Reinvesting money (5 Viewers)

[speedie87]

We aren’t very good at this are we? Can anyone think of forwards we have sold for big money and then spent the money on replacements who were better

Robbie Keane - Bellamy
Mcsheffrey - Mckenzie and kyle
Mcnulty - Baka /Chaplin

 

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[Otis]

We aren’t very good at this are we? Can anyone think of forwards we have sold for big money and then spent the money on replacements who were better

Robbie Keane - Bellamy
Mcsheffrey - Mckenzie and kyle
Mcnulty - Baka /Chaplin

The bloke before Clarrie Bourton - Clarrie Bourton

 

[Greggs]

Hartson - Hughes!

 

[Esoterica]

Lukas Jutkiewicz - Nobody

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

We aren’t very good at this are we? Can anyone think of forwards we have sold for big money and then spent the money on replacements who were better

Robbie Keane - Bellamy
Mcsheffrey - Mckenzie and kyle
Mcnulty - Baka /Chaplin

Suspect it's because we don't get money to spend that often so when we do we blow it on the first player the 'recruitment team' comes back with.

 

[Old Warwickshire lad]

Lukas Jutkiewicz - Nobody

That was the start of the rot.

 

[Frank Sidebottom]

We aren’t very good at this are we? Can anyone think of forwards we have sold for big money and then spent the money on replacements who were better

Robbie Keane - Bellamy
Mcsheffrey - Mckenzie and kyle
Mcnulty - Baka /Chaplin

Very difficult to buy a better player than we've sold.... if the player we bring in is better then the club buying our player would've bought that player instead..... were we really expecting Baka/Chaplin/Hiwula to be better than McNulty? If they were then why would Reading not have signed them instead? We've signed 3 younger players and if we're lucky one of them will turn out to be decent for a season and then we will sell them. Repeat until we're top of the Premier League, triple European champions with millions of fans all over the world.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Not really big money but we sold Paul Furlong and brought in Mick Quinn.

We also sold Mick Harford and John Gayle and brought in Dublin, but he was far more expensive and needed the sale of Babb. Selling Huckerby to bring in Keane/Rousell (although again aided by the Boateng sale) and Rousell for Hartson?

Since relegation though nothing, although most of the sales have been swallowed up by running costs rather than reinvesting in the team so not surprising.

I did think maybe we'd sold George Thomas and brought in McNulty, but having checked we brought in Yakubu and Beavon in that window while McNulty joined 6 months later.

 

[robbiekeane]

Suspect it's because we don't get money to spend that often so when we do we blow it on the first player the 'recruitment team' comes back with.

Ah yes. Was just thinking how hard it would be to twist this thread into the owners fault but I see your angle there.

 

[oucho]

That was the start of the rot.

Don't forget we also didn't replace Gunnarson and Turner that summer. Westwood and King also left and we didn't have budget for "like for like" replacements. Joe Murphy was a sufficient replacement for Westie although didn't catch enough balls. Cody Mac never threatened to have the impact King had for us.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Ah yes. Was just thinking how hard it would be to twist this thread into the owners fault but I see your angle there.

What???

 

[Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon]

We aren’t very good at this are we? Can anyone think of forwards we have sold for big money and then spent the money on replacements who were better

Robbie Keane - Bellamy
Mcsheffrey - Mckenzie and kyle
Mcnulty - Baka /Chaplin

I think we took a big risk on Bellamy given his injury, he ultimately showed himself to be a good player (and total twat) but probably needed his season with us to get fit and used to PL level. Could you class Keane as being signed with the money from Dublin? If not then I think I'm struggling to come up with an example!

 

[SkyBlueCRJ]

Lukas Jutkiewicz - Nobody

Callum Wilson - Nobody

 

[mark82]

Not really big money but we sold Paul Furlong and brought in Mick Quinn.

We also sold Mick Harford and John Gayle and brought in Dublin, but he was far more expensive and needed the sale of Babb. Selling Huckerby to bring in Keane/Rousell (although again aided by the Boateng sale) and Rousell for Hartson?

Since relegation though nothing, although most of the sales have been swallowed up by running costs rather than reinvesting in the team so not surprising.

I did think maybe we'd sold George Thomas and brought in McNulty, but having checked we brought in Yakubu and Beavon in that window while McNulty joined 6 months later.

Thomas left the same window we brought McNulty in.

