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The Summer/Autumn transfers thread 2020 aka TURN DOWN FOR WHAT(more)


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1 hour ago, tmcc said:

there 11th 9th and 10th relatively speaking is much better than our 7th 5th and 19th, they are tiny club that were playing league 2 10 years ago and league 1 just over 5 years ago, the comparison isnt fair, it would be like comparing united to norwich and saying Norwich haven't done well cause united have done better. 
they are small club that has made positive progression season after season and are currently moving in much better direction that Middlesbrough. 
also just cause one man said the aim the premier league dosent make them not being their a failure, for example, if the owner of hartlepool said his plan was to get hartlepool to prem, but they only made it to the championship would that be failure? i dont think so. the same with brentford, when was the last time a club the size of brentford made it to the playoff finals or even consitantly finished top half in the championship,  sure they havnt made it to the prem yet which is there ultimate aim but i dont think that means what they have achieved so far is failure. again a very narrow minded, all or nothing attitude. 

also on the money side of the owner sinking in 60 mil, the player sales have everything to do with that as without the profit from sales they would fail FFP, so dismiss its importance is nonsensical. 

No, their positions aren't relatively speaking better than our positions.  Football is based around performance and for the most part their performances have been worse than ours.  The size of club is irrelevant to what is being discussed, and that is how they operate and why can't Boro operate the same way.  If Boro did the same things as Brentford then we'd be in the exact same position as Brentford.  Us being a bigger club wouldn't make us better at it than they are, we'd be doing the exact same things as they are doing.  Our aim is to be in the Premier League so that model, up until this point, would be unsuccessful.  Indeed, we have been in the Premier League over that time as well.  If you set a target of something and you don't achieve it then yes that's failure as harsh as it might sound and what's ok for someone else might not be ok for us..  As for when the last time that a club of Brentford's size did such and such, what about Bournemouth?  Finally, I said that the player sales have nothing to do with him sinking £60m into the club, in fact he's had to put that money in despite the sales.  If you don't understand what I'm saying then please don't criticise it.

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1 hour ago, Old Codger said:

and is their model feasible for a Premiership club....every player they look at will have millions added to their transfer fees...wages will skyrocket and they will be stuck with the thought ..if we sell to them, we will be strengthening direct rivals

They'd also have to identify players who could play in the Premier League at that point in time, rather than players who might be able to step up a few seasons later.  Hit and miss would have to become a lot more hit.

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1 minute ago, Youngy228 said:

Might have already been mentioned but First Team Squad page has been slightly tweaked.  Couple of lads dropped off it and Britt is captain on it.

page isn't available for me, must still be publishing

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3 minutes ago, Youngy228 said:

Might have already been mentioned but First Team Squad page has been slightly tweaked.  Couple of lads dropped off it and Britt is captain on it.

Who dropped off?

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1 hour ago, TheHolgate said:

Finding out ITK stuff from people is good but it doesn't half feel like transfers are massively dragged out. 

25 years ago we would all be oblivious.

25 years ago we used to ring 0898 12 11 81 from the phone box and get the free 20 seconds of Boro news before it cut off.

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8 minutes ago, uncle_rico said:

25 years ago we used to ring 0898 12 11 81 from the phone box and get the free 20 seconds of Boro news before it cut off.

The problem is that 25 years ago the Internet was only 4 years old so there was only 73 web pages up and running and 72 of them were porn 😳

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