CONFIRMED Nils Zätterström to Genoa

[Booker4]

What a goal that was btw

Portsmouth I think it was?

 

[71Blade]

Portsmouth I think it was?

Traianos Dellas scored a famous 30-yard wonder goal for Sheffield United during a 1999 match against Portsmouth at Bramall Lane, securing a late 2-1 victory for the Blades.

 

[Houso]

Which of the other AI lads are due back or still around? The Bulgarian RB is still at the club isn't he?

 

[JD88]

Which of the other AI lads are due back or still around? The Bulgarian RB is still at the club isn't he?

Yes along with ukaki and the other winger whose name i can’t spell

 

[Hanauer]

Yes along with ukaki and the other winger whose name i can’t spell

You mean Isiah Whosenameicantspell ?

 

[The Fox]

I was wondering if we sell Zlatter to Genoa at the agreed deal will we have just about come out level on the AI experiment?

 

[Danetheblade]

I was wondering if we sell Zlatter to Genoa at the agreed deal will we have just about come out level on the AI experiment?

In which case that’d show the experiment worked really.

 

[CPB]

Obviously we never saw him play.

But from what I heard he was so far off the standard for the championship it was a bit mad.

Interesting that Genoa may be exploring buying him. Especially when he's only played a few games. But the Italian league is alot slower than our top 2 leagues.
So it could be that a slower paced game suits him?

 

[jimmymuir]

He's played three times for Genoa, there's not a chance they pay the £4.75M fee to make it permanent. Italian clubs are stingy and have no dough, they'll try to renegotiate and offer something like £1M paid in instalments over years.

 

[Bladesman]

He's played three times for Genoa, there's not a chance they pay the £4.75M fee to make it permanent. Italian clubs are stingy and have no dough, they'll try to renegotiate and offer something like £1M paid in instalments over years.

Maybe so but why agree a deal with the option at that price?

 

[jimmymuir]

Maybe so but why agree a deal with the option at that price?

Perhaps to indicate that they're willing to make the deal permanent?

 

[Ukkonen]

Cant see that its been posted already:

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Cant see that its been posted already:

 

[Rodley]

Cant see that its been posted already:

He’s dogegg.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

As with many other Summer signings, we were totally mugged off and are now stuck with these contracts.

You can 100% add McGuiness and Chong to the list (4 year deals!!).

 

[jt64]

As with many other Summer signings, we were totally mugged off and are now stuck with these contracts.

You can 100% add McGuiness and Chong to the list (4 year deals!!).

I must have missed the part where it was anyone else's fault for agreeing those contracts but our own

 

[billyblademan]

As with many other Summer signings, we were totally mugged off and are now stuck with these contracts.

You can 100% add McGuiness and Chong to the list (4 year deals!!).

And Matos. Sigh…

 

[CaptainMorgans]

I must have missed the part where it was anyone else's fault for agreeing those contracts but our own

Yep. Absolutely awful business.
We had our pants pulled down through our own naivety.

For the aforementioned signings, the issue was presumably the Owners / James Bord.

 

[Wards]

There was never a world where that release clause was being triggered.

 

[KMC-1889]

Yep. Absolutely awful business.
We had our pants pulled down through our own naivety.

For the aforementioned signings, the issue was presumably the Owners / James Bord.

Bettis, Allen & Hoyland were all part of the decision making process and are somehow still in gainful employment by the club.

We could save a fortune binning the three of them off and bringing in actually talent. Same for that contract manager idiot whose name I can’t remember.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Bettis, Allen & Hoyland were all part of the decision making process and are somehow still in gainful employment by the club.

We could save a fortune binning the three of them off and bringing in actually talent. Same for that contract manager idiot whose name I can’t remember.

You think Bettis was involved in suggesting players when Bord was around and Hoyland was scouting? Or that Carl S was to blame for those selections despite his job being simply to agree contracts? Presumably with the parameters set by his employers.

 

[FriethBlade]

Yep. Absolutely awful business.
We had our pants pulled down through our own naivety.

For the aforementioned signings, the issue was presumably the Owners / James Bord.

What about the recruitment team who are still here? Did they have nothing to do with it and if not why are they employed? And if so why are they still employed?

 

[KMC-1889]

You think Bettis was involved in suggesting players when Bord was around and Hoyland was scouting? Or that Carl S was to blame for those selections despite his job being simply to agree contracts? Presumably with the parameters set by his employers.

I think there’s enough people involved to put their hands up and say ‘are we sure this is a good idea?’.

If they’re just Yes men there to do the paperwork then let’s get them sacked and bring in some graduates to do it.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I think there’s enough people involved to put their hands up and say ‘are we sure this is a good idea?’.

If they’re just Yes men there to do the paperwork then let’s get them sacked and bring in some graduates to do it.

The idea that shiny arses should override football men and probably the owner on the quality of signings doesn’t really sit well. The owners should be looking at getting rid of those who actually find/suggest, chase substandard players and, as we have seen, should do it via a DoF* or whatever to provide the knowledge they clearly don’t have.

*not a dig at Wilder before anyone gets a tummy ache.

 

[Uganda Blade]

The idea that shiny arses should override football men and probably the owner on the quality of signings doesn’t really sit well. The owners should be looking at getting rid of those who actually find/suggest, chase substandard players and, as we have seen, should do it via a DoF* or whatever to provide the knowledge they clearly don’t have.

*not a dig at Wilder before anyone gets a tummy ache.

Bring back Des Taylor, I say.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

I think there’s enough people involved to put their hands up and say ‘are we sure this is a good idea?’.

If they’re just Yes men there to do the paperwork then let’s get them sacked and bring in some graduates to do it.

The club appointed Bettis to the board AFTER the whole farce so perhaps what he said in that period came to be...

 

[Snowflake]

As with many other Summer signings, we were totally mugged off and are now stuck with these contracts.

You can 100% add McGuiness and Chong to the list (4 year deals!!).

Chong ? Our only player at the World Cup and who set up the only goal in the WC history of Curaçao ? He should have had a 6 year contract.

 

[dexter101]

Cant see that its been posted already:

When on earth did we put such a high fee on him.

I dont mind us spending a couple of £100k on players who may or may not come good. But this one seems crazy and then we had an opportunity to offload and we missed it because of a clause being too high.

If they had made his move permanent, for that fee I think the Italians would have been sending their board for psychological testing

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Bring back Des Taylor, I say.

Strange that he disappeared, was he the poker players man that alleges he got shafted in the buyout?

He seemed to have a really good influence.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Strange that he disappeared, was he the poker players man that alleges he got shafted in the buyout?

He seemed to have a really good influence.

Bord.