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Post by Stanley75 on Aug 26, 2021 20:08:24 GMT
...when we don't have to keep selling our best players to survive.
Been fantasising* / imagining about the kind of a team we'd have had in recent times, had that been so:
Smithies
Furlong
Robinson
Simpson
Mbia
Phillips
Sterling
Eze
Austin (Mk 1)
Taarabt
Remy
etc...
*This is Rangers Fantasy Island after all.
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Aug 26, 2021 20:16:48 GMT
Im afraid wls says kane has to go,dont fret we getting prolific Grey
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Post by Stanley75 on Aug 26, 2021 21:14:25 GMT
Im afraid wls says kane has to go,dont fret we getting prolific Grey Sounds like decent business  |
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Post by Shania on Aug 26, 2021 21:21:48 GMT
A few weeks back I was kind of hoping that Dieng,Chair and Dickie wouldn`t have developed so fast at our club. It was in the footballing sense of word hard to take when Eze went a few seasons ago. Anyway: we obviously need money to make the club tick...
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Post by coneysboots on Aug 27, 2021 6:04:51 GMT
There was a time that I wished that we had the quality of player to sell to survive. There was a time when we were dogshit, and didn't have the players to attract to progress, and sell, or coming through the youth team. The fact we sold Eze for £20 million, and the likes of Chair, Willock, and Dickie have been mentioned as attracting interest for big (for us) money moves is certainly progress.
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Post by Rangers77 on Aug 27, 2021 7:10:53 GMT
Still remember with horror selling 45 goals between them in a season Allen and Goddard, then playing Bob Hazell up front, and bringing in Tommy Langley.......
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Post by alanwycombe on Aug 27, 2021 7:14:46 GMT
The first time my world came to an end was Roger Morgan to Spurs🙁
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Post by Corbray on Aug 27, 2021 8:54:29 GMT
it'll be great and its coming, look at brentford as a prime example.
dieng, dickie and chair could easily go for 40m combined and with that we can sign higher calibre players whilst also sticking to our principles of developing younger talent. instead of scouring league 1 and 2 for cheap diamonds in the rough we'll be able to afford the top premier league bound talent there, just like brentford did with toney after selling watkins for 35m.
then the ball will firmly be in our court and we'll only sell when we get a ridiculous offer. in no world are watkins and benrahma worth a combined 60m but thats the fortunate position brentford found themselves in.
i hope we do get promoted this season just to get that cash injection from the prem and then we can spend 20-30m on young players to prepare for our inevitable relegation and sale of standout players.
there's certainly something great going on at our club and its great to see!
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Aug 27, 2021 9:29:03 GMT
The I know everything has a price, but I’d like to see a player lasting more than a year at ours
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Post by Tarbie on Aug 27, 2021 11:45:58 GMT
Mbia was headless chicken and was being paid a kings ransom. Remy was only here for the money. Taarabt should have actually been sold earlier in my opinion, rather than kept on for longer. And there a few others on your list who's careers took a turn for the worse after leaving us (i.e. we probably sold at the right time). Sterling we made 10 or 12 million quid from without him even kicking a ball for the first team, hard to suggest that one was bad business either in my opinion.
At the end of the day, football has always been a pretty transient industry and we will always be a club that some players will look at as something of a stepping stone. Some players we sell with end up being better business than others. It's just the nature of the beast.
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Post by Stanley75 on Aug 27, 2021 11:51:37 GMT
Mbia was headless chicken Went on to win a couple of European competitions if memory serves! |
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Post by Tarbie on Aug 27, 2021 11:58:08 GMT
Mbia was headless chicken Went on to win a couple of European competitions if memory serves! UEFA Cup with Sevilla, is that right? Not being funny mate but Paul Lambert and Jesper Blomqvist have both won the Champions League. Doesn't mean they were particularly good footballers. Mbia has been playing in China since his late 20's. Bang average, money grabber of a player. Much like all the shit that we were stupid enough to sign in the Premier League years. Agent's wet dream is what we were at the point. A place to send all the players that no other clubs would touch. |
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Post by Stanley75 on Aug 27, 2021 12:34:18 GMT
Mbia was headless chicken and was being paid a kings ransom. Remy was only here for the money. Taarabt should have actually been sold earlier in my opinion, rather than kept on for longer. And there a few others on your list who's careers took a turn for the worse after leaving us (i.e. we probably sold at the right time). Sterling we made 10 or 12 million quid from without him even kicking a ball for the first team, hard to suggest that one was bad business either in my opinion. At the end of the day, football has always been a pretty transient industry and we will always be a club that some players will look at as something of a steeping stone. Some players we sell with end up being better business than others. It's just the nature of the beast. Kind of missed the spirit of my post tbf mate. It was more wistful than anything. The examples given weren't meant to be open to much analysis, at least not all of them. More about just looking forward to a time, hopefully in the not-too-distant future, when there will be less pressure on the board to sell our prized assets simply to survive. And as Corbs says, I think we are slowly getting there, which is encouraging Mbia could easily have been swapped for another |
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Post by Tarbie on Aug 27, 2021 12:40:36 GMT
We don't need to particularly sell any of our prized assets at this moment in time mate. Doesn't mean that we won't if the right offers comes in though. It's just sound business at the end of the day, isn't it?
Personally I'd want us to sell if the right money is offered. It's the right way for a club of our size to be run.
