| We spent up to £1m on Harper 06:45 - Aug 10 with 3495 views | Veggie |
£500,000 leading to £1m with top ups.
We’ve absolutely had our pants pulled down by West Brom.
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| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 07:01 - Aug 10 with 3360 views | ITFCBlues |
Not to mention that we let Liam Gibbs walk away to Norwich for a similar fee. Awful business. |  |
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| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 07:57 - Aug 10 with 3088 views | BloomBlue |
To be fair to Ashton even top managers occasionally make mistakes with players they buy so 1 or 2 of his purchase choices were bound to flop. |  | | |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 08:13 - Aug 10 with 2979 views | MattinLondon |
Cook wasn’t great here, but in his defence (and at the time), 500k for a young player with PL and Championship experience wasn’t that way out there in terms of fee. Not a bargain but it’s not 2.4 million for Norris kind of crazy.
Let’s not be disingenuous- yes he made a mistake and yes he hasn’t set the world on fire here but he’s still only 22. |  | | |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 08:32 - Aug 10 with 2852 views | Mullet |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 08:13 - Aug 10 by MattinLondon |
Cook wasn’t great here, but in his defence (and at the time), 500k for a young player with PL and Championship experience wasn’t that way out there in terms of fee. Not a bargain but it’s not 2.4 million for Norris kind of crazy.
Let’s not be disingenuous- yes he made a mistake and yes he hasn’t set the world on fire here but he’s still only 22. |
Plus he's one of many who have fallen through the cracks of Cook's massive squad churn. Had his route to the first team stunted by Evans and Morsy and then moved around, got COVID etc.
Looking across the squad it's pretty endemic outside the 11-15 regular starters. |  |
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| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 08:40 - Aug 10 with 2778 views | ITFCBlues |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 08:32 - Aug 10 by Mullet |
Plus he's one of many who have fallen through the cracks of Cook's massive squad churn. Had his route to the first team stunted by Evans and Morsy and then moved around, got COVID etc.
Looking across the squad it's pretty endemic outside the 11-15 regular starters. |
And we're still bloating the squad now with players that aren't really any better than we've got in the building to the detriment of the ones already here. | |
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| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 08:55 - Aug 10 with 2675 views | clive_baker |
Hopefully it's £500+ performance related add ons.
So £500k. |  |
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| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 08:56 - Aug 10 with 2655 views | itfcjoe |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 08:55 - Aug 10 by clive_baker |
Hopefully it's £500+ performance related add ons.
So £500k. |
I think it was around £250k in the end, so hopefully won't go up much more than that |  |
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| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 09:05 - Aug 10 with 2564 views | clive_baker |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 07:57 - Aug 10 by BloomBlue |
To be fair to Ashton even top managers occasionally make mistakes with players they buy so 1 or 2 of his purchase choices were bound to flop. |
I think that's very fair. When you consider Cook / Ashton also brought in Edmundson, Walton, Burns, Chaplin, Evans, Morsy on permanent deals. They're probably 6 of the core 8 in our best side at the moment, with the addition of 2 that were already here (Wolf + JD). You've never going to have a 100% hit rate. You could look at it as £500k combined for the WBA duo Harper and Edwards which we knew would both be a bit of a punt but they might've (still might) come good, and at an age where their ceiling is particularly high if they can.
Arguably £750k for Burgess was more of head scratcher in that his ceiling is lower, and while he's OK at what he does, I'm not convinced he's any better than someone like Wilson who we let walk out the door for free. I'm not saying we should regret letting him leave and I was an advocate of it at the time, but to then replace him with Burgess for so much money felt a little odd. Something of a panic buy after our awful start for me. Decent L1 'stoppers' don't tend to change hands at £750k. | |
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| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 10:01 - Aug 10 with 2379 views | itfcjoe |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 09:05 - Aug 10 by clive_baker |
I think that's very fair. When you consider Cook / Ashton also brought in Edmundson, Walton, Burns, Chaplin, Evans, Morsy on permanent deals. They're probably 6 of the core 8 in our best side at the moment, with the addition of 2 that were already here (Wolf + JD). You've never going to have a 100% hit rate. You could look at it as £500k combined for the WBA duo Harper and Edwards which we knew would both be a bit of a punt but they might've (still might) come good, and at an age where their ceiling is particularly high if they can.
