| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer 21:50 - Feb 13 with 4225 views | billabasblue |
Neither are championship level players at this stage of their careers to spend £30m on players that can’t compete at this level is extremely disappointing |  | | |  |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 12:20 - Feb 15 with 762 views | jas0999 |
I’m in the minority, but I actually think Egeli will end up being a top player for us. Not convinced he’s being played to his strengths. He’s a young lad with a big fee hanging over him, playing in a country he’s not used to. He’s not been great but think he will improve.
McAteer is an odd one. If £12M is to be believed, then that’s an inflated fee for his abilities. He’s very much in the average/okay bracket and I’m not convinced he will improve. A substitute at a very poor Leicester. | | | |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 13:23 - Feb 15 with 723 views | BouncebackIpswich |
I'd say Egeli was worth the punt, not showing it so far admittedly and it may not work out but he's one who may go for tens of millions down the road, maybe not but that's the risk you take, not every one if these signings work out.
However, the issue is the signing of Mcateer who was clearly meant to be first choice to allow Egeli to settle however he's played like a low money punt from non league, meaning Egeli has had to play week in week out when he is not ready.
He was just simply a poor buy you should be getting far better for 12 mill. Inexcusable too as he has always always had huge deficiencies in his game, he's not a young in who is going to develop his game massively now and there is plenty enough footage of him playing at this level for scouting and that does raise questions about the recruitment department. |  | | |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 01:12 - Feb 16 with 661 views | armchaircritic59 |
I heard a great saying last summer, here's proof of it's worth " They say hindsight is the foresight of fools " One has had the guts to leave his comfort zone at age 19 and move to another country to work. Would this poster do that? Ultimately he will be judged by his performances on the pitch, but for now he needs people's support, not incredibly early judgements.
The other has made just 9 starts including the Wrexham game Friday night, as opposed to say a rival for his position Wes Burns who has started almost 140 here. In addition KM should be sitting on at least 5 assists if it wasn't for our misfiring front players who have turned down chances put on a plate by him.
I've been watching football for 63 years, if I'd have dismissed players under those circumstances over the years, then I'd have got quite a lot wrong. Time will tell in both circumstances, they haven't had anything like enough yet. | | | |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 13:58 - Feb 16 with 523 views | HighgateBlue |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 10:33 - Feb 15 by Radlett_blue |
My Leicester season ticket holder mate was stunned when we paid so much for McAteer. He said he was a reasonably squad filler/bench option, nothing more. And he's played quite a lot of football so not just a kid with huge potential. He hasn't played much, even when Burns was injured so McKenna must be disappointed but it's impossible to see what he expected from him.
Walle is a different kettle of fish. Only 19 & only played in Norway and I can see his potential to be a PL player in time. Whether investing £17m in potential was a wise use of resources, only time will tell. |
Agreed on both fronts.
The scepticism about the McAteer signing certainly isn't hindsight. The fact that the early scepticism has been thus far shown to be justified by output on the pitch does not make it hindsight. There were plenty of us saying it was an odd signing at the time, especially for the money. Leicester were convincingly relegated (and are not setting the world alight this season), and he wasn't a regular starter for them. |  | | |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 14:01 - Feb 16 with 519 views | HighgateBlue |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 22:24 - Feb 13 by Leutard |
Had Hirst decided to connect with that McAteer cross early on, McAteer's performance would have seemed a lot better. He is getting very unlucky with how his strengths are being wasted by the sides current weaknesses. [Post edited 13 Feb 22:25]
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This is undoubtedly true.
But had we spent the McAteer money on a decent number 9, everyone could have been happy... | | | |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 14:27 - Feb 16 with 485 views | Vaughan8 |
I would definitely give Egeli some time. He's young, just moved countries etc so he's definitely someone who could turn good, if not very good. Having said that, when you spend the best part of £20m, you'd probably expect himt o produce a bit more than he currently has. And he has probably regressed slightly.
McAteer is totally different. Played in this league for a number of years, hasn't moved far, is 24(?) so coming up to his peak years.....yet he's not an upgrade on Burns.
He has however improved slightly, but this is only because the bar was so low at the start.
