Another one being chased (1 Viewer)

♫ ♫ doo doo doo another bites the dust ...yeah ♫♫

Daily Star, eh?

torchomatic said:

Daily Star, eh?

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was thinking the same torch!!

Newcastle apparently sniffing around a double offer for bigi and Willis for their youth squad, which they are looking to invest in.

maybe mike ashley wants to give them experience working in sports direct

I'd consider a swap for Nimely and maybe another...

Call me cynical, however I think I now know why our boys have been given contracts.......

Man City and Liverpool looking at him according to SSN

Coventry City look set to lose defender Jordan Willis with a host of Premier League clubs battling for his signature, Sky Sports understands.
The 17-year-old made his first-team debut last term, making three appearances for the Sky Blues.
Willis is an England youth international and is already on the radar of a host of top-flight clubs.
Sky Sports understands that Manchester City, Liverpool, Newcastle, Everton and Aston Villa are all keen on the central defender.
Willis only signed his first professional contract with recently relegated Coventry last month.


http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11710/7823785/Battle-for-Sky-Blues-defender

Cynic Dongon,

This must be SISUs version of Bang Bang Bang

There was me thinking, it was because of all the players we are losing. So out of desperation we would need the kids. However it us actually in order to sell the kids aswell.

We will resist any offers with our last ounce of strength.

Our life, our blood, will be laid on the line and.....oh fook it, he's going for a packet of crisps isn't he?

The funny bit of all this for me is how many of us say we have shite players as they are young and won't cope in Div3, but these same players are being chased by Prem clubs

No one is saying they are rubbish - what is being said is that they are too young. Do you honestly think Newcastle will be shoving Bigi into the first team and expecting 20 games out of him? No they will put him in the development squad and do exactly that - develop him, allow him to learn and flourish not be expected to compete against mature experienced adults week in week out. Putting a kid in for a few games and then withdrawing him so he can recover and reflect and then try again later in the season is fine as is having one or two in the team at anyone time but our problem is that as things stand these kids are the team with a handful of experienced players to help them out not the other way round.

dongonzalos said:

There was me thinking, it was because of all the players we are losing. So out of desperation we would need the kids. However it us actually in order to sell the kids aswell.

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This is exactly what i put on the thread about them signing contracts. To be fair though, with the new rules Prem clubs could take any of our youth for next to nothing, signing them up proffesionally makes sense. As i mentioned before, will wait until Embargo is lifted to see if we actually buy anyone, before i go off an an anti sisu rant again.

ashbyjan said:

No one is saying they are rubbish - what is being said is that they are too young. Do you honestly think Newcastle will be shoving Bigi into the first team and expecting 20 games out of him? No they will put him in the development squad and do exactly that - develop him, allow him to learn and flourish not be expected to compete against mature experienced adults week in week out. Putting a kid in for a few games and then withdrawing him so he can recover and reflect and then try again later in the season is fine as is having one or two in the team at anyone time but our problem is that as things stand these kids are the team with a handful of experienced players to help them out not the other way round.

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Yes younger players will be put into development squads as you call them. They will also be loaned out to Div3 and Div4 teams to get experience. Some even go to the Championship. Just because they are 17 or 18 it don't mean they can't play in a 1st team somewhere.

Maybe we will sell a couple of our youngsters or more and keep them on loan for the coming season. This way the Prem teams could buy our players for what they class as peanuts and the players don't have to move for another year at least. This way SISU get the cash and we keep another player that we will need.

Again its a bit dissapointing if we lose these young lads to big clubs but thats the nature of the beast. Would like to see the younger lads stay and in theory help get us up and then would have a bigger sell on value but these bigger clubs will buy them play them in development squad then reserves then loan them out and the fact that there at a club like Newcastle will increase there value even if they dont make it there. If say Bigi joins newcastle does not make it into the team there, say in three years he is a newcastle reserve he can pick a chamiponship club and get a better wage than if he was with us in leauge one for next three years and then moved up to a championship club.

If they go it is just essentially we get value and future value such as sell on clause, apperances. We need to be realistic. If we get a million for Bigi it runs our club for a good while. While this is not ideal this is how sisu operate. Will any money be put back in no. Coventry need to survive so that better times can come again. Sooner SISU go the better but until then i dont want us to become another Rangers.

It is not just how SISU operates. It is how Div3 teams operate. Just like when we used to go to teams like Carlisle and take their best players. This money keeps teams like us going(now we are one of them)