season. DrLaudrup and Blue Nosed Babe 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLaudrup 5,063 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 3 hours ago, left winger said: You’ll need to point out their current equivalents of Laudrup and Gascoigne for us? Fair. I wasn’t talking about the quality. More the access to funds that they have. Bobby Hume and left winger 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wully 49,647 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Tiger Shaw, BouncyBluenose87 and Blue Nosed Babe 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Madina 4,241 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Saw they've bid for McCowan. Trusty and somebody else also mentioned as being "close" to signing. Contrast with us scrambling around the bargain basement for project players or ones that not even football uber geeks have heard of. Scunnered at the role reversal since I was a kid/teenager LiverpoolBlue 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Godfather 75,661 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 10 minutes ago, Madina said: Saw they've bid for McCowan. Trusty and somebody else also mentioned as being "close" to signing. Contrast with us scrambling around the bargain basement for project players or ones that not even football uber geeks have heard of. Scunnered at the role reversal since I was a kid/teenager We're we not linked with Trusty in the summer or maybe it was last summer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RM Monitor And Standards Officer 112,806 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Just now, The Godfather said: We're we not linked with Trusty in the summer or maybe it was last summer. Last summer mate The Godfather 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RM Monitor And Standards Officer 112,806 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 11 minutes ago, Madina said: Saw they've bid for McCowan. Trusty and somebody else also mentioned as being "close" to signing. Contrast with us scrambling around the bargain basement for project players or ones that not even football uber geeks have heard of. Scunnered at the role reversal since I was a kid/teenager Mccowan would be classed as bargain basement surely born a blue nose, J-Maestro and RS4_wul 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madina 4,241 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 4 minutes ago, RM Monitor And Standards Officer said: Mccowan would be classed as bargain basement surely He's high end retail compared to the players we've been linked with this summer. McCowan would help them meet the homegrown quota and a decent player. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RM Monitor And Standards Officer 112,806 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 1 minute ago, Madina said: He's high end retail compared to the players we've been linked with this summer. McCowan would help them meet the homegrown quota and a decent player. So he's high end and the players we've been linked with this summer have all been shite despite the careers some of the players we've been linked with have had compared to him,? J-Maestro, rbt1548 and GersGuy 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madina 4,241 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 10 minutes ago, RM Monitor And Standards Officer said: So he's high end and the players we've been linked with this summer have all been shite despite the careers some of the players we've been linked with have had compared to him,? Some players can have careers at great clubs then come to the Scottish top flight and struggle. I'm not saying McCowan is a world beater but he knows the league and is probably one of the best Scottish players in the league right now Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the cry was no 3,072 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 2 minutes ago, Madina said: Some players can have careers at great clubs then come to the Scottish top flight and struggle. I'm not saying McCowan is a world beater but he knows the league and is probably one of the best Scottish players in the league right now He's nearly 27 and spent most of his career in the championship with Ayr United and Dundee He had a decent season last season but he's hardly high end ffs Some of our fans have a raging hard on for everything the tarriers do and seem to love kicking Rangers I'd rather sign Bajrani than McCowan but each to their own GersGuy, J-Maestro, RM Monitor And Standards Officer and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleBJK 929 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 58 minutes ago, RM Monitor And Standards Officer said: Mccowan would be classed as bargain basement surely We should have been in there last week the minute it was clear Hibs were fucking about. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RM Monitor And Standards Officer 112,806 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 8 minutes ago, KyleBJK said: We should have been in there last week the minute it was clear Hibs were fucking about. Well gutted we didn't out fuck Hibs then Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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