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Right, that's true. But when we didn't get Watkins or Cash, why did we go on and sign big money (tranfer fee wise, mostly) alternatives to them? We could've as well signed cheap alternatives, and the end result would've been the same.
their all suicidal over there on porktalk and have resigned themselves to pub league football next season oh and for some reason they dont like pullis anymore
Do you know what the 'recruitment team' is? who's on it? and how they go about their work?
Did anybody see them? Maybe give that response if we'd actually seen them over more than a few 5 minute appearances
I agree with this, do you think our back up signings have been panic signings though? I think that’s questionable. My reason for this,
because in my opinion Wilder rested on his laurels a little bit, and made the assumption based on last season that our 1st team was competitive enough to get mid table again so he probably planned to have Cash as rotation with Baldock (potentially another stumbling block in negotiations).
^^^^^^^^^^^^Alert ........................ where were all these new posters when we were pushing for Europe?
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on here are so transparent, why any blade would respond to them, is beyond me. Ignore button works a treat.
It’s not like there isn’t any threads on the same subject, there is, started by Blades. I’m old fashioned in that if a supporter of any other club said “you’re a bit shit at the moment” I’d agree but if a pig said it my response would be “not as shit as you twats”.The
Sounding like a broken record again but CWAK had Toney at Northampton. The fact that they didn’t make a move at £6m should tell you that he’s not good enough for the division we’re in?
I agree with everything you’ve said thus far in the thread. However here I differ the issue is we’re picking in the same pool as every premier league club now. In league one and the champ we picked up underrated older players who we thought could play a very specific role for us and so called hidden gems out of league one. This was all done with a scouting department and recruitment team whose record was excellent despite the very short memories of what seems to be a lot of Unitedites. Unfortunately we are now in a league where every single teams scouting department is excellent there is no player we’re looking at that they don’t know about and the press is desperate to sniff out any hint of a transfer nothing goes under the radar and as has rightly been pointed out we can’t compete for wages so our options are limited to players who don’t get other prem offers and players who buy into the managers vision completely and reject other offers.
The Ramsdale point stands as foster was getable but the club wanted a long term answer there it’s swings and roundabouts really but your point certainly has merit.
It’s expensive by our standard but not by prem standards there’s only Berge, Ramsdale and McBurnie who weren’t signed for prem pocket change there and even our most expensive transfers in that list and probably for below average prem fees now. The strikers last year looked good in a good side but that promotion group is now approaching its sell by and it shows.
That's a great point. People keep saying that the recruitment has been a disaster but it is perhaps pretty short-sighted, of course most are rightly worried about being relegated so from that perspective recruitment may not have been the best. However, from other perspectives it is very much early days right now on Brewster and Ramsdale, both are very young for their positions and once fully settled could turn out be bargains. Berge will likely command a similar fee to what was paid should the worst happen and relegation does unfold and he leaves. Bogle is another for the future and with all the above the one thing that Wilder and Knill surely have credit in the bank for his development of players with most being improved immeasurably (enough so that a lot have risen through the leagues).
Exactly. The less you pay the bigger the gamble and the better the player the more competition for their signature. Most players will choose more money of course as we all likely would. What you have then is recruiting players who are either 3rd or 4th choice or you are rolling the dice...sometimes both at the same time.
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