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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Jan 9, 2018 7:15:24 GMT
My big fear is us going through this whole window and then ending up with a loanee or 2, a freebie or a short term contract on a player with a popint to prove that nobody else wants to gamble on. I can see the excuses already, "January transfer window is difficult to get right". I just hope we don't gamble on our league one status. I don't think we'll go down but I don't want to take a massive risk on that either. We have a decent £400k to spend minimum from the sale of Bodin. We will have had a month to look for a replacement and new signings. Sorry for being so sceptical. At least we can't have the excuse last year that it was too late to do anything after Matty Taylor left late in the window. You would like to think a lot of groundwork would have been made between our last game and the game vs Blackpool on Saturday. My original worry with Bodin was that we would have the same situation with Taylor where he left late in the window and we were told Luke James was his replacement (Which he was originally).
I can just see us getting by with loanees until the end of the season, finishing mid table but once again scrambling about late before the start of next season and struggling again.
What worries me most with DC was his interview at the end of November, stating he didn't know where he was shopping. That is terrible and even if we aren't going to spend big then DC will need to know what we do have to spend. You would think with our owners being wankers bankers that they would have all the finances planned for the transfer window. My only hope with that interview is because he meant he didn't know what was happening with Bodin but even then you would like to think some sort of contingency plans were in place for if Bodin was to stay or go. If Bodin had stayed then I wonder if he would have next to nothing to spend, probably so.
It's just frustrating, I feel we have the best manager we've ever had and now was the time to push on but we're stagnating and potentially dicing with our league one status. There is so much pressure on a £400k signing here than other clubs too because we don't make signings like that willy nilly. I seen that Lambert interview over christmas and he said when he wasn't scoring how much pressure he felt under from the board with one of them even saying "Well it wasn't my choice to sign him". I don't necessarily want to see us spend fortunes but a couple of £200k signings for example would get the juices flowing. Young hungry players working their way up. Maybe another experienced head too in the middle. That would do me.
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Post by socrates on Jan 9, 2018 7:29:33 GMT
My big fear is us going through this whole window and then ending up with a loanee or 2, a freebie or a short term contract on a player with a popint to prove that nobody else wants to gamble on. I can see the excuses already, "January transfer window is difficult to get right". I just hope we don't gamble on our league one status. I don't think we'll go down but I don't want to take a massive risk on that either. We have a decent £400k to spend minimum from the sale of Bodin. We will have had a month to look for a replacement and new signings. Sorry for being so sceptical. At least we can't have the excuse last year that it was too late to do anything after Matty Taylor left late in the window. You would like to think a lot of groundwork would have been made between our last game and the game vs Blackpool on Saturday. My original worry with Bodin was that we would have the same situation with Taylor where he left late in the window and we were told Luke James was his replacement (Which he was originally). I can just see us getting by with loanees until the end of the season, finishing mid table but once again scrambling about late before the start of next season and struggling again. What worries me most with DC was his interview at the end of November, stating he didn't know where he was shopping. That is terrible and even if we aren't going to spend big then DC will need to know what we do have to spend. You would think with our owners being wankers bankers that they would have all the finances planned for the transfer window. My only hope with that interview is because he meant he didn't know what was happening with Bodin but even then you would like to think some sort of contingency plans were in place for if Bodin was to stay or go. If Bodin had stayed then I wonder if he would have next to nothing to spend, probably so. It's just frustrating, I feel we have the best manager we've ever had and now was the time to push on but we're stagnating and potentially dicing with our league one status. There is so much pressure on a £400k signing here than other clubs too because we don't make signings like that willy nilly. I seen that Lambert interview over christmas and he said when he wasn't scoring how much pressure he felt under from the board with one of them even saying "Well it wasn't my choice to sign him". I don't necessarily want to see us spend fortunes but a couple of £200k signings for example would get the juices flowing. Young hungry players working their way up. Maybe another experienced head too in the middle. That would do me. I think every single one of us is worried about it too. History tends to repeat itself and we’ve pretty much always not replaced our goalscorers and then got relegated. |
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Post by paulpirate on Jan 9, 2018 7:32:22 GMT
Another thread on the same subject as 3 others,need a few more on bodin as well
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Jan 9, 2018 7:33:27 GMT
Another thread on the same subject as 3 others,need a few more on bodin as well Don't like it then you know where to go. |
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Post by paulpirate on Jan 9, 2018 7:41:15 GMT
Another thread on the same subject as 3 others,need a few more on bodin as well Don't like it then you know where to go. yeah the other two threads that are the same |
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Post by gregsy on Jan 9, 2018 7:43:33 GMT
Hand bags at dawn....
