CanaryCuddles
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52 minutes ago, percy varco said:Pukki should not be starting. Still recovering from covid. No pre season.
Sargent should start Pukki on bench.
Farkes loyalty to Pukki is misplaced in todays game which is a free hit.I think he needs to get match fit though. That means playing. It might be more a question of when to sub him.
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52 minutes ago, TheGunnShow said:Thought he played tidily last week. Not much point looking at the previous season as he was out of position for most of it, not to mention hadn't played for nearly a year before that due to a serious injury. Chuck in a team in bad shape due to missing so many defenders, and it's hardly a surprise he didn't look all that.
Been a completely different animal after that.Yes I thought he played alright. First half anyway
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1 hour ago, Bradwell canary said:It seems to me that promotion to the PL has not gone well for the average supporter. It really does feel that the hunt is better than the kill!??
Seen by the club as a reason to sell the best players we have, then fingers crossed that despite that , they hope to keep up.
It can’t be done., not these days, when the wealthy clubs can buy one player spending the sum equal to our total spend in one season.
if we go down yet again, my season ticket will not be taken up next season.
sad to say this after attending games at CR since 1960
Season's not even started yet
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15 minutes ago, Rich T The Biscuit said:You need to balance it up Buh, you forgot to show a picture of a man in underwear.
Be careful you don't offend the ladies or men, sorry I meant the he/hims, the she/hers or the they/thems.
The problem with life now is that anyone can find anything to be offended about.
If you disagree with someone on here you're a keyyboard bully, if you say that a female presenter is rubbish you're a sexist etc etc.
No right or wrong, just opinions
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14 hours ago, Alex Moss said:Emi. The justification that he would move to a club that were chasing trophies and Europe I could totally understand - that in my opinion was a valid reason. And I think most of us were quite cool about that as for a long time it would appear he’d be going to Arsenal. I honestly didn’t believe Emi would agree to move to Villa, so I was very calm about that not really being a starter even with the bid accepted - I thought if anything Villa would be quite helpful in driving up Arsenals final bid, but how wrong I was. So yes, I’m very disappointed in Emi - as I’ve said numerous times the guy strongly hinted he’d give us another season or so, and I think a lot of us thought perhaps naively that’s what we’d get before he went to an Arsenal, or who knows, someone even bigger next summer. We got neither. He jumped at the first opportunity to neither! He went to Aston Villa!
Honestly, the guys left a sour taste in my mouth to be honest, so in that case I’m actually pleased he’s gone now, and regardless, I trust Webber to find some new players that won’t spend half the season suspended anyway 👍
A couple of seasons ago villa would have been a sideways move, they are now mega rich and intent on buying their way to being a top 6 club. Whether they achieve that who knows, but seems in a league where wealth equates to success they have managed to convince Emi of it. Time will tell whether this was a mistake for him, but probably the huge salary they are paying him makes the risk worth it in his mind.
Its a massive shame because had we kept Emi, sold Aarons and Cantwell then reinvested that in the team I think we would have a good chance. We now have a much harder job to rebuild the team without our main creator, which means very little margin for error in the transfer market and also hoping have enough time to get the team firing without him before the season starts.
Anyway done now. OTBC
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13 minutes ago, NFN FC said:Does anyone know what the deal is that we got with BK8? It must have been a really good sum of money to go with such a brand and so early in June. I would've thought there'd be plenty of opportunity to find a more reputable sponsor (even a more reputable betting company). Maybe they wanted to add to the 'warchest' early in the window?
The thing that I am really surprised about is the board not doing their due diligence on the soft core internet content. How the hell did that slip through the net? It doesn't take long to find. Massively embarrassing for the club and there's no one else to blame. Really we got egg all over the face in this one.
The previous deal with dafabet was described as "record breaking" so bk8 must be offering g a lot. I wonder if we had to pay anything to terminate the dafabet deal early or whether there was some kind of break clause (upon promotion? ).
Yes massively embarrassing and someone really messed up by not doing some basic diligence on bk8. Really surprised actually the club has been caught out on this. Webber certainly talks the talk on being focused on details
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4 hours ago, CANARYKING said:Only to come straight back down again. Emi gone, Max and Todd next, we’ve no chance.
That's the spirit
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9 minutes ago, Son Ova Gunn said:Connors article just up on pink in site says 15m of the transfer will go into the transfer pot. I can’t tell you it’s fact but would assume he knows a bit better than most posters here and history tells us this is the Norwich norm so tend to accept it at face value. I actually sit in a grey area between the two camps but get annoyed when people refuse to even listen to each other and want to sensor any opinion not held by themselves.. wrong place to be I guess
Could be wrong but I think what he means is that our entire transfer budget was rumoured to be just 15m and we just added more than double that amount to the warchest by selling Emi. I.e 45m total. Its just worded very badly.
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8 minutes ago, Jim Smith said:Drmic will be back at £50k a week next season. Amadou, Fahrmann, Duda all a waste of money. At premier league level Webber is yet to make a good signing. Not saying he won’t this summer but he’s got it all to prove and we need him to get it absolutely perfect now.
He actually has money to spend this time though, which might make things easier.
