The must for next season

[UpTheClough]

Whatever we do in the close season we must not sell Adams or Sharp. We have gone into every season in League 1 selling our best players. Although at the start of this season many thought it was good money for Murphy and that Doyle had had his day; over the course of this season we have missed both. However poor this season has been Sharp has up to now scored 18 goals in a frankly shit team and runs himself into the ground almost every week. Adams although inconsistent is quick and has the power to change a game and make things happen and is only going to improve. No excuses we cannot sell either. I don't want to hear any rubbish like "Blackburn or Huddersfield were able to offer Che a deal we couldn't match" and "we have done well to secure 20 grand and free match day parking at Ewood park" by selling now rather than keeping him until his contract runs out. Both must be at Bramall Lane next season

 

[SK10Blade]

Agreed, as should Adkins.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Whatever we do in the close season we must not sell Adams or Sharp. We have gone into every season in League 1 selling our best players. Although at the start of this season many thought it was good money for Murphy and that Doyle had had his day; over the course of this season we have missed both. However poor this season has been Sharp has up to now scored 18 goals in a frankly shit team and runs himself into the ground almost every week. Adams although inconsistent is quick and has the power to change a game and make things happen and is only going to improve. No excuses we cannot sell either. I don't want to hear any rubbish like "Blackburn or Huddersfield were able to offer Che a deal we couldn't match" and "we have done well to secure 20 grand and free match day parking at Ewood park" by selling now rather than keeping him until his contract runs out. Both must be at Bramall Lane next season

Old ground but say he's on 8K with us and a club offer him 18K, we've no chance.

I bet there isn't one poster on here who would turn down the move, 500Ka year or 1.5M in three years, yer a liar if you say you wouldn't move.

 

[zablade]

Sharp won't want to leave.

Adams might though.

 

[UpTheClough]

Old ground but say he's on 8K with us and a club offer him 18K, we've no chance.

I bet there isn't one poster on here who would turn down the move, 500Ka year or 1.5M in three years, yer a liar if you say you wouldn't move.

I can't disagree with that as we all know what we'd do if it was us. Somehow you hope football is different but in reality its just a profession. What I would hope is that the club would appear to make more of an effort and , using your example, might offer 11.5k and use Jordan Slew and Maguire as examples of how the grass isn't always greener. If prem teams come knocking we haven't a prayer but I would like to think that we could persuade Adams to stay at least another season to develop and stop him from moving to most championship teams

 

[Tyler Durden]

If Che Adams wants to leave to "move on to bigger things" we should let him go in a shot.

Because he'll never be seen again.

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

Whatever we do in the close season we must not sell Adams or Sharp. We have gone into every season in League 1 selling our best players. Although at the start of this season many thought it was good money for Murphy and that Doyle had had his day; over the course of this season we have missed both. However poor this season has been Sharp has up to now scored 18 goals in a frankly shit team and runs himself into the ground almost every week. Adams although inconsistent is quick and has the power to change a game and make things happen and is only going to improve. No excuses we cannot sell either. I don't want to hear any rubbish like "Blackburn or Huddersfield were able to offer Che a deal we couldn't match" and "we have done well to secure 20 grand and free match day parking at Ewood park" by selling now rather than keeping him until his contract runs out. Both must be at Bramall Lane next season

Meanwhile back in the real world...presumably you think we should accept, say, £10m for Adams? £5m? £3m? £2m? £1m?

Easy to make proclamations when you don't have to make decisions.

What's the least we should accept?

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

Tiny Walsall keep hold of Tom Bradshaw, Romaine Sawyers, Rico Henry for their promotion push. It's what you do if you're serious about going up.

Peterborough, on the other hand, sell Conor Washington & self-combust. That's what happens if you're not serious. (Freakish Burton being the exception here.)

 

[UpTheClough]

Meanwhile back in the real world...presumably you think we should accept, say, £10m for Adams? £5m? £3m? £2m? £1m?

Easy to make proclamations when you don't have to make decisions.

What's the least we should accept?

I can't recall making a "proclamation" about a transfer fee Im simply stating the club should do all in their power to retain Adams whilst he's under contract. If Arsenal offer £30 million then of course he would go but all I'm saying is I don't want a repeat of McDonald where we sell players for a pitance to divisional rivals or clubs of a similar size to ourselves in terms of finances.

