Blimey what's going on at Blackburn? Releasing their best player and signing Leon Best; are they Iin the shit?
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Mings to Bournemouth for £8million
- Thread starter Ernest
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Bladders
Twats everywhere
They all do it most of the time, break up the team that got them there.
This deal will only look good if it turns out Mings is the real deal and Man City or Chelsea buy him in 2 years for £20 mill.
blue'n'white
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Reminds me of Saints splashing out £12M on Gaston Ramirez as soon as they got promoted.
Hardly set the world alight
Hardly set the world alight
jamie the seagull
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- Jul 27, 2011
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Bournemouth have bid £2m for Glen Murray. Norwich also enquired. (source-Talksport).
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Luke Garbutt is bang average. I hope we can do better.
Luke Garbutt is bang average. I hope we can do better.
- Jul 7, 2003
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Because that team contains a fair few very ordinary players who happened to get lucky by finding themselves at a club just as it was on the rise & full of confidence.
Brett Pitman was no more likely to play in the Premier League than I am. Fraser is about the sixth best winger at whatever their stadium is called this month (also has an abnormally sized head and a misplaced sense of gravity). There are others in their promotion-winning side who won't be good enough and who will be swiftly replaced with a "thanks but see ya" by far more expensive recruits, including, I reckon- sorry to say it- Tommy Elphick. Steve Cook might hold his own up there. But I just can't see Tommy being good enough to stand up to Sanchez, Aguero, Rooney et al.
I think they'll do OK as a team, FWIW, but they'll decimate the promotion winning squad to achieve that.
Tommy could very well go the same way as Dean Hammond - captaining a team to Premier League promotion but is immediately jettisoned.
(Although I was pleased Hammond got a bit of Premier League experience with Leicester in the end)
(Although I was pleased Hammond got a bit of Premier League experience with Leicester in the end)
gripper stebson
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- Jul 27, 2004
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OK so you don't rate him - but that's a little harsh!
KZNSeagull
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I don't disagree with any of that. My point, though, is that teams get promoted, not individuals, but as soon as a team goes up it appears to get decimated. Sure, any successful team will maybe change 2 or 3 players a season, but the fashion these days is to change at least 10. The gap between the top of the championship and the bottom of the PL is not that great and I cannot see how clubs justify it really. But each to their own. Just means they will be back in the Champs with an even higher wage bill.
- Jul 7, 2003
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Maybe. But- annoyingly- I could easily see Bournemouth doing better than, say, Leicester, next season, probably Watford too. There may well be three worse teams than them. Smug Eddie does seem to be able to get the best out of limited players.
BensGrandad
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Would Elphick come back to replace Greer or Dunk if he is sold. I would welcome him as he is competant at this level.
BeaBeatrice
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- Jun 26, 2015
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The world has gone really mad
People said Elphick wasnt good enough for the Championship didn't they
? Eddie Howe, at Bournemouth (I make this point because I dont think he could do it anywhere else), has the knack of getting the very best out of his players. He's said he will give them all a chance in the Premiership and there will be one or two, written off as not being up to it, who will make the grade. He will also use the clubs enhanced resources to bring in well sourced, carefully selected new players. They will pay over the odds to get the right players and who is to say these players wont succeed at Bournemouth? I think they'll do ok in their first Premiershit season and much as I dislike Howe as a person (smug, arrogant, smarmy, always gets the benefit of dodgy decisions against us etc etc etc) its difficult to knock his success and the way he goes about things.
? Eddie Howe, at Bournemouth (I make this point because I dont think he could do it anywhere else), has the knack of getting the very best out of his players. He's said he will give them all a chance in the Premiership and there will be one or two, written off as not being up to it, who will make the grade. He will also use the clubs enhanced resources to bring in well sourced, carefully selected new players. They will pay over the odds to get the right players and who is to say these players wont succeed at Bournemouth? I think they'll do ok in their first Premiershit season and much as I dislike Howe as a person (smug, arrogant, smarmy, always gets the benefit of dodgy decisions against us etc etc etc) its difficult to knock his success and the way he goes about things.
seagullsovergrimsby
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I think Palarse will be holding out for £6M if the enquiry is from Bournemouth
Puppet Master
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- Aug 14, 2012
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"Mings"