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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit 10:22 - Aug 28 with 3307 viewsGlasgowBlue

and are now going for players who can get us out of this bloody tough league first before we even think about next season.

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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:26 - Aug 28 with 2454 viewsSWLondonBlue93

The Furlong link is the clearest signal yet that we've shifted to a more short-term strategy. It also doesn't reflect particularly well on last summer's business.
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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:26 - Aug 28 with 2425 viewsCopfordBlue

Unfortunately premier league ready players are already in or about to sign for premier league clubs. Delap and Omari are further evidence of this. Hopefully a few more of this group will be premier league ready next season if we get back because more wholesale changes next summer if we go up will almost certainly lead to another year of struggle in 26/27.

Relegation of all 3 promoted teams two seasons running and it being likely that at least 2 of the 3 will do the same this season shows just how hard it is nowadays to build a team. It’s a shame.

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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:27 - Aug 28 with 2383 viewsFromReuserWithLove

by signing players who have never got out of this division?
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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:30 - Aug 28 with 2317 viewsChris_ITFC

It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:27 - Aug 28 by FromReuserWithLove

by signing players who have never got out of this division?


By signing other clubs’ best players / captains…

… who play for clubs that aren’t good enough to get promoted…

… for example, that lot down the road.

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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:30 - Aug 28 with 2313 viewsITFCSG

If any one of the promoted 3 stay up this season it just shows that MA and KM aren't the geniuses some of them here make them out to be
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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:31 - Aug 28 with 2274 viewsSarge

It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:27 - Aug 28 by FromReuserWithLove

by signing players who have never got out of this division?


In fairness our transfer strategy last season was to replace players who had got out of the Championship with players who hadn’t
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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:32 - Aug 28 with 2240 viewsDarkBrandon

Well ... maybe.

Ashton spoke about the huge step up in physicality demanded as you step up to the PL, and us not really being ready for that. So we were shifting to prioritising this more highly.

That doesn't necessarily mean we were looking at players who have played their careers in the PL. Merely that they'd (theoretically) be able to step up as they had a higher ceiling in whatever physical attributes they needed.

Have Furlong, McAteer and Nunez got this? I've no idea.
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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:33 - Aug 28 with 2225 viewsbaxterbasics

Unfortunately sometimes you have to just focus on the immediate problem and let tomorrow take care of itself when it comes.

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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:33 - Aug 28 with 2224 viewsChris_ITFC

It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:26 - Aug 28 by SWLondonBlue93

The Furlong link is the clearest signal yet that we've shifted to a more short-term strategy. It also doesn't reflect particularly well on last summer's business.


Agreed. Furlong replacing Johnson is pretty meh.

Johnson is good enough to get us promoted for the Championship.

Furlong isn’t good enough to play for us in the Premier League.

More turnover, with no significant or long-term upgrade.

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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:34 - Aug 28 with 2180 viewsBluemike31

And that's exactly the right approach to take, we totally got it wrong before.
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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:39 - Aug 28 with 2081 viewsWhos_blue

It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:30 - Aug 28 by ITFCSG

If any one of the promoted 3 stay up this season it just shows that MA and KM aren't the geniuses some of them here make them out to be


Or alternatively

A) a team that stays up spent longer than one season in the Championship and had time to amass a stronger squad and didn't go up with half of the squad from League one

B) West Ham and Wolves didn't implode

C) They are simply better than we were

Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness.

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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:39 - Aug 28 with 2073 viewsJ2BLUE

It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:33 - Aug 28 by Chris_ITFC

Agreed. Furlong replacing Johnson is pretty meh.

Johnson is good enough to get us promoted for the Championship.

Furlong isn’t good enough to play for us in the Premier League.

More turnover, with no significant or long-term upgrade.


It's probably not an easy sell saying come to Ipswich where we have (on paper) three very high quality full backs already.

We were never going to sign a top level full back to come and sit on the bench. It's a very solid depth signing.
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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:45 - Aug 28 with 1964 views_clive_baker_

I do think there has to be an element of that and the right balance. Tomorrow never comes, its all very well investing in players with big potential but sometimes you just need proven quality who know their way around the division, even if its a bit less sexy.

Looking beyond this season as well Townsend is out of contract and probably leaves after a serious injury, Young is 41 and out of contract and probably goes. Woolf probably goes if not before. Kipre joins if we go up, maybe doesn't if we don't. We're back to 5 or 6 defenders, we'll need some stability and continuity regardless of the league we're in.
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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:53 - Aug 28 with 1871 viewsbartyg

It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:45 - Aug 28 by _clive_baker_

I do think there has to be an element of that and the right balance. Tomorrow never comes, its all very well investing in players with big potential but sometimes you just need proven quality who know their way around the division, even if its a bit less sexy.

Looking beyond this season as well Townsend is out of contract and probably leaves after a serious injury, Young is 41 and out of contract and probably goes. Woolf probably goes if not before. Kipre joins if we go up, maybe doesn't if we don't. We're back to 5 or 6 defenders, we'll need some stability and continuity regardless of the league we're in.


