| Xhaka to Sunderland on 17:19 - Jul 22 with 1620 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
Heck of a signing that |  |
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| Xhaka to Sunderland on 17:39 - Jul 22 with 1455 views | bsw72 |
Excellent move, especially as the natives were a little restless having lost Bellingham in spite of promotion.
Will it be enough for them to stay up is the question? |  | | |
| Xhaka to Sunderland on 17:49 - Jul 22 with 1354 views | Bellevue_Blue |
Serious signing for them and much needed prem experience.
They've done a lot of business and very early. Will be really really interesting to see how the promoted three get on. |  | | |
| Xhaka to Sunderland on 17:52 - Jul 22 with 1320 views | Axeldalai_lama |
Interesting. Fair play to them. They're 'giving it a go', just like we did. That puts them on roughly similar spend to our total, at about £120 million, on 7 players. Will that be enough to have quality through the squad? I'd love them to give it a go, but the realist part of me thinks they'll be quite a bit short, like us. |  | | |
| Xhaka to Sunderland on 18:42 - Jul 22 with 1112 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Xhaka to Sunderland on 17:52 - Jul 22 by Axeldalai_lama |
Interesting. Fair play to them. They're 'giving it a go', just like we did. That puts them on roughly similar spend to our total, at about £120 million, on 7 players. Will that be enough to have quality through the squad? I'd love them to give it a go, but the realist part of me thinks they'll be quite a bit short, like us. |
And injuries too.
Yes, we fell short ultimately in terms of recruitment but if they have anything like the poxy luck we had with injuries last season, they are in trouble.
Good luck to them though. This 'protected 17' needs breaking up. |  |
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| Xhaka to Sunderland on 18:46 - Jul 22 with 1090 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Xhaka to Sunderland on 17:52 - Jul 22 by Axeldalai_lama |
Interesting. Fair play to them. They're 'giving it a go', just like we did. That puts them on roughly similar spend to our total, at about £120 million, on 7 players. Will that be enough to have quality through the squad? I'd love them to give it a go, but the realist part of me thinks they'll be quite a bit short, like us. |
Not going to lie, I prefer their strategy, maybe they were paying attention to our short comings. However, if they go down, they will probably be in a worse position. |  | | |
| Xhaka to Sunderland on 18:59 - Jul 22 with 989 views | Axeldalai_lama |
| Xhaka to Sunderland on 18:46 - Jul 22 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Not going to lie, I prefer their strategy, maybe they were paying attention to our short comings. However, if they go down, they will probably be in a worse position. |
Yeah, it's a tricky one. They've spent a similar amount on a similar amount of players by the looks of it, so are their players going to play better in the prem than ours did? I do like the implied flair of foreign buys, but plenty of teams have shown it can be just as big a disaster. And as you say they are possibly less resilient long term if they go down, so it's definitely a big gamble. | | | |
| Xhaka to Sunderland on 19:02 - Jul 22 with 945 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Xhaka to Sunderland on 18:59 - Jul 22 by Axeldalai_lama |
Yeah, it's a tricky one. They've spent a similar amount on a similar amount of players by the looks of it, so are their players going to play better in the prem than ours did? I do like the implied flair of foreign buys, but plenty of teams have shown it can be just as big a disaster. And as you say they are possibly less resilient long term if they go down, so it's definitely a big gamble. |
On the other hand, if you look at the starting 11s across the league a team made up with 80-90% of British players is not going to stay up! Especially if they are a lower half team not fielding full England internationals. Blended model probably best. I like their business, in fact I am on paper very impressed they got some of these deals done. | | | |
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| Xhaka to Sunderland on 20:06 - Jul 22 with 767 views | mellowblue |
jealous, have to say. | | | |
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