Assuming we don’t get anything from Spurs, and yes, I know that’s negative, but I am being realistic, we will go into the Sunderland game with 14 points.
If we get the same number of points in the other two-thirds of the season, we’ll only finish with 42 points. I think that would be very dissappointing, as the players we have got are capable of better.
I think we have a problem at the moment, in the fact that we seem to get stuck in ‘third gear’ for too long in games. And again, we go towards a January transfer window short on striking options. How many times in a game do we put a low ball in or around the 6 yard box and there’s nobody to actually finish? (I don’t think that’s Scotland’s style, by the way)
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think we’ll go down, but I certainly think we are in danger of under-achieving. However, perhaps we can add some faces to the squad and gain some consistency.
I agree, after 5 years in the Prem we should be looking for more than just survival. Maybe we would be if we didn’t sell all our best players. Who’s to blame for that? I’ll let you decide, but if we had kept most of our top players since promotion then we would definitely be a force in the Prem. Not negative, just realistic.
Would we? Anyway, Man Utd are reportedly £600 million in debt, and their not doing too bad.
Let’s face it whenever we get a good player he will be sold. Usually for a lower price than it should be. And that’s not complaining, it’s just realistic and in response to what actually happens.
Roberts would be great but i think playing the 4 5 1 heskeys the right man for the job.
Imagine those balls to him from Diame, Thomas and the defence with Scharner, Rodders and Nzogbia running on from him i dont think any defence in the league could handle that.
My concern is that the players linked are not goalscorers!
You know there isn’t really a ‘list’, don’t you? It’s not Amazon. Those ‘list’ prices are mainly paperagent talk.
Plus, in all of those cases, the player was adamant that he wanted to leave and the buying club knew that. Ergo, price always is lower than if the player isn’t pushing for a move himself