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  • 4 weeks later...
Looked very good. Big, strong and technically sound to say the least.

 

I still think we want better than him though.

 

On first impressions (and even considering that QPR made Swansea look epic....) 2 million pounds..... we missed out on a player like that who cost only two million pounds? Why the f**k did Vallecano let him go for that little? What's wrong with him really? He looked (in MOTD editted style) to be an utter class apart.

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On first impressions (and even considering that QPR made Swansea look epic....) 2 million pounds..... we missed out on a player like that who cost only two million pounds? Why the f**k did Vallecano let him go for that little? What's wrong with him really? He looked (in MOTD editted style) to be an utter class apart.

 

I don't know, there's something funny about it that I can't put my finger on.

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On first impressions (and even considering that QPR made Swansea look epic....) 2 million pounds..... we missed out on a player like that who cost only two million pounds? Why the f**k did Vallecano let him go for that little? What's wrong with him really? He looked (in MOTD editted style) to be an utter class apart.

 

Arent they skint and didn't have a lot of choice?

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We were about to sign him and got gazumped at the eleventh hour. Just like all the others.

 

 

You mean the 5 million monopoly money we were supposed to be offering didn't stand up against Swansea's 1.5 million of the real green folding? More likely he thought now Laudrup there's a name I've heard of even if I haven't got a f*cking clue where Swansea is.

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Looking at his goals he is really good. But I think again, like with Norwich, it's down to the attacking midfielders, not the marksmen. Shechter is not amazing but the work of Ki, Hernandez (today De Guzman) and Dyer (Routledge has been there too) well supported by Britton is top quality. You can see why Laudrup was such a genius in his playing days and where he was so prolific. Pace, technique, intelligence right in front of the penalty box, that's where the key move in their goals starts...

 

Pablo Hernandez particularly, having followed him since his early days with Cádiz in the Spanish Championship, is a fantastic player. And you can all say about how Puncheon gets MOM twice every 10 games and how he's back, but I still feel he is mostly a "crop-circle" player who cannot make an early decision about what to do with the ball and for 5.3 million pounds I would gladly have left him in the siberia group of squad players and get Hernandez in.

 

But obviously, the left-wing issue is panicky. I still do not understand how 30 million can be spent and still leave certain positions so poorly covered.

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Michu's clearly a decent player but he's scoring lots of goals because Swansea are generally a better team than we are. We have hardly been short on goals - we've scored more than half the teams in the league have.

 

Clearly the problem has been GK, centre back and left back in terms of personnel. We have also got our midfield shape wrong at times and are too gung-ho. With those failings I'm not sure having Michu around would have made much difference.

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Looking at his goals he is really good. But I think again, like with Norwich, it's down to the attacking midfielders, not the marksmen. Shechter is not amazing but the work of Ki, Hernandez (today De Guzman) and Dyer (Routledge has been there too) well supported by Britton is top quality. You can see why Laudrup was such a genius in his playing days and where he was so prolific. Pace, technique, intelligence right in front of the penalty box, that's where the key move in their goals starts...

 

Pablo Hernandez particularly, having followed him since his early days with Cádiz in the Spanish Championship, is a fantastic player. And you can all say about how Puncheon gets MOM twice every 10 games and how he's back, but I still feel he is mostly a "crop-circle" player who cannot make an early decision about what to do with the ball and for 5.3 million pounds I would gladly have left him in the siberia group of squad players and get Hernandez in.

 

But obviously, the left-wing issue is panicky. I still do not understand how 30 million can be spent and still leave certain positions so poorly covered.

 

With over £10m worth of new signings on the bench week in, week out, I would have to agree with you.

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Powerful player through the middle, which is what I sometimes think we lack.

 

Exactly, what a powerhouse like Bafetimbi Gomis couldn't do for us isn't worth knowing. I still (and no doubt many will get on my case over this) think Lambert is vastly overated and not really sharp enough for the EPL. A bit more up front through the middle yesterday would have got us at least a point, if we'd had Suarez we'd have won.

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I was looking forward to seeing Michu when we played Swansea, was dissapointed in what I saw, played like a lazy Berbatov but with half the skill, he spent more energy with his exasperated arm waving at his team mates. Spoke to a Swansea fan on the out of the stadium he said Michu had been blinding at the start of the season but had really dropped off after being moved into a more forward position.

I promptly transferred Michu out of my fanstasy team and he's been banging in the goals ever since. Thought Ki was the better player when we played Swansea. Though I'd take their CB too.

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F/ck reading all the drivel on the HCDAJUFU thread. I want to see all the rumours without having to sift through b/llocks.

To be fair most threads degenerate into b\llocks because of slanging matches between the usual suspects. Personally I would like the mods to create some sort of function that automatically closes a thread when the post count on it from anyone poster on exceeds 5. :(

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