on January 15, 2025, 11:26 pm, in reply to "How much the starting XI cost is a somewhat spurious metric though"
And that Beto price is highly inflated because we had no money to pay them
Lets put it another way
If you put every player up for sale we'd struggle to get to £125m whereas other clubs who've been relegated recently have managed to raise £150m to £200m in player sales, certainly the sides who went down 2 years ago, Leics, Leeds and Soton when really we should have been relegated Previous Message
His last sentence wouldn't have been true if we'd started Michael Keane and Beto in place of Branthwaite and DCL, but who would do that notwithstanding tonight's errors. Previous Message
Reality is we are not getting 5 players in, certainly not 5 who will walk straight into the team.
If we are getting 2 in priority has to be right winger and left back. Harrison and Lindstrom aren’t good enough and Mykolenko just doesn’t offer enough going forward and we need an upgrade.
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the only players who should be starting are keeper, the 2 CB's, McNeil and Ndiaye
the rest offer nothing
Not one of our players gets into Villa's side tonight
The 2 players they bought from us were probably 2 of their poorer players but they spent more on them than our starting 11 cost
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