I can't remmeber the timeline now but i'm thinking we got McAteer in so Obgene could go out on loan? Seemed like we paid too much at the time and seems like it still. | | | |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 16:34 - Feb 16 with 439 views | longtimefan |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 11:42 - Feb 15 by darkhorse28 |
Love the number of down votes - I mean anyone suggesting we spend £50 plus million on Ogbenne, McAteer and Walle to be back ups to £100k Burns, who in the here and now, is better than the lot for work, pressing, and probably end product too. And obvious experience. Is well, interesting.
You’re saying £50 million has no consequences.
Also. You’re moaning we didn’t sign a striker.
There’s lack of self awareness, low football IQ and there’s this.
No actually supporter, that’s seen them play, would sign any of them, simply better ways to spend the money, with better outcomes required if we want success .
Walle is very young. But if he doesn’t add value in the here and now, it doesn’t work, because without promotion this season or next, we can’t retain him or others if they do have quality.
We needed added value in the hear and now, not potential in three years when you’re tying up such huge resources that COULD make a difference and deliver £200 million in revenue!!
Leiscter sighed Harry Winks. £10 million. England international.., ripped it up, they won the league going had stands!
We spent double that on potential .., just after selling Delap and Hutchinson because ‘you can’t keep young players if your aren’t succesful’
It made zero sense then. Less so when it’s obvious he’s going to need lots of time.
We can’t keep pretending £100 plus million of mistakes hasn’t happened and there are no consequences!
We couldn’t sign any players for fees this window, £3 million and eve that required Sammie moving out.
CONSEQUENCES - you’d have to be a Nodge lunatic to say in hindsight Ogbene, McAteer, Walle, Muric, Greaves, Akpom, Ason, Philip’s, Johnson are money well spent.
Value. Quality and Cost. They determine success. It’s not a computer game.., it’s a rolling 3 years where mistakes linger for future seasons.
How many have forgotten Muric, Johnson, Ogbene, Philips, etc etc
They still dictate our future transfer business.
Sad to think £100 million down the drain is ok…, it is if you want another 20 years in the EFL.
Not if we want to compete with Brentford, Brighton, Bournemouth. They don’t waste hundreds of millions and nod along, accept it, pretend ‘maybe they’ll be better next year’
It’s woeful vision, woeful strategy, and poor implementation. Panic the moment we had resources.
We were found out. Ogbene and McA won’t ever be prem - light years off, Walle too o suspect won’t make it, but he’s young and has quality so who knows, but awful use of resources.
We have TWO teams, with enough quality for the play offs, the quality is so poor this year TWO.
And yet we maybe won’t get promoted.
Let that sink in …, four average wide right players costing £50 plus million - doesn’t add any value does it.
We needed our Winks type signing.., we’d rather have four decent players for each role than stand out players.
They we just had the worst season in the clubs history - 25 players, 24 of which aren’t good enough for the level.
Quantity over quality .., could characterise McKennas demise. Only Philogene is exceptional at this level - that’s it.
Not about in the EFL with £200 plus million spent gross .., almost impossible to spend that amount and if there was a team of the season next week, I think we have Philogene, Kipre maybe and Mats too .., maybe two, three at best, nobody else is even a conversation.
The rest of the best in this division, they cost £3.75 between them!! .., Ogbene boots cost more |
Can you explain how you get £50M spending from Ogbenne, McAteer and Walle? | | | |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 00:39 - Feb 17 with 323 views | armchaircritic59 |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 16:34 - Feb 16 by longtimefan |
Can you explain how you get £50M spending from Ogbenne, McAteer and Walle? |
You don't unless you're bad at maths or are lying to try to prove a point. | | | |
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| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 01:34 - Feb 17 with 310 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 11:42 - Feb 15 by darkhorse28 |
Love the number of down votes - I mean anyone suggesting we spend £50 plus million on Ogbenne, McAteer and Walle to be back ups to £100k Burns, who in the here and now, is better than the lot for work, pressing, and probably end product too. And obvious experience. Is well, interesting.
You’re saying £50 million has no consequences.
Also. You’re moaning we didn’t sign a striker.
There’s lack of self awareness, low football IQ and there’s this.
No actually supporter, that’s seen them play, would sign any of them, simply better ways to spend the money, with better outcomes required if we want success .
Walle is very young. But if he doesn’t add value in the here and now, it doesn’t work, because without promotion this season or next, we can’t retain him or others if they do have quality.
