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Player Valuation: £500k
Just wanted to point out the error made with the Joleon Lescott transfer saga. Now I hate to compare us to Spurs but what happened with Lescott echoed the saga spurs endured when Berbatov threw his toys out of the pram to joined Man U.
The disruption was evident as spurs endured a shocker of a start to their season. They held out too long, refusing several offers to eventually get their asking price of £31m, just £3m more than was on offer a month earlier. Subsequently sacrificing time for any proper reinvestment in the squad and ultimately ended up short in attack. By the end of august the focus of the squad had been destroyed and they later had to sack their manager, costing them much more than £12m and arguably several places in the league. (worth £2-20m depending on what they qualified for) Jowlyface then stung the board for £50m for new players in January.
Now only a fool would say our squad's concentration wasn't rocked by the Man City affair, and I feel the new recruits were signed in an air of panic so I'm chuffed to see the team putting things right so soon. However, with our rivals starting so well (villa, citeh & spurs) and the sky 4 obviously going to be running things close for the title, I feel this year especially we couldn't afford a slow start.
Moyes and Round have done superbly to steady the ship, the new boys are gelling, as are the youngsters and we have more balance and strength in depth than last year. Sadly the bar has been raised that bit higher. Now don't get me wrong, I am filled with optimism for the future and this season. Next season is the one I see us breaking into the top four though, just hope the lesson has been learned that holding out for an extra couple of £m is rarely the smartest economics in football.
The disruption was evident as spurs endured a shocker of a start to their season. They held out too long, refusing several offers to eventually get their asking price of £31m, just £3m more than was on offer a month earlier. Subsequently sacrificing time for any proper reinvestment in the squad and ultimately ended up short in attack. By the end of august the focus of the squad had been destroyed and they later had to sack their manager, costing them much more than £12m and arguably several places in the league. (worth £2-20m depending on what they qualified for) Jowlyface then stung the board for £50m for new players in January.
Now only a fool would say our squad's concentration wasn't rocked by the Man City affair, and I feel the new recruits were signed in an air of panic so I'm chuffed to see the team putting things right so soon. However, with our rivals starting so well (villa, citeh & spurs) and the sky 4 obviously going to be running things close for the title, I feel this year especially we couldn't afford a slow start.
Moyes and Round have done superbly to steady the ship, the new boys are gelling, as are the youngsters and we have more balance and strength in depth than last year. Sadly the bar has been raised that bit higher. Now don't get me wrong, I am filled with optimism for the future and this season. Next season is the one I see us breaking into the top four though, just hope the lesson has been learned that holding out for an extra couple of £m is rarely the smartest economics in football.
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