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Unless we make one or two quality signings i 'd say we've stood still..again,but on the bright side the wage bills gone down..Yey! Normally I would say that in the Premier League, standing still is the same as going backwards. City found that out last season - they didn't add any real quality to their squad over the summer, and United clawed their way back pretty easily. But has anyone around us really improved this summer? Arsenal have done f*ck all despite the massive amount of hot air coming from North London. Everton have lost their manager and brought in Wigan's cast-offs. In all likelihood, they'll lose Fellaini before the summer's over, and possibly Baines as well. Spurs have lost a promising center-back and look like they're about to lose their Golden Boy. Even United haven't really done much. The only side that has brought in real, proven quality is City. Chelsea have made some interesting moves in Schurrle and Van Ginkel, but who knows whether they'll actually cut it in England. My point is that our summer has been no better or worse than any of the other teams near the top of the table, with City being the only real exception. And in any event, a lot can happen in a month. I don't think our summer is finished, not by a long shot. you haven't mentioned West Brom or Swansea yet, Swansea have bought a new forward in Boney so we won't know how strong they will be and I think West Brom will be better too. I happen to agree with FSG with the way they are trying to run the Club the right the way, in a Club in the middle tier of the Premier League should be only problem is some fans want Champions League and you can't do this with that type of running so they are not the right owners or if you are gonna run the Club like this you have to do it from a position of strenghth which we are not as we are playing catch up.
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Unless we make one or two quality signings i 'd say we've stood still..again,but on the bright side the wage bills gone down..Yey! Normally I would say that in the Premier League, standing still is the same as going backwards. City found that out last season - they didn't add any real quality to their squad over the summer, and United clawed their way back pretty easily. But has anyone around us really improved this summer? Arsenal have done f*ck all despite the massive amount of hot air coming from North London. Everton have lost their manager and brought in Wigan's cast-offs. In all likelihood, they'll lose Fellaini before the summer's over, and possibly Baines as well. Spurs have lost a promising center-back and look like they're about to lose their Golden Boy. Even United haven't really done much. The only side that has brought in real, proven quality is City. Chelsea have made some interesting moves in Schurrle and Van Ginkel, but who knows whether they'll actually cut it in England. My point is that our summer has been no better or worse than any of the other teams near the top of the table, with City being the only real exception. And in any event, a lot can happen in a month. I don't think our summer is finished, not by a long shot. you haven't mentioned West Brom or Swansea yet, Swansea have bought a new forward in Boney so we won't know how strong they will be and I think West Brom will be better too. I happen to agree with FSG with the way they are trying to run the Club the right the way, in a Club in the middle tier of the Premier League should be only problem is some fans want Champions League and you can't do this with that type of running so they are not the right owners or if you are gonna run the Club like this you have to do it from a position of strenghth which we are not as we are playing catch up. For all their strengthening, I really don't consider West Brom or Swansea to be contenders for European places. They've done well, and as usual they'll take points off of us and others near the top of the table, but I just don't see either of them putting up a genuine, sustained challenge. West Brom in particular, I think they enjoyed a season similar to Ipswich in the early 2000s - not necessarily a complete fluke, because they were very solid and turned us over twice, but not something that they can keep up, especially after losing Lukaku. Swansea is probably a better side, but the quality in their side really drops precipitously after the first XI. Some of their players on the bench are really Championship quality.
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Unless we make one or two quality signings i 'd say we've stood still..again,but on the bright side the wage bills gone down..Yey! Normally I would say that in the Premier League, standing still is the same as going backwards. City found that out last season - they didn't add any real quality to their squad over the summer, and United clawed their way back pretty easily. But has anyone around us really improved this summer? Arsenal have done f*ck all despite the massive amount of hot air coming from North London. Everton have lost their manager and brought in Wigan's cast-offs. In all likelihood, they'll lose Fellaini before the summer's over, and possibly Baines as well. Spurs have lost a promising center-back and look like they're about to lose their Golden Boy. Even United haven't really done much. The only side that has brought in real, proven quality is City. Chelsea have made some interesting moves in Schurrle and Van Ginkel, but who knows whether they'll actually cut it in England. My point is that our summer has been no better or worse than any of the other teams near the top of the table, with City being the only real exception. And in any event, a lot can happen in a month. I don't think our summer is finished, not by a long shot. you haven't mentioned West Brom or Swansea yet, Swansea have bought a new forward in Boney so we won't know how strong they will be and I think West Brom will be better too. I happen to agree with FSG with the way they are trying to run the Club the right the way, in a Club in the middle tier of the Premier League should be only problem is some fans want Champions League and you can't do this with that type of running so they are not the right owners or if you are gonna run the Club like this you have to do it from a position of strenghth which we are not as we are playing catch up. For all their strengthening, I really don't consider West Brom or Swansea to be contenders for European places. They've done well, and as usual they'll take points off of us and others near the top of the table, but I just don't see either of them putting up a genuine, sustained challenge. West Brom in particular, I think they enjoyed a season similar to Ipswich in the early 2000s - not necessarily a complete fluke, because they were very solid and turned us over twice, but not something that they can keep up, especially after losing Lukaku. Swansea is probably a better side, but the quality in their side really drops precipitously after the first XI. Some of their players on the bench are really Championship quality. the thing is and what most people on here fail to recognise is over the last 3 or 4 seasons we have got worse and worse, three seasons ago we were just missing out and challenging the likes of Spurs and Arsenal and since then the gap has grown wider and wider. If you look at last season we never went above Spurs at any stage of the season and finished 11 points adrift, we knew we would'nt catch them from January onwards thats the earliest time yet we have been adrift and for me we are no better this coming season.
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We were better last season than the season before, how that makes you think we're getting worse every season just goes to show you know nothing. We scored more goals than most teams in the league last season. Wind up merchant 
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We were better last season than the season before, how that makes you think we're getting worse every season just goes to show you know nothing. We scored more goals than most teams in the league last season. Wind up merchant how do you work that out when the season before last we still had something to play for up until May yet last season our season was over after the Oldham game about January, shows how much you know about football...
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Feel we have stayed the same so far and i cant see us replacing suarez if he leaves with someone 'like for like'. We need to strengthen not just replace.
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Not really, you could have written the following too:
Stoke- tough to break thru but conceded plenty in the 2nd half of last season, new manager, new style, perhaps unsettled- LFC WIN
Villa- despite beating us last season, we have improved more than them, and will know what to expect and won't underestimate them this time round - Win LFC
United- New manager who never beat us or any other big name away from home, big loss of Fergie, unsettled perhaps, not a brilliant pre-season - Draw or win LFC might aswell give us the League now then going on the way you see things. I will hold you to this and reply after our third match when we have 7 points or more in the bag.
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I can't wait for the first 5 games of the season to see some of you eating your words.
P.S. we have improved the starting 11 a bit in my opinion because Aspas seems far better than Downing to me.
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I can't wait for the first 5 games of the season to see some of you eating your words.
P.S. we have improved the starting 11 a bit in my opinion because Aspas seems far better than Downing to me. It's the last five in may I am more interested in
IF YOU WANT TO BE HEARD SPEAK SOFTLY - BOB PAISLEY
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