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Great business Thorn :jerkit:
Oh yes add Baker and Mcpake as well :jerkit:
Oh yes add Baker and Mcpake as well :jerkit:
figures crossed the contracts they signed included clauses re pay cuts if playing in lge 1
Great business Thorn :jerkit:
Oh yes add Baker and Mcpake as well :jerkit:
Can anyone remember anything that David Bell has done this season? How can a player contribute so little to a game. I genuinely forgot he was playing last night until he was subbed
Thorn in charge of contracts was he?
and he didn't bring anyone in because he thought the current squad was big enough and strong enough did he ?
me thinks not
Does anybody remember Thorn saying he wouldn't swap any of the squad for anybody
Great business Thorn :jerkit:
Oh yes add Baker and Mcpake as well :jerkit:
I understand they were offered contracts to make them worth something. The closer they are to the end of their contract - the less they are worth.
McPake could be on his way to Hibs, if he was out of contract as per Gunnarsson, Westwood & King then the club would get nothing. As it stands McPake leaving will mean we get a transfer fee.
That fee (even if its only £100,000) will help next years budget, whether it be a transfer budget or continuing to cover the clubs loses.
Would you trust Thorn with any budget
Why wouldn't you trust thorn with a budget?
Look at the players he has got on such a small wage, albeit loans.
Nimely
Norwood
Gardner
And then in the past as chief scout,
Gunnarsson
Westwood
Best.
Then after that you could include Carroll and Henderson who City could of had on the cheap!
Would you trust Thorn with any budget
How long have you been director of football and what does that role involve?
I have been chairman since March and during that time have built up a close working relationship with Andy. Where I get involved is in budgets and contracts, and I leave all the main parts of our football operations to Andy and the excellent team he has around him.
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Why wouldn't you trust thorn with a budget?
Look at the players he has got on such a small wage, albeit loans.
Nimely
Norwood
Gardner
And then in the past as chief scout,
Gunnarsson
Westwood
Best.
Then after that you could include Carroll and Henderson who City could of had on the cheap!
I think including Carroll is having a laugh as he didnt even come to the club, so we have to take the word that AT thought he was a good player, although until recently I think Liverpool fans may have disagreed.
This is the same person who scouted Roy O'Donovan, David Bell, Freddy Eastwood, Stephen Wright, amongst others, to give more of a balanced view