NORFOLK FOX Posted 9 November 2014 Posted 9 November 2014 Monk if we all stayed at your comment we would be top of the league...were not...so onwards and upwards...we however are as only as good as our last game...which didn't fill me with confidence unless you see more than 90% of city fans!!
Monk Posted 9 November 2014 Posted 9 November 2014 Monk if we all stayed at your comment we would be top of the league...were not...so onwards and upwards...we however are as only as good as our last game...which didn't fill me with confidence unless you see more than 90% of city fans!! Really? I didn't say we were world beaters did I? I am just saying that the problem is more about form than it is about the quality of the squad. I think the squad is good enough, and very few January transfers end up being value for money.
MC Prussian Posted 9 November 2014 Posted 9 November 2014 Good players are expensive and we must be willing to spend some money in January. Somewhere between 20 and 30 million would be sufficient due to inflated prices. Good players aren't necessarily expensive, so we must be willing to put the same or even more effort in scouting those gems in the UK and abroad in the months and years to come. Somewhere between two to three more Mahrez' or Knockaerts would be sufficient.
Guest Col city fan Posted 9 November 2014 Posted 9 November 2014 If we have any money? we ought to go for Callum McManaman.. he'd be good for us IMO and I think will return to the Prem.
kingfox Posted 9 November 2014 Posted 9 November 2014 If we have any money? we ought to go for Callum McManaman.. he'd be good for us IMO and I think will return to the Prem. And Lee Cattermole of course.
Guest Col city fan Posted 9 November 2014 Posted 9 November 2014 And Lee Cattermole of course. I don't think he could have done any worse recently than our current crop. We are in a dogfight and need some scrappers.
kingfox Posted 9 November 2014 Posted 9 November 2014 We are in a dogfight and need some scrappers. Maybe we need to buy an American Pitbull, Rottweiler & a Doberman Pinscher.
Tom17LCFC Posted 9 November 2014 Posted 9 November 2014 I think we'd need to shift some players first, maybe Hammond and GTF to get some better replacements. the same hammond who's been one of our better players so far this season? yeah let's get rid of him.
Stadt Posted 9 November 2014 Posted 9 November 2014 the same hammond who's been one of our better players so far this season? yeah let's get rid of him. Yeah he's been ok but he can definitely be improved upon, he's fine as a back up but if we can get a better player we need to make space in the 25 man squad.
Dan Posted 9 November 2014 Posted 9 November 2014 Monk if we all stayed at your comment we would be top of the league...were not...so onwards and upwards...we however are as only as good as our last game...which didn't fill me with confidence unless you see more than 90% of city fans!! Is a nonsense theory. If we have any money? we ought to go for Callum McManaman.. he'd be good for us IMO and I think will return to the Prem. I think that's a good shout Col and sticking with Wigan, what about Maloney? He's a very decent winger and never ever a bottom half Championship player, done it in this league before as well.
hesapeepingtom Posted 10 November 2014 Posted 10 November 2014 Jog on mate - first control yourself, second my point is that the players we have are not incapable we are just on a bad run. I didn't care what point you were making just about mentioning that result.it was a lucky day for us,proved by the following 6 results.and before you dispute the luck,we all know our 2nd was not a penalty.
Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot Posted 10 November 2014 Posted 10 November 2014 If Nigel identifies targets at reasonable value then the owners will back him. Problem is if we're remotely close to struggling reasonable value doesn't exist in January, all we'd do if we make mass signings is put ourselves in a perilous position in regards to the future. I'd much rather go down with a healthy financial model in place than spunk a load of money up the wall in a desperate bid to to stay up.
Babylon Posted 10 November 2014 Posted 10 November 2014 If we struggled in the summer to bring players in (for whatever reason), I can't see much changing... unless of course we left our powder dry on purpose to see what quality we already had.
Silverdaz Posted 10 November 2014 Posted 10 November 2014 seriously **** off with that united result! it means less than **** all now! shut it! Worse thing that happened to us putting five in against United
LCFC Rennie Posted 10 November 2014 Posted 10 November 2014 I don't think we have to 'break the bank'. We just have to pick up a couple of proven premier league players.
Fox92 Posted 10 November 2014 Posted 10 November 2014 I didn't care what point you were making just about mentioning that result.it was a lucky day for us,proved by the following 6 results.and before you dispute the luck,we all know our 2nd was not a penalty. Although I do agree we should move on from the result, branding it "lucky" is rubbish. Luck doesn't exist, and secondly it was a great performance from ourselves regardless.