Quite literally
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Post by William Wilson on Jan 9, 2018 7:47:19 GMT
Hand bags at dawn.... Quite literally "We`re so pretty, oh so pretty....." Pistols at dawn. |
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Post by kylegas on Jan 9, 2018 7:49:01 GMT
My big fear is us going through this whole window and then ending up with a loanee or 2, a freebie or a short term contract on a player with a popint to prove that nobody else wants to gamble on. I can see the excuses already, "January transfer window is difficult to get right". I just hope we don't gamble on our league one status. I don't think we'll go down but I don't want to take a massive risk on that either. We have a decent £400k to spend minimum from the sale of Bodin. We will have had a month to look for a replacement and new signings. Sorry for being so sceptical. At least we can't have the excuse last year that it was too late to do anything after Matty Taylor left late in the window. You would like to think a lot of groundwork would have been made between our last game and the game vs Blackpool on Saturday. My original worry with Bodin was that we would have the same situation with Taylor where he left late in the window and we were told Luke James was his replacement (Which he was originally). I can just see us getting by with loanees until the end of the season, finishing mid table but once again scrambling about late before the start of next season and struggling again. What worries me most with DC was his interview at the end of November, stating he didn't know where he was shopping. That is terrible and even if we aren't going to spend big then DC will need to know what we do have to spend. You would think with our owners being wankers bankers that they would have all the finances planned for the transfer window. My only hope with that interview is because he meant he didn't know what was happening with Bodin but even then you would like to think some sort of contingency plans were in place for if Bodin was to stay or go. If Bodin had stayed then I wonder if he would have next to nothing to spend, probably so. It's just frustrating, I feel we have the best manager we've ever had and now was the time to push on but we're stagnating and potentially dicing with our league one status. There is so much pressure on a £400k signing here than other clubs too because we don't make signings like that willy nilly. I seen that Lambert interview over christmas and he said when he wasn't scoring how much pressure he felt under from the board with one of them even saying "Well it wasn't my choice to sign him". I don't necessarily want to see us spend fortunes but a couple of £200k signings for example would get the juices flowing. Young hungry players working their way up. Maybe another experienced head too in the middle. That would do me. I think every single one of us is worried about it too. History tends to repeat itself and we’ve pretty much always not replaced our goalscorers and then got relegated. Well we avoided relegation after selling Taylor, I’m sure we’ll bring people in and avoid the drop.. but that’s hardly progress imo, the last 2 seasons have been neither revolution or evolution.. just scraping by as always, thats my worry |
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Post by Gastafari on Jan 9, 2018 7:54:32 GMT
My big fear is us going through this whole window and then ending up with a loanee or 2, a freebie or a short term contract on a player with a popint to prove that nobody else wants to gamble on. I can see the excuses already, "January transfer window is difficult to get right". I just hope we don't gamble on our league one status. I don't think we'll go down but I don't want to take a massive risk on that either. We have a decent £400k to spend minimum from the sale of Bodin. We will have had a month to look for a replacement and new signings. Sorry for being so sceptical. At least we can't have the excuse last year that it was too late to do anything after Matty Taylor left late in the window. You would like to think a lot of groundwork would have been made between our last game and the game vs Blackpool on Saturday. My original worry with Bodin was that we would have the same situation with Taylor where he left late in the window and we were told Luke James was his replacement (Which he was originally). I can just see us getting by with loanees until the end of the season, finishing mid table but once again scrambling about late before the start of next season and struggling again. What worries me most with DC was his interview at the end of November, stating he didn't know where he was shopping. That is terrible and even if we aren't going to spend big then DC will need to know what we do have to spend. You would think with our owners being wankers bankers that they would have all the finances planned for the transfer window. My only hope with that interview is because he meant he didn't know what was happening with Bodin but even then you would like to think some sort of contingency plans were in place for if Bodin was to stay or go. If Bodin had stayed then I wonder if he would have next to nothing to spend, probably so. It's just frustrating, I feel we have the best manager we've ever had and now was the time to push on but we're stagnating and potentially dicing with our league one status. There is so much pressure on a £400k signing here than other clubs too because we don't make signings like that willy nilly. I seen that Lambert interview over christmas and he said when he wasn't scoring how much pressure he felt under from the board with one of them even saying "Well it wasn't my choice to sign him". I don't necessarily want to see us spend fortunes but a couple of £200k signings for example would get the juices flowing. Young hungry players working their way up. Maybe another experienced head too in the middle. That would do me. With the £400/500K we received for Bodin, if you're prudent and do your homework in regards to scouting and going out and watching games then you dont have to"Spend Fortunes", you can get hold of 4/5 players to make your team better with that money. I posted in another thread, that Bournemouth when in League One bought Marc Pugh(Hereford), Harry Arter(Woking) Charlie Daniels(Orient) and Steve Cook(Brighton), if you add up all their fee's together they cost roughly a combined £500k. All 4 of them have been instrumental in their rise to The Premier League and are still regular starters in The Premier League too. They are the benchmark in regards to selling players for a hefty profit and bringing in better players for far less than the ones they sold. It's the perfect remedy for success. |
