| We shouldn’t buy any more players this window 07:45 - Jan 20 with 3050 views | nodge_blue |
A bit of a previous post repeat, but we don’t seem capable this season of spotting and buying players that are a significant upgrade on what we have.
Far too many 15 million pound lads looking 5 percent upgrades. And at the same time we are getting offered 350k for Edmundson who quite honestly would have done no worse than the other defenders yesterday. We are not getting our money back in full on quite a number of these lads if we go down cos other premiership clubs won’t be buying them. And that could be a problem.
I’m not so keen on this formation now either. We just don’t seem to be able to get play down the pitch. Maybe we need an extra centre mid in there. |  |
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| We shouldn’t buy any more players this window on 13:36 - Jan 20 with 233 views | nodge_blue |
| We shouldn’t buy any more players this window on 13:23 - Jan 20 by southnorfolkblue |
We didn't have a top end Championship squad though - we struggled for depth as we saw in January last year. We won't be bringing on the likes of Harness or Jackson next season (no disrespect intended). Our squad next season will be light years ahead of the one that got us promoted |
If we finish second on 96 points after 46 games, I think it's reasonable to say we had a top end championship squad. Though I do take the point it probably over achieved and wasn't as strong as Leeds and Southampton that we finished above.
We may be in a no win situation and whatever path we went down, may not have achieved the goal. You cant ask more of the manager, the staff and the owners. And in many ways you cant ask more of the players who are clearly trying their hardest. | |
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| We shouldn’t buy any more players this window on 13:59 - Jan 20 with 175 views | OldFart71 |
| We shouldn’t buy any more players this window on 12:40 - Jan 20 by BloomBlue |
I didn't say O'Shea isn't an upgrade, and it's not just O'Shea, my point was in the PL you require some new players to be a massive upgrade. And as an example I don't see O'Shea as a massive upgrade based on what I've seen on the pitch. |
Massive upgrades mean massive fees and massive wages. At the end of last season with loan players, those that weren't good enough, a player that retired and one with a long term injury it meant a dozen players leaving. Omari, who KM wanted badly was bought. That meant 11 others were required. The amount spent in total excluding add on's and three loan players has amounted to £120 million. To have got an upgrade from these the club would have had to have spent in excess of £240 million. I don't know how that sits with regards to fair play rules. The wages would be off the scale and had we got relegated with very expensive players there would be no guarantee of recouping the outgoings. As it stands Delap and Davis would cover most of that along with the £140 million from Sky. |  | | |
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