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[Football] Leandro Trossard **Sold To Arsenal 20/01/2023**



Clive Walker

Stand Or Fall
Jul 5, 2011
3,588
Brighton
I think when you look at the club’s progress under Bloom and everything he’s done for the club it’s hardly a ‘weird pedestal’. He’s a brilliant businessman. Losing top players and coaches has only happened because of the success.
Don’t get me wrong his financial backing is undeniable but barber runs the show.
 




Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
I think when you look at the club’s progress under Bloom and everything he’s done for the club it’s hardly a ‘weird pedestal’. He’s a brilliant businessman. Losing top players and coaches has only happened because of the success.
60 million richer, and higher up the table. Yes, good business.
 










Seagull27

Well-known member
Feb 7, 2011
3,368
Bristol
Bloom sanctions decisions but the decisions are made by other people.

People need to stop assuming that bloom uses his poker playing skills to his advantage on every transfer matter. The weird pedestal that people have created for him is false unless you think losing player of the season and entire coaching team was blooms plan all along.
That's a very strange take on Bloom. Losing players and coaches is somewhat out of his control.

Putting in place a system where we can lose key players/staff and continue performing at a high level is why people admire him so much. Yes, he may not be involved in the day-to-day running of that system, but he developed the vision and employed the right people to make it happen.
 


Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
Don’t get me wrong his financial backing is undeniable but barber runs the show.
The art of being a top businessman in a large company is being able to delegate the day to day running to skilled people in their field, and not having to be hands on too often isn’t it? TB has played an absolute blinder at this club

I certainly worship at his altar :lolol:
 


Uh_huh_him

Well-known member
Sep 28, 2011
12,112
Bloom sanctions decisions but the decisions are made by other people.

People need to stop assuming that bloom uses his poker playing skills to his advantage on every transfer matter. The weird pedestal that people have created for him is false unless you think losing player of the season and entire coaching team was blooms plan all along.

Weird take.

Tony's poker skills are a by-product of his risk evaluation abilities.
Not the other way around.

He may delegate negotiation, but he is definitely involved in the decisions,
 




mike1901

Active member
May 12, 2017
281
That statement will do his client no help in finding a new club. Paints him as argumentative and difficult to deal with. Whatever the reasons are behind it, his own agent has said Leo argued with another player in training, got moody for being bench for ONE game, and wasnt happy that he wasnt brought on as a sub when we're winning 4-0.
I just dropped a player at the training ground, I’m a cab driver by the way, we had a chat about the Leo situation. He said the statement was rubbish. There was no altercation with another player. It was in a team meeting the argument took place with RDZ. These things happen though in life. He will probably leave but let’s hope we get the right price. Onwards and upwards. 👍👍👍👍👍
 




Clive Walker

Stand Or Fall
Jul 5, 2011
3,588
Brighton
Weird take.

Tony's poker skills are a by-product of his risk evaluation abilities.
Not the other way around.

He may delegate negotiation, but he is definitely involved in the decisions,
Precisely.

But some people will have you believe that when it comes to transfer sagas bloom sits at a table stoney faced smoking a cigar and leaves with the other club in tears while bloom still has his player and 4 extra players for trying it on with him.
 




Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
Precisely.

But some people will have you believe that when it comes to transfer sagas bloom sits at a table stoney faced smoking a cigar and leaves with the other club in tears while bloom still has his player and 4 extra players for trying it on with him.
Only in your imagination.
 




zefarelly

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 7, 2003
22,786
Sussex, by the sea
Astonishing that less than 24 hours from the press conference and Tweets that involve a coach rightly disciplining a player who can't be arsed and we're on to Paul Barber.

NSC :lolol:
Even got a Paul Brooker in there too . . . Must be a Paul thing

amazing how this has evolved so quickly from an egotistical player being reprimanded for insubordination.
 






Seasider78

Well-known member
Nov 14, 2004
6,011
So basically

1) agent drums up business for player and gets interest based on low fee with short contract

2) Albion trigger extension driving up fee

3) clubs looking for cheap deal now not interested

4) players sulks and attitude spills out in training

5) manager and senior player calls out behaviour

6) player sulks and works with agent to try to force a move at lower price
 




Zeberdi

“Vorsprung durch Technik”
NSC Patron
Oct 20, 2022
6,930
I suspect the issue is that the agent isn't able to convince Spurs/Atleti to come up with a decent enough offer.

in Atletico’s case, I think it will be a case of whether they can come up with the money because they were certainly interested and looking to restructure the squad for next season, partly due to financial pressures - IMO Tross is still worth £28-32m, hopefully more, even with all the recent breakdown in relations and would be a bit gutted if we let him go for less tbh - also depends as always on how much any other interested parties are wanting him enough to make good offers (Atletico won’t be able to compete in a head to head with Spurs, even with off-loading Felix and Cunha) - maybe It might just boil down to where Tross thinks he’s not going to be a bench warmer (and maybe even where it’s a sunnier climate since that seems to affect his game.) -

-whatever happens, I wouldn’t like to be on the wrong business side of Tony Bloom or PB but RDZ strikes me as having enough compassion for everyone to find the best solution for Trossard and the squad.

As an aside, I’m rather bemused to see several people above have started including Atletico Madrid into their conversation now as a possible mix of potential clubs after I was derided yesterday by several posters for saying just that for days - including being called ‘his agent’ such is the fickleness of some NSCers - just saying 😉
 






Frankworthington

Well-known member
Jul 17, 2019
1,542
South Shields
The art of being a top businessman in a large company is being able to delegate the day to day running to skilled people in their field, and not having to be hands on too often isn’t it? TB has played an absolute blinder at this club

I certainly worship at his altar :lolol:
So do i

I have a life-sized mural of him on my bedroom wall
 


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