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Post by WeAreTheGas on Jan 9, 2018 8:01:38 GMT
I think every single one of us is worried about it too. History tends to repeat itself and we’ve pretty much always not replaced our goalscorers and then got relegated. Well we avoided relegation after selling Taylor, I’m sure we’ll bring people in and avoid the drop.. but that’s hardly progress imo, the last 2 seasons have been neither revolution or evolution.. just scraping by as always, thats my worry I think that’s a bit harsh on what we achieved last season, personally. No it wasn’t as exciting as the two seasons that preceded it, but it was a very solid first season back in L1 and we were never in any danger of being dragged into a relegation battle. This season has been underwhelming though, and we need to sign well this month to avoid having a nervy April & May. |
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Jan 9, 2018 8:04:45 GMT
My big fear is us going through this whole window and then ending up with a loanee or 2, a freebie or a short term contract on a player with a popint to prove that nobody else wants to gamble on. I can see the excuses already, "January transfer window is difficult to get right". I just hope we don't gamble on our league one status. I don't think we'll go down but I don't want to take a massive risk on that either. We have a decent £400k to spend minimum from the sale of Bodin. We will have had a month to look for a replacement and new signings. Sorry for being so sceptical. At least we can't have the excuse last year that it was too late to do anything after Matty Taylor left late in the window. You would like to think a lot of groundwork would have been made between our last game and the game vs Blackpool on Saturday. My original worry with Bodin was that we would have the same situation with Taylor where he left late in the window and we were told Luke James was his replacement (Which he was originally). I can just see us getting by with loanees until the end of the season, finishing mid table but once again scrambling about late before the start of next season and struggling again. What worries me most with DC was his interview at the end of November, stating he didn't know where he was shopping. That is terrible and even if we aren't going to spend big then DC will need to know what we do have to spend. You would think with our owners being wankers bankers that they would have all the finances planned for the transfer window. My only hope with that interview is because he meant he didn't know what was happening with Bodin but even then you would like to think some sort of contingency plans were in place for if Bodin was to stay or go. If Bodin had stayed then I wonder if he would have next to nothing to spend, probably so. It's just frustrating, I feel we have the best manager we've ever had and now was the time to push on but we're stagnating and potentially dicing with our league one status. There is so much pressure on a £400k signing here than other clubs too because we don't make signings like that willy nilly. I seen that Lambert interview over christmas and he said when he wasn't scoring how much pressure he felt under from the board with one of them even saying "Well it wasn't my choice to sign him". I don't necessarily want to see us spend fortunes but a couple of £200k signings for example would get the juices flowing. Young hungry players working their way up. Maybe another experienced head too in the middle. That would do me. With the £400/500K we received for Bodin, if you're prudent and do your homework in regards to scouting and going out and watching games then you dont have to"Spend Fortunes", you can get hold of 4/5 players to make your team better with that money. I posted in another thread, that Bournemouth when in League One bought Marc Pugh(Hereford), Harry Arter(Woking) Charlie Daniels(Orient) and Steve Cook(Brighton), if you add up all their fee's together they cost roughly a combined £500k. All 4 of them have been instrumental in their rise to The Premier League and are still regular starters in The Premier League too. They are the benchmark in regards to selling players for a hefty profit and bringing in better players for far less than the ones they sold. It's the perfect remedy for success. No, I know you don't. I'd be happy with some small fee signings who have potential. For what it's worth I think we should invest in a proper scouting setup as you can reap the rewards from that and what we currently have doesn't seem particularly adequate for where we are. |
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Post by spiess1 on Jan 9, 2018 8:06:40 GMT
I stopped reading at the abuse for the owners.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Jan 9, 2018 8:07:52 GMT
I stopped reading at the abuse for the owners. The tongue in cheek part you mean. |
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Post by station on Jan 9, 2018 8:16:33 GMT
DC [correct me if I heard wrong] - said that he looked to bring 2 or maybe 3 in before the Blackpool game?
