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Questions for Gary Sweet
Posted by Outlier on 9/11/2024, 17:49:30
Why didn't we replace Tom Lockyer with a leader ? Why were we so cautious in the January transfer window ? Why was the pre season tour just a players jolly ? Why were we so inept in the summer transfer window ? Has the new ground been prioritised over the development of the team ? Do you regret giving RE a 4 year contract ? Do you think free transfer sick notes are a way forward ?
Why was our summer business so poor? Rob was told he had to sell to fund new players.
We sold Ross for £5m Giles for £4m Ogbene for £8m Townsend for undisclosed.
And signed free transfer injury prone players, and McGuiness for £5m. Piss poor. And January is a tough window to recruit in so on that basis there will be fuck all happening after Christmas to improve the situation.
Ooooo, look at you. You know who I am yet cry like a little bitch about me anonymously on here. Pathetic. Who told me knows. I don't have to prove anything to a spineless dribbler on here.
Cool story. Seriously, how do you actually know this?
Seriously, if rob (or one of the staff) has been bleating about this it might make the difference between the club having to pay up his contract or gross misconduct. That’s a lot of money potentially.
Because January's a notoriously difficult transfer window in which to find genuine quality without paying WAY over the odds.
Because January's a notoriously difficult transfer window in which to find genuine quality without paying WAY over the odds.
Much the same as the last few, wasn't it. Just some of it got filmed.
As evidenced by what?
The new ground is what is going to pay for the team for the next 100 odd years. What do you think.
Probably not, especially if Wolves poach him.
It's the best way for us to get genuine quality. If they weren't a gamble, we wouldn't be able to afford them. Considering your post is predicated on a desire to get back to and stay in the Premier League, a team of Tom Holmes* level players is not going to achieve it.
Only chance you have in Jan is players who's contracts are up in June, clubs might be willing to sell and at least get some money back. Or you pay massively over the odds.
Paying way over the odds still would've seen value.
We could've paid £20mil for someone worth £15mil. That £5mil 'loss' would easily have been offset by the improving our chances of premier league survival and increasing the entire value of the squad through adding experience.
Doughty and Ogbene's values increased because of the presence of Barkley. He activated them, and probably added £5mil on to the squad. Barkley himself playing well in front of global cameras in a low pressure environment also bagged us £5mil.
If we'd have had a similar player in defence, we would've been buying a chance to see the same thing happen.
How much money should we realistically have invested in January for a chance of securing £150mil? Could a Lockyer replacement have prevented 5 silly goals from going in? If we held off Bournemouth, we would've been half way to safety. Throw in a win against Newcastle and we're basically there.
You look at the odds given your resources and those around you and invest accordingly.
Not replacing Lockyer already depreciated the value of our assets through causing chaos in defence and collectively reducing their value).
An experienced rock of a CB was the most obvious investment in the world at that point. Spending a hypothetical £5mil (20mil paid - 15mil true value) would've paid off if it had given us an extra 3.33%pts chance of survival (150 prem money / 5mil loss on signing).
Why are you citing odds, do our board strike you as the sort of people who take a punt with millions of pounds on the basis of a notional increase in chance plucked out of the arse of some berk on a messageboard.
It's impossible to know if something has worked at the point of investing.
You only buy %chances based on research.
My original point is that we were in a position to pay 'over the odds' in the market, because we had huge value to be made up elsewhere, which other clubs didn't have.
No other club in the world were in a position like us where they had a serious chance of securing HUGE cash relative to their club's value.
Not sure what the ad hominem achieves either. It's a message board. Are posts actually discussing football to be discouraged here, or?
And is the issue. “We” weren’t putting money in, were we. So it’s very easy to sit here and say “we” should just have spent five million more pounds, but it’s not US, is it?
This might be an effort at irony (if so, woosh) and I am not saying that anyone is above facing questions, but anyone that has genuinely been around long enough to remember Pinkney should be ashamed of themselves for suggesting any parallels whatsoever.
They may have done things differently in hindsight, but the one thing that is entirely beyond reproach is their commitment to a strong and healthy football club for all of us associated with it.
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