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Post by choixkoix on Aug 30, 2024 13:56:47 GMT
You may pick an individual signing like Stewart or Charles and pick holes, but the general pattern post relegation is clear. They literally the only two players we signed to permie deals. 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. We have made desperate signings in both eras. Shea Charles was a desperate signing. Everyone was set to leave post relegation and he was a signing early in that window to try to start correcting our implosion. On paper, he should have been a Champ good performer no brainer, but ended up not matching the managers need for a specialist in that position. Once we were able to loan Downes, Shea was just going to be depth and potential. But remember, at the time we signed him we expected to lose Lavia, JWP, Bednarek, ABK - we had basically no CBs or DM's expected to be at the club come the end of the window. Of course you grab a Man City youth, current full international who can play both CB and DM! Stewart was a desperate attempt to sign a dominant striker at that level. When we expected Adams to leave that window. You want to get promoted, you probably cant do that unless you find a dominant striker, so I dont blame us fantasizing through his medical. Yes, the two big money signings of last year were somewhat desperate and will likely be looked at as failures once they have left the club. Overall direction.of travel has clearly changed though: we do better business. ABK - we may have poorly scouted his attitude (or willfully ignored reports of it), or it may be a case of a young player in formative years going sulky in a divided dressing room. But he's the one signing we made that year that I think could have blossomed into a significant profit player talent-wise. Any or all of the injuries, the inconsistency, the attitude and the poor environment that season have put paid to that.
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Post by crazydanny on Aug 30, 2024 14:01:34 GMT
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Post by crazydanny on Aug 30, 2024 14:02:04 GMT
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Post by Mandochris on Aug 30, 2024 14:03:18 GMT
Fuckin' 'ell. How many plaeyers are we going to have on our books by tonight?
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Aug 30, 2024 14:07:54 GMT
Fuckin' 'ell. How many plaeyers are we going to have on our books by tonight? Surely going to be some outgoings. See Edozie might be getting the good championship loan he probably needs, to Shef Utd.
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Post by choixkoix on Aug 30, 2024 14:09:59 GMT
Always likely to happen today as Newcastle would rather cut a deal to get rid of his wage. I'm curious how the Newcastle fan on TSP reckoned he was Newcastle's best RW but Russ only uses him as LW... Because in signing him we really need a RW not a LW.
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Post by choixkoix on Aug 30, 2024 14:11:40 GMT
Fuckin' 'ell. How many plaeyers are we going to have on our books by tonight? Surely going to be some outgoings. See Edozie might be getting the good championship loan he probably needs, to Shef Utd. His sub appearances this summer have been really positive, but yeah he probably will blossom best getting starts in tier 2.
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Post by spot51 on Aug 30, 2024 14:30:26 GMT
To me theres a clear line in the sand. Sports Republic era: 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 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). In think you mean the garden shears in the front khazi. Unsurprisingly they are beginning to rust.
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Post by threehundred on Aug 30, 2024 14:35:12 GMT
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). In think you mean the garden shears in the front khazi. Unsurprisingly they are beginning to rust. Forgive me, sir - the bread knife would be quite unhygienic and I should have known better… 😁
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Aug 30, 2024 14:46:21 GMT
Fuckin' 'ell. How many plaeyers are we going to have on our books by tonight? Surely going to be some outgoings. See Edozie might be getting the good championship loan he probably needs, to Shef Utd. That, and somewhat annoyingly, Meghoma to Brentford
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Post by threehundred on Aug 30, 2024 15:03:10 GMT
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). In think you mean the garden shears in the front khazi. Unsurprisingly they are beginning to rust. And have you tried 3-in-1 oil..? ….on the shears…
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Post by saintsfan73 on Aug 30, 2024 15:06:04 GMT
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). In think you mean the garden shears in the front khazi. Unsurprisingly they are beginning to rust. Hopefully it's rust.
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Post by saintsfan73 on Aug 30, 2024 15:07:58 GMT
They literally the only two players we signed to permie deals. 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. We have made desperate signings in both eras. Shea Charles was a desperate signing. Everyone was set to leave post relegation and he was a signing early in that window to try to start correcting our implosion. On paper, he should have been a Champ good performer no brainer, but ended up not matching the managers need for a specialist in that position. Once we were able to loan Downes, Shea was just going to be depth and potential. But remember, at the time we signed him we expected to lose Lavia, JWP, Bednarek, ABK - we had basically no CBs or DM's expected to be at the club come the end of the window. Of course you grab a Man City youth, current full international who can play both CB and DM! Stewart was a desperate attempt to sign a dominant striker at that level. When we expected Adams to leave that window. You want to get promoted, you probably cant do that unless you find a dominant striker, so I dont blame us fantasizing through his medical. Yes, the two big money signings of last year were somewhat desperate and will likely be looked at as failures once they have left the club. Overall direction.of travel has clearly changed though: we do better business. ABK - we may have poorly scouted his attitude (or willfully ignored reports of it), or it may be a case of a young player in formative years going sulky in a divided dressing room. But he's the one signing we made that year that I think could have blossomed into a significant profit player talent-wise. Any or all of the injuries, the inconsistency, the attitude and the poor environment that season have put paid to that. Charles and Stewart were desperately bad signings. For the money we had to spend on those players we could have pretty much had the pick of any player in the Champ. Charles was in the top ten of transfer fees paid by a tier 2 club in the history of the league. Whichever way you look at it ABK was a bad transfer no different from the rest.
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Post by Frankfurt Saint on Aug 30, 2024 15:09:40 GMT
In think you mean the garden shears in the front khazi. Unsurprisingly they are beginning to rust. And have you tried 3-in-1 oil..? ….on the shears… I swear by WD40!
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Post by Mandochris on Aug 30, 2024 15:30:37 GMT
Surely going to be some outgoings. See Edozie might be getting the good championship loan he probably needs, to Shef Utd. That, and somewhat annoyingly, Meghoma to Brentford I agree. This seems particularly weird. Not to say somewhat sad.
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