At this point in time, that looks highly unlikely.
I live in hope but share the concern as mentioned prior.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Jan 9, 2018 8:17:40 GMT
DC [correct me if I heard wrong] - said that he looked to bring 2 or maybe 3 in before the Blackpool game? At this point in time, that looks highly unlikely. I live in hope but share the concern as mentioned prior. I highly doubt we'll have 2 or 3 in by Saturday. At best that will be loans. |
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Post by Henbury Gas on Jan 9, 2018 8:20:08 GMT
I don't worry about it anymore, i just know F##k all with happen
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Post by Topper Gas on Jan 9, 2018 8:20:20 GMT
My big fear is us going through this whole window and then ending up with a loanee or 2, a freebie or a short term contract on a player with a popint to prove that nobody else wants to gamble on. I can see the excuses already, "January transfer window is difficult to get right". I just hope we don't gamble on our league one status. I don't think we'll go down but I don't want to take a massive risk on that either. We have a decent £400k to spend minimum from the sale of Bodin. We will have had a month to look for a replacement and new signings. Sorry for being so sceptical. At least we can't have the excuse last year that it was too late to do anything after Matty Taylor left late in the window. You would like to think a lot of groundwork would have been made between our last game and the game vs Blackpool on Saturday. My original worry with Bodin was that we would have the same situation with Taylor where he left late in the window and we were told Luke James was his replacement (Which he was originally). I can just see us getting by with loanees until the end of the season, finishing mid table but once again scrambling about late before the start of next season and struggling again. What worries me most with DC was his interview at the end of November, stating he didn't know where he was shopping. That is terrible and even if we aren't going to spend big then DC will need to know what we do have to spend. You would think with our owners being wankers bankers that they would have all the finances planned for the transfer window. My only hope with that interview is because he meant he didn't know what was happening with Bodin but even then you would like to think some sort of contingency plans were in place for if Bodin was to stay or go. If Bodin had stayed then I wonder if he would have next to nothing to spend, probably so. It's just frustrating, I feel we have the best manager we've ever had and now was the time to push on but we're stagnating and potentially dicing with our league one status. There is so much pressure on a £400k signing here than other clubs too because we don't make signings like that willy nilly. I seen that Lambert interview over christmas and he said when he wasn't scoring how much pressure he felt under from the board with one of them even saying "Well it wasn't my choice to sign him". I don't necessarily want to see us spend fortunes but a couple of £200k signings for example would get the juices flowing. Young hungry players working their way up. Maybe another experienced head too in the middle. That would do me. GGMI have you turned in SteveK, or just stealing his thunder as he usually posts something similar around a week or two into the transfer window, it's too early to start worrying just yet and until we see see the calibre of DC's signings, if we're 3 weeks in w/o any signings, or DC's moaning players are too expensive, then we can start to worry as we haven't a clue what's going on in the background signings wise. |
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Jan 9, 2018 8:24:34 GMT
My big fear is us going through this whole window and then ending up with a loanee or 2, a freebie or a short term contract on a player with a popint to prove that nobody else wants to gamble on. I can see the excuses already, "January transfer window is difficult to get right". I just hope we don't gamble on our league one status. I don't think we'll go down but I don't want to take a massive risk on that either. We have a decent £400k to spend minimum from the sale of Bodin. We will have had a month to look for a replacement and new signings. Sorry for being so sceptical. At least we can't have the excuse last year that it was too late to do anything after Matty Taylor left late in the window. You would like to think a lot of groundwork would have been made between our last game and the game vs Blackpool on Saturday. My original worry with Bodin was that we would have the same situation with Taylor where he left late in the window and we were told Luke James was his replacement (Which he was originally). I can just see us getting by with loanees until the end of the season, finishing mid table but once again scrambling about late before the start of next season and struggling again. What worries me most with DC was his interview at the end of November, stating he didn't know where he was shopping. That is terrible and even if we aren't going to spend big then DC will need to know what we do have to spend. You would think with our owners being wankers bankers that they would have all the finances planned for the transfer window. My only hope with that interview is because he meant he didn't know what was happening with Bodin but even then you would like to think some sort of contingency plans were in place for if Bodin was to stay or go. If Bodin had stayed then I wonder if he would have next to nothing to spend, probably so. It's just frustrating, I feel we have the best manager we've ever had and now was the time to push on but we're stagnating and potentially dicing with our league one status. There is so much pressure on a £400k signing here than other clubs