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Post by channonite on Aug 30, 2024 11:36:16 GMT
This made me laugh, but there is more than an element of truth there.
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Post by earlscourtsaint on Aug 30, 2024 11:39:06 GMT
Hagrid incoming . . . . . .
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Post by channonite on Aug 30, 2024 11:44:10 GMT
Harry Potter fancy dress next home match then?
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Post by earlscourtsaint on Aug 30, 2024 11:46:05 GMT
At last . . . . .
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Post by theallseeingeye on Aug 30, 2024 11:48:51 GMT
Wow... its happened then..
Our biggest signing in years
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Aug 30, 2024 11:50:17 GMT
Err…isn’t he potentially a lot better than Manning and Taylor in the long run? It reminds me of when we sold Targett and then could really have done with him only shortly afterwards. Yes, but we have KWP, Taylor, Manning and Larios all ahead of him at the moment so sadly at that price you have to take the money
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Post by Frankfurt Saint on Aug 30, 2024 11:54:09 GMT
Err…isn’t he potentially a lot better than Manning and Taylor in the long run? It reminds me of when we sold Targett and then could really have done with him only shortly afterwards. Yes, but we have KWP, Taylor, Manning and Larios all ahead of him at the moment so sadly at that price you have to take the money Oh yeah, I always forget about Larios.
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Post by crazydanny on Aug 30, 2024 12:11:04 GMT
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Post by saintsfan73 on Aug 30, 2024 12:42:10 GMT
Best keeper since Niemi. (not counting Lurch who had one accidental decent season).
I'm not sure if we should be amused, appalled or entertained by how bat shit crazy SR are in the transfer market.
£160m to get an established PL club relegated.
Only afford to sign two players on permie deals last Summer so spunked it on an injured striker and a Man City kid.
And now, spend an entire Summer buying a great load of Championship level talent, looking to all the world like they're happy with taking the PL cash and trying to go up next season.
Before, on the last day of the window, splashing £20m on a CL level keeper! Lol.
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Post by choixkoix on Aug 30, 2024 12:49:13 GMT
We dont have the full story on Meghoma. Wish Russ had been pushed about his situation more in the Spring.
Ultimately, a significant factor in this is circumstancial misfortune. We were in an insane, unprecedented promotion campaign with mad points totals and 3 rivals. The manager didnt have the confidence to give many minutes to kids in that situation. In the meantime, whether we agreed with it or not, he had the club captain and a player from his last club that he knows well to pick ahead of Meghoma.
What I slightly dont understand, particularly now Manning isnt going to get many minutes, surely we could be offering this kid that he can be a squad player now. Could be relationship's broken down a bit, pushy agent or parents.. but this transfer out is obviously somewhat out of our control.
Pity. He looked every inch a PL quality player in the making with defensive and attacking attributes. Given the few left backs for England.. Would not be surprised to hear him mentioned for the squad for the next World Cup.
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Post by saintsfan73 on Aug 30, 2024 13:10:35 GMT
We dont have the full story on Meghoma. It's pretty straightforward I think. Thought he should have been given a chance in tier 2 but wasn't so refused to sign a new deal. Therefore we have to sell now as he will walk away for nowt next Summer.
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Post by choixkoix on Aug 30, 2024 13:16:52 GMT
Best keeper since Niemi. (not counting Lurch who had one accidental decent season). I'm not sure if we should be amused, appalled or entertained by how bat shit crazy SR are in the transfer market. £160m to get an established PL club relegated. Only afford to sign two players on permie deals last Summer so spunked it on an injured striker and a Man City kid. And now, spend an entire Summer buying a great load of Championship level talent, looking to all the world like they're happy with taking the PL cash and trying to go up next season. Before, on the last day of the window, splashing £20m on a CL level keeper! Lol. To me theres a clear line in the sand. Sports Republic era: Phase 1: take over a rotten club. Make no changes. Assume the problem was simply lack of investment previously. Let Rasmus and existing recruitment / sporting structure run wild with first cash in a decade. Sign mostly shit. (Exception being ABK who we have been very unlucky with.) Phase 2: respond to relegation by bringing in a lot of new crew (and dont get me wrong thats not just Jason Wilcox i'm talking about): recruitment dept, sporting director, ownership group - Rasmus not so heavily over-reaching. Far more sanity in our transfer business since that point. Less overpaying. The talent we are signing in a player like Fernandes or Archer is of a vastly different pool of ambition than a Sulemana or Mara. You may pick an individual signing like Stewart or Charles and pick holes, but the general pattern post relegation is clear. The other thing that needs to be considered is our attractiveness to prospective signings. A team in the Championship has meagre sex appeal to good signings. Getting promoted through playoffs and predicted to finish 20th still means your sex appeal is limited. Ramsdale is an almost unreplicable transfer. Find me a similar case of a player on that wage, with that reputation and amount of performances at that age moving to a promoted club, in England, or other comparable leagues. It stands out for its ridiculousness and for our ambition in going for him. Likewise, its mad we've found a way to get Fernandes or Sugawara rather than a Roma or a Marseille. Also, no club gets close to a 100% success rate on transfers, far from it. Downes (loan), Fraser (loan), THB (loan) - all cheap successes. Manning cheaply did the job required for the level. Likewise Brooks. Sugawara and Fernandes look like players. BBD looks sensible and cheap value. Archer is an in demand England u21 international - the club predicted to finish 20th is signing one of the top young strikers in the country? I've wanted us to sign Ronnie Edwards for the last 2 years. I could not have expected us to be doing business like this in the bleakness of our relegation season. A Lazarus-esque conversion of competence.
