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Eric Djemba Djemba.
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Exactly what people said in summer and exactly what they’ll say next summer when we’re signing players for promotion.
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Those players are not and never were coming here. Both have been heavily linked with Man Utd, one has just signed for Liverpool, barely four months after we were supposedly in for him. At most them and their agents were using us to try and force bigger teams to play their hand.
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People have said that about every transfer we’ve ever made. Imagine if we’d paid over the odds to just get Moi, Aribo and Mara done early. We’d have fair less, if anything, to spend now.
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So was ours in between 2013 and 2015. Promising youth talents like Shaw, Chamber, Lallana and JWP breaking through and making the England squad. Shrewd signings from lower leagues like Jay Rod and Lambert. Pulling gems like Lovren, VVD, Tadic and Mane out of nowhere and selling them for huge profits. Money always talks long term. If they have a decent manager, player or even recruitment consultant he'll be poached eventually and they'll drop back like we did.
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Christ, do we really have to go through this whenever somebody outside the big seven has a decent game or above average season? Yes - Brentford, Brighton and Fulham are having a decent season. Three years ago we were 11th, whilst two of them were in the championship and Brighton were 15th. In another three years it’ll all be different again because none of us have the budget to sustain it for more than two or three years.
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It's always surprised me how the same drung can have such varying effects on people. I'd say most people, myself included, tend to be happy drunks but then I've only ever drank socially.
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Likewise, can’t say that it bothers me particularly. Unlike that incessant band, playing the same chorus of OWTS continuously for ten minutes at a deafening volume.
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He was playing badly in that team which lost 10 out of 13 or whatever it was. He was one of a large number of players we needed to replace.
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Probably that he’s a limited player, hasn’t been playing well for ages and wants to leave, so let’s sell him.
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TBF we beat Chelsea at home, so can’t really complain about results like this. Besides, Chelsea are in crap form themselves.
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Actually, I’d say that’s exactly what we have. The likes of Adams, AA, Tella, Lyanco, Perraud etc. would all do quite well IMO. Last time we went down we had to replace Phillips, Crouch and Camara up front but we also had a lot of players who were past it and needed moving replacing. Dodd, Le Saux, Killer, Pahars, Redknapp, etc.
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*Underperforming clubs with better players than Saints appoint competent managers. Results improve.
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They look like the promotional stills from a porno called, "whore bride pleasures five groomsmen in the back of limo," or similar.
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Ironically, the only person there who’s actually different is probably ‘Putin’.
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This isn’t Jones’ fault and it wasn’t Ralph’s, this squad isn’t good enough to stay in the league. Some people are clamouring for Dyche, if he was here we’d have the same problems, the same results and everyone would be saying, "we picked the man who got Burnley relegated FFS!” There isn’t a managerial solution to all of this.
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There have been plenty of other examples of new managers being a complete flop from the get go. In fact I’d say they were more frequent than the success stories.
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By the end of the war they were capable of dropping a ten tonne Grand Slam on a target the size of a viaduct, railway junction or submarine pen. Russians have sporadic success on targets the size of a power station or small city.
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I tried to draw one of those for AA and Moi but it just produced an invisible speck in the middle of the graph.
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We’ve had a top six finish, been in Europe twice and beaten Inter Milan, had a cup final, two semis, beaten all the big teams at least twice, scored the fastest goal and hat trick in PL history, beaten someone 8-0, developed the worlds best defender and produced the only Englishman to score in a major tournament final since ‘66. Im not sure what you’re referring to which was promised and not delivered in the last ten years.
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It’s hard to establish exactly how many of Russias missiles hit infrastructure or civilian conurbations but a reasonable guess would be perhaps 50-60 after air defences have taken out their share. A similar payload could probably have been delivered by seven or eight He111 bombers during the blitz. I can’t imagine a country far bigger than the UK surrendering to that any time soon.
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So Iran (teetering on the edge of full out revolt by their own citizens) will continue to chuck funds into Russia’s military indefinitely, as will China (who have made an absolute dogs dinner of dealing with their own COVID crisis and are experiencing massive manufacturing deficits as a result). USA on the other hand just can’t keep up, selling their old, second hand decades old equipment to Ukraine. Gotcha.
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Iran and China’s biggest ally, threatening the stability of one of their biggest trading partners (the EEA). I think Ukraine can count on US support for a while. Interestingly egg and Brett never seem concerned about how long Russia can keep this up. They apparently have a limitless supply of military hardware to throw into the mix.
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Both sides talk publicly about being open to negotiations, in order to appear reasonable and open minded in the eyes of the rest of the world. In reality neither side really has much to give and will never settle for anything close to what the other side wants. Putin is desperate to save face and rather than making concessions will need far more than he already has o portray as any kind of victory. Ukraine will not sign over any of their territory and nor should they. Even if they, it’d just provide Russia with a respite to rearm and reorganise for another offensive in a few years, much like they did after the 2014 invasion. If I were Zelenskiy, I’d make a sarcastic promise to Russia. Leave Ukraine and we’ll hand over all individuals Russia believes are Nazis to The Hague.
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I thought that was fairly obvious, in response to a post about how unbearable life is for the average Ukrainian but for the avoidance of doubt, yes she does.