too because we don't make signings like that willy nilly. I seen that Lambert interview over christmas and he said when he wasn't scoring how much pressure he felt under from the board with one of them even saying "Well it wasn't my choice to sign him". I don't necessarily want to see us spend fortunes but a couple of £200k signings for example would get the juices flowing. Young hungry players working their way up. Maybe another experienced head too in the middle. That would do me. , it's too early to start worrying just yet and until we see see the calibre of DC's signings, if we're 3 weeks in w/o any signings, or DC's moaning players are too expensive, then we can start to worry as we haven't a clue what's going on in the background signings wise. It's not about the timing so far, it's about what I think will happen based on previous experience and what has been said. Yes we haven't a clue but you have to agree that DC's comments about he doesn't know where we are shopping were alarming. I just don't want us to accept and put up with crappy excuses if we don't show at least some ambition in this window. Also I'm surprised you're not worrying as you didn't think we should risk out league one status on letting Bodin go for £750k or less. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 8:26:46 GMT
My big fear is us going through this whole window and then ending up with a loanee or 2, a freebie or a short term contract on a player with a popint to prove that nobody else wants to gamble on. I can see the excuses already, "January transfer window is difficult to get right". I just hope we don't gamble on our league one status. I don't think we'll go down but I don't want to take a massive risk on that either. We have a decent £400k to spend minimum from the sale of Bodin. We will have had a month to look for a replacement and new signings. Sorry for being so sceptical. At least we can't have the excuse last year that it was too late to do anything after Matty Taylor left late in the window. You would like to think a lot of groundwork would have been made between our last game and the game vs Blackpool on Saturday. My original worry with Bodin was that we would have the same situation with Taylor where he left late in the window and we were told Luke James was his replacement (Which he was originally). I can just see us getting by with loanees until the end of the season, finishing mid table but once again scrambling about late before the start of next season and struggling again. What worries me most with DC was his interview at the end of November, stating he didn't know where he was shopping. That is terrible and even if we aren't going to spend big then DC will need to know what we do have to spend. You would think with our owners being wankers bankers that they would have all the finances planned for the transfer window. My only hope with that interview is because he meant he didn't know what was happening with Bodin but even then you would like to think some sort of contingency plans were in place for if Bodin was to stay or go. If Bodin had stayed then I wonder if he would have next to nothing to spend, probably so. It's just frustrating, I feel we have the best manager we've ever had and now was the time to push on but we're stagnating and potentially dicing with our league one status. There is so much pressure on a £400k signing here than other clubs too because we don't make signings like that willy nilly. I seen that Lambert interview over christmas and he said when he wasn't scoring how much pressure he felt under from the board with one of them even saying "Well it wasn't my choice to sign him". I don't necessarily want to see us spend fortunes but a couple of £200k signings for example would get the juices flowing. Young hungry players working their way up. Maybe another experienced head too in the middle. That would do me. With the £400/500K we received for Bodin, if you're prudent and do your homework in regards to scouting and going out and watching games then you dont have to"Spend Fortunes", you can get hold of 4/5 players to make your team better with that money. I posted in another thread, that Bournemouth when in League One bought Marc Pugh(Hereford), Harry Arter(Woking) Charlie Daniels(Orient) and Steve Cook(Brighton), if you add up all their fee's together they cost roughly a combined £500k. All 4 of them have been instrumental in their rise to The Premier League and are still regular starters in The Premier League too. They are the benchmark in regards to selling players for a hefty profit and bringing in better players for far less than the ones they sold. It's the perfect remedy for success. They got people in who can spot these players we couldn't spot a Harry Kane up the downs nowadays |
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Post by Gastafari on Jan 9, 2018 8:33:15 GMT
With the £400/500K we received for Bodin, if you're prudent and do your homework in regards to scouting and going out and watching games then you dont have to"Spend Fortunes", you can get hold of 4/5 players to make your team better with that money. I posted in another thread, that Bournemouth when in League One bought Marc Pugh(Hereford), Harry Arter(Woking) Charlie Daniels(Orient) and Steve Cook(Brighton), if you add up all their fee's together they cost roughly a combined £500k. All 4 of them have been instrumental in their rise to The Premier League and are still regular starters in The Premier League too. They are the benchmark in regards to selling players for a hefty profit and bringing in better players for far less than the ones they sold. It's the perfect remedy for success. They got people in who can spot these players we couldn't spot a Harry Kane up the downs nowadays Both Matty Taylor and Billy Bodin cost us nothing. Even we can do it. |
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