 

[Esoterica]

Not really big money but we sold Paul Furlong and brought in Mick Quinn.

We also sold Mick Harford and John Gayle and brought in Dublin, but he was far more expensive and needed the sale of Babb. Selling Huckerby to bring in Keane/Rousell (although again aided by the Boateng sale) and Rousell for Hartson?

Since relegation though nothing, although most of the sales have been swallowed up by running costs rather than reinvesting in the team so not surprising.

I did think maybe we'd sold George Thomas and brought in McNulty, but having checked we brought in Yakubu and Beavon in that window while McNulty joined 6 months later.

And Beavon was part of the deal for selling our top scorer Sordell I think?

 

[cc84cov]

I think we took a big risk on Bellamy given his injury, he ultimately showed himself to be a good player (and total twat) but probably needed his season with us to get fit and used to PL level. Could you class Keane as being signed with the money from Dublin? If not then I think I'm struggling to come up with an example!

I’m sure Keane come as replacement from Huckerby could be wrong tho.

 

[ajsccfc]

Not long after we sold Wilson, Tudgay came in for a free. Not only did we save a stack of cash I'd argue we got a hell of an upgrade while at it.

 

[fernandopartridge]

I’m sure Keane come as replacement from Huckerby could be wrong tho.

Yes he did, well sort of. Probably worth pointing out that in the 12 months previously we'd also lost Dublin.

 

[Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon]

I’m sure Keane come as replacement from Huckerby could be wrong tho.

You're right! Forgetting the sale of one of my childhood heroes there!

 

[stevefloyd]

Beavon---- McNulty

 

[lord_garrincha]

Obvious one (was cash & part-ex) Gallacher - Wegerle.

 

[stevefloyd]

Obvious one (was cash & part-ex) Gallacher - Wegerle.

You think Wegerle was better than Gallacher?

 

[Nick]

You think Wegerle was better than Gallacher?

He was better than Cantona. Fact, the song said.

 

[skybluegod]

Not really big money but we sold Paul Furlong and brought in Mick Quinn.

We also sold Mick Harford and John Gayle and brought in Dublin, but he was far more expensive and needed the sale of Babb. Selling Huckerby to bring in Keane/Rousell (although again aided by the Boateng sale) and Rousell for Hartson?

Since relegation though nothing, although most of the sales have been swallowed up by running costs rather than reinvesting in the team so not surprising.

I did think maybe we'd sold George Thomas and brought in McNulty, but having checked we brought in Yakubu and Beavon in that window while McNulty joined 6 months later.

I thought we had got compensation for Thomas in summer last year and that was probably used to get Mcnulty- ie. larger wages.

 

[stevefloyd]

He was better than Cantona. Fact, the song said.

At least he didn't attack the fans lol

 

[ceetee]

Callum Wilson - Nobody

Nobody replaced Jutkiewic when he left, but Callum Wilson was the "nobody" who replaced him the following season.
i remember the criticism by fans complaining that the club were relying on an Academy graduate...

 

[SkyBlueCRJ]

Nobody replaced Jutkiewic when he left, but Callum Wilson was the "nobody" who replaced him the following season.
i remember the criticism by fans complaining that the club were relying on an Academy graduate...

Imagine the moaning when Callum Wilson and Leon Clarke were replaced with Shaun Miller, Marcus Tudgay and Simeon Jackon

 

[Ashdown]

Very difficult to buy a better player than we've sold.... if the player we bring in is better then the club buying our player would've bought that player instead..... were we really expecting Baka/Chaplin/Hiwula to be better than McNulty? If they were then why would Reading not have signed them instead? We've signed 3 younger players and if we're lucky one of them will turn out to be decent for a season and then we will sell them. Repeat until we're top of the Premier League, triple European champions with millions of fans all over the world.

I wouldn't bank on any of these three lame ducks.

 

[Ashdown]

I thought Keane was bought by a consortium of crooked board members for £6 million and sold to inter Milan for £13 million in a private arrangement ?! Or did I dream that ?

 

[skyblueeyesrevisited]

I thought Keane was bought by a consortium of crooked board members for £6 million and sold to inter Milan for £13 million in a private arrangement ?! Or did I dream that ?

Yes that is my understanding. Remember Strachan saying he knew nothing about it until the chairman phoned him to say he’d just bought Robbie Keane.