Agree with this. We're still recalibrating the squad from the league 1 days- we need stronger cover and a better bench for future attempts in the prem.

The best is a mix of both- we still need the young talent to develop and bring in the funds to escalate the rest of the squad.
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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:00 - Aug 28 with 1774 viewsThe_Flashing_Smile

It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:30 - Aug 28 by ITFCSG

If any one of the promoted 3 stay up this season it just shows that MA and KM aren't the geniuses some of them here make them out to be


None of those three were in League 1 (and with a rotten infrastructure throughout the club) the year before, so you're not comparing like with like.

Leeds, especially, are streets ahead of where we were in terms of Prem readiness. We were victims of our own (too quick) success.

Trust the process. Trust Phil.

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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:01 - Aug 28 with 1763 viewsGuthrum

Any idea of recruiting a squad which can reasonably be expected stay in the Prem while just having been relegated back to the Champ was always pie in the sky.

We don't have the draw or, despite parachute money, the funds to attract that kind of player. It's why we couldn't keep hold of Delap or Hutchinson. At best we can get borderline people like Cajuste (who could be up to the standard, but not nailed on, just a loan if we don't go up), veterans like Young, or ambitious top-end second tier/overseas men who can't get directly into a Prem squad.

In any case, as you mention, we have a Championship campaign to contest first. No point in acquiring beautiful footballers who can't break down a low block or take a crunching tackle.

Some things said have led to a lot of loose thinking on where we are in relation to transfer possibilities and attractiveness this summer. In the process devaluing what have been some pretty decent acquisitions at this level. We could only have dremt of signing the kind of players we are now during the grinding years in the Champ before we went down to L1.

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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:02 - Aug 28 with 1721 viewsThe_Flashing_Smile

Yep, agreed, and that's absolutely fine. I like the ambition of going for players slightly out of reach, then falling back onto more realistic ones as time gets short. If you shoot for the stars, you can still hit the moon.

Trust the process. Trust Phil.

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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:06 - Aug 28 with 1678 viewstextbackup

This feels like a deal that could have been done 3 months ago.

Clearly our top end attempts have failed

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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:08 - Aug 28 with 1638 viewsFromReuserWithLove

It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:06 - Aug 28 by textbackup

This feels like a deal that could have been done 3 months ago.

Clearly our top end attempts have failed


HOW DARE YOU!
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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:08 - Aug 28 with 1640 viewsblueoutlook

It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:30 - Aug 28 by Chris_ITFC

By signing other clubs’ best players / captains…

… who play for clubs that aren’t good enough to get promoted…

… for example, that lot down the road.


We tried that last season,that didn’t work!
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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:09 - Aug 28 with 1624 viewsGuthrum

It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:30 - Aug 28 by ITFCSG

If any one of the promoted 3 stay up this season it just shows that MA and KM aren't the geniuses some of them here make them out to be


Leeds have spent three of the last five seasons in the Prem. Burnley had a run of six years there before yo-yoing for the last three. Even Sunderland were a pretty established top-tier side 10 years ago, albeit having crashed down to L1 after that.

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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:11 - Aug 28 with 1570 views_clive_baker_

It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:06 - Aug 28 by textbackup

This feels like a deal that could have been done 3 months ago.

Clearly our top end attempts have failed


I don't think defensive cover was ever one where we needed or expected top end targets this summer. Not all transfers are born equal, this one is effectively filling a Townsend shaped hole, but with the benefit of strengthening at right back in the process.
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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:13 - Aug 28 with 1531 viewskeanekipper

if we are looking to also add the Norwegian lad and the south American cb, adding lots of championship exp alongside them, will only help. People to look after them as such
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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:19 - Aug 28 with 1458 viewstextbackup

It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:11 - Aug 28 by _clive_baker_

I don't think defensive cover was ever one where we needed or expected top end targets this summer. Not all transfers are born equal, this one is effectively filling a Townsend shaped hole, but with the benefit of strengthening at right back in the process.


I’m not trying to be a knob (promise) but didn’t her get injured over a month ago?

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It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 11:21 - Aug 28 with 1417 viewsTractor_Boy333

It looks like we’ve dropped the “Premier League ready” strategy on recruit on 10:39 - Aug 28 by Whos_blue

Or alternatively

A) a team that stays up spent longer than one season in the Championship and had time to amass a stronger squad and didn't go up with half of the squad from League one

B) West Ham and Wolves didn't implode

C) They are simply better than we were


I think it’s much more likely one of the promoted teams stays up this season.

With Wolves, Brentford and Bournemouth having sold all their best players and West Ham seem even worse than they were last season I think one or more if those teams gets relegated.

We weren’t good enough last season not trying to pretend otherwise but I think some of the so called established teams are weaker than last season and don’t seem to be bringing in players of similar quality.

Hence the reason Wolves are turning down the crazy money Newcastle have offered for Larsen, they know to lose him as well will really hurt thier chances of not getting relegated. Personally I think he’s pretty average and not worth half that amount.
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