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Post by threehundred on Aug 30, 2024 13:42:51 GMT
Best keeper since Niemi. (not counting Lurch who had one accidental decent season). I'm not sure if we should be amused, appalled or entertained by how bat shit crazy SR are in the transfer market. £160m to get an established PL club relegated. Only afford to sign two players on permie deals last Summer so spunked it on an injured striker and a Man City kid. And now, spend an entire Summer buying a great load of Championship level talent, looking to all the world like they're happy with taking the PL cash and trying to go up next season. Before, on the last day of the window, splashing £20m on a CL level keeper! Lol. To me theres a clear line in the sand. Sports Republic era: Phase 1: take over a rotten club. Make no changes. Assume the problem was simply lack of investment previously. Let Rasmus and existing recruitment / sporting structure run wild with first cash in a decade. Sign mostly shit. (Exception being ABK who we have been very unlucky with.) Phase 2: respond to relegation by bringing in a lot of new crew (and dont get me wrong thats not just Jason Wilcox i'm talking about): recruitment dept, sporting director, ownership group - Rasmus not so heavily over-reaching. Far more sanity in our transfer business since that point. Less overpaying. The talent we are signing in a player like Fernandes or Archer is of a vastly different pool of ambition than a Sulemana or Mara. You may pick an individual signing like Stewart or Charles and pick holes, but the general pattern post relegation is clear. The other thing that needs to be considered is our attractiveness to prospective signings. A team in the Championship has meagre sex appeal to good signings. Getting promoted through playoffs and predicted to finish 20th still means your sex appeal is limited. Ramsdale is an almost unreplicable transfer. Find me a similar case of a player on that wage, with that reputation and amount of performances at that age moving to a promoted club, in England, or other comparable leagues. It stands out for its ridiculousness and for our ambition in going for him. Likewise, its mad we've found a way to get Fernandes or Sugawara rather than a Roma or a Marseille. Also, no club gets close to a 100% success rate on transfers, far from it. Downes (loan), Fraser (loan), THB (loan) - all cheap successes. Manning cheaply did the job required for the level. Likewise Brooks. Sugawara and Fernandes look like players. BBD looks sensible and cheap value. Archer is an in demand England u21 international - the club predicted to finish 20th is signing one of the top young strikers in the country? I've wanted us to sign Ronnie Edwards for the last 2 years. I could not have expected us to be doing business like this in the bleakness of our relegation season. A Lazarus-esque conversion of competence. I think the truth lies somewhere in between these two viewpoints. Totally agree about Ronnie Edwards. It’s telling that Nathan Wood is in today’s U21 squad alongside THB. We are getting there. I still think we are an out-and-out striker, an AM and a grizzled veteran CM away from nailed-on mid-table security, but generally I think we’ve made some good progress at shaping the squad this window (albeit we are severely constipated - much shit to shift. With a bit of luck, SR will be knocking on spot51’s door, demanding use of his bread knife at some point in the next few hours). Ramsdale’s signing is miraculous and should make us delighted, to a man. I’ve been wobbling, but I’m back on the happy bus - top deck at the front. earlscourtsaint is our driver and he’s just crushed the misery moped under the rear wheels. And there’s still 8 1/2 hours of the window left for more surprises.
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Post by saintsfan73 on Aug 30, 2024 13:45:42 GMT
You may pick an individual signing like Stewart or Charles and pick holes, but the general pattern post relegation is clear. They literally are the only two players we signed to permie deals last Summer. I've no issue with their loan signings they seem ok at that. Odd to defend ABK. He had a few decent games for us, got injured, refused the club's instruction to have surgery as he wanted to play for his country more than us, rehabbed the injury instead but then refused to play for us. And now we're trying to sell him for far less than we paid for him while Martin describes him as '6th choice CB' which shows he's not overly enamoured with the bloke.
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Post by Frankfurt Saint on Aug 30, 2024 13:53:35 GMT
I liked ABK when he first arrived but he rapidly went down in my estimation.
RM appears to be really keen on maintaining team spirit (to the point of shoehorning Jack Stephens into the side) and seems to have a very short fuse for any potential sulkers (like Mara, Alcaraz and ABK).
I’m not saying tests necessarily a bad thing as grumpiness can be contagious but I think once he’s done with you that’s it.
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