[Confirmed] Slew to Blackburn

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He clearly thought he was too good for Sheff Utd and I think we should be congratulating whoever at the Lane for converting 500k to a million in a couple of months.
 



Getting 1 million for Slew is good business. We need money and it was far more important to keep the likes of Quinn and Williamson.

Paying that amount of money for him is a gamble on Blackburn's part. Despite flashes of potential there is no guarantee he will be a superstar.

When you look at the Kyle's for instance, there is just no comparison. Slew still has a lot to learn and shouldnt command a million pounds imo.

I wish the kid the best of luck, but I expect he will spend the next 2 to 3 years in the reserves/being farmed out on loan to smaller clubs.

The only reservation I have is that it seems to leave us a bit short of numbers up top. Looks like we will have to bring a forward in on loan!
 
I don't see how wilfully weakening your squad is "good business".
 
How can people say this is good business when it has left us with 2 available strikers. We were adamant we would not rely on the loan system, yet the window is now shut and we are drastically short up front and at the back. However, i cannot blame the club for the sale of another of our bright prospects this time - our hand has been forced by one man's stupidity on a night out in Ryll.
 
Revolution said:
I don't see how wilfully weakening your squad is "good business".
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I dont see how its been weakened. Certainly not in terms of quality anyway.

He wasnt even starting and had scored 1 goal, making very little impact otherwise.

£1 million for a very raw and unproven striker is a good deal.

I've seen very little from him to suggest he's worth that sort of money yet.

He might be in four or five years but there is absolutely no guarantee.
 
I dont see how its been weakened. Certainly not in terms of quality anyway.

He wasnt even starting and had scored 1 goal, making very little impact otherwise.

Unlike Chris Porter, who has been f****** lights out and a sure bet never to be injured again.

£1 million for a very raw and unproven striker is a good deal.

Yes, I heard the same about Beattie, and the Kyles, and Kilgallon, and Kenny. All very good deals. All good business.

If all this is good business why the f*** are we in league one?
 
Darren said:
Allegedly....
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Darren, whilst his guilt is alleged I'm sure you'll agree that his stupidity is factual.

If he's not guilty (and I hope he is found as such), he was still particularly stupid to put himself in the position (no pun intented) where he could be accused of such a crime.
 
Slew was reluctant to stay in the summer and had to be persuaded. His contract would have been up again next summer.

Even if he started plundering goals this season for us (which I doubt he would have) do you think he would want to stay come May.

Do you think that Slew will end up being better than say, Jonathan Forte?
 
Woodwaaard said:
Darren, whilst his guilt is alleged I'm sure you'll agree that his stupidity is factual.

If he's not guilty (and I hope he is found as such), he was still particularly stupid to put himself in the position (no pun intented) where he could be accused of such a crime.
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Young men with lots of money will have sex with young women attracted by the youth and money of the said man. If that is all that CE did I don't think that he was stupid, I think he was doing what 90% of young men in his position do.
 
sitwell said:
He clearly thought he was too good for Sheff Utd and I think we should be congratulating whoever at the Lane for converting 500k to a million in a couple of months.
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Maybe he found a pair of Kabba's "Billy Big Boots" lying around? ;)
 
From the moment Slew or more specifically his agent decided he wanted to leave the writing was always on the wall. That said I would have liked for him to have stayed and given himself the chance to develop, but if the choice really was him or Quinn then it's the lesser of two evils. Whether Quinn will sulk now he's not been allowed to leave we'll have to see though. It's matter of fact that we can't afford what we've got, so someone had to go and it can only be ones we have bids for. As it was that was Boggy, Slew and Quinn. Whether it all backfires and we lose more money by not getting promoted remains to be seen though.
 
I wonder what the reaction to Slew will be if his deal didn't go through in time ?
 
Jim Chimmerney said:
I wonder what the reaction to Slew will be if his deal didn't go through in time ?
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Blackburn are apparently waiting on confirmation from the FA regarding Slew and Yakubu.

Every chance it might not have. Cant say I'm bothered either way to be honest.
 
I would be happy either way. He looks a bit stronger this season than last, but seems positionally lost at times and in the games I've seen has been pushed wide a little too often for my liking. £1m is a hefty outlay for any player with little proven quality at a senior level and whether we like it or not the books need to be balanced. If he stays he's an asset to the squad, but not the Saviour I think he was being held up as being.
 



Pinchy said:
Fleck is not a central midfielder.

Your central midfield headcount should be based on quality not quantity. The result will then be very different. Monty and Doyle can be excluded for starters. The chief liability will be on his way once he's fit in any event: on loan pending a permanent offloading in January. Harriott is not yet ready and K-Mac is injured. McAllister will prove a real asset before the season's much older. But the more quality in this long neglected department the better.

