Florian and the (Slot) Machine

[Markeh]

Gakpo is worth quite a lot. He regularly score goals. He often drives us crazy, but we will definitely make a profit on him.

it’s more of a market thing imo i’m not sure there are that many non skint clubs with a need

 

[SummerOnions]

If there's a Dutch manager at a rich enough club we could sell him easily

 

[Modo]

I've been such a Grinch lately so it's time to say something positive.
Wirtz is improving.

 

[Fabio]

I've been such a Grinch lately so it's time to say something positive.
Wirtz is improving.

He's imposing himself more, and that's an excellent place to start

I was always confident he'd be good for us, just a shame it took til now for him to make more of a difference

 

[Frogfish]

He's imposing himself more, and that's an excellent place to start

I was always confident he'd be good for us, just a shame it took til now for him to make more of a difference

Mitigating circumstances.

 

[localny]

We really missed Diaz - so more than we realize

 

[Judge Jules]

I wonder about the last bit. Leaving aside Diaz's one pathological hater on here, my impression is that most of us are aware of the loss involved and the fact - because it IS a fact - that we haven't addressed it adequately yet. I'd like to see Chiesa given a run in that position personally.

 

[KopRed]

Haha, some seemed to conveniently forget the top footballing people in the club sold him. I guess they are haters too.

The SCM hindsight captains are always right obviously.

 

[Frogfish]

Haha, some seemed to conveniently forget the top footballing people in the club sold him. I guess they are haters too.

The SCM hindsight captains are always right obviously.

This has been done to death. I think it's more that they didn't want to offer him a huge new contract (and Bayern did) and the offer from Bayern was really good for a player of his age. Pure economics rather than any dislike of Diaz as a player. Our failure (Slot's failure) was relying on Gakpo to replace him full time.

 

[localny]

Agreed. It’s not that we sold. It’s that we never replaced those brilliant runs (oft without direct end product, but with plenty of indirect.)

We should have sold. We just didn’t fecking replace with a similar level. So many errors by this new management team. They broke up the band and thought they could recreate it. Turns out it is not that easy.

 

[KopRed]

Well, the newly minted management team, the one that is top of the world at that point, went out and bought the best player in Germany, one of the best young strikers playing in Germany, the best 9 in the Premier League for an excess of 300m. On paper it should more than compensate for an aging LW who was more effective playing as a 9. We bought two top class 9s to replace him after all!

Of course 6 months on, it hadn't worked out, they should rightly be responsible for it. But let's not pretend to know any better when we are simply typing on the keyboard.