Bamford

[Rev72]

Costa in for Raph

seems an equal trade

Bit like swapping a Ferrari for a Robin Reliant.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Feel so sorry for Bamford but if they don’t sign a back up this summer ……..

[WTF11]

Bit like swapping a Ferrari for a Robin Reliant.

Or a Reliant Robin even!

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

The press release about Bamford having this problem for 12 months and a tear in the ligament last summer makes the decision not to recruit a back up striker even more senseless.

That coupled with Orta’s recent pearls of wisdom around have a squad of no more than 18 first players and his belief he seems to have found a new formula makes me more annoyed how they treated Bielsa.

To steal a phrase from the construction industry they valued engineered the squad too much and when it broke they blamed the coach.

Also if we sell Phillips we are supposed to be buying a championship player Flynn Downs as a replacement - looks like they are about to screw over Jesse M too.

I think Orta has done okay but this strategy suggests he and not Bielsa should have gone over the lack of players signed last summer and in January. If Orta’s hand were tied then it points at Radz and the 49ers.

For once, I would be happy with a semblance of doing things the normal way at the club!

[WTF11]

The press release about Bamford having this problem for 12 months and a tear in the ligament last summer makes the decision not to recruit a back up striker even more senseless.

That coupled with Orta’s recent pearls of wisdom around have a squad of no more than 18 first players and his belief he seems to have found a new formula makes me more annoyed how they treated Bielsa.

To steal a phrase from the construction industry they valued engineered the squad too much and when it broke they blamed the coach.

Also if we sell Phillips we are supposed to be buying a championship player Flynn Downs as a replacement - looks like they are about to screw over Jesse M too.

I think Orta has done okay but this strategy suggests he and not Bielsa should have gone over the lack of players signed last summer and in January. If Orta’s hand were tied then it points at Radz and the 49ers.

For once, I would be happy with a semblance of doing things the normal way at the club!

Exactly whos "normal" are you referring to? If it's LUFC, then over many years this is "normal" (going back (at least), to the days of Wilko that were mentioned on another thread recently)

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Exactly whos "normal" are you referring to? If it's LUFC, then over many years this is "normal" (going back (at least), to the days of Wilko that were mentioned on another thread recently)

Not sure we have been a normal club for many a year - so agree with you on that - but ‘normal’ in the sense of how most clubs in the prem manage their squads and size.

Would be happy to use the Jose Mourhinho bench mark from his early days at Chelsea - I want 2 good players in each position plus 2.

But you get the point I hope.

18 seems painfully thin not least when it includes an imbalance of 5 centre backs and players who were carrying injuries and where the u23 strengths didn’t map with the weaker areas in the first team such a back up holding midfielder who is ready to play regularly (as opposed to who will be in 2 to 3 years time) coupled with the fact a lot of the players in the squad have hit their progression ceiling.

Not sure who called Bamford biscuit legs - maybe Joel but I reckon with his injury record he must have missed at about a third of the games we have played since he signed as he was injured for large parts of his first season.

[spaldy]

I suspect that if we stay up the 49's will buy us out and bring in their own management team. They will likely not subscribe to the "small squad" theory. American Football has huge rosters and often use most them during the course of a season.

They will almost be playing on "house money" if they sell Raph, get the bumped up TV money (100 million+) and, heaven forbid sell KP.

Very worried on the obsession on Aaronson. From what I've observed a lot of German players don't do well in the prem. The Austrians run a very similar style of play. 30 million is a whole lot of money for an injured and unproven player at the prem level.

I guess one saving grace is that we'll have some U-23's blooded under serious relegation pressure by that time and some money to spend in the transfer window. Maybe the yanks will be better at getting signings over the line.

Can't understand why orta stated that out loud. whether he's going to do it or not there was no reason to say it.

[WTF11]

I suspect that if we stay up the 49's will buy us out and bring in their own management team. They will likely not subscribe to the "small squad" theory. American Football has huge rosters and often use most them during the course of a season.

They will almost be playing on "house money" if they sell Raph, get the bumped up TV money (100 million+) and, heaven forbid sell KP.

Very worried on the obsession on Aaronson. From what I've observed a lot of German players don't do well in the prem. The Austrians run a very similar style of play. 30 million is a whole lot of money for an injured and unproven player at the prem level.

I guess one saving grace is that we'll have some U-23's blooded under serious relegation pressure by that time and some money to spend in the transfer window. Maybe the yanks will be better at getting signings over the line.

Can't understand why orta stated that out loud. whether he's going to do it or not there was no reason to say it.

Aaronson is a complete and absolute waste of time and money, move on.

[WTF11]

I suspect that if we stay up the 49's will buy us out and bring in their own management team. They will likely not subscribe to the "small squad" theory. American Football has huge rosters and often use most them during the course of a season.

They will almost be playing on "house money" if they sell Raph, get the bumped up TV money (100 million+) and, heaven forbid sell KP.

Very worried on the obsession on Aaronson. From what I've observed a lot of German players don't do well in the prem. The Austrians run a very similar style of play. 30 million is a whole lot of money for an injured and unproven player at the prem level.

I guess one saving grace is that we'll have some U-23's blooded under serious relegation pressure by that time and some money to spend in the transfer window. Maybe the yanks will be better at getting signings over the line.

Can't understand why orta stated that out loud. whether he's going to do it or not there was no reason to say it.

Really, you question why the emptiest vessel in the LUFC management team is making the loudest noise, AGAIN!?????

[Billyni]

Getting a wee tad ahead of the game here.
Need to stay up first, then argue about the squad.