MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
I’m a bad troll because I don’t troll.
Yeah you do, and you know you do, at least own it.
Just enjoy the awesomeness and stop with the doom and gloom of six years from now. Guy is going to crack 50 goals in his sleep. How fun is it to watch this?
It's very fun to watch, but we better win.
I think some of you people lack perspective sometimes. Winning is ****ing hard, and it's harder in a capped environment when you can't just spend your way out of mistakes, bad luck, etc. So signing JT because he's awesome now means you had better win now. Because if he stops being awesome (which there is a legit possibility of over the life of his contract) and you pay him awesome money, this means you're capped out and there's no more help coming.
This isn't doom and gloom, this is foresight. This is using the tools available to us to make the best guess as to whether or not a player is going to be worth what they're being paid over the long haul of the contract. Because as good as he's been, and he's been absolutely outstanding, has he been "2nd best player in the world" outstanding? No. Well, he's making "2nd highest paid player in the world" money. Value to cap cost is king in a capped environment. The only reason we can afford to pay the 20-30th best player in the world the 2nd highest amount of money is that we have better players who are cheaper, but that largely comes to an end at the end of this season. So yeah I don't go fanboy over the JT signing because until we've won something, the risk hasn't been rewarded yet. All I give a **** about is winning, not how fun it is to watch a 50 goal season. I've seen those before. All I give a **** about is winning.