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Assessing Our Recruitment

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  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 14,311
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    CafcSteve said:
    What’s everyone’s thoughts now on who’s lived up to expectation from The Summer?
    Quite telling that probably the two most successful summer signings have been Carey and Bell, and they were both free transfers. For a variety of reasons, pretty much everyone we paid money for last summer has been disappointing, although i don't think Kaminski has been as bad as some people make out.

    Two of them (Apter/Olaofe) were loaned out within 6 months. Knibbs was injured for ages, JRC rarely given a chance and Kelman has looked ok at times, but is clearly out of favour. Not sure if we paid any fee for Burke but the less said about him the better.

    The one bright spark was the January signing of Sichenje. Hopefully there is a lesson to be learnt here moving forward. Stop overpaying for league one shit and look abroad for bargains.

    Another positive has been the loan signings. For a manager who has said in the past he's not a fan of loans, i think Jones has done pretty well with loan recruitment.
    Also shows that his reluctance at taking loans is a hindrance.
  • Crispywood
    Crispywood Posts: 1,764
    Think we’ve learnt from this summer you either go for hidden gems across boarders due to price, experienced done it before championship players or L1 gambles that come at a very affordable cost. 


  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 9,573
    Crispywood said:
    Think we’ve learnt from this summer you either go for hidden gems across boarders due to price, experienced done it before championship players or L1 gambles that come at a very affordable cost. 


    I'd still look at the domestic market for any interesting free agents and a couple of loans but anyone costing a fee I'd be targeting abroad. Feels like L1 is getting quite expensive to target for what we've got out of it. 
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 14,225
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    CafcSteve said:
    What’s everyone’s thoughts now on who’s lived up to expectation from The Summer?
    Quite telling that probably the two most successful summer signings have been Carey and Bell, and they were both free transfers. For a variety of reasons, pretty much everyone we paid money for last summer has been disappointing, although i don't think Kaminski has been as bad as some people make out.

    Two of them (Apter/Olaofe) were loaned out within 6 months. Knibbs was injured for ages, JRC rarely given a chance and Kelman has looked ok at times, but is clearly out of favour. Not sure if we paid any fee for Burke but the less said about him the better.

    The one bright spark was the January signing of Sichenje. Hopefully there is a lesson to be learnt here moving forward. Stop overpaying for league one shit and look abroad for bargains.

    Another positive has been the loan signings. For a manager who has said in the past he's not a fan of loans, i think Jones has done pretty well with loan recruitment.
    In what way is it telling?
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 5,357
    oohaahmortimer said:
    Buy cheap shit buy twice
    #undisclosed 

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