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Originally Posted by Consty
Your attacking 4 contained Cleverley and Lennon today, most of the sides above you have better options than this. I don't see many outstanding players in your squad.
Lennon has been playing really well. A front 4 of Lukaku, Barkley, Mirallas,
Lennon/Deolefeu is pretty strong
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Originally Posted by BAIDS
Nice but an awful lot has changed (BT/Skydeal megabucks) - iirc correctly I said Martinez success would depend on his transfer dealings which is turning out wrong. He has done fine with his signings it appears, hopefully 13m on Niasse works out. Teams above us have not built significantly stronger squads than ours on paper, our squad is strong the results are poor
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Originally Posted by LostOstrich
this was Kenwright's decision. He genuinely believed that the player and the club would both benefit from him staying, and he felt like drawing a line in the sand to discourage other oil clubs from coming after our top players. Captain Hindsights everywhere are now coming out and saying it was a bad decision as Stones is still towards the bottom of the learning curve but we didn't "need" the money urgently and the chairman wanted to keep the player for long term reasons.
Still seems a good call to me.
Defo correct call imo