shmmeee
Well-Known Member
I maintain something funny has gone on behind the scenes this summer. Whether that’s Robins losing his mind or Sisu not keeping promises, but it’s more than just “a funny summer for everyone”.
Making someone of his age the highest paid player at the club by some distance would go completely against how Robins has generally conducted his business. I don't deny he'll be on a fair whack but even so
Rumours at Derby’s end was they couldn’t keep Waghorn because they can’t offer more than £11.5k/wk
Said it before, he’s a decent player but two strikers weren’t close to our priority and if the budget all went there it’s criminal.
I maintain something funny has gone on behind the scenes this summer. Whether that’s Robins losing his mind or Sisu not keeping promises, but it’s more than just “a funny summer for everyone”.
Definitely something going on with the football side. I can’t see why sisu would sign a ricoh deal, spend money doing the badges and dressing rooms then taking out of the playing budget though. But then there is no reason for the management to go against the model.I maintain something funny has gone on behind the scenes this summer. Whether that’s Robins losing his mind or Sisu not keeping promises, but it’s more than just “a funny summer for everyone”.
Thing is you can go off rumours... Or you could look at it from the point of view of it being a basket case of a club who had failed to pay wages on time during the preceding months?
I would also suspect they were probably waiting officially offering new terms until the outcome of the whole Wycombe facade so he probably wanted more security for himself?
I don't doubt he is on a good wage, but I doubt the entire budget was blown on him to the extent we can't make further signings?
Robins has said all summer he wanted 8 or 9.
We have 6 with 2/3 still potentially to come from what he has said, doesn't sound like the whole budget has been spunked to me.
I heard we were prepared to offer a 1 yr deal but he wanted 2 …..
Maybe MR loves Waghorn and he’s going to score a load of goals.
If he doesn’t then there is going to be a lot of shit talking the decision though.
Can’t blame just signing him though. We spent £1m on Gyokeres.
Waghorn was thought to be on circa £10k at Derby, if we're paying him similar or even slightly more, I can't see the problem with that.
How many proven Championship strikers can you get for less?
Robins prob pissed off with budget or lack ofDefinitely something going on with the football side. I can’t see why sisu would sign a ricoh deal, spend money doing the badges and dressing rooms then taking out of the playing budget though. But then there is no reason for the management to go against the model.
Just can’t put my finger on what it is.
My assumption a while ago was we had missed out on first and second choice targets, perhaps even third choice, so we've clearly gone scraping the barrel to fill out the squad and as it stands we still don't have any CB replacement despite the defence already being weak.
Saying that recruitment in our league has in general been quite underwhelming, aside from decent windows for QPR, Brizzle and Luton.
Tit. Nothing to do with crainie not being good enough
I bet the guy couldn’t believe his luck after having a terrible season with Derby passing 30 years old then getting offered more money.Waghorn was thought to be on circa £10k at Derby, if we're paying him similar or even slightly more, I can't see the problem with that.
How many proven Championship strikers can you get for less?
We would have never have got crane or bushiri in for a trial if drysdale, rose and Hyam had not been missing for majority of pre season , Clarke salter was always planned to come in but delayed due to euros and Chelsea players returning , same with sourve , mattison was delayed by 2 weeks due to illness , if we had not had these players in , we would not have been able to fulfil some of the gamesThey would have known his age before taking him on trial, it’s not a secret
Thing is you can go off rumours... Or you could look at it from the point of view of it being a basket case of a club who had failed to pay wages on time during the preceding months?
I would also suspect they were probably waiting officially offering new terms until the outcome of the whole Wycombe facade so he probably wanted more security for himself?
I don't doubt he is on a good wage, but I doubt the entire budget was blown on him to the extent we can't make further signings?
Robins has said all summer he wanted 8 or 9.
We have 6 with 2/3 still potentially to come from what he has said, doesn't sound like the whole budget has been spunked to me.
Says whowe apparently offered Craine less than 2k lol
2 strikers wasnt a priority when we let 2 go ffsif we didn’t sign 2 strikers we would have Tavares as our backup come Sunday
Yet you wanted us to sign another keeperAnd as it stands we have Drysdale as backup at CB, Howley as backup CM and Reid as backup LWB while our top scorer and big investment last season sits on the bench. Also we regularly play with 1 ST and can’t play with less than 3 CBs or without a LWB.
From a squad planning POV it’s nuts.
Awaits Norwich bid for O'Hare after Cantwell is sold...Rose and Hyam getting covid will have been a factor in bringing Cranie in I suspect as he will have been an extra body even in training. Loads of quality loans will only start to happen from now on now full Premier League squads are returning, and once a couple of the big transfers go through this will kick off the whole market. Even today the Grealish deal and Villa's bids have started things off. Cranie I think was always a contingency option if we didn't get our main targets - such as Clarke-Salter.
Who are the 6 though? Sheaf we signed last summer. Moore, Bright, Maatsen all have a distinct “Plan B” feel about them. Györkeres and Waghorn seem OK but we had Walker and Godden already and weren’t crying out for strikers like we were CBs.
We’ve tried an failed to get Walsh, James, Patterson, Cranie presumably because of wages. Looks like we’ll get another couple of second tier loans in and maybe a free at CM if we can convince someone to take our deadwood off our hands.
It hardly screams well planned and properly funded transfer window like the last few have.
We regularly only played with 1 striker as well because we only had 1 fit at the time, which was usually Max or Walker.And as it stands we have Drysdale as backup at CB, Howley as backup CM and Reid as backup LWB while our top scorer and big investment last season sits on the bench. Also we regularly play with 1 ST and can’t play with less than 3 CBs or without a LWB or CM.
From a squad planning POV it’s nuts.
Yet you wanted us to sign another keeper
No you wanted to sign ANOTHER keeper as well as having Moore, Wilson and Tyler. You're in cloud cuckoo land.I wanted to sign a different keeper yeah. What’s that got to do with the point other than you lose your shit when anyone suggests everything might not be perfect? Back your point up or shit the fuck up. Laughing emojis aren’t an argument.
We regularly only played with 1 striker as well because we only had 1 fit at the time, which was usually Max or Walker.
IMO I think he is most likely to get us 10-15 goals this year. If he does that nobody will be questioning his wage.Of the 17 people who have predicted our goalscorers for Sunday on the Forest thread, 12 of them have chosen Waghorn to score yet we simultaneously don't think he's worth 1/3 of the average wage for this division?
IMO I think he is most likely to get us 10-15 goals this year. If he does that nobody will be questioning his wage.
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