priceyrice
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1 hour ago, S_81 said:The regional Press Association reporter Nick Mwhateverhisname tweeted yesterday that if Wagner wins at Cardiff then City may commit to the contract extension as a show of faith. TNC then shared this suggestion.
It’s curious timing given what’s now happening with Knapper. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to see our clown owners think that a show of collective strength is needed between Knapper and Wagner.
I hope it’s a nonsense story though. Clearly the results and performances don’t warrant even staying in the existing contract - yet alone getting more time
I believe this is fake news. I saw the tweet from "TNC" yesterday and when I checked it was a fake account. I have checked again today and cannot see any such tweet from either TNC or Nick.
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The midfield has been a problem for years now, but so has the defence. We've gone from Hanley being third or fourth choice to the first name on the teamsheet. It drives me mad we spent over £5m on promotion on a loan CB rather than investing into the future.
My main issue with the midfield is the shape, watching the game on Saturday and many others this season, it has reminded me of one of Farke's worse games, being Leeds in his final season. The midfield is non-existant. You have the defence and Hanley and then a 40 yard gap and the strikers and other midfielders. There is noone playing in between the lines for the majority of games. We saw it for 20 mins on Saturday when we had some structure but it then disappeared. I don't know if it's fitness or something the players are told to do but the shape of the midfield has been driving me nuts all season.
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Can someone explain why we don't leave someone forward on defensive corners. In my mind it gives us an outlet and causes the opposition to bring another player or two back as well. I've never understood this.
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How are people watching this? Not on ifollow and I can't seem to find a stream
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1 minute ago, Petriix said:Unbelievable! Clear foul, definite red. This is BS!
Got a stream?
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10 minutes ago, Steve White said:Gibbs poor i midweek? Not from where I was watching, better than Hayden in my opinion!
I thought Hayden tired quickly and tbh both were not great, neither really looking for the ball and we looked very light in the middle of the park. I actually think the fitness and energy of the team in general hasn't been great recently and most of that has stemmed in the middle of the park.
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Shocked by the Cantwell snub, he has been trying hard and one of the better performers recently. Not surprised by Gibbs, thought him and Byram were very poor mid week.
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13 hours ago, Gordon Bennett said:Perhaps, but if Archant were asked directly to hold fire you can understand the club's frustration that they didn't.
Yes...maybe in Russia.
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3 minutes ago, cambridgeshire canary said:Does go to show how much more physical and '****house' we are becoming, and given that we have often said in the past that we were far too powderpuff and lightweight of a team I do see this as a good thing.. Just a shame that avoiding cards is not something we are good at
Not sure the facts back this up. We're 15 in the fair play table for the championship and that's mainly due to the red card numbers. For yellow cards we look to be in the bottom 5 for number of yellows received.
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I was watching him closely today and couldn't help but think he is just plain lazy. Reminded me of a less talented Leroy Fer! A few times he got beaten by a man, jogged after him for 2 or 3 yards and then just stopped. I don't think that can ever be justified from a professional footballer.
Although Cantwell hasn't done much this season and despite his recent antics over the last couple of seasons, one thing I will say is that he is working hard when he does get on the pitch.
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What frustrates me is the lack of leaders in the team. We've gone from having a squad filled with leaders like Martin, Snodgrass, Johnson, Howson, to McLean. We seem to have built a squad of nice guys with little fight. I mean Hanley as captain says all you need to know about this current squad.
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Think it's up to the fans to make some noise Saturday. Once Carrow turns there's no coming back for a manager. Although Webber would probably just keep him around to **** us common folk off.
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I really struggle to understand how anyone can support him. I understand and appreciate that he has helped develop the training ground, having sold the previous regimes gems to do so.
Under him we have had 2 promotions, but there is little to show for it and out attempts at staying up having been laughable. The squad is no stronger than when he joined, there is more disconnect between fans, the local media and the club than I can recall.
He has spent more money than any previous regime and the majority of that has been on utter crud, some of which aren't deemed good enough for the championship.
We have no identity, our signings don't seem to make sense but are based on stats.
Add to that the latest signings of Smith and all his nonsense in the media last year, he just has to go.
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My biggest issue is we have spent 20m on players who can't even make our championship team and we have loaned them out. Webber choose to sell Buendia and reinvest the money on what he considered a more rounded squad. Ignoring whether Buendia wanted to go or not, as if you throw enough money at someone you can get them to stay, spending the majority of thst money in 2 players who can't make a championship squad is criminal. We now have a squad if medicore players, with no passion or desire to be here and no quality to turn a game. Sara is unfortunately looking like another waste of 10m. Webber has done well in the market with little money to spend but once he's had money he has squandered it and weakened the squad. I unfortunately expect a few years of mid championship mediocrity.
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54 minutes ago, chicken said:Not sure this is 100% accurate, in that I believe the £15m is for "loan fees". So not just wages, but the fee for the loans too. Fahrman, for example, was rumoured to have cost us £2m though that was cancelled so I am guessing we didn't pay the entire amount but that is an indication.
Roughly speaking, give or take, that loan fee for each plus £40k pw (roughly £2m per year) for each, brings you to around £16m. Obviously that's just extrapolating Fahrmans arrangement and we know that Gilmour, for example, incurred us fees when he wasn't played. We also heard rumours that Williams is on a fair whack at Man Utd. I think you can see what I am getting at though.
