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El regreso said:
Marina had her faults but man she would wipe the floor with these two. Clubs must get giddy when these two are on the phone.
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Andy2461 said:
Marina would fire these two melts in a heartbeat 
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Let's not forget who paid £97M for Lukaku, £72M for Kepa, £36m for Bakayoko, £34m for Drinkwater etc etc etc, plus their associated silly contracts. In total. we lost about £450m on her watch on players signed since 2015/16 and subsequently sold. And that doesn't yet include the likes of Lukaku, Kepa, Ziyech who are all on loan but likely to add another £140m or so to that when they are eventually moved on permanently. 

We've needed someone better on transfers for a long time, but it doesn't look like Stewart and Winstanley are the answer sadly ... 

Trying to be positive, we could still say it's early days to evaluate their deals, but not looking at all good so far !

 
Those pining for Marina do need to get a grip. She oversaw some truly atrocious purchases...

Lukaku, Kepa, Bakayoko, Drinkwater - as set out above - bit also the likes of Morata, Batsman, Havertz, Pulisic, ZIyech, Zappacosta - all of whom cost over £30m.

 
nonotnowjim said:
Those pining for Marina do need to get a grip. She oversaw some truly atrocious purchases...

Lukaku, Kepa, Bakayoko, Drinkwater - as set out above - bit also the likes of Morata, Batsman, Havertz, Pulisic, ZIyech, Zappacosta - all of whom cost over £30m.
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None of these have turned out to be fantastic signings but still have some hope for a couple of the young ones.

https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/transfer-news/chelsea-thomas-tuchel-signings-potter-25785481

 
nonotnowjim said:
Those pining for Marina do need to get a grip. She oversaw some truly atrocious purchases...

Lukaku, Kepa, Bakayoko, Drinkwater - as set out above - bit also the likes of Morata, Batsman, Havertz, Pulisic, ZIyech, Zappacosta - all of whom cost over £30m.
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I was highly critical of her but at least she kept us competitive. Essentially always in the Top 4 (only missing out once in her last decade) and we kept winning trophies. Transfers were atrocious for the last half a decade or so but transfers aren't the whole picture.

And compared to these clowns she was a saint.

To the extent they are hated by their clubs own fans (both here and in France) they can thank themselves and their dumb arrogance.


 
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OriginalS said:
I was highly critical of her but at least she kept us competitive. Essentially always in the Top 4 (only missing out once in her last decade) and we kept winning trophies. Transfers were atrocious for the last half a decade or so but transfers aren't the whole picture.

And compared to these clowns she was a saint.

To the extent they are hated by their clubs own fans (both here and in France) they can thank themselves and their dumb arrogance.
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She kept us generally in the top 4 - but at what cost? The truth is that we have not been genuinely competitive in the league for some time - let alone looked close to mounting a genuine title challenge...and by the end of Roman/Marinas time we had been reduced to something which we used to mock. We are better than celebrating a top 4 finish in the way that Arsenal do.

The approach of buying the shiny new flavour of the month was failing, and there was no long term planning. The club was rotten to the core, with mercenary players sucking the soul from the club.

A reset was definitely needed and we are right (in my opinion) to try something new. After years of success, we should be able to take a couple of years of pain - if the outcome is that 2 years down the road we are set for more prolonged success.

That is the gamble. None of us know if it will be successful - and there will be ups and downs as we find out.

And the french have no reason to hate Boehly and co.... Strasbourg are currently 9th. They finished 15th last year.

 
nonotnowjim said:
She kept us generally in the top 4 - but at what cost? The truth is that we have not been genuinely competitive in the league for some time - let alone looked close to mounting a genuine title challenge...and by the end of Roman/Marinas time we had been reduced to something which we used to mock. We are better than celebrating a top 4 finish in the way that Arsenal do.

The approach of buying the shiny new flavour of the month was failing, and there was no long term planning. The club was rotten to the core, with mercenary players sucking the soul from the club.

A reset was definitely needed and we are right (in my opinion) to try something new. After years of success, we should be able to take a couple of years of pain - if the outcome is that 2 years down the road we are set for more prolonged success.

That is the gamble. None of us know if it will be successful - and there will be ups and downs as we find out.

And the french have no reason to hate Boehly and co.... Strasbourg are currently 9th. They finished 15th last year.
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Everyone with an IQ above 55 knows our approach won't be successful.

Because it hasn't been successful in terms of challenging for trophies a single time across the hundreds of clubs that have done it for decades.

The idea you can just buy a load of kids and have a super team in a few years is a complete fantasy not a serious football strategy.

Marina got a lot wrong and our recruitment wasn't the best for many years but it's massively unfair to suggest it's anywhere near as bad as It currently is as you could argue we've had the 3 worst windows in the sports history back to back to back since Boehly come in.

A lot of money spent on such little quality and the results speak for themselves.

 
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Team is crying out for a proven striker and their idea is to bring in either Viktor Gyökeres or Benjamin Šeško. One is barely through his first year in top flight football and the other is 20 years old. 

It's a genuine concern. 

 
WhiteWall said:
Possibly two of the poorest appointments in a Hall of Shame of bad decisions since this mob took over our club.
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They've turned us into a much more expensive and sh*ttier version of Brighton. 

 
Sconnie Blue said:
Team is crying out for a proven striker and their idea is to bring in either Viktor Gyökeres or Benjamin Šeško. One is barely through his first year in top flight football and the other is 20 years old. 

It's a genuine concern. 
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It’s beyond bone headed now and the problem is they will double down to proof they are correct and f**k us over even more before they are eventually sacked.

 
Sconnie Blue said:
Team is crying out for a proven striker and their idea is to bring in either Viktor Gyökeres or Benjamin Šeško. One is barely through his first year in top flight football and the other is 20 years old. 

It's a genuine concern. 
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Its because realistically these are the only strikers that fit the model of giving them a long contract with low wages to keep them on books and make a "profit" on them in the long run, also the idea of amortization/FFP is catching up with us 

 
They appear to be bringing in medium quality players at very high prices. Taking us close to our FFP ceiling causing us to have to sell players before we can buy even more medium quality players at high prices and on long contracts too. Some might wonder who we might sell these misfiring players to, without losing money.

You would think Boehly or Eghbali might question this utter madness.

 
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OneTommyLangley said:
They appear to be bringing in medium quality players at very high prices. Taking us close to our FFP ceiling causing us to have to sell players before we can buy even more medium quality players at high prices and on long contracts too. Some might wonder who we might sell these misfiring players to, without losing money.

You would think Boehly or Eghbali might question this utter madness.
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And yet they are still here so they must be happy with the job they are doing, no?

 
They will double down to save their ass which is natural expect this to continue for a few years 

 
Logic says stop buying players ( roll on the end of the window!).

Get rid of these two lightweights.

We dont need new players to lose football matches.

Save money by not buying players and employing these two.

Revisit the plan.

 
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