Making excuses seems to be endemic within the club.
Didn't / doesn't have to be the same level though, an aspiring player keen to push and take over at the right time would have been good.
Speaking of which, we don't seem to do many of the Tavares style signings any more. I know with him and the like we were bargain basement, but I'd have hoped now we have a certain amount of cash that we could maybe bring in a League One / League Two player or two who'd be happy to improve alongside better players and start to push for a first team place. When Robins spoke about 10 signings I assumed a few of those would be that type.
Another CB to progress with us but not necessarily be first team *this* season for example.
Or clubs are trying to pull our pants down regarding fees? Do you advocate that the club just pays whatever clubs want then? And overpay our valuation of a player?
Not as endemic as being an entitled baby when things don't exactly pan out the way you want them to
Anyway.. breathe.. if you've fucked up with these signings because they don't like the food at Walsgrave just go and get Swift, Styles and Kitching.
Very amateur hour, if this is it lot of us are going to be extremely annoyed
Squad looks wafer thin and it’ll be consolidation at best
But our midfield isn't week, we sold Hamer but we still have:-
Sheaf
Eccles
Palmer
O'Hare
Allen
Sakamoto
Asari
and Kelly
All competing for 3 places. If that ain't enough I don't know what people want.
Our priorities (imho) are a left sided CH, and another Striker (maybe on loan)
Getting a bit cringey on here, you all sound like the masses of fans of the big clubs found on Twitter whining about signings. What will be will be, one swallow doesn't make a summer etc.
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Lights still on at the hospital Subway? No meatball marinara, but plenty of all day breakfasts?
Is everyone forgetting about Ayari? I expect him to play alongside Sheaf eventually. Of his 20 starts in the 2022 Swedish League FBRef has him as a CM/DM for 12, AM for 5 and RM/LM for 3.
Palmer only has to last until O'hare is back which ain't too far away now.
And I think Asari could be a great addition.
Kelly is still only 33, so plenty of life left in him for cover when required. (Fadz is a great example of experience over youth)
Bar Sheaf, Callum and Ayari that midfield is average at best. Take them 3 out that's a relegation battling midfield
That was start off the summer though. At the time we were receiving lowball offers. The options were
1) Sell hamer at lowball price and buy ok replacement/cheaper other players
or
2) Gamble on buying better more expensive replacement/other players in advance and hope someone pays proper price for hamer. If nobody does we have to sell him for low ball offer or he goes on a free next summer, meaning we would be millions out of pocket and in financial hole
or
3) Wait to get best price giving us more to play with for better players but risk that less players would be available and/or other clubs would be in for same smaller pool of players. In the meantime hope that Hamer might have a change of heart and sign new deal
We went for option 3 and still managed to get Ayari in. Probably right call albeit frustrating. Still got cash available for today/Jan/next summer though
Mate what planet do you live on. Do you think we can just have a long list of replacements lined up and their clubs are somehow bound to agree to a number regardless of what happens next and just hang around hoping we pull the trigger if we sell someone?
We obviously had a list of replacements but just aren’t willing to get the piss taken out of us on price
Wtf????
Remind us all of how many games Eccles, Allen and Kelly played last season in our march to the play off finals?
If you took out 3 midfielders of choice from pretty much any Championship side, you'd be left with a poor/ below average midfield.
Look into how Toulouse do their transfer business. Have a longer list of targets, do your best to negotiate a fee and then quickly move on if you can’t. As an alternative to investing more time and effort into an individual target at a time.
They were newly promoted into Ligue 1 last season so not exactly big spenders.
Your predicting future doom again, it's something you do a lot. Definitely something you should explore.
so is the better option to overpay and/or bring someone in that doesnt fit the model? You have no idea what has gone on and what is going on. What we can say with some degree of confidence is that we've had probably our most productive window in decades in terms of the quality of player coming in.
