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General Football & Sports / Re: Ron Gourlay - CEO
« on: June 01, 2022, 02:44:41 AM »
Let me guess. FIFA 22 is now on discount and the club has finally decided to buy it.
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Fair play to Kenneth if they get this over the line.
(if anybody has seen peep show you'll understand why I've called him Kenneth)
So the only way we could stay up is if Brighton didn't win ANYMORE games?
Dear me.
Brilliant reading mate
Calling for Nuno to go
Fantastic win...
Heading over to Mol mix for a gander
Pretty happy with this. Good age range, loan deal so we can run the rule over him before committing. Used to the rigours of English football His scoring record in the champ in perfectly respectable despite what some on here say. Its exactly the sort of deal we should be pursuing.
The howling from some of the younger supporters just because his FIFA rating isn't like Messi's is ridiculous.
Wouldn't surprise me if he walks god knows what bull his been sold.
You're right. It is a kick in the teeth. This has happened with Barry, Brown, Dhandra and others.
However. We're a community club. We have deep roots in the surrounding area. I would be very sad if we were to drop our interest in the academy for these reasons. Sometimes (for me) it's not about the money, but about doing the right thing.
An observation I make frequently; what exactly have these poached players gone in to achieve? The only ones doing well are players that we decided to let go (Wood, Roofe, Roberts) after they hit a certain age
During his time at The Hawthorns, WBA have consistently been better with Craig Dawson in the team than when he’s been out of it. I think that the criticism he receives here is unwarranted and uncalled for. If we had Messi, there would still be some ‘fans’ that would find something to criticise him for. Sad really.
Dwight Gayle is a terrific goal scorer of that there is absolutely no doubt. Ultimately it will come down to how Bilic wants to set his side up.
What Gayle did show though is that he scored those goals on scraps. How well would he fair in a team capable of keeping the ball and creating chances? Or just attacking with purpose?
More of a concern for me is the lack of goals from elsewhere last season. Strengthening the three behind the striker and utilising the loan market for a striker may well be how Bilic will want to do things.
BUT if you go and pay one player X amount how good is that for the dressing room? That's why I'd be so reluctant to sign Gayle.
I broadly agree with this, I only hesitate because of the scale of the task and on an indivdual basis there is a level of talent that is going to be difficult for us to match as a Championship club. For instance Gibbs is almost certainly entering his post peak years as a full back but I struggle to see us recruiting a comprable talent in the Championship. Even without departures it is easy to identify 5 positions that we need to recruit for and there comes a point where intergrating a dozen or more players will swallow the season.
I bet the board are scared. What are people going to do? Threaten to not renew their season tickets, then renew them anyway? Again
I actually feel a bit sorry for Lai. He clearly knew little or nothing about football in UK, and was fed a bloody good line by JP about making good money from the club.
He was taken to the cleaners by JP, who lets not forget had the clubs best interests at heart?? He took the money and ran. Lai is left with a sick dog that he cant afford to heal. I think he will sit back and pray that the next manager can pull a rabbit out the hat and get us promoted, at which point he will try to recoup his outlay. He can throw money at it, but whats the guarantee it will be well spent, remembering the last 2 years, where we have wasted so much money on ordinary players. If I owned the club i wouldnt be throwing money at it right now.
I'd be extremely suprised if its not Hughton, if he wants it you'd think its his. His style of football is something the players are all very much accustomed too, got a couple of promotions in this league, known quantity.
Danny Cowley could be interesting, certainly success everywhere he's gone but its a huge step up from where he's done. It's hard to find much about his actual playing style - I'm not sure to what extent people saying its bad would probably say that about any league 2, conference level teams.
Looked to me as if Dawson was taken ill rather injured ,anyone heard anything?
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Dawson and Gibbs fast asleep
Bartley is a liability how he's in squad is beyond me