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  1. billyiddo

    Expectations for 25/26

    But you do think he underperformed (presumably considerably so guven you wanted him sacked) - so it stands to reason then that you're starting point with the new manager isn't where we were last season it's where you think Ange should have had us, no?
  2. billyiddo

    Expectations for 25/26

    Didn't you want Ange out for underperformance?
  3. billyiddo

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    I don't like the lack of movement on this - hope it doesn't rumble on too much longer
  4. billyiddo

    Levy's Plan

    Maybe you've misread a bit but I'm talking specifically post Paratichi wrt to what's being discussed re plan - this is when post-stadium money was coming in, COVID was behind us and when we started making moves to address the poor squad building of the previous era. There was talk of an internal...
  5. billyiddo

    Levy's Plan

    I'm not saying anything new wrt what I see as the plan - i know you've been away from the board for a while but it's all there in black & white, nothing i have said in this discussion isn't true to what I have been saying consistently over the past two or three seasons. I'm sure there would be...
  6. billyiddo

    Best home-grown XI of your lifetime

    Yes but he counted as HG due to the age we signed him at - iirc he spent a year in the academy even
  7. billyiddo

    Levy's Plan

    But I've explained this? 😂/😭 We now have a major trophy behind us and CL football/money while being further along in our squad building and having a settled transfer department - the net result is we're simply better placed in a wide variety of areas to secure our first choice targets - we have...
  8. billyiddo

    Levy's Plan

    Making quick judgement calls on players and not hanging about in seeing it through if they aren't up to snuff will be a good lesson learned from years gone by. There's probably a few we're ready to let go already and some others who need to impress Frank this season otherwise they'll be moved on
  9. billyiddo

    Levy's Plan

    They had a short shelf life but it's hard to argue that their team didn't take a step or two up following that summers activity. Maybe it was more the progression towards the managers style/gameplan rather then the signings but that'd be hard to decifer.
  10. billyiddo

    Levy's Plan

    I've often referred to Arsenals rebuild post Emery as a bit of a blueprint that we could be following - it's not exactly like for like but fairly close. Gutting the squad of higher earning deadwood, lowering the average age & wage bill before adding first team ready players in the obvious gaps...
  11. billyiddo

    Levy's Plan

    The reason transfers drag on and come in later is partly because we can't nail down our primary targets and so move on to others on the list - last summer as an example, we wanted Neto and was close to signing him - do we agree he's on the level of player we are talking about here? We supposedly...
  12. billyiddo

    Levy's Plan

    I feel like I've repeatedly addressed those questions, it didn't need to happen that way, it just did and also feel I've repeatedly explained why I feel it played out that way. I don't see any value in continuing on repeating the same responses to questions only to keep having them fired back again.
  13. billyiddo

    Expectations for 25/26

    It's a bit different in this circumstance though as we so massively underperformed last season
  14. billyiddo

    Expectations for 25/26

    Massive achievement? What? We were 5th season before last and should have been around there last season - if we only achieve top ten this season there needs to be some pretty compelling extenuating circumstances to account for it imv
  15. billyiddo

    Levy's Plan

    I don't think ive suggested that at all - I think they have had a plan and have tried best to action it year to year - that plan was to rebuild the squad top to bottom with a primary focus on players not yet at their peak with a view to getting back to the CL places. We might not like the plan...
  16. billyiddo

    Levy's Plan

    It didn't need to be, that's just the path they took or how the path unfolded- i don't understand why that is a sticking point for you? So what? Paying a release clause is not bullying the market and negotiating a cut price transfer due to the selling club being in financial difficulty is...
  17. billyiddo

    Levy's Plan

    I don't see Kudus or MGW to be a level of established player that we have not signed before (to repeat previous post non CL clubs best/better players) and some of the players listed previously have come in the same window as others, same as we have had windows where several players ready to go...
  18. billyiddo

    Levy's Plan

    I think some of you convinced yourselves last summer (or during last season) that we were only ever going to be signing pure prospects moving forward — players like Gray, Bergvall, and Odobert. But that was never really the case. Yes, we leaned more toward that profile last summer, but doing so...
  19. billyiddo

    Levy's Plan

    We've bought players from non-CL PL clubs who would be considered their teams best player before, Solanke/Johnson/Richarlison/Bissouma/Maddison - i mean you could even say that's a key part of our recent transfer strategy looking at that list of players, so going in for Kudus & MGW fits that...
  20. billyiddo

    Joao Paulinha

    Would be a smart move
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