GledTheRed
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Would he have to self isolate for two weeks when he returns from Brazil ?
Nah he's a footballer and it's big business so he can what the feck he wants.
Would he have to self isolate for two weeks when he returns from Brazil ?
Had a good chuckle at this. Can understand the frustration at leaving everything to the last minute but clubs are trying to rob us blind, if we succumb to everyone's self made deadlines and absurd valuations the robbery just gets worse and worse.Not happy with the reported fee.
cant see why we didn’t pay £10m more and get him in 24 hours earlier.
That's how you build a squad. If we want to devote a large portion of budget to single player when we should be looking at value signings to fill the other positions. Telles for 15 player is exactly that.
Anyways it's all hypocritical, we haven't devoted any budget to single player, so signing Telles won't stop any other signings. We needed one more LB and we got without a big dent in the budget.
Whats your issue with Telles? Shaw is absolutely mediocre at left back, and injury prone so you know very shortly we'd need to play some random there. Telles is better than Shaw and will start ahead of him fairly quickly.
Kept reading your posts in this thread and honestly, you have weird logic. It's impossible for other posters to present their arguments with you because you take those arguments to extremes that make no sens and have no relation with the first argument in the end, often attacking the posters at the same time. (Slippery slope, ad hominem...).
Nobody here is an expert. We're all regular fans with differing opinions.
And by the way, in which world would buying 10 left backs be a good example for what you are trying to argue or against what others are trying to argue?
Liverpool won those trophies with a left-back bought from Hull City for 8m.
What other areas of need should we address with this 15m? Everyone on the Caf wants a CB but 1) we're not even linked with anyone, not least because we can't seem to get rid of any of the 388714 centre-backs we do have, 2) who is even out there? Upamecano seems to be the favourite and he's unattainable this summer.
Surely he can play better than Luke Shaw did yesterday, so that is an improvement in itself.I suppose I shouldn't be so negative... Telles may turn out to be a fine left back. Maybe he'll be selected for the PL team of the season, which would be fantastic.
The 30,000 foot view is that this transfer period, in my opinion, has been pretty poor. We had real momentum at the close of last season. I know this is a pandemic, etc, etc, but better leadership of the club would take that as an opportunity to bring in truly world class players. Other clubs saw this as an opportunity (Chelsea, City, Everton, Spurs).
In a vacuum, I support this transfer. But the failure to, as most of you have mentioned, sell our deadwood to reduce our wage bill, fill our needs (RW, CB, DM are top priorities in my opinion), and construct a squad with a chance to challenge for the league and trophies is worrisome.
It's hard to get excited for a LB signing that probably won't move the needle. Does Telles' contribution bring us into top 4 contention? I doubt it. It's more of a treading water type of move, and given Shaw's injury history, probably needed. If I had to guess, maybe a Gabriel Heinze type of addition? Solid, but isn't going to win you trophies, especially when you have so many other holes throughout the pitch.
This, I don't see what Matic and Pogba have done right now to earn their places ahead of DVB and Fred.Replace Pogba and Matic with Fred and VDB and we're good
Yet all were highly rated, regular starters at their previous clubs. Do you think, maybe they just had a bad game?
Not happy with the reported fee.
cant see why we didn’t pay £10m more and get him in 24 hours earlier.