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30 minutes ago, Disco Dales Jockstrap said:It's not the fact we've sold him - that was always going to happen - it's the timing. Selling our best player before our latest crack at the top league doesn't sit well with me. I thought we were trying to build on previous seasons, push forward, if even in small steps. I can't see how you do that by selling your very best, in a key position, before the season begins; the dovetailing between Pukki and Emi has been a massive part of our success in recent years.
Sell him at the end of the season - no issues at all.
OTBC
You've got to think if the club could have kept him for another season they surely would have. Webber won't be blind to the issues this creates.
It all goes back to whatever deal they made with Emi last season. And if he had gone then we would surely be in a worse position than we are now?
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No guarantees in terms of how transfers will turn out of course, but got to think Emi leaving was no surprise to the club so they have had plenty of time to put a strategy in place and assess potential signings.
Unlike last time we went up when we weren't ready and weren't prepared to spend really hoping we can get some decent business done
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2 hours ago, Hank shoots Skyler said:Okay maybe a bit of an exaggeration but this thing has been pretty public the whole way. The point I was making is we absolutely could’ve gotten a better fee. I never said the first offer was accepted, but objectively looking at the position in the window for the sides and the timing it’s pretty clear this isn’t the absolute maximum we could get, is it not?
As I said, I could easily accept the quick sale approach for Aarons, or Cantwell. As I see these players a replaceable, and a fee of £30 mil I also could see replacing these. But a similar or slightly better fee under the same approach for the sale of Buendia, who is absolutely indispensable to our style of play, and priceless to the team? I just can’t be happy with, sorry 😔
I suspect we couldn't have got a better offer though. Maybe could have risked waiting to see what other transfers shake out interest from other clubs, but then how much is the extra few mil worth with no time to reinvest?
Plus probably what happened last season is Arsenal tried to turn his head and made a low ball offer to the club.
Webber convinced him to stay to the end of the season which got us a promotion and probably 15m more cash. If that's the case we are in a much better position to reinvest in the squad as we have a bigger kitty and the lure of being in the Premier league.
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9 minutes ago, CanaryLegend said:Firesale is selling assets off cheaply to avoid bankruptcy so ok poetic licence with last bit come on let’s wake up and smell the coffee. Name another club who get promoted and sell the crown Jewell’s.
Also imagine us replacing the talent? People’s costs have just gone up when we come knocking on the door? Mattheus Perreira for £15m now we got £33m - no chance!!
Not sure about that. We are still poor compared to most clubs and everyone knows that.
In the same way they're wasn't much competition for signing Emi I think this window could be a bit of a buyers market with most clubs looking to raise funds. Especially so at the lower end where we are operating.
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3 minutes ago, Wardogz said:Nobody is going to pay 50+ mill for an established championship player that's had one outing in the premier league and scored 1 goal.
Those valuations of Grealish and Madders mean nothing unless somebody actually bids, it's just pie in the sky.
Yep. Plus it's a depressed market with covid effects still being felt across football finances.
Webber came up with the price tag, so he must feel at that level the cash is more wisely reinvested in the squad than tied up in one player (who might get injured or might fail to impress at the Premier league level again).
Tbh it's difficult right now to believe Webber was right on that, but let's see who we sign first. Hopefully doing this early in the window works in our favour
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3 minutes ago, Branston Pickle said:You’ve surely got to have some faith that there’s a plan.
The fact we are getting it done early hopefully means we have a chance to reinvest well. If this had been close of the window would be much worse news.
Not that it isn't already terrible
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41 minutes ago, TeemuVanBasten said:Thought it was always pretty obvious that the way we got Emi back on board early last season was by promising him a move this summer.
Yes exactly. I think that's why the club won't stand in his way now, clearly Webber told him to risk another season with us and then the door is open.
Just madness he is going to Villa. Any chance Arsenal can still come up with an offer?
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9 hours ago, PurpleCanary said:I don’t know whether Parma has a specific deal in mind, but what I was going to say was that if this happened the likelihood would be that it was a player to fill a gap in the squad that we know Webber and Farke want to fill, and not a replacement for someone who might leave. So, say, a new centre-back or defensive midfielder, or even this unicornish winger-striker they apparently are as keen on as I am, rather than the next Aarons or Buendia.
Not least because, especially with Buendia, his international commitments are going to cause bureaucratic problems in sorting out a deal.
in any event if it is true that we have 30 million to spend above what we are paying for Gibson and Giannoulis and before any sales, then if, say we spend ten or twelve million on a centre-back or the next Oliver Skipp no sensible fan (!) will see that as a sign Buendia is going. All the indications are we are going to make one or two purchases like that anyway, even if no-one leaves.
Yes exactly this. If we made a big money (for Norwich) signing or two that would show our intent to improve our weak areas and would make a stronger case to Emi and others that sticking around with Norwich is a better idea than jumping ship to Villa for instance.
We don't need to worry about blowing the warchest because if any of our stars still left we would have more funds coming in the door to spend on their direct replacements with the other gaps in the squad already filled.
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The parachute payments are to offset the disparity between the premiership and the championship. Really the way to fix that is wage caps, perhaps premiership salaries capped at some multiple of the championship ones
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