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TRon

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  1. The clubs who are already at the top of the tree are always going to have the pick of staff, whether playing or management. We did well to get Ashworth in hindsight, he's obviously highly rated if Man U have poached him. We just need to do the same again, obviously it's a lot harder now that the PL have pulled up the drawbridge on spending money to protect the cartel clubs. It will take some ingenuity and long term vision.
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    Loris Karius

    He'd probably like to be a first team goalie again, whether he's good enough is another matter. Clearly not going to happen here so a move makes sense.
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    Papiss Cissé

    I won't ever get past our 5th position finish as being the result of injuries forcing Pardew to pick our best players. Pretty sure Ben Arfa was out of the team before that. But that was one of the few times in the last 30 years or so I can remember us having two strikers that other teams genuinely feared. The quality of the goals they scored was something else as well.
  4. I wonder what that would get you? £60m is the sort of figure which buys promise, not the proven article. Could unearth another diamond, or just as easily buy a player who can't acclimatise to the Premier. If we are talking British talent then you'd struggle to buy a top midfielder or striker who you could guarantee would perform to the levels of a Bruno or an Isak.
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    Alexander Isak

    I wonder how many of those who think he doesn't bring enough to the table would like to see him at Arsenal?
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    Alexander Isak

    As I've just said in the other thread, you sometimes don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone. Proven strikers in the Premier league don't come cheap, even spending £70m on a replacement from abroad doesn't guarantee anything.
  7. I know there's a chunk of fans who think Isak doesn't do enough, but he does score goals. I wonder how satisfied those fans would be with a target man who held the ball up really well but scored 5 goals a season?
  8. I've heard the same rumours, will be interesting to see what happens in the summer.
  9. I wonder who it was in our hierarchy that decided Paqueta wasn't worth £45m? Or was it either him or Tonali?
  10. Fair enough. Sometimes if a player looks like he's struggling to motor you can put 2+2 together and surmise the answer must be 4. There's always a fair chance you might be right.
  11. What makes you think Isak needs surgery? First I've heard of it.
  12. Maybe I'm just reading it wrong, but that still seems more like it's aimed at stopping owners loading the likes of Man U or Liverpool with debt, which in principle would be a good thing if they weren't trying to lock out any new competitors to their cartel arrangement.
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    Sean Longstaff

    We can always keep pricing players out of a move but eventually it will just end up meaning we have to sell our really valuable players instead. We had calls for £20m plus for Tripper, did anyone pay it? He'll be 34 this year so his value is dropping. Miggy can bring in £25m of Saudi cash right? Well if that somehow doesn't happen I guess we can always sell Bruno.
  14. I'd be very surprised based on how we've played most of the season.
  15. Fans will always be up and down depending on current form. I would have thought the club will have taken into account this season has been a freak one for injuries and suspensions so they aren't going to judge on the basis of one campaign. My impression has always been that they trust Howe implicitly, especially since he was to all intents and purposes the DoF for a year before Ashworth rocked up. That said, some questions will be there about tactics, use of the squad and if it could have been handled better. We'll have a full squad to play with next time round, and how we perform next season is what Howe will be judged on. Even so PIF would be very reluctant to sack him given the amount of dedication and hard work he's put in. I mean, who would you bring in that would be guaranteed to do a better job?
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