Sorry haven't read through the whole thread but re the loan fees I belive this is just the cost if the loan, the wages will be included in the wages figure. This is what the pinkun article suggests and aligns with what I heard before about paying 5m loan fee for Kabak.
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A bit late to this topic but these lights are driving me mad. I sit at the top of the Jarrold and the glare from these lights is extremely frustrating. I wasn't there last night so haven't seen it in the dark yet but suspect it will be worse than Saturday games to date.
If I recall, didn't the club essentially get these lights for free as a trial for this company? Off topic, but their sponsorship on the back of the shirt is also horrendous!
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9 hours ago, A Load of Squit said:A Friday arrival at Norwich airport on a private jet was followed by dinner with Smith and Wynn Jones at their Stowmarket home. Saturday saw them explore the area and visit the Colney Training Centre, before enjoying dinner at a Middle Eastern restaurant in the city centre.
There's a marketing opportunity. Anyone know which one it is?
One day it may well be spoken about as reverentially as The Criterion Cafe.
Could be haggle. Seen a lot of Norwich players and staff there. Can get some good nuggets of Norwich info there!
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I'll admit I didn't expect that after the first few games. But happy to eat my words and hope I continue to do so!
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Yes we spunked money up the wall on the likes of Naismeth, but people seem to defend Webber by saying at least he has spunked it on young players with potential to sell on, even if at a loss. However, what about the number of players we have had to pay off under the Webber regime, the likes of Drmic and Leitner to name a few. We've also spent more on loan signing fees while in the prem than we ever wasted on Naismeth.
I hope we don't trust him with anymore premier league money.
I will admit, I had thought Sargent was a huge waste of money, especially since its rumoured we were offered him at half the price we ended up paying just a couple of months earlier. However, he is starting to repay some of that this season. Although, that doesn't provide justification for it being a waste of premier league money and the opportunity cost of it.
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3 hours ago, Monty13 said:Over the course of his time here think Webber and his team have got more right than wrong and considering every transfer is a gamble that’s a very good record.
Even the wrong the damage has been limited. Even the two failed PL windows a lot of the duds were loans so no saddling with long term commitments.
Not to mention the stars either brought in and/or developed and sold on his watch for high profit.
Last window was a bust in terms of making us competitive for the PL but given where we find ourselves now both Gunn and Sargent were good signings. Tzolis is still an asset, so is Rashica although possibly a depreciating one.
This window I’ve been really impressed how focussed his team have been, I was slightly worried he didn’t have the focus. Nunez looks a great bit of business.
Sara on paper does look actually like the biggest risk signing of his tenure though, a lot of money for us especially in the Championship. I like what we’ve seen so far though and he was a good save away from opening his account on his last cameo.
Not sure I agree with the point that he has got more right than wrong in the transfer window, but I do understand the budget restraints we have to work in make it really tough and be also tries to reduce the risk by buying young players with potential sell on value, rather than players such as Naismeth. There have also been a few very good signings in amongst them: Pukki, Buendia, Andy O, potentially Gibbs and some cheap and free signings who have helped win promotion. However, I don't think the Premier league strategy has been correct with the money being spread too thin. I don't think any of last seasons signings look like decent buys based on their costs and performance last year, however, they are still young so room to develop, but, even so, if they do develop over the next year or two, it still doesn't detract from the fact the strategy was totally wrong last summer, and the summer before the prior prem season.
We need to remember we have spunked a lot of money on loan fees (Fahrmann, Norman, Kabak etc.) Which has essentially all been money down the drain and we have also been left paying the majority of players wages who we have been unable to shift nor were they getting into the first team squad, Drmic being the worst of them. However, I do think the bottom falling out of the lower league finances with covid has exasperated that problem like you wouldn't see in prior years.
Still I'm sounding negative and I admit I'm not a big Webber fan, but I do think Hayden and Nunez could be very shrewd buys this summer. I just hope we plug the CB issue next summer as it seems we may finally have plugged the CM void and hopefully the DM void, which has been an issue for a while.
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Yup top signing it seems. I would say the first decent signing in two seasons by Webber, but happy to give him credit when he deserves it. I'm not so sure about Sara but I hope im wrong. 8m seems to be a very unlucky number for us when buying players.
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I was definitely one who wrote him off, as I suspect 90% of fans did. But it was a complete forward showing tonight, a bit if an old school type of forward and I loved it! I'll admit, I am still shocked every time he scores but long may it continue!
We need a better song for him rather than the USA chant though.
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Seems a proper character, something which has been missing in our purchases the last few seasons and in our squad generally. Webber and the club deserve praise for this one. I am glad we couldn't agree terms on that Canadian player!!
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Tbh the 5 sub rule is stupid and it clearly favours the stronger teams, which should be us this season. It did feel like a friendly when both teams made all the subs in the second half. It was needed though for us today, the players looked tired out there and does raise some fitness concerns but it felt like we were happy coasting until Onel came on as well. I also think the subs messed up the midfield balance.
But hey, we won, how is Lakey complaining!?!
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It got me on first reading as well! I very much suspect he will be gone on 13 November. Club seems happy to throw away another 3 points against Cardiff - that in itself is baffling!