Why cant people understand football is a short term game

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Depressing, posts like that innit.

Maybe I am an oddball or sommat but I am counting down the hours to the new season, cannot wait to see our new players and unlike the OP, I am very confident we will finish top six and happen even the CL spots.


COYBB

Way more to be excited about than miserable. Everton aren't we!

 

[Paul Rideout]

I cannot wait for us to draw against palace and see the meltdown on here.

Then go on a 10 game winning streak.

 

[davids]

Have a very good season last year whilst playing for an absolute dross side managed by Roy Hodgson.

Zaha is boss, he's pretty much perfectly built from the Premier League. It's staggering to me that people think he's average.

Not average,just not worth breaking the bank for.

 

[Kaiser Soysauce]

So many posts suggesting.. it's ok we will get a target in next summer or in the next window. The fact is, if we don't improve immensely then the better players will leave. That means richarlison....

This squad wont beat 7th this season, not a chance with centre back issues and lack of a zaha (better class than what we have)

Richarlison will not want to stay next season if we finish 8th again. This is the disappointment. That front 3 of zaha kean richarlison would have been immense. That wont happen now. That's the disappointment. We have no x factor again. We are basically a wolves Leicester level still. The same we have been for 20 years. And that glimmer of hope if finally taking that step is again shattered. And next season will be no different because top players will leave.

Jesus wept.......

 

[Undisputed_blue]

In what universe do a group of professional accountants at a top-flight football club sanction the release of a sum of money for a player we're 'ready to sign' only to then discover that said money doesn't actually exist?? unless you've completely botched that sentence somehow and you meant something else...

You're absolutely right. We live in a universe where we have accountants who have easy access to the magic money tree!

 

[Toffe3m4n]

You're absolutely right. We live in a universe where we have accountants who have easy access to the magic money tree!

?

What are you actually on about??

 

[ChesterBlue]

Look at Spurs and (much as saying it makes me feel physically ill) the RS - they’re reaping the rewards of long term projects currently, both consistently in the CL when 5, 6, 7 years ago they were both pacing between 8th and 5th every season. The clubs who manage to break into that upper echelon are long term projects, as they say Rome wasn’t built in a day.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

So many posts suggesting.. it's ok we will get a target in next summer or in the next window. The fact is, if we don't improve immensely then the better players will leave. That means richarlison....

This squad wont beat 7th this season, not a chance with centre back issues and lack of a zaha (better class than what we have)

Richarlison will not want to stay next season if we finish 8th again. This is the disappointment. That front 3 of zaha kean richarlison would have been immense. That wont happen now. That's the disappointment. We have no x factor again. We are basically a wolves Leicester level still. The same we have been for 20 years. And that glimmer of hope if finally taking that step is again shattered. And next season will be no different because top players will leave.

Football is both a short and long term game, it's about getting the balance

Live only in the short term and it's not a good sign for your clubs long term health

That's just common sense

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I cannot wait for us to draw against palace and see the meltdown on here.

Then go on a 10 game winning streak.

Since 2013 we've drawn something like 4 of our opening games 2-2, so a draw should be the expected result

 

[johnjoeefc]

Football is both a short and long term game, it's about getting the balance

Live only in the short term and it's not a good sign for your clubs long term health

That's just common sense

Yeah but mikey we've both been on these forums for years and years. How can you be content with players worse than what we had last season. No zouma, no gueye, 2 key players gone. Instead we have unproven players who could be good or could be crap. I'm just livid as when are we actually going to make a step up. How many more years of mediocrity do we accept?

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

So many posts suggesting.. it's ok we will get a target in next summer or in the next window. The fact is, if we don't improve immensely then the better players will leave. That means richarlison....

This squad wont beat 7th this season, not a chance with centre back issues and lack of a zaha (better class than what we have)

Richarlison will not want to stay next season if we finish 8th again. This is the disappointment. That front 3 of zaha kean richarlison would have been immense. That wont happen now. That's the disappointment. We have no x factor again. We are basically a wolves Leicester level still. The same we have been for 20 years. And that glimmer of hope if finally taking that step is again shattered. And next season will be no different because top players will leave.

If Richarlison leaves hes leaves for £80m. Then we reinvest that.

We just signed the best young striker in Europe

We're in with a shout of the best kid in world football in January.

Stay positive!

 

[johnjoeefc]

The best young striker in Europe who juve flogged for 25 mil. I swear some people here are deluded

 

[MikeH72]

Yeah but mikey we've both been on these forums for years and years. How can you be content with players worse than what we had last season. No zouma, no gueye, 2 key players gone. Instead we have unproven players who could be good or could be crap. I'm just livid as when are we actually going to make a step up. How many more years of mediocrity do we accept?

If that’s the case, why are you declaring them crap already?

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Basically the club have a habit of strengthening one area but weakening the other in the process.

We needed an attacking midfielder/winger so we got Siggurdsson and Richarlison but lost Lukaku.

We then had no striker but got a good defence

We now sign a good striker but have a thin defence/lost Gana

Zaha and a back up CB would have given us our strongest squad since the 80's imo.

Yet as you say come next summer we may get a CB and goal scoring winger in but probably lose a Richarlison in the process.

Overall it does take more than 1 year and we are on the right track... however I would like to see us speed up the process as the top 6 wont be this open forever and clubs like Wolves and Leicester are strengthening all the time.

 

[Darth Toffeeman]

The best young striker in Europe who juve flogged for 25 mil. I swear some people here are deluded

He was in the last year of his contract and had shown no indication of signing a new one.
That was a great piece of business by the club, especially when you look at how much Inter have payed for Lukaku, who has looked out of shape since leaving here.