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Was also a deadline day transfer. Imagine the pissing and moaning if we'd sold Mane with no replacement on August 31st that summer.

It wasn't "very low at the time" so there's that. It was Liverpool's record outlay at the time so not very low on any measure.

Exactly. I love that on this forum there's still this belief that if we flog Lavia this summer we get all the money and City get nothing because the buy back isn't until next summer hahahahaha fuck youuuuu City

Jesus wept.

Fair enough, thanks - like others have said, there's nothing to say that guy was our first choice or anything. No sleep lost over this guy.

Ings, Vestergaard were not "buy develop and sell" players for a start. We spent a year trying to get Ings to stay, it became obvious he never was going to. You realise that players and agents understand the value of one-year-left as well? You realise they sometimes will aim to get to that? The idea that two years ago we should have given Vestergaard a 3 or 4 year extension sounds fucking mad to me, especially as we pretty much got our money back when we sold him. If you mean we should have sold him a year earlier - well, to who and for how much? Clyne I can't remember, but if you're going back that far to make your point suggests it's not the endemic problem you are making it out to be. Salisu probably should have flogged him January a year ago, but then that would have been a meltdown on here as well. Again, as with Ings, players and agents know what they are doing. I don't believe that the club should make sure every player in the club should all have two years left at all times because that would cost us an absolute fortune, ties the hands of any future managers and puts us in a very weak position and helpless to agents for pay rise pay rise pay rises for any old player every summer. Should we have lobbed £50k a week for four years at Ballard a year ago? Would that have aided his development?

"The government locked down to be popular with the electorate even though they all knew it was completely unnecessary" is a fucking stretch, lads.

Exactly that. Either way I don't remember reading anything linking Maresca with our vacancy anyway. Can anyone remember where this was actually said?

I know what happened there, and I'm not his mate. What happened there is he did not ever get a job at either of the Milan clubs. Ever.

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Not really hindsight when absolutely no one would have said "they should have declared there" if Root was out next ball.

I think everyone can throw a dart at a dartboard.

Getting to a Wembley cup final was a significant boost to the club's coffers so well done to the manager that got us there.

Brianio Kiddeo.

Lawrie McMenemy = shit.

His account is very Fortuna Sittard heavy.

Never felt that Tella would stay, it's an easy signing for Burnley to make and why on earth would Tella come back after such a phenomenal season in the Championship just to try and do it again with a team full of strangers and new manager he doesn't know? We're going to get far more money than we would have done if we'd flogged him a year ago. It's not the worst outcome.

If we don't win the Champions League playing attractive free flowing football you can stick it up your ass

These are the kind of quotes that eventually come back and bite you. Just a total straw man that all the other clubs don't know what they're doing but we do. You can go back ten years and clubs were talking about using data to fill specific gaps/needs. Leicester and us (and others) thought they had the magic formula as well. Let's give it another two or three seasons and we will see if Brighton carry on their magic touch in the transfer market.

We should be pushing the envelope here and going for the low hanging fruit going forward.

Didn't realise that - makes sense. Thanks for the info.

Always got the sense that one of the seasons in the Hummel contract would be the Denmark kit but I'd still be slightly surprised if we went with that for our first season down. White one looks a bit like a throw back to the white and "Solent green" we had back in 1989/90 or so.

The formation of the Premier League created a bigger financial schism and disparity than whatever happened in 1980s. The question from the original post I replied to was what have Arsenal "done to everyone else for years" and all that people seem to come up with is the gate receipts thing 40 odd years ago. But the formation of the Premier League in 1992 is er, "not in any way relevant" but shit that happened in 1983 is relevant. Got it.

Why are you replying to a pointless thread on a football forum when people are being made redundant?

Ok, so we are going back 40 years - so the logic further up the thread is that it is absolutely fine for Manchester City to dominate football winning everything for a decade or more because it pisses off Arsenal because of stuff that happened 40 years ago. When, and lets be absolutely clear about this, Arsenal didn't dominate anything because they won the league one entire time in the 1980s.