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The "do they mean us?" thread pt 4

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Mark 'expert' Lawrenson

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11 hours ago, Lillehamring said:

No you're right, in 2015 they were all effectively championship players, having a go at stepping up to the prem (i was giving mahrez and kante the benefit of the doubt having never played in the championship and clearly far too good to ever play there).  I'm not going to sit and research it but how many of them had actual PL experience before joining us - Simpson, Kasper maybe....?

 

Part of the magic of us winning it was that we did it with players that had played most of their careers in leagues below the level of the prem.

You do realise we’d had a season in the Prem prior to winning the league…. You do that team a disservice saying they were a Championship side with just 2 top players, they were better than that.
However yes it was magic what that team did. 
 

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2 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

tbh got to ignore some of the waffle they say, pretty sure they are farming impressions at this point, 

 

plus im sure they dont watch the games either, just highlights

Listened to a lot of their content, became painfully obvious they don't watch much and try to appear experts over the entire league 

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12 hours ago, Lillehamring said:

No you're right, in 2015 they were all effectively championship players, having a go at stepping up to the prem (i was giving mahrez and kante the benefit of the doubt having never played in the championship and clearly far too good to ever play there).  I'm not going to sit and research it but how many of them had actual PL experience before joining us - Simpson, Kasper maybe....?

 

Part of the magic of us winning it was that we did it with players that had played most of their careers in leagues below the level of the prem.

Eh. It’s a dumb argument but to

take the bait -

 

Albrighton and Huth were both established PL players when we signed them.

 

Fuchs and Okazaki were both established Bundesliga players at top half/European chasing clubs and internationals when we signed them.

 

Simpson had years of PL experience when we signed him including in a Newcastle side that finished 5th.
 

Drinkwater, De Laet and James were not Championship players but young ManUtd academy players who’d played in Europe when we signed them.

 

Kante had just had a brilliant season in Ligue 1 when we signed him.

 

Ulloa had had a season in La Liga, albeit got relegated and then was the top scorer in the Spanish second tier the following season. So that one’s debatable 

 

But still. These weren’t all Championship players when we signed them at all.

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25 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

pretty sure they just farm impressions at this point, plus they dont watch game, 3 mins highlight guys

Yeah exactly. It's getting a a bit boring that our fans are being suckered in by the nonsense pumped out. Didn't they do something about the Vichai chant last night as well? They knew they were wrong after the first five minutes of our lot correcting them, but they got exactly what they need.

 

Have to remember football fans (and tbh sports fans of most populous sports) are sensitive sausages. Anything that seems baity is going to be taken by a sizable portion of the base as exactly that.

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Mark 'expert' Lawrenson

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11 hours ago, Lillehamring said:

No you're right, in 2015 they were all effectively championship players, having a go at stepping up to the prem (i was giving mahrez and kante the benefit of the doubt having never played in the championship and clearly far too good to ever play there).  I'm not going to sit and research it but how many of them had actual PL experience before joining us - Simpson, Kasper maybe....?

 

Part of the magic of us winning it was that we did it with players that had played most of their careers in leagues below the level of the prem.

Just another point Mahrez did play in the championship for us. 

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1 hour ago, FrankieADZ said:

pretty sure they just farm impressions at this point, plus they dont watch game, 3 mins highlight guys

Yesterday they tweeted at half time that we were singing “Champions of England, you’ll never sing that” with the reminder that Ipswich actually were once the champions of England in 1962. 
 

They deleted it after half an hour. 

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13 hours ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

You do realise we’d had a season in the Prem prior to winning the league…. You do that team a disservice saying they were a Championship side with just 2 top players, they were better than that.
However yes it was magic what that team did. 
 

One of savages arguments on 606 as to why we couldn't win the league was that we hadn't bought any 60m players. Without recognising that in Vardy, Mahrez and Kante we had three. 

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Just now, Matt said:

Jonny Evans has now made the same amount of appearances for Man Utd this season as he did for Leicester City last season.

Weird how his injury problems have suddenly disappeared the moment he left just like they mysteriously disappeared every time an international break rolled round. But I'm sure he wasn't just a completely uncommited captain

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