We needed added value in the hear and now, not potential in three years when you’re tying up such huge resources that COULD make a difference and deliver £200 million in revenue!!
Leiscter sighed Harry Winks. £10 million. England international.., ripped it up, they won the league going had stands!
We spent double that on potential .., just after selling Delap and Hutchinson because ‘you can’t keep young players if your aren’t succesful’
It made zero sense then. Less so when it’s obvious he’s going to need lots of time.
We can’t keep pretending £100 plus million of mistakes hasn’t happened and there are no consequences!
We couldn’t sign any players for fees this window, £3 million and eve that required Sammie moving out.
CONSEQUENCES - you’d have to be a Nodge lunatic to say in hindsight Ogbene, McAteer, Walle, Muric, Greaves, Akpom, Ason, Philip’s, Johnson are money well spent.
Value. Quality and Cost. They determine success. It’s not a computer game.., it’s a rolling 3 years where mistakes linger for future seasons.
How many have forgotten Muric, Johnson, Ogbene, Philips, etc etc
They still dictate our future transfer business.
Sad to think £100 million down the drain is ok…, it is if you want another 20 years in the EFL.
Not if we want to compete with Brentford, Brighton, Bournemouth. They don’t waste hundreds of millions and nod along, accept it, pretend ‘maybe they’ll be better next year’
It’s woeful vision, woeful strategy, and poor implementation. Panic the moment we had resources.
We were found out. Ogbene and McA won’t ever be prem - light years off, Walle too o suspect won’t make it, but he’s young and has quality so who knows, but awful use of resources.
We have TWO teams, with enough quality for the play offs, the quality is so poor this year TWO.
And yet we maybe won’t get promoted.
Let that sink in …, four average wide right players costing £50 plus million - doesn’t add any value does it.
We needed our Winks type signing.., we’d rather have four decent players for each role than stand out players.
They we just had the worst season in the clubs history - 25 players, 24 of which aren’t good enough for the level.
Quantity over quality .., could characterise McKennas demise. Only Philogene is exceptional at this level - that’s it.
Not about in the EFL with £200 plus million spent gross .., almost impossible to spend that amount and if there was a team of the season next week, I think we have Philogene, Kipre maybe and Mats too .., maybe two, three at best, nobody else is even a conversation.
The rest of the best in this division, they cost £3.75 between them!! .., Ogbene boots cost more |
Not sure I would have put it quite in the same terms but the fact we went after Femi Azeez and were prepared to pay big bucks for him, does show that certain aspects of recruitment haven't exactly gone as planned (to put it mildly). It also shows they are in for a penny in for a pound, which in one way I respect that from those holding the purse strings, in another it does concern me slightly when you look at the body of work in that department since promotion to the PL.
Not only that but the asset allocation in one position, when in the summer we didn't even chuck 5M at a Championship proven, 15 goals a year type striker still baffles me. An unproven guy that spent most of his time in the Spanish second tier, I am not sure that is EFL savvy.
Quite a few of the others you mention are noteworthy, although we didn't get promoted from a position of strength from an infrastructure standpoint and we have had some hits this year, even if we missed on our main target.
We just need to pray that we can sneak up and reorganize, loan out and sell some of those we brought in, even if at a loss, much easier to do that with PL money again.
If we don't, I do have some concerns with the squad and the future state in year 2 of parachute cash, quite possibly with a new manager and a stronger division. Which is why it's quite stressful few months ahead. We really need promotion from a football economic standpoint as much as anything!
Saying all that, I can't wait to see two of our post promotion signings in Philogene and Nunez back for this run and still believe we can do it! [Post edited 17 Feb 2:09]
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| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 04:37 - Feb 17 with 258 views | billabasblue |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 11:42 - Feb 15 by darkhorse28 |
Love the number of down votes - I mean anyone suggesting we spend £50 plus million on Ogbenne, McAteer and Walle to be back ups to £100k Burns, who in the here and now, is better than the lot for work, pressing, and probably end product too. And obvious experience. Is well, interesting.
You’re saying £50 million has no consequences.
Also. You’re moaning we didn’t sign a striker.
There’s lack of self awareness, low football IQ and there’s this.
No actually supporter, that’s seen them play, would sign any of them, simply better ways to spend the money, with better outcomes required if we want success .
