The difference is that if the owner is a genuine fan, they will not walk away and cash in if the club gets relegated. Bournemouth have plenty of money in the bank. The important thing to know is how much of that could disappear with the owner if their bubble bursts.
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Ruben Loftus-Cheek......
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The difference is that if the owner is a genuine fan, they will not walk away and cash in if the club gets relegated. Bournemouth have plenty of money in the bank. The important thing to know is how much of that could disappear with the owner if their bubble bursts.
Change at Barnham
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That's a good signing for Palace, it looks like De Boer is getting them organised.
I'm sure they'll be pleased with him.
I'm sure they'll be pleased with him.
Marshy
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Does Puncheon not play wide ?
Loftus-Cheek and Cabeye Central .... I hope the 3rd one central does not mind working a lot... !
Green Cross Code Man
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Shame half of them only turn up when they are in the top league. Where are those extra 10000-12000 fans when you are slumming it in the championship?
Punch hasn't been out wide for a while now, he now plays Attacking Central Midfield.
The player who will be in the defensive midfield role will be Luka Milivojevic, a player we signed in January and who has proven to be a class act in the middle of the park.
Marshy
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Lets hope he's fit then. He will need to be with those 2 in front of him.
Cabaye can put his foot in and RLC is hardly an all out attacking midfielder either. Our midfield looks very strong now, absolutely delighted with this signing.
Marshy
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You keep telling yourself that...very good players yes... but both have soft centre for me though.
I would also be a tad concerned with FDB possesion football, it just does not suit your counter attacking players, the last time you did this it did not end well.
We shall see.
I'd be more concerned with a midfield 3 of Stephen's, Kayal and Gross if I were you but each to there own.
Fair point about FDB though, no one knows how it's going to go but I don't think he will be trying to turn us into Barca overnight, he's already acknowledged that he realises some of our best football in the last year has been played on the counter attack.
Monkey Man
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I reckon there are about 13 teams in the Premier League planning to play counter-attacking football next year (including us)! Could make for some extremely exciting, or very dull, games depending on who's playing who.
Marshy
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We are at a very different stage to you though, with very different targets for the season, I suspect one more will come in centrally for us.
Obviously going on a be a big transition for yourselves as you have in recent season's, been used to having a lot of the ball and playing a 4-4-2. Be very interesting to see how you do. At the moment your squad looks out of its depth but you still have a lot of time to strengthen. 2 new full backs and a striker are an absolute must need for you IMO.
proven relegation battlers recent years.
manager we will see - heard before
passionate fanbases lol (wheres that pic of empty selhurst from last season around the 70 min mark)
a few Tottenham ulras doesn't equate to your claim
martin tyler
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Massive transition for us. We have been used to controlling games over the past couple seasons whilst quite often being out numbered in the middle of the park. Baldock always put a shift in though without the ball which is why we could do it.
In terms of the squad we will need improvements to it for sure. The thing is you never know who will step up and who won't make the grade until they play a few games at that level. I think there will be players in our squad who may surprise a few and also players who we think will do well who for whatever reason never make the step up.
Marshy
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We are very much a counter attacking team, I think people assume that as we were a top end side that we must dominate the ball, which really is not true at all.
We have been very happy to hand possesion over at times even to weaker sides, sit in being very organised and then hit on the counter, this season ofcourse we wont be handing it over, we just wont have it.
Equally though that is the way we will work best for us, well i hope anyway.
A pacy striker and winger will help with this greatly.
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Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Yeah, it must be a dream come true to leave the Champions and sign for a club populated by players unable to cut it at big clubs (Cabaye at PSG, Benteke at Liverpool and Zaha at Man utd), to be managed by a manager who lasted less than three months in his last job(when managing in a competitive league for the first time-winning the dutch league with Ajax isn't that impressive when Steve ****ing McClaren managed it with Twente) and playing in a shithole in front of a bunch of ****wits dressed in black who would rather be watching Spurs and think they're passionate because they copy videos off youtube.
I bet he thinks he's made it now.
Monkey Man
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Was about to post something very similar. Amazing how we didn't really dominate possession in many games last season yet still should have won the league.
I think Chris Hughton will be using all his tactical acumen next season to get the points required to stay up. I can't see us being gung-ho in many games, even at home.
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