Be exciting if we could bring in Scott Fraser although he will be attracting interest from the Championship, we like signing players that play well against us, Lyle Taylor used to, Erhun Oztumer scored against us, Charlie Kirk..
Be exciting if we could bring in Scott Fraser although he will be attracting interest from the Championship, we like signing players that play well against us, Lyle Taylor used to, Erhun Oztumer scored against us, Charlie Kirk..
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Can't we offer him as part of the deal for Fraser. Must be worth at least another £25k.
Can’t see us getting Fraser to be honest. Ipswich paid something around £750,000 (if you believe their fans) for him in the summer. They’ll want something close to that figure, so there’s a big gap between our opening bid and something they’d deem an attractive offer.
Are we prepared to spend that? Should we even spend that? I’d rather us go after someone closer to 20 than 30 if we’re making a significant investment.
This is a time where JJ and his team need to work out who they want and who they don't. In all honesty, they probably already have in a lot of cases and if players that we need going forwards are available now, it makes sense to get them now and integrate them more fully for next season.
Can't be arsed if Burstow goes. Valley Gold membership each season to buy players that we get to see for a few months if they are half decent and have potential at playing at the higher level and they leave.
If that is our business model now and we are now a Crewe or Peterborough then so be it but I won't be forking out for it each season if players are just going to be sell on commodities. Not even worth having the VG priority tickets when we're not in the same league as millwall or palace as we are shite in the cup in both results and draws.
All our decent prospects end up going to Championship or Premier league clubs to bolster their sides. We don't have the resources and/ or ambition to keep hold of them and perhaps build a team that will progress us up the leagues.
We used to beat Chelsea and Spurs who now use us as loan recipients to develop their abundance of youngsters to be resold at profit or rehab their injured players.
Fed up with it all really. I accept that it's the reality of the modern game but it's shite and makes me wonder what the point of it is as the "one day" optimism and hope that keeps us turning up every week seems even more futile with each passing season.
Seeing the future stars of the premier league for 5 minutes before they're off down the road to villa or whoever doesn't cut it.
First things first he not going anywhere .. second this is why TS agreed to take over the 12 mill development of the training ground and academy so we can get back to grade one status which will stop teams taking our players without proper transfer fee
should have got him in the summer along with Twine. But we dithered & delayed and finally had to go for Lee towards deadline day.
You snooze you lose.
We did not make any bid for Twine and Ipswich offers silly wages to get him.. now that could be an issue for the player when trying tho move .. so now we did not dither at all
Can't be arsed if Burstow goes. Valley Gold membership each season to buy players that we get to see for a few months if they are half decent and have potential at playing at the higher level and they leave.
If that is our business model now and we are now a Crewe or Peterborough then so be it but I won't be forking out for it each season if players are just going to be sell on commodities. Not even worth having the VG priority tickets when we're not in the same league as millwall or palace as we are shite in the cup in both results and draws.
All our decent prospects end up going to Championship or Premier league clubs to bolster their sides. We don't have the resources and/ or ambition to keep hold of them and perhaps build a team that will progress us up the leagues.
We used to beat Chelsea and Spurs who now use us as loan recipients to develop their abundance of youngsters to be resold at profit or rehab their injured players.
Fed up with it all really. I accept that it's the reality of the modern game but it's shite and makes me wonder what the point of it is as the "one day" optimism and hope that keeps us turning up every week seems even more futile with each passing season.
Seeing the future stars of the premier league for 5 minutes before they're off down the road to villa or whoever doesn't cut it.
First things first he not going anywhere .. second this is why TS agreed to take over the 12 mill development of the training ground and academy so we can get back to grade one status which will stop teams taking our players without proper transfer fee
12 fucking million to develop the training ground and academy.
Can't be arsed if Burstow goes. Valley Gold membership each season to buy players that we get to see for a few months if they are half decent and have potential at playing at the higher level and they leave.
If that is our business model now and we are now a Crewe or Peterborough then so be it but I won't be forking out for it each season if players are just going to be sell on commodities. Not even worth having the VG priority tickets when we're not in the same league as millwall or palace as we are shite in the cup in both results and draws.
All our decent prospects end up going to Championship or Premier league clubs to bolster their sides. We don't have the resources and/ or ambition to keep hold of them and perhaps build a team that will progress us up the leagues.
We used to beat Chelsea and Spurs who now use us as loan recipients to develop their abundance of youngsters to be resold at profit or rehab their injured players.
Fed up with it all really. I accept that it's the reality of the modern game but it's shite and makes me wonder what the point of it is as the "one day" optimism and hope that keeps us turning up every week seems even more futile with each passing season.
Seeing the future stars of the premier league for 5 minutes before they're off down the road to villa or whoever doesn't cut it.
First things first he not going anywhere .. second this is why TS agreed to take over the 12 mill development of the training ground and academy so we can get back to grade one status which will stop teams taking our players without proper transfer fee
Why would he spend 12 million on developing something he doesn’t even own?
If I have to consider how absolutely ridiculous it was for us not to try to sign Scott Twine last summer again I think I'm going to need a long lie down!
should have got him in the summer along with Twine. But we dithered & delayed and finally had to go for Lee towards deadline day.
You snooze you lose.
Love how easy you make how you think it should be sound.
Well, both players were available in the summer & 90% of posters on here thought we should go for them. Twine is pulling up trees at MK, is their top goalscorer & has almost double the amount of our top goalscorer.
But we decided on a different strategy which by late August was showed to be pants & we panicked, bringing in players like Arter & Souare.
But them I said all this last summer so no Captain Hindsight here. I was told to be patient, trust the process & it would all be ok in the end.
So don't worry, we can all be patient and wait for Monday evening because of course we haven't had 4 weeks to sign players have we....🙄
I’d be amazed if TS is ready to plough in £400/500k on a player after shelling out for Stockley, Kirk and now Aneke.
If Fraser is someone to genuinely make our team better for next season, I welcome him, I’m sure some of you know him better than I do, and would welcome him. I’m just massively dubious about our recruitment at the moment.
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Which is a mixture of many different issues.
Top wumming.
Ticked every box - apart from our black one
But we decided on a different strategy which by late August was showed to be pants & we panicked, bringing in players like Arter & Souare.
But them I said all this last summer so no Captain Hindsight here. I was told to be patient, trust the process & it would all be ok in the end.
So don't worry, we can all be patient and wait for Monday evening because of course we haven't had 4 weeks to sign players have we....🙄