Walle is very young. But if he doesn’t add value in the here and now, it doesn’t work, because without promotion this season or next, we can’t retain him or others if they do have quality.
We needed added value in the hear and now, not potential in three years when you’re tying up such huge resources that COULD make a difference and deliver £200 million in revenue!!
Leiscter sighed Harry Winks. £10 million. England international.., ripped it up, they won the league going had stands!
We spent double that on potential .., just after selling Delap and Hutchinson because ‘you can’t keep young players if your aren’t succesful’
It made zero sense then. Less so when it’s obvious he’s going to need lots of time.
We can’t keep pretending £100 plus million of mistakes hasn’t happened and there are no consequences!
We couldn’t sign any players for fees this window, £3 million and eve that required Sammie moving out.
CONSEQUENCES - you’d have to be a Nodge lunatic to say in hindsight Ogbene, McAteer, Walle, Muric, Greaves, Akpom, Ason, Philip’s, Johnson are money well spent.
Value. Quality and Cost. They determine success. It’s not a computer game.., it’s a rolling 3 years where mistakes linger for future seasons.
How many have forgotten Muric, Johnson, Ogbene, Philips, etc etc
They still dictate our future transfer business.
Sad to think £100 million down the drain is ok…, it is if you want another 20 years in the EFL.
Not if we want to compete with Brentford, Brighton, Bournemouth. They don’t waste hundreds of millions and nod along, accept it, pretend ‘maybe they’ll be better next year’
It’s woeful vision, woeful strategy, and poor implementation. Panic the moment we had resources.
We were found out. Ogbene and McA won’t ever be prem - light years off, Walle too o suspect won’t make it, but he’s young and has quality so who knows, but awful use of resources.
We have TWO teams, with enough quality for the play offs, the quality is so poor this year TWO.
And yet we maybe won’t get promoted.
Let that sink in …, four average wide right players costing £50 plus million - doesn’t add any value does it.
We needed our Winks type signing.., we’d rather have four decent players for each role than stand out players.
They we just had the worst season in the clubs history - 25 players, 24 of which aren’t good enough for the level.
Quantity over quality .., could characterise McKennas demise. Only Philogene is exceptional at this level - that’s it.
Not about in the EFL with £200 plus million spent gross .., almost impossible to spend that amount and if there was a team of the season next week, I think we have Philogene, Kipre maybe and Mats too .., maybe two, three at best, nobody else is even a conversation.
The rest of the best in this division, they cost £3.75 between them!! .., Ogbene boots cost more |
Fantastic post leading on from my original post however with a lot more meat on the bone , you are of course totally correct , no club could waste £50-£100m on dross and be ok with it especially not a medium sized club like ours , we’re turning into the footballing equivalent of that lunatic who won the lottery all those years ago and spent millions on drugs and woman and totally wasted it and then ended up back to work as a binman. I’m not sure why my post has received so may down votes really , if any town fan can honestly say they would still sign Egeli and Mcateer if we had our time again now that we have seen them in action for 30 odd games then I’m clearly living on a different planet to them. If we had both of them on season long loans instead of permanent deals both of them would be going back to their parent clubs in the summer never to be seen again however we are unfortunately stuck with them and are heavily in negative equity on both with no chance of recouping even a fraction of their fees back should we want to sell [Post edited 17 Feb 4:49]
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| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 07:12 - Feb 17 with 224 views | Len_Brennan |
We went into August with Omari Hutchinson as our right-sided attacker, who could play in the central #10 role, and McKenna clearly believed at that time that he would be staying. We were also, seemingly, on the brink of signing Hayden Hackney to partner Matusiwa in midfield, as a fee of £15 + £5m had been accepted by Middlesbrough & he had travelled here 'for a look'.
Now of course history tells us he then decided against it, in order to stay at his home town club, while Hutchinson then pushed for a move back to the Premier League with Forest.
Football clubs are correctly judged on results, both on the pitch & in actual recruitment outcomes, but before we go overboard & condemn McKenna & Ashton as being rubbish in identifying & capturing the right players, just have a think about how our team would be this season had we headed into the post window period with Hackney & Hutchinson in the starting XI. Not only would we be addressing (arguably) the 2 biggest problem areas for us this season, we would have the 2 best players in the positions in the league, who work perfectly in our system & who we could be very confident of going into the PL next season.
