I agree with you, but the loan market is there to supplement your squad rather than to plug gaps. COH is a case in point - he wasn’t brought in as a starter initially and worked his way into the team to be a key play and permanent player for us.
The priority from Robins, Boddy and King that we need to own our players rather than loan them.
Indeed, if your model of making money by signing low and selling for big bucks is to work, it relies upon it.
Under the last ownership we would have loaned in Thomas after learning his price, raised his value over the season with Adi's coaching, and watched him go to a side better off next season (see Ostigard, JCS, McNally*).
We will still need the loan market but hopefully only for more unattainable players (like Maatsen & Doyle).
*FWIW I think we will still sign McNally, but we could have got him for £2m last summer and will have to pay double now due to a successful loan with us.
We will still need the loan market but hopefully only for more unattainable players (like Maatsen & Doyle).
*FWIW I think we will still sign McNally, but we could have got him for £2m last summer and will have to pay double now due to a successful loan with us.
For a month under Booby G we had three players called Paul Williams
Good point. If we move to a place where we use loans for players unattainable to most in the League, and spend £2m on a promising player, that's a step fwd.
Instead of loaning a player of McNally's level, we're buying one. Save loans for something exceptional instead of plugging gaps like we had to so much last season.
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We couldn’t afford his wages last summer.
I suspect that our interest in BobThom is a sign that that ship has sailed now anyway.
Quality player, you’ll make a few quid when he moves on.
Nah the third one was a Atkinson signing, surely? Think the other two had returned to the lower leagues where they belonged by then?
Yep you’re right signed in summer ‘95. Booby Goulash’s two Paul Williams played a total of 10 games between them (9+1).
I kept thin
i kept thinking, what am i supposed to see here, then i remembered he is good at long throws. Let's just hope we learn to use him (MR is not thick so he will already know).
i kept thinking, what am i supposed to see here, then i remembered he is good at long throws. Let's just hope we learn to use him (MR is not thick so he will already know).
I feel spending close To £2M on him is a massive gamble when we hardy know anything about him, i see Burnley were quick to offer him as part of the Hamer deal along side Mcnally, if true, and suddenly we are making an offer on him, rather we had Mcnally, this Thomas guy could be shit.
I think you mean that YOU know nothing about him. That doesn’t mean that our scouts know nothing about him.
we have clearly watched Barnsley a lot based on signing Collins and rumours linking us ton2 other players …
I agree it's a big gamble, 2 million is a lot of money by our standard, especially as he's totally untested above league 1 .
however, i'm happy he's here, and I trust that we've done our homework on him, it could prove to be a brilliant piece of business or a complete disaster, time will tell.
In the history of the club, have we ever paid as much money for a player who's never played above league 1.
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Literally every transfer is a gamble
No doubt, As they did with Kastaneer, Reid, Dacosta, Dinanger, Walker etc.
Some you win, some you lose, but the more you invest in a player, the greater the risk.
We've never payed so much for a player who's only ever appeared for 1 season in the third teir, so we simply have to get this one right.
On the plus side, I could never see us paying that kind of money for this kind of player under SISU.
Was he ours or was he a loan?
Did he cost us £2million?
How many appearances has he made for the club who own him?
Thomas will be a great addition who perfectly fits our recruitment model.Was he ours or was he a loan?
Did he cost us £2million?
How many appearances has he made for the club who own him?
don’t moan about needing our own players and then moan at the price of up and coming promising defenders, that’s what they cost
On the flip side, spending more is usually an indicator of quality and has proven to be far lower risk than trying to find freebies on the continent.
Again I'll ask, who's moaning???
Show me 1 post where I've moaned about needing our own players, just 1, expressing shock about a valuation is NOT moaning.
How much did we pay for Latibeaudiere or Dasilva? When has MR ever paid £2m for a defender?
He hadn't spent £2m on anybody until this summer. It's almost as if selling a player for £20m gives you more options in the market...
I answered the 2 mil question before but shockingly you chose to ignore it. He hasn't spent it because he hadn't had the opportunity to. I'll ask you if we paid 2 mil for latibeaudiere and 500k for thomas would you even be questioning it?
We haven't paid £2 million for a defender before because we've never been able to afford the kind of defenders who cost £2 million.........
I didn’t mean you specifically, I meant generally.
whenever we sign players it’s always ‘that’s too much’
it’s not our money for one and two, trust the manager
