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Summer transfer thread, AvB window wrap up pg 1527

Which player would you like to see take over from Luka Modric?

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jimmyb said:
Different type of player.

And they are more in need of a player like M'Vila.
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EDIT - don't agree - sorry - thought you were responding to another post

Yes, he is a different type of player but potentially one they need more at this point in time, imv
 
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joey55 said:
Look at the games we lost it was hardly because we ran out of steam. I mean the second to last game of the season we battered Villa right to the end with 10 men, so it can't be for lack legs, as it this level of sport, you can't do that without supreme fitness! We didn't look out of steam when losing to Everton, whilst utterly dominating them. Late goals against Swansea, Bolton, Blackburn and Stoke don't exactly suggest we lacked legs. Our fitness was fine, in fact it was good. We scored too many late goals and our stats in terms of shots, passes and tackles etc were simply way too high for there to have been fitness issue's. The only area where we had a fitness issue, was with Leds and this did show up a few times, most notably the Norwich game. But generally speaking fitness isn't an area where there is really room for improvement.

If we need to improve our fitness levels then so do Arsenals, which I find hard to believe. They crawled over the line and only got third as West Brom literally gave them 2 goals, otherwise they wouldn't have won in their last 5 fixtures. The season before that they only won 1 of their last 7! If you look at our results I can see why one could see a correlation and thus think there are fitness issues, but if you look at the actual performances, there is simply no way we could be so dominant in games at this level and be unfit. If you look t out last 10 games, which is over 1/4 of the season, we took 19 points, which is actually third place form! So it wasn't a fitness issue. We had a bad third quarter of the season, but a simple look at the fixture list suggests this was always going to be the case. For all the reason put forward by our fans for what happened, the most obvious is by far the most plausible. We lost points when we had our toughest run of fixtures! It's as simple as that. The fixture list distorts things at times and it made us look better than we were. We then had a run of 7 games in which we played Emirates Marketing Project away, Liverpool away, Arsenal away, Man Utd and Everton away!
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I couldn't agree more with this assessment of how things went. But I don't think, despite your excellent logic, it's the message that the majority want to read.
 
jimmyb said:
Such little details never seems to bother any other fans whenever the press reports that they have nicked a player from under Spurs' nose.
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Has it been revealed yet just what happened there?

It was widely reported they had a deal all but sewn up, then *poof* its disappeared and apparently so has their interest...
 
AdamB said:
Vastly over-ratedin my view. Reminds me of Lee Hendrie
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Same here. Im sure he has a lot of potential, but potential is not the same as quality.

Whenever I saw him play he clearly had something about him, but also clearly lacked the mentality to really step up. Seemed to have a "Ive made it already" attitude complemented by being a petulant taco more interested in being a faux hard man than footballer. Mouthy little brick.
 
nayimfromthehalfwayline said:
Has it been revealed yet just what happened there?

It was widely reported they had a deal all but sewn up, then *poof* its disappeared and apparently so has their interest...
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There was some talk of Wenger changing his mind because of M'vila's reputation as a trouble maker.

But who knows? I read elsewhere that Arsenal are still very much in for M'Vila.
 
ArcspacE said:
Good central midfielder - not a DM, with the potential to be a great one.

Song was more of a box-to-box type of player, imv - especially last season, mostly due to his superb passing ability.
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Song to RVP was probably their most common goal combination. Now they've lost both.

How unfortunate.
 
raboner said:
played as roaming right forwards? i don't see how either of them would really fit in if we signed m'villa and a modric replacement.. because m'villa certainly isn't a modric replacement..
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agreed and agreed

if i am honest, i hav eno idea what our policy is. i dont know where we are going with our purchases.

there is a good chance than two wingers at once could be a thing of the past for us

which isnt a bad thing...i'd just like to have an idea what to expect
 
africanspurs said:
agreed and agreed

if i am honest, i hav eno idea what our policy is. i dont know where we are going with our purchases.

there is a good chance than two wingers at once could be a thing of the past for us

which isnt a bad thing...i'd just like to have an idea what to expect
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completely agree with your agreement :)
 
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