Interesting about the number of scouting trips you intend to make (MID SEASON) while you're competing on all fronts..League, FA cup, CL, and premiership as a first team manager coach. I dont tjink redknapp has hat amount of time on his hands and when he does go i would have thought it 2would be to see the final shortlist of 1 or 2 players at the top of the list.
Either way I together with my scouts I would have a list from whih I would have acquired two strikers last summer.
yes i am sure that the loan of ade was a problem for you, gawd darn it if only you were that vocal about your displeasure of our temporary purchase of Ade when we were flying.....maybe next time eh?
I think you are now being rather disingenuous africanspurs so let me clarify/repeat,
1. I was displeased that we signed him after we had lost our first two matches and not before the season started
2. I was displeased that we only signed Ade because I had no faith in Pav, and had stated that fact on numerous occasions which meant if Ade got injured, suffered a loss of form or if we played Emirates Marketing Project we would struggle. Guess what when he got injured or had a loss of form we struggled
3. At the beginning of the sesaon I thought Ade and Defoe would be a good partnership, I still think they are both Harry has chosen not to rely on that partnership which not only reiterates how important Ade has been but also how necessary it is for a player of similar quality who can play upfront on his own.
you can communicate more when we are flying high a bout how much you dont like a contributor as opposed to only come out of the shade when things arent going so well. woujld carry more weight. the loan of ade wasnt enough?[/B] we had ade, defoe and pav...THREE internationals in our team...whats the problem again? (not taking hindsight into account)
When we playing well he was still missing guilt edged chances in front of goal. What I have said is that I would not be satisfied if we start next season with Ade as our number 1 striker
there can never be 100% guarantee, true.......which is why i said minimise or cut the risk....not eliminate it completely cause thats impossible . there are more foreign players in the league than english, i dont have time to spell out what would turn out to be 10 volumes (500 pages each) of why that is the case..needless to say, if you can find a british / english coach and / or youth fooballers ..they wil tell you why that is. but i will say this , then you have to look at the risk factors vs expenses / cost at different tiers of the league...you have the top performing teams, top earners and biggest exposed teams , you have like at least 3 other sub catergory teams factored around their finances and fan base.....the higher you get up the chain the lower the risk is taken on purchases. Its a common practice...... why should a club that has high potential for gains and ALOT to lose go out there and risk a significant amount of money on players with higher risk to return ratios than players that are conditioned to suceed here?
Yet despite the risks you enumerate above at the tail end of the Jan 2011 transfer window we were suppose to be making bids approaching ?ú40m for strikers from Spain yet but come summer 2011 we then are unable to identify a single striker to buy.
how do you even know we arent scouting anyway? and how do you know that saha isnt just a victim of a team in bad form? you kept quiet when he played well against Saudi Sportswashing Machine, but yet you want to include him as not good enough during a period where EVERYONE was playing below their level.
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think the fact that he had only scored 2 league goals all season and the fact that Everton were so desperate to pay up his contract and get him out of the club to be a warning sign. Add to that the fact that his injury record rivals Ledley King's, I would say if we really were scouting, if the best option we could come up with was Saha then I must confess that concerns me greatly.
and further more what on earth do you expect from a third choice striker that is satisfied with his role ? knowing he wont start but he wants to come on and do his best and make an impact. A THIRD STRIKER!!!
Harry has proved he has no faith in the Ade/Defoe partnership. When we play 1 up front and a 5 man midfield or 1 upfront with VDV just behind, or a 433 the fact is it is a role that Defoe has never been able to carry out effectively due to his seize and skill sets (Defoe is only effective with a strike partner, normally a big guy). Saha is best equipped of our other strikers to step in for Ade but alas he cannot do it very well. Not good enough
actually i might be going about this all wrong....YOU tell me what squad player we should have bought that would come to us and be happy with playing on the bench...in january..or better yet, you could tell me which striker we could have got that would have replaced ade straighht off the bat....in jaunary.
Why limit myself to a player happy to sit on the bench?
Anyway I would have gone for Leandro Damiao in the summer and or Lo?»c R?®my in the summer because I would not have started the season with Pav, his time was over at Spurs. No way would I have waited until Jan.
And least |I forget...........
we had ade, defoe and pav...THREE internationals in our team...whats the problem again? (not taking hindsight into account)
Pav was brick
Harry had no faith in the Ade/Defoe partnership
Defoe whom I like cannot play upfront on his own or with VDV, well not effectively anyway
