Morning fellow Blades of the world.
Firstly I apologies for polluting our beautiful forum with a mention of the dark side.. however I feel the need to scope your thoughts on the contrasting transfer policies of the two Sheffield teams.
Wilder has mentioned it several times, that we've clearly adopted this approach to buy the best from the lower leagues. Players whose stock is rising - captains, players of the season, the right age etc. Stearman being the exception.
I look at the transfer activity at Hillsborough. Boyd, to be fair, I still think is a decent player who will likely play a lot of games for them this season. However he fits a mould of players who they have signed who have already peaked and are on their way down, maintaining big contracts:
Fletcher
Jones
Wallace
Hooper & Rhodes - I'd have both, however I'm including these players in this bracket as they've hit the PL and not cut the mustard.
Hutton - linked with them this week, 32 and one of the highest earners at Villa, seemingly willing to let him go.
My point is this. Two clubs, one city. Yet the transfer policies differ greatly. I see them 'spunkin moneh' on big transfers and high wages and yet I feel no jealousy at all. I prefer our approach - in an era where I am growing vastly disillusioned with modern football and daft amounts being spent, what we are doing gives me hope that success can be achieved in this modest way.
Finally I have a sneaky feeling it could implode at Wednesday this season. I saw some comments from Carvalhal in the paper and reading between the lines I don't think they're able to continue with the big transfer fees due to FFP. My opinion is they will fail to make the play-offs this time round. Could well be wrong, hope I'm not!
Thoughts ??
UTB
