Luton Outlaws - Independent Message Board for Luton Town FC

If we're talking about transfer fees, then, yes, it's a straightforward decision. Do you hold your nose and pay a couple of million more for a player you only value at X?

But wages is probably more the sticking point. If targets are insisting on X but our wage structure and ceiling is Y, the club aren't going to piss off the existing players by making new boys the top earners and giving them X

Recruitment has, generally, been great over the last 10 or 11 years but, as has been suggested, this summer has presented a very different challenge to previous years. One that, so far, we've obviously struggled to meet

I just hope we don't bow to pressure and sign any old shite. I'd rather just muddle through until the injuries have cleared up than do that. We'll be way off the pace but better that than lumber ourselves with dross... and be off the pace anyway.

And when I say muddle through, find a way to get Townsend (if he stays), Pelly and Holmes in the starting line up, instead of 3 promising but still naive kids in central positions