The joke’s already been made.
By me.
I don’t think you’ve quite understood. I’m on about criticism that we should have sorted this 18months ago. When we finished fifth, our entire midfield dropped off a cliff, and our Sporting Director had just resigned.
(Just seen other people reply, so ignore this)
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Don’t worry. Happens when you get to my age.
Something to which you can look forward.
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It’s happening to me plenty now, mate!
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9 times out of ten when he goes missing is because he is man marked by 2 or 3 players for 70 min then his markers are knackered by then and that’s when he does his best work. The only way to stop him by disabling him physically as Ramos did for RM the prick.
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Mascot shouda gone to Specsavers
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This game of chicken between the 3 players soon without a contract and the owners could end badly for both parties. Our current form and success might evaporate come January it has to be resolved by Christmas. Father Christmas has already received my Xmas wish envelope.
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This is giving me FSG Mookie vibes although I benefited from that one.
I remain typically level-headed for now. But I’m concerned about this and that I won’t be able to afford specsavers once weirdo does away with Obamacare while looking for his concept of a plan.
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I’ve difficulty to believe that the club haven’t already made several offers. I suspect that the negociations have maybe stalled over Mo’s demands, and that every side is playing hard-ball right now.
However, I completely agree with you. This is a player who is far from losing his legs. He needs to be tied up as quickly as possible, and I for one will be fuming if he leaves us for another club. He won’t be short of top-level suitors, so the club better play that game correctly.
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Yeah, could be 3/1, though I think it would have been quicker in that case. With a 1-year term, FSG is making a fairly simple assessment.
No, I think that is exactly the problem. He is definitely losing his legs. He doesn’t have the burst he did 4 years ago. The problem is he is still quick, and still very effective. Four years from now, he will be nowhere near the player he was. Right now, he still is.
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That is right, but he has a brain as well, which has helped him compensate his loss of pace. That’s why he’s still so effective. I’m quite sure that he’ll be involved in a lot of goals in three four years. He’ll lose pace further, but he’ll continue to adapt himself to the new circumstances, as he does now. His intelligence is a precious gift, and is often underestimated on here and elsewhere. He’s far from a simple pace merchant. His impressive number of assists are testimony to this.
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They’d better do.
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Press have their story now mind.
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The thing is (something Hughes doesn’t see), regardless of Salah staying or not, we have to keep looking at the striker market.
It’s not like it’s all fine and rosy up there central and we “just” need to find a high scoring right winger. Those are very rare, chances are higher than the next one won’t be able to produce what Salah is.
Nunez is in his 3rd season and realistically, doesn’t look like the long term answer.
He will have 3 years left on his deal at the end of this season and if he gets 4 years at Liverpool and doesn’t show serious improvement, he can be bloody happy and not moan if he’s told the story is over here, when we get to his last 2 years. That’s probably the latest we will be smart to continue with him, as we’ll possibly already know for a while that we’ll lose money on him.
Jota is effective whenever he’s fit (which is not often enough) and a perfect player as long as he’s happy to be in the first 15 players or so, but I don’t think he can be the club’s “first choice striker”, without serious competition at least.
The new striker might now score much more than Nunez while Salah is still here, but it would have to be someone who we fully trust for the future and already does better than Nunez in a way that he’s a starting XI player.
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How can you possible say this?
Simon Hughes by the way, not Richard.
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