For my taste, also finally selling Ryan Babel in that window.
I’m right here.
broke the wage structure, he’s been broken since AFCON and his workrate has fallen off the table.
hell of a signing, that.
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You were going on about Fabinho being world class until about 4 games ago, now it’s an insult to the club if he puts on the shirt.
In his prime he absolutely was world class. 2018-2021 one of the best DM’s I’ve seen in the Prem era…I’ll hold that opinion with me forever.
Having a bad season and gradually getting worst, can’t deny that.
That was in october.
Keep calling others fickle though.
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thanks for proving my point.
So you hope he signs a new deal and now you’re here saying you were against him signing a new deal all along?
Football fans are fickle, I’m no different.
you’re posting something out of context of conversation at the time.
I’d have signed him on same wages, not at 150% of what he was already making for top wage in the club. Not once did I endorse breaking the wage structure for a single player, and as of now he’s proven that it was a failed move.
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Then maybe cool it with trotting out screenshots from months ago to point-score in arguments?
At the very least it makes reading these threads fucking tedious.
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One screenshot. It’s not point scoring, or even an argument.
Purely proving someone wrong…if he was against us giving him a new contract all along he wouldn’t have said “I still hope he re-signs”
Mo sort of had us over a barrel. Either he leaves on a free, or we extend ourselves on the salary, probably more than we’d have preferred, but it was seen as a better option than losing him on a free.
I agree that so far he hasn’t delivered on his new deal, and while he is definitely our most potent striker, to my eyes he is not as fast as he was, and seems to be getting brushed off the ball too easily.
If the right offer came in, he would not be untouchable, for me.
Again, my preference would be new owners, who keep him and also refresh the team where we all know it needs some help.
Semmy…it was very very obvious what wages he would be on long before you posted that.
He was never ever going to sign a new 3+ year deal for what he was already on.
hence why I would rather he fucked off and kept Mane at a cost of £250/week.
knowing that Mane’s salary is benefitting an entire village, that pill is much easier to swallow.
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So you don’t think at the time Salah was well worth us giving him a new contract 350k a week and wouldv’e been happy losing him on a free this summer? Personally find that hard to believe…you must’ve been in the 1% minority of fans.
Regardless of all this, fans wouldn’t be piping up now about moving Salah on for whatever we could get for him if we had owners who backed the club.
correct. I’m sure you can screenshot that conversation as well and post it.
Don’t blame the owners because the lad has downed tools. we missed out on a midfield transfer target who chose Real, and the loanee we picked up was shite.
9 midfielders on the books. 4-5 of them will be gone in the summer.
Moving on.
I really don’t understand what “downed tools” means, you saying he’s not trying or something? He’s said many times he wanted to stay, he’s been given a brilliant deal, whats the reason for down tooling? So it’s just coincidence Fab Hendo Robbo Virgil Mo have all decided to “down tools” at the same time? Nothing to do with them maybe not being able to be the robots everyone wants them to be and perform at their peak until we say stop?
“Downed tools” really can’t behind this footballing terminology.
you look at his performances. How he’s operating on the wing, in 1v1 situations and when cycling the ball of the channels. pretty easy to see he’s making the easy passes, not trying to beat the man or get into a better position. a lot of walking like you see Messi doing at PSG these days. Problem is, he’s not Messi when it comes to vision or passing.
Much like Trent, with nobody challenging for his position he’s just coasting through games at times.
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Interesting take, so in essence Salah should still be doing what he used to do so well despite the rest of the team playing like jabronies?
I see a very frustrated Salah, frustrated with the lack of support from his team…we can’t rely on Salah to produce magic every time, dribble past 3/4 and curl one in.
The guy is still doing his job, 17 goals in all comps midway through the season…how does one do that if they’re allegedly “downing tools”