UpTheLeagueFox Posted 10 November 2014 Posted 10 November 2014 Luck doesn't exist When Vardy blatantly fouled Rafael and then was softly fouled by the same player for a penalty straight after, that is when luck goes with you.
MPH Posted 10 November 2014 Posted 10 November 2014 If pearson survives until then I can't imagine too many. He clearly doesn't have faith in our wide men so he will have to look at good signing in this area. Hope we spend a bit on it becuase it has to make a difference. January is not an easy month to buy in though, especially for a poor team. I actually think its our defence and / or central midfielders he doesnt have faith in. He's trying to make us much more difficult to break down and trying to protect Kasper a bit more.... Wether its working or not is a different discussion altogether....
Fox92 Posted 10 November 2014 Posted 10 November 2014 When Vardy blatantly fouled Rafael and then was softly fouled by the same player for a penalty straight after, that is when luck goes with you. You create your own luck. (And I call that naive defending).
UpTheLeagueFox Posted 10 November 2014 Posted 10 November 2014 You create your own luck. (And I call that naive defending). Possibly so. It was also abysmal refereeing and we got very lucky. Can you also create your own bad luck?
ozleicester Posted 11 November 2014 Posted 11 November 2014 The whole of the summer we expected some unknown Mahrez type signing, never happened. To be fair... Mahrez has become unknown.. so...
Guest ttfn Posted 11 November 2014 Posted 11 November 2014 Possibly so. It was also abysmal refereeing and we got very lucky. Can you also create your own bad luck? Definitely. The own goal and counter attack at Newcastle (which came about in a fairly unlikely way) both cost us a point because we hadn't scored/looked like scoring/looked like wanting to score. People talk about "fine margins" but we're reducing the game to these fine margins. We've got to start having a go or this "bad luck" is going to continue to follow us around.
ImBlue Posted 11 November 2014 Posted 11 November 2014 Definitely. The own goal and counter attack at Newcastle (which came about in a fairly unlikely way) both cost us a point because we hadn't scored/looked like scoring/looked like wanting to score. People talk about "fine margins" but we're reducing the game to these fine margins. We've got to start having a go or this "bad luck" is going to continue to follow us around. And we had a go at Man Utd? They couldn't deal with vardy and his running in behind and bullying them. If you call that having a go, we've gave almost every game a go. Difference was Man Utd were so soft and naive defensively compared to other teams. Contrary to most belief in my opinion, we haven't been much different, just teams have started to deal with that threat so much more and nullified it. Oh, and we got almost every decision our way...
Guest ttfn Posted 11 November 2014 Posted 11 November 2014 And we had a go at Man Utd? They couldn't deal with vardy and his running in behind and bullying them. If you call that having a go, we've gave almost every game a go. Difference was Man Utd were so soft and naive defensively compared to other teams. Contrary to most belief in my opinion, we haven't been much different, just teams have started to deal with that threat so much more and nullified it. Oh, and we got almost every decision our way... We got one decision that went our way in that United game: Vardy's pretty obvious foul on Rafael wasn't given. Yes, it played a massive part in getting us back into that game, but I don't think there's really much debating the other decisions that got stirred up by Manchester United fans. Of course we "had a go" at Manchester United - you don't score 5 goals playing conservative football. You might get lucky and score 2 or even 3, but not 5.
ImBlue Posted 11 November 2014 Posted 11 November 2014 We got one decision that went our way in that United game: Vardy's pretty obvious foul on Rafael wasn't given. Yes, it played a massive part in getting us back into that game, but I don't think there's really much debating the other decisions that got stirred up by Manchester United fans. Of course we "had a go" at Manchester United - you don't score 5 goals playing conservative football. You might get lucky and score 2 or even 3, but not 5. We had 5 shots. First one, ball to vardy in behind, cross onto ulloa head (good header mind) Second, debatable penalty from long ball To vardy in behind Fourth, long ball to vardy and nudge in the back got him in, could have been argued as foul but bit soft. Fifth, horrible defending to be dispossessed, ball in behind for vardy. Notice a trend there? No other team is affording him that space and that out ball isn't working like it has done before and we then look pretty clueless.
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