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

I can't recall making a "proclamation" about a transfer fee Im simply stating the club should do all in their power to retain Adams whilst he's under contract. If Arsenal offer £30 million then of course he would go but all I'm saying is I don't want a repeat of McDonald where we sell players for a pitance to divisional rivals or clubs of a similar size to ourselves in terms of finances.

So what's the smallest price we accept..?

We have sold players at very bad times, but Murphy wasn't one of them - and I do wonder if the worst of those days are over.

 

[PokerBlade]

I doubt Sharp will go anywhere. He made the decision to step down to whatever wage he's on and we're the team he wants to succeed with, so I doubt anyone's going to offer enough for him to consider.

Adams on the other hand is a player with potential and has to consider whether, similar to Slew and others before him, he'd ever see that kind of money again. And the club would have a serious decision to make about whether we want to gamble on his potential or look to get in proven quality.

I have high hopes for Adams but I also see things that make me think he could be like Flynn and Scougall where we could get two years down the line and be left with just another League One player. I don't think it would be the end of the world selling him and bringing in a Kitson/Shipperley type that would leave us more well rounded and provide better support for Sharp either. I don't want to sell him at all, but it wouldn't be a disaster like with Murphy or McDonald.

For me the biggest priority for next season is to ship out what we can and rebuild the defence. That's been an issue for us for two seasons now and we haven't secured a permanent centre back of any quality. Then it would be finding a better version of Hammond/Doyle and getting some quality attacking midfielders.

 

[Ricky]

The only must is that we play Basham right wing back all season. We'll smash the league with 100 points.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Meanwhile back in the real world...presumably you think we should accept, say, £10m for Adams? £5m? £3m? £2m? £1m?

Easy to make proclamations when you don't have to make decisions.

What's the least we should accept?

If someone decides to move on its a case of what the most we can get, its out of our hands to dictate what the minimum we should accept is.

 

[Top Cat]

I can't recall making a "proclamation" about a transfer fee Im simply stating the club should do all in their power to retain Adams whilst he's under contract. If Arsenal offer £30 million then of course he would go but all I'm saying is I don't want a repeat of McDonald where we sell players for a pitance to divisional rivals or clubs of a similar size to ourselves in terms of finances.

You've forgotten that McDonald had been out of contract at the end of the previous season and could have walked away? He later signed a new contract with a 250k release clause, presumably the only circumstances that he would have signed a new contract.

 

[PeteBlade]

Sharp won't want to leave.

Adams might though.

Adams needs to prove he has both the desire and ability to play for a club like ours.

So far he hasn't done that.

 

[nopigfansintown]

Old ground but say he's on 8K with us and a club offer him 18K, we've no chance.

I bet there isn't one poster on here who would turn down the move, 500Ka year or 1.5M in three years, yer a liar if you say you wouldn't move.

Not his move to turn down, unless thee's a release clause in his contract or the club decide to sell him

 

[alcoblade]

So what's the smallest price we accept..?

We have sold players at very bad times, but Murphy wasn't one of them - and I do wonder if the worst of those days are over.

The worst of those days are over. We've sold everything and replaced it with shit .

UTB

 

[HillmortonBlade]

If Che Adams wants to leave to "move on to bigger things" we should let him go in a shot.

Because he'll never be seen again.

Not sure if it's because I may be enjoying strong beer too much, or perhaps you are, but you making some proper sense this evening... Billy put in a proper shift today, as did most of the players. And I am sure Che did... it just doesn't stick in the memory as well.

(not to say that you don't make sense when I am sober, but you know what I mean...)

 

[HillmortonBlade]

The worst of those days are over. We've sold everything and replaced it with shit .

UTB

What I am confused about is that on Wednesday night each and virtually every player (according to some) was any number of obscene descriptions and should never wear our shirt again. Now, that may be true, but I've not read so many of these comments this evening. So are they crap players or not?

Inconsistent, without doubt.

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

Sharp would be the only player I wouldn't want us to lose. Not bothered about the rest.