Arguably £750k for Burgess was more of head scratcher in that his ceiling is lower, and while he's OK at what he does, I'm not convinced he's any better than someone like Wilson who we let walk out the door for free. I'm not saying we should regret letting him leave and I was an advocate of it at the time, but to then replace him with Burgess for so much money felt a little odd. Something of a panic buy after our awful start for me. Decent L1 'stoppers' don't tend to change hands at £750k. |
A good use of the Liam Gibbs fee, just don’t look what Norwich commentators and fans are saying about him…. | |
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| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 10:04 - Aug 10 with 2360 views | ITFC_RDM |
Genuinely thought we were getting a really exciting young player when he signed. Even after the first few games of the season, thought he looked a little raw but a prospect.... Can't ever see us having to pay that other £500k |  | | |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 10:34 - Aug 10 with 2227 views | MattinLondon |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 08:40 - Aug 10 by ITFCBlues |
And we're still bloating the squad now with players that aren't really any better than we've got in the building to the detriment of the ones already here. |
Like who? | | | |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 10:56 - Aug 10 with 2121 views | SouperJim |
Other than the obvious error, I actually thought he had a reasonable first half. Used the ball well and put 3 or 4 really excellent balls into the box that we should have done much better with. Ladapo would love that kind of service. |  |
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| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 11:35 - Aug 10 with 1955 views | Harlestonblue |
Entirely unconvinced by Harper from the start.
The lazy, complacent pass that gifted Colchester the game last night was unforgiveable. That will give me nightmares for years. I hope I never see him play for Ipswich again. Sell him or send him out on loan until his contract is up. Presumably he only got in the team because Ball is injured. | | | |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 11:43 - Aug 10 with 1909 views | Veggie |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 11:35 - Aug 10 by Harlestonblue |
Entirely unconvinced by Harper from the start.
The lazy, complacent pass that gifted Colchester the game last night was unforgiveable. That will give me nightmares for years. I hope I never see him play for Ipswich again. Sell him or send him out on loan until his contract is up. Presumably he only got in the team because Ball is injured. |
Careful calling him lazy. The woke mob will be around soon. | | | |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 11:44 - Aug 10 with 1889 views | pointofblue |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 11:35 - Aug 10 by Harlestonblue |
Entirely unconvinced by Harper from the start.
The lazy, complacent pass that gifted Colchester the game last night was unforgiveable. That will give me nightmares for years. I hope I never see him play for Ipswich again. Sell him or send him out on loan until his contract is up. Presumably he only got in the team because Ball is injured. |
I’d assume Humphreys started due to Ball’s injury. Performance wise he probably did well enough to warrant a place on the bench on Saturday but those chances he missed… | |
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| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 11:46 - Aug 10 with 1861 views | ericclacton |
The first time I saw him play I noticed he can fall asleep whilst standing up. |  | | |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 11:49 - Aug 10 with 1833 views | SouperJim |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 11:43 - Aug 10 by Veggie |
Careful calling him lazy. The woke mob will be around soon. |
He didn't call him lazy, although I could understand the criticism if he did, he has that kind of style on the ball where he never looks like he's in a hurry.
I don't think he's a McKenna player, but he clearly has ability. In the right team he would be a useful playmaker, I doubt we'll ever see it here though. Seems a shame to me that his career path is on such a poor trajectory, as I actually think the way he plays is better suited to the top end of the pyramid. | |
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| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 12:28 - Aug 10 with 1682 views | MattinLondon |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 11:43 - Aug 10 by Veggie |
Careful calling him lazy. The woke mob will be around soon. |
Woke? I bet you’re the sort of chap who tells it like it is and has some very real concerns. | | | |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 15:04 - Aug 10 with 1322 views | Fenland_Blue |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 08:13 - Aug 10 by MattinLondon |
Cook wasn’t great here, but in his defence (and at the time), 500k for a young player with PL and Championship experience wasn’t that way out there in terms of fee. Not a bargain but it’s not 2.4 million for Norris kind of crazy.
Let’s not be disingenuous- yes he made a mistake and yes he hasn’t set the world on fire here but he’s still only 22. |
I wonder if anybody actually knows what his best position is? |  |
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| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 15:33 - Aug 10 with 1250 views | MattinLondon |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 15:04 - Aug 10 by Fenland_Blue |
I wonder if anybody actually knows what his best position is? |
Are you talking about Cook? If so, Coffee boy. | | | |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 17:15 - Aug 10 with 1068 views | Wickets |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 10:56 - Aug 10 by SouperJim |
Other than the obvious error, I actually thought he had a reasonable first half. Used the ball well and put 3 or 4 really excellent balls into the box that we should have done much better with. Ladapo would love that kind of service. |
I thought he started quite well but went missing after his error and thought he might not appear for the second half |  | | |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 17:18 - Aug 10 with 1058 views | Wickets |
| We spent up to £1m on Harper on 11:44 - Aug 10 by pointofblue |
I’d assume Humphreys started due to Ball’s injury. Performance wise he probably did well enough to warrant a place on the bench on Saturday but those chances he missed… |
Apart from the obvious misses I thought Humpreys played really well was up for it and put in a lot more effort than most . | | | |
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