It's the key area of any team. We have been woefully weak there for years. God bless DW for addressing it.
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I'm basing my headcount on how many players wages we'll be paying rather than on your personal opinions.
If Danny Wilson's plans had fallen into place rather than being stuffed up by somebody's incompetence, his squad would now look like this:-

GK:- Simonsen, Aksalu, Long (3)
DF:- Lowton, Conneely, Collins, Maguire, Jean-Francois, Parrino (6)
MF:- Flynn, Williamson, Montgomery, Doyle, Harriott, McAllister, Quinn, Tonne, Mendez-Laing, Hutton, Fleck, McDonald (12)
CF:- Creswell, Porter, Philliskirk (3)
Long-term Injured/Unavailable:- Morgan, Ertl, Taylor, Evans (4)

So we'd be paying the wages of 28 First-Team squad players and yet be totally exposed to injuries/suspensions in defence.
Without bringing in more loan players we would have incredibly limited options up front and a total lack of pace.
Players will no doubt be played out of position to compensate.
You may not rate Montgomery and Doyle ahead of McAllister and Harriot but Wilson clearly does.
So McAllister at the age of nearly 23 will be our 7th choice central midfielder and Harriot will be 8th choice.
Both might as well be sent out on loan to a lower league or our rivals.
I could buy into the strategy of bringing through our own young talent rather than developing expensive loan players for other clubs.
But that seems to have gone out of the window as soon as it was conceived. What is the long-term strategy now?
Will we be selling Maguire or Lowton for £1M in January to fund another couple of loanees?
 
Sothall_Blade said:
I'm basing my headcount on how many players wages we'll be paying rather than on your personal opinions.
If Danny Wilson's plans had fallen into place rather than being stuffed up by somebody's incompetence, his squad would now look like this:-

GK:- Simonsen, Aksalu, Long (3)
DF:- Lowton, Conneely, Collins, Maguire, Jean-Francois, Parrino (6)
MF:- Flynn, Williamson, Montgomery, Doyle, Harriott, McAllister, Quinn, Tonne, Mendez-Laing, Hutton, Fleck, McDonald (12)
CF:- Creswell, Porter, Philliskirk (3)
Long-term Injured/Unavailable:- Morgan, Ertl, Taylor, Evans (4)

So we'd be paying the wages of 28 First-Team squad players and yet be totally exposed to injuries/suspensions in defence.
Without bringing in more loan players we would have incredibly limited options up front and a total lack of pace.
Players will no doubt be played out of position to compensate.
You may not rate Montgomery and Doyle ahead of McAllister and Harriot but Wilson clearly does.
So McAllister at the age of nearly 23 will be our 7th choice central midfielder and Harriot will be 8th choice.
Both might as well be sent out on loan to a lower league or our rivals.
I could buy into the strategy of bringing through our own young talent rather than developing expensive loan players for other clubs.
But that seems to have gone out of the window as soon as it was conceived. What is the long-term strategy now?
Will we be selling Maguire or Lowton for £1M in January to fund another couple of loanees?
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Fleck is listed on the Rangers site as Midfielder/Forward, so maybe DW intends to use him as a striker.
 
Blackburn have just announced the Yak on their OS. They had to wait for something to clear. Probably be the same situation with Slew. I would imagine it will be on there in the next couple of hours or so.

Rather have kept Maguire, Monty and Quinn than Slew so not too upset by him moving on.
 
broomhillblade said:
Fleck is listed on the Rangers site as Midfielder/Forward, so maybe DW intends to use him as a striker.
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According to Ian Durrant the Rangers coach:- "He's been used wide left, right and in the hole".
We haven't really been playing with a deep-lying striker so far, so it would mean a radical change in tactics from Wilson.
He certainly doesn't sound like a direct replacement for Slew and it doesn't sound like we've even managed to sign him anyway.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/footba...est-out-of-starlet-john-fleck-86908-23244186/
 
I need to Know.

Has Jordan Slew left. And if he has please can we get james beattie back that would be Xmas early:).
 
I'd also add that from what I've seen he's not actually that quick. Quicker than Cressy and Porter, granted, but hardly blistering pace.

More I think of it more I reckon United have done ever so well out of this deal - assuming it goes through ;)
 
Wards said:
I'd also add that from what I've seen he's not actually that quick. Quicker than Cressy and Porter, granted, but hardly blistering pace.
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Kinda only matters if you can run with/control a ball too...
 
For those without access...

sufc.co.uk said:
Jordan Slew's move to Blackburn Rovers has been rubber stamped by the Premier League in a deal that will net the Blades a seven-figure transfer fee.

The 18-year-old striker, who has scored once this season, joins the Premiership side for £1.1m, which could rise on criteria being met.

United Director, Scott McCabe, commented: "It was an attractive offer and one we were unable to refuse for what is, essentially, an unproven player."
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£1.1M is less than we got for Jacob Mellis who was out of contract and had never even played in the first team.
 
Happy with that, especially as it means we can hold on to other players. Has hardly set the world alight so far this season anyway.
 



Sothall_Blade said:
£1.1M is less than we got for Jacob Mellis who was out of contract and had never even played in the first team.
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and yet more than was offered for Stephen Quinn.
 
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