 

[alcoblade]

What I am confused about is that on Wednesday night each and virtually every player (according to some) was any number of obscene descriptions and should never wear our shirt again. Now, that may be true, but I've not read so many of these comments this evening. So are they crap players or not?

Inconsistent, without doubt.

Level of inconsistency equals level of crapness. Most players, at the top of their own game, can do great things. What seperates them is how often they do it.

UTB

 

[Barney]

What I am confused about is that on Wednesday night each and virtually every player (according to some) was any number of obscene descriptions and should never wear our shirt again. Now, that may be true, but I've not read so many of these comments this evening. So are they crap players or not?

Inconsistent, without doubt.

Win - Alright-good players
Lose - Absolute disgraces

Think that's more or less how it goes on here.

In my opinion, it's a notch above a mid table side and we by and large get the results to match.

 

[HillmortonBlade]

Level of inconsistency equals level of crapness. Most players, at the top of their own game, can do great things. What seperates them is how often they do it.

UTB

Win - Alright-good players
Lose - Absolute disgraces

Think that's more or less how it goes on here.

In my opinion, it's a notch above a mid table side and we by and large get the results to match.

Blimey, I agree with you both!

It just feeds bees into my bonnet when I see Blades players called very nasty names when we lose and then lauded when we win. The inconsistency of criticism is no way as irritating as the inconsistency of the players. But still annoying.

Not, I must say, is something that either of you can be accused of.

 

[Barney]

Blimey, I agree with you both!

It just feeds bees into my bonnet when I see Blades players called very nasty names when we lose and then lauded when we win. The inconsistency of criticism is no way as irritating as the inconsistency of the players. But still annoying.

Not, I must say, is something that either of you can be accused of.

Shall we talk about Politics and Jeremy Corbyn? I can agree with you all day long then.

 

[Bladesman]

Whatever we do in the close season we must not sell Adams or Sharp. We have gone into every season in League 1 selling our best players. Although at the start of this season many thought it was good money for Murphy and that Doyle had had his day; over the course of this season we have missed both. However poor this season has been Sharp has up to now scored 18 goals in a frankly shit team and runs himself into the ground almost every week. Adams although inconsistent is quick and has the power to change a game and make things happen and is only going to improve. No excuses we cannot sell either. I don't want to hear any rubbish like "Blackburn or Huddersfield were able to offer Che a deal we couldn't match" and "we have done well to secure 20 grand and free match day parking at Ewood park" by selling now rather than keeping him until his contract runs out. Both must be at Bramall Lane next season

**McCabe sees this post, then begins writing down his price tags for Sharp and Adams as he starts making a few phone calls.**

 

[Bartleby]

Whatever we do in the close season we must not sell Adams or Sharp. We have gone into every season in League 1 selling our best players. Although at the start of this season many thought it was good money for Murphy and that Doyle had had his day; over the course of this season we have missed both. However poor this season has been Sharp has up to now scored 18 goals in a frankly shit team and runs himself into the ground almost every week. Adams although inconsistent is quick and has the power to change a game and make things happen and is only going to improve. No excuses we cannot sell either. I don't want to hear any rubbish like "Blackburn or Huddersfield were able to offer Che a deal we couldn't match" and "we have done well to secure 20 grand and free match day parking at Ewood park" by selling now rather than keeping him until his contract runs out. Both must be at Bramall Lane next season

didn't think we missed Brayford yesterday, maybe he'll be the one to keep the tradition going? Not that we'd get owt like what we paid.

 

[Bladesince59]

Agreed, as should Adkins.

Agreed - except for the Adkins bit.

 

[Bladesince59]

Adams needs to prove he has both the desire and ability to play for a club like ours.

So far he hasn't done that.

He's just in a shop window here - that's all.

 

[BushBlade]

didn't think we missed Brayford yesterday, maybe he'll be the one to keep the tradition going? Not that we'd get owt like what we paid.

No we won't but we could pay the wages of three decent players for what we're paying him. Where we're likely to get it wrong is that because he's injured, unless Burton go up and Clough wants to sign him, he'll probably still be here at the start of the season. If he starts well we'll either sell him on the last day of the window and fail to replace him or sell him in the JTW and scupper our promotion chances. Unless we start learning from the past.