Which appears to be exactly what the owners are doing!
Barrett: latest on Rodgers and transfers
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How do you know what the owners are doing?
Glock told me.
The article we are discussing mentions nothing about the owners or anybody else suggesting we play a different style of football. In my opinion purchasing Benteke would be problematic if we stick to our current way of playing.
What is our current way of playing? First season - when we finally got going - we resembled Rodgers' Swansea, slow, possession football. Second season we were more counter-attacking, similar to Dortmund with a shit defence. This season we've been gash. I don't really know what Rodgers is aiming for.
We have still been seen as the fifth team...
Spurs after ings now
12M bid according to Sky
Paddy Power @paddypower 20m20 minutes ago
Sky say Spurs are preparing a £12m bid for Danny Ings. That's Danny Ings who's a free agent on Monday.
Sky say Spurs are preparing a £12m bid for Danny Ings. That's Danny Ings who's a free agent on Monday.
As for Benteke, I'm not interested in his signing, but would he really be that incompatible with our system? He's pretty quick isn't he? And going purely on a post previous, likes to run on to the ball, which lots of our players do, and he seems pretty good and sniffing out and finishing a lose ball in the box, something we've always been poor at. So I think saying he's not suited for our system is a straw man, the actual issue here is he's just not good enough for a team wanting to break the top four and go even further.
If the estimates about compensation are even remotely correct then that's a clever move.
We'd have to pay about that anyway & this stops us getting him. They may be cunts but theyre much more savvy than we are.
At working with players he didn't necessarily want.
So change the way we play.
Pretty much, I already gave all my reasons in the other thread as to why I've lost faith in him & any change of structure upstairs won't change any of that.
All I can see it doing is wasting more money, & meaning we miss out on two incredibly good managers who actually fit into the structure fsg originally envisaged & that actually works for most of the football world (a DoF in place etc).
Why would Ings say yes to lower wages?
No. At picking the players he wants. Among heavy competition, it's the part of his job he's worst at.
I've never known anyone so fucking clueless at it.
I'm not sure why it would mean lower wages for him? I assume spurs will pay similarly, if not more, than we will.
That's over double the top end of the fees being quoted for ings. It's bollocks.
Nice cycling weather over here as well.
I thought we'd end up paying 11m for him anyway through compensation or some such bollocks, is that not right?
The fee worked out was around £7m..
Not sure anyone really knows for sure, but £6-7 million was the figure bandied about. If this Spurs bid is accurate (and the source is Sky, so probably not) then they're not confident he'd choose them over us so are trying to gazump things.
Echo says between 3 and 5 mill
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