Hard to bring players in...

[Fjortoft's Aeroplane]

Apparently it's hard to bring quality players in because we're a big club and agents and players have £ signs in their eyes. Well for God's sake if they are a proven player not nearing the end of their career then just pay it.

I agree we have overpaid some real dross in the past, but they were largely unproven or nearing the end of their career. As long as they meet exacting standards then just pay the price, that is the cost of success I'm afraid.

 

[SwissBlade]

Its true

 

[tyneblade]

I can't afford it and neither, it would seem, can McCabe or the Prince.
So who is your candidate to "just pay the price"?

 

[PeteBlade]

There are bigger clubs that don't seem to have such issues.

 

[Maidenhead]

Apparently it's hard to bring quality players in because we're a big club and agents and players have £ signs in their eyes. Well for God's sake if they are a proven player not nearing the end of their career then just pay it.

I agree we have overpaid some real dross in the past, but they were largely unproven or nearing the end of their career. As long as they meet exacting standards then just pay the price, that is the cost of success I'm afraid.

In fact why bother with budgets at all?

If it all goes tits up we can always go into administration and start again.

 

[JJBlade]

More platitudes from upstairs

I remember Reg Brearley saying that our club may turnover more than other Third Division clubs but our large stadium was expensive to run

 

[JJBlade]

Still, most of our fans swallowed it

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

Apparently it's hard to bring quality players in because we're a big club and agents and players have £ signs in their eyes. Well for God's sake if they are a proven player not nearing the end of their career then just pay it.

I agree we have overpaid some real dross in the past, but they were largely unproven or nearing the end of their career. As long as they meet exacting standards then just pay the price, that is the cost of success I'm afraid.

What are these exacting standards of which you speak?

I think a more likely explanation is 1. Agents don`t want to lose a client by brokering a deal to bring him to us where any ability he possessed will disappear faster than the chances of going up this season, and 2. Any player with a modicum of self respect would prefer to shove a rusty nail up his Japs eye than turn out for English footballs biggest basket case.

 

[Esablade]

In fact why bother with budgets at all?

If it all goes tits up we can always go into administration and start again.

...alternately we can spend the next 10 years with McCabe/Princey doing their Chuckle brothers impressions...

 

[Silent Blade]

Apparently it's hard to bring quality players in because we're a big club and agents and players have £ signs in their eyes. Well for God's sake if they are a proven player not nearing the end of their career then just pay it.

I agree we have overpaid some real dross in the past, but they were largely unproven or nearing the end of their career. As long as they meet exacting standards then just pay the price, that is the cost of success I'm afraid.

Easy for you to say when you have not paid anything to the club (apart from paying the admission prices and paying for the merchandise)

 

[Rodders]

Easy for you to say when you have not paid anything to the club (apart from paying the admission prices and paying for the merchandise)

Assume you'll never comment on any player then because you've never played for the Club?

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Easy for you to say when you have not paid anything to the club (apart from paying the admission prices and paying for the merchandise)

David Attenborough has never been a polar bear but he still did a documentary about them.

 

[Blade56]

Its true

Where you heard that?

 

[northsomersetblade]

There are bigger clubs that don't seem to have such issues.

There are smaller clubs that don't seem to have such issues

 

[Blade56]

There are smaller clubs that don't seem to have such issues

Yeh Burton Albion

 

[Wards]

Until the board have a fully competetent transfer strategy and are willing to back it with actual, real life, bone-fide money then we're stuck here. Wilder can't work miracles. The chickens are coming home to roost.

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

Maybe it's hard to bring players in because they look at us and see a club scrabbling about at the bottom of League One with a culture of failure and an increasingly furious hardcore fanbase that gives their own players dogs' abuse the moment they concede a goal, or pass it about too much, or play too direct, or don't get stuck in, or get sent off, or try to walk it into the net, or have a speculative shot off target, or have a shot when they should have passed it, or pass it when they should have had a shot, or are too ginger, or aren't ginger enough, or...

 

[Silent Blade]

Assume you'll never comment on any player then because you've never played for the Club?

David Attenborough has never been a polar bear but he still did a documentary about them.

I may make comments about players (usually defending them) but I think you will find that I have never made “player suggestion” threads in the rumours section, I don’t contribute to the S24SU player ratings for each match and hardly ever post “my team for next match” (I admit I have made one or two posts that we should play Leon Clarke for the lone striker role cos the 442 system doesn’t seem to be working for us this season)

 

[pommpey]

Maybe it's hard to bring players in because they look at us and see a club scrabbling about at the bottom of League One with a culture of failure and an increasingly furious hardcore fanbase that gives their own players dogs' abuse the moment they concede a goal, or pass it about too much, or play too direct, or don't get stuck in, or get sent off, or try to walk it into the net, or have a speculative shot off target, or have a shot when they should have passed it, or pass it when they should have had a shot, or are too ginger, or aren't ginger enough, or...

WARK! WARK! ITS THE FANS FAULT ALERT! WARK! WARK!

Pommpey

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

Not saying it's the fans' fault at all pommpey. But put yourself in a player's shoes. Clubs are sniffing around you. You weigh up the pros and cons of these clubs. What has playing for this club got going for it other than the money which, we are now told, is less than other clubs are prepared to pay out?

 

[TJB.]

Can't be that hard.

 

[Bladesman]

Not saying it's the fans' fault at all pommpey. But put yourself in a player's shoes. Clubs are sniffing around you. You weigh up the pros and cons of these clubs. What has playing for this club got going for it other than the money which, we are now told, is less than other clubs are prepared to pay out?

We have a hotel and a desso pitch. What's there not to like?

 

[Revolution]

We have a hotel and a desso pitch. What's there not to like?

We have neither. McCabe owns them both.

 

[PeteBlade]

It seems to me that we find it hard to bring players in, we also find it hard to get rid of unwanted players, also we can't stand in the way of a player wanting to leave and we can't match other players wages whilst paying our players too high wages.

 

[Revolution]

It seems to me that we find it hard to bring players in, we also find it hard to get rid of unwanted players, also we can't stand in the way of a player wanting to leave and we can't match other players wages whilst paying our players too high wages.

It's obviously very complicated.

I for one am amazed we can field a side at all.

 

[super_pig]

There are bigger clubs that don't seem to have such issues.

there are 'smaller' clubs that don't seem to have such issues :0)
edit: sorry should have read full thread first i guess

 

[super_pig]

Maybe it's hard to bring players in because they look at us and see a club scrabbling about at the bottom of League One with a culture of failure and an increasingly furious hardcore fanbase that gives their own players dogs' abuse the moment they concede a goal, or pass it about too much, or play too direct, or don't get stuck in, or get sent off, or try to walk it into the net, or have a speculative shot off target, or have a shot when they should have passed it, or pass it when they should have had a shot, or are too ginger, or aren't ginger enough, or...

or..
CRAP.. basically

 

[SwissBlade]

Where you heard that?

Erm... Internet... Or something

 

[Benny and the Blades]

You pay peanuts you get Monkeys,
but were paying coconuts for em and selling on any that look half good to pay for it ???.......

 

[sheffielder]

Until the board have a fully competetent transfer strategy and are willing to back it with actual, real life, bone-fide money then we're stuck here. Wilder can't work miracles. The chickens are coming home to roost.

But it looked like wilder did have a transfer strategy however over the last few weeks it looks like they have taken it from his hands. This feels very different to the work he did and what he was saying when the likes of Fleck were coming through the door