| Lack of Premier league experienced signings 15:27 - Feb 3 with 3621 views | Mckenna1263 |
When you compare our signings over the summer and the current window we have gone with young unproven and largely Championship players compared to the clubs above us. Is this a reflection of our limited finances and inexperience or more down to ineptitude and wrong approach? |  | | |  |
| Lack of Premier league experienced signings on 07:12 - Feb 5 with 493 views | itfcjoe |
Guess it’s a case of looking at which PL experienced signings, that moved in the summer, should we have been in for and would we have been able to get them ahead of who they went to?
There really isn’t/wasn’t that many of those type of players and most who were either underwhelming or flawed |  |
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| Lack of Premier league experienced signings on 08:20 - Feb 5 with 445 views | Vic |
Absolutely, definitely not ineptitude!
It seems to me the policy was to put together a championship dream team, presumably on the calculation that a) it should be good enough to survive in the Prem, and b) it was a good insurance policy that if we go down many of the players would increase in value if we need to sell them or if we didn’t they should be good enough to give immediate promo a good shout. |  |
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| Lack of Premier league experienced signings on 08:46 - Feb 5 with 435 views | TownieRob |
| Lack of Premier league experienced signings on 07:12 - Feb 5 by itfcjoe |
Guess it’s a case of looking at which PL experienced signings, that moved in the summer, should we have been in for and would we have been able to get them ahead of who they went to?
There really isn’t/wasn’t that many of those type of players and most who were either underwhelming or flawed |
The 'PL' players we brought in haven't lived up to expectations or provided the quality we needed to complement our "Champ all-star team." Johnson, Phillips, and Muric have all fallen well short of what we needed.
Ogbenne is difficult to judge since we didn’t see much of him before his injury. However, even before that, did he really strike me as a clear PL player.?- Unsure. O’Shea,has been solid. He’s perhaps the only one who consistently looks like he belongs in the PL.
On the flip side, if the worst happens and we go down, how many PL clubs will actually be interested in our players? . | | | |
| Lack of Premier league experienced signings on 09:40 - Feb 5 with 397 views | Axeldalai_lama |
So all we needed to do was get the RIGHT premier league experienced players, the RIGHT younger players with potential from the prem and championship, and also the RIGHT players from the top leagues and lesser known leagues across Europe and the world?
And they would all be available, all agree terms, all be up for playing for a newly promoted team, all fit in with the existing club ethic, etc etc. Otherwise it's INEPTITUDE.
Is that so much to ask??
Clue: Yes it is. |  | | |
| Lack of Premier league experienced signings on 10:17 - Feb 5 with 374 views | tractordownsouth |
| Lack of Premier league experienced signings on 15:37 - Feb 3 by SaffronWaldenBlues |
The thing is, I wouldn't have minded if we signed the "Championship" players if we hadn't spent what we had on them. We paid way over the odds for what we had, and let us remember, we finished above Hull, Sunderland, and Blackburn last season where we got these players from. Why would players who couldn't win promotion in the Championship be suddenly good enough to supplement a squad recruited while we were in League One and in the Championship, in the Premier League? Burnley, where we recruited from, were also miles off the standard at this level last season. Even Hutchinson really only had Championship experience and he wasn't the finished article last season either.
Delap and Cujste have been superb, but the rest are not any better than what we have here, and that's been the biggest issue with the signings, now if we go straight back up that's fine, but we can't recruit like this again if we're serious about staying up, otherwise we'll end up like Norwich. In fact, we could have learned a lot from their mistakes on this one. |
But where else should we have recruited from if not from relegated PL clubs and star players from the Championship? |  |
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| Lack of Premier league experienced signings on 10:23 - Feb 5 with 356 views | tractordownsouth |
| Lack of Premier league experienced signings on 09:40 - Feb 5 by Axeldalai_lama |
So all we needed to do was get the RIGHT premier league experienced players, the RIGHT younger players with potential from the prem and championship, and also the RIGHT players from the top leagues and lesser known leagues across Europe and the world?
And they would all be available, all agree terms, all be up for playing for a newly promoted team, all fit in with the existing club ethic, etc etc. Otherwise it's INEPTITUDE.
Is that so much to ask??
Clue: Yes it is. |
Exactly. We did sign top level experience but it came with risk, else they'd have better options.
Cajuste is only here because he failed his Brentford medical
Johnson was a fringe player at West Ham.
Phillips had struggled with form and fitness for two seasons
A 1 in 3 hit rate for those signings was to be expected. | |
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| Lack of Premier league experienced signings on 12:51 - Feb 5 with 281 views | OldFart71 |
| Lack of Premier league experienced signings on 16:25 - Feb 3 by bazza |
Where are all of these premier league experienced players? Is it like toys r us, where you just go pick them off a shelf? .. this argument is moronic, any clubs with decent premier league experienced players are not going to let them go.. you either take a risk on young inexperienced players or old donkeys. 2 seasons of getting it right and one, which isn’t even finished and we are still in with a sniff and everyone has lost their minds, get some perspective. |
Agree. I remember the times under Marcus Evans when wed bought players who were just topping up their pensions. Spent most of their time doing sod all on the pitch or were on the treatment table. I wholeheartedly agree with looking at the pursuits of players outside of football before buying, but I do think to purely buy players via statistics, social media activities etc can put you off a player and also I do believe you cannot beat watching a player over a period of time against different opposition and seeing how they perform. | | | |
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