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Post by Rangers77 on Aug 27, 2021 12:42:46 GMT
Great posts, Tarbie. I hated those mercenary leeches. I worry we'll have more of the same if we go up again 😐
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Post by Stanley75 on Aug 27, 2021 13:02:28 GMT
We don't need to particularly sell any of our prized assets at this moment in time mate. Doesn't mean that we won't if the right offers comes in though. It's just sound business at the end of the day, isn't it? Personally I'd want us to sell if the right money is offered. It's the right way for a club of our size to be run. "A club of our size". Yes absolutely, and I look forward to a time when our club can grow bigger, which I think is a reasonable ambition for us. That's really what the spirit of this thread is about |
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Post by awin on Aug 27, 2021 13:13:10 GMT
Went on to win a couple of European competitions if memory serves! UEFA Cup with Sevilla, is that right? Not being funny mate but Paul Lambert and Jesper Blomqvist have both won the Champions League. Doesn't mean they were particularly good footballers. Mbia has been playing in China since his late 20's. Bang average, money grabber of a player. Much like all the shit that we were stupid enough to sign in the Premier League years. Agent's wet dream is what we were at the point. A place to send all the players that no other clubs would touch. Yikes loom he’s playing for now….Wuhan |
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Post by awin on Aug 27, 2021 13:13:50 GMT
Great posts, Tarbie. I hated those mercenary leeches. I worry we'll have more of the same if we go up again 😐 Not with warbs in charge 😁 |
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Post by Hitman34 on Aug 27, 2021 13:18:11 GMT
Great posts, Tarbie. I hated those mercenary leeches. I worry we'll have more of the same if we go up again 😐 You just know who is going to crawl out from under their rock if we are promoted. There will be lookatme lookatme posts all over Twitter again. Deadline day signings of dross with his fathead all over the tv. Hanging out at loftus road again. His little airplanes will be back on the shirts again. |
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Aug 27, 2021 13:35:14 GMT
Douglas badar ?🤗
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Post by Corbray on Aug 27, 2021 14:03:07 GMT
plus its sevilla, they could play conor washington, ben gladwin and paul koncheski in the uefa cup final and still win it. its what they do every year
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Post by Rangers77 on Aug 27, 2021 15:46:39 GMT
Great posts, Tarbie. I hated those mercenary leeches. I worry we'll have more of the same if we go up again 😐 You just know who is going to crawl out from under their rock if we are promoted. There will be lookatme lookatme posts all over Twitter again. Deadline day signings of dross with his fathead all over the tv. Hanging out at loftus road again. His little airplanes will be back on the shirts again. 🤣😂 That made me laugh. On a train arriving in Berlin |
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Aug 27, 2021 16:01:06 GMT
Tortoises only ever look forward.
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Post by Tarbie on Aug 27, 2021 17:14:17 GMT
We don't need to particularly sell any of our prized assets at this moment in time mate. Doesn't mean that we won't if the right offers comes in though. It's just sound business at the end of the day, isn't it? Personally I'd want us to sell if the right money is offered. It's the right way for a club of our size to be run. "A club of our size". Yes absolutely, and I look forward to a time when our club can grow bigger, which I think is a reasonable ambition for us. That's really what the spirit of this thread is about Not totally sure I want us to grow much bigger either. Remember how soulless the club became in the Premier League years? Korean fans showing up with QPR shirts and scarfs just cos Ji Sung Park played for us. Derry, Mackie and Hill aside, nobody on the pitch that the fans could genuinely relate to. We also went from being a club that was universally liked to the club everyone wanted to see relegated. Careful what you wish for in my opinion. Nothing wrong with where we are now. |
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Post by Stanley75 on Aug 27, 2021 17:23:32 GMT
Remember how soulless the club became in the Premier League years. Not first time round when we almost won the league mate (in what was now the premier league). The club was anything but soulless. The antithesis in fact. Record gates. Great ownership. The club could never have been more united (yes of course that's a long way off where we are). Yes, nothing at all wrong with where we are now, but nothing at all wrong with showing some ambition either! |
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Post by Stanley75 on Aug 27, 2021 17:26:53 GMT
Korean fans showing up with QPR shirts and scarfs just cos Ji Sung Park played for us? Derry, Mackie and Hill aside, nobody on the pitch that the fans could genuinely relate to. We also went from being a club that was universally liked to the club everyone wanted to see relegated. That's my point. It absolutely doesn't have to be done that way, as other smaller clubs have shown. |
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Post by Rangers77 on Aug 27, 2021 17:33:04 GMT
Win the championship. Take half the money. And stay in the championship 👍🏻
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Post by Tarbie on Aug 27, 2021 18:06:18 GMT
Remember how soulless the club became in the Premier League years. Not first time round when we almost won the league mate (in what was now the premier league). The club was anything but soulless. The antithesis in fact. Record gates. Great ownership. The club could never have been more united (yes of course that's a long way off where we are). Yes, nothing at all wrong with where we are now, but nothing at all wrong with showing some ambition either! Football is barely recognisable from back in those days mate. Point taken that you don't need to make as bad a hash of it as we did last time around. I just really long for much more than we have at the moment myself. I quite like following a smaller club with fairly modest ambitions. |
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Post by acricketer on Aug 28, 2021 16:07:49 GMT
We don't need to particularly sell any of our prized assets at this moment in time mate. Doesn't mean that we won't if the right offers comes in though. It's just sound business at the end of the day, isn't it? Personally I'd want us to sell if the right money is offered. It's the right way for a club of our size to be run. "A club of our size". Yes absolutely, and I look forward to a time when our club can grow bigger, which I think is a reasonable ambition for us. That's really what the spirit of this thread is about If you're not growing you're dying. |
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Aug 28, 2021 16:34:47 GMT
Soon as something born , it dying
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