I won't even go into the fact that Agyemang & McBurnie were identified as strong candidates for the troublesome #9, as for different reasons they didn't come here.
Obviously none of that worked out & every club/manager will have umpteen unlucky stories of what might have been, but in our case this summer there were unforseen sliding doors moments (incl. losing Morsy as a CM option) that left us scrambling late on. That is the lot of the manager & recruitment team, and we have to be better at not being caught out or having unrealistic expectations when it comes to spending weeks of a transfer window chasing someone who was never going to come, but, I don't think it's fair to stay that we don't know what we are doing or who to identify. Had we a starting middle to front 6 of Matusiwa, Hackney, Hutchinson, Nunez, Philogene & Agyemang, we'd probably be 20 points ahead of where we are now (& wouldn't have signed Cajuste and at least one of McAteer or Egeli)
What ifs get you nothing though.  [Post edited 17 Feb 7:17]
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| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 10:34 - Feb 17 with 152 views | LevelTheLand |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 04:37 - Feb 17 by billabasblue |
Fantastic post leading on from my original post however with a lot more meat on the bone , you are of course totally correct , no club could waste £50-£100m on dross and be ok with it especially not a medium sized club like ours , we’re turning into the footballing equivalent of that lunatic who won the lottery all those years ago and spent millions on drugs and woman and totally wasted it and then ended up back to work as a binman. I’m not sure why my post has received so may down votes really , if any town fan can honestly say they would still sign Egeli and Mcateer if we had our time again now that we have seen them in action for 30 odd games then I’m clearly living on a different planet to them. If we had both of them on season long loans instead of permanent deals both of them would be going back to their parent clubs in the summer never to be seen again however we are unfortunately stuck with them and are heavily in negative equity on both with no chance of recouping even a fraction of their fees back should we want to sell [Post edited 17 Feb 4:49]
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| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 10:46 - Feb 17 with 140 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 04:37 - Feb 17 by billabasblue |
Fantastic post leading on from my original post however with a lot more meat on the bone , you are of course totally correct , no club could waste £50-£100m on dross and be ok with it especially not a medium sized club like ours , we’re turning into the footballing equivalent of that lunatic who won the lottery all those years ago and spent millions on drugs and woman and totally wasted it and then ended up back to work as a binman. I’m not sure why my post has received so may down votes really , if any town fan can honestly say they would still sign Egeli and Mcateer if we had our time again now that we have seen them in action for 30 odd games then I’m clearly living on a different planet to them. If we had both of them on season long loans instead of permanent deals both of them would be going back to their parent clubs in the summer never to be seen again however we are unfortunately stuck with them and are heavily in negative equity on both with no chance of recouping even a fraction of their fees back should we want to sell [Post edited 17 Feb 4:49]
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Personally both players are solid signings
However both are restricted for different reasons.
If we'd signed mcateer in the 23 season, he'd have had a field day, plenty of space, running onto chaplin balls ala burns, and putting balls into the box.
Now, he's having to come to halfway back to goal, that's not his game. We've seen when he gets free, he does things.. on friday he should have had another assist. he probably should be on 7 for the season.
But because of the low blocks we face most of the time, he's a redundant wide man.
Egeli.... a good club signing, purchased off the back of data, showing a potential for high sale in the future, his previous stats showed why we purchased him.
Again though he doesn't fit this side as yet. He's not a winger, again he can't drop to halfway back to goal and do things.
I think Egeli will end up being a Kane type forward... imo we should be trying him in that role here. He's not a KM type 10, if km played him as a 10, we'll just have he same issue as we have with akpom and had with sammy s.
Neither purchases are the players fault, their fee's are also not their fault.
Both have possibly signed for the wrong side, thats the issue. [Post edited 17 Feb 11:00]
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| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 10:53 - Feb 17 with 128 views | chicoazul |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 04:37 - Feb 17 by billabasblue |
Fantastic post leading on from my original post however with a lot more meat on the bone , you are of course totally correct , no club could waste £50-£100m on dross and be ok with it especially not a medium sized club like ours , we’re turning into the footballing equivalent of that lunatic who won the lottery all those years ago and spent millions on drugs and woman and totally wasted it and then ended up back to work as a binman. I’m not sure why my post has received so may down votes really , if any town fan can honestly say they would still sign Egeli and Mcateer if we had our time again now that we have seen them in action for 30 odd games then I’m clearly living on a different planet to them. If we had both of them on season long loans instead of permanent deals both of them would be going back to their parent clubs in the summer never to be seen again however we are unfortunately stuck with them and are heavily in negative equity on both with no chance of recouping even a fraction of their fees back should we want to sell [Post edited 17 Feb 4:49]
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| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 11:01 - Feb 17 with 119 views | Herbivore |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 10:35 - Feb 14 by ITFCSG |
Our recruitment is frankly $hite and doesn't seem to have improved at all since the League One days. Ashton talks a lot but anyone can see the majority of our recruitment is still done within the EFL. Can't get a proper striker even after how many windows. Look at the scum signing Makama and Ali who are banging the goals under their new manager in while we are still stuck with the useless Azon and Hirst running around like headless chickens. |
Cor yeah, I'd definitely love to swap where we're at for where Norwich are at. They are doing so much better than us. Absolute melt. |  |
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| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 11:03 - Feb 17 with 112 views | Herbivore |
| Turn the clock back to August and we certainly wouldn’t sign Egeli or Mcateer on 11:42 - Feb 15 by darkhorse28 |
Love the number of down votes - I mean anyone suggesting we spend £50 plus million on Ogbenne, McAteer and Walle to be back ups to £100k Burns, who in the here and now, is better than the lot for work, pressing, and probably end product too. And obvious experience. Is well, interesting.
You’re saying £50 million has no consequences.
Also. You’re moaning we didn’t sign a striker.
There’s lack of self awareness, low football IQ and there’s this.
No actually supporter, that’s seen them play, would sign any of them, simply better ways to spend the money, with better outcomes required if we want success .
Walle is very young. But if he doesn’t add value in the here and now, it doesn’t work, because without promotion this season or next, we can’t retain him or others if they do have quality.
We needed added value in the hear and now, not potential in three years when you’re tying up such huge resources that COULD make a difference and deliver £200 million in revenue!!
Leiscter sighed Harry Winks. £10 million. England international.., ripped it up, they won the league going had stands!
We spent double that on potential .., just after selling Delap and Hutchinson because ‘you can’t keep young players if your aren’t succesful’
It made zero sense then. Less so when it’s obvious he’s going to need lots of time.
We can’t keep pretending £100 plus million of mistakes hasn’t happened and there are no consequences!
We couldn’t sign any players for fees this window, £3 million and eve that required Sammie moving out.
CONSEQUENCES - you’d have to be a Nodge lunatic to say in hindsight Ogbene, McAteer, Walle, Muric, Greaves, Akpom, Ason, Philip’s, Johnson are money well spent.
Value. Quality and Cost. They determine success. It’s not a computer game.., it’s a rolling 3 years where mistakes linger for future seasons.
How many have forgotten Muric, Johnson, Ogbene, Philips, etc etc
They still dictate our future transfer business.
Sad to think £100 million down the drain is ok…, it is if you want another 20 years in the EFL.
Not if we want to compete with Brentford, Brighton, Bournemouth. They don’t waste hundreds of millions and nod along, accept it, pretend ‘maybe they’ll be better next year’
It’s woeful vision, woeful strategy, and poor implementation. Panic the moment we had resources.
We were found out. Ogbene and McA won’t ever be prem - light years off, Walle too o suspect won’t make it, but he’s young and has quality so who knows, but awful use of resources.
We have TWO teams, with enough quality for the play offs, the quality is so poor this year TWO.
And yet we maybe won’t get promoted.
Let that sink in …, four average wide right players costing £50 plus million - doesn’t add any value does it.
We needed our Winks type signing.., we’d rather have four decent players for each role than stand out players.
They we just had the worst season in the clubs history - 25 players, 24 of which aren’t good enough for the level.
Quantity over quality .., could characterise McKennas demise. Only Philogene is exceptional at this level - that’s it.
Not about in the EFL with £200 plus million spent gross .., almost impossible to spend that amount and if there was a team of the season next week, I think we have Philogene, Kipre maybe and Mats too .., maybe two, three at best, nobody else is even a conversation.
The rest of the best in this division, they cost £3.75 between them!! .., Ogbene boots cost more |
Your maths continues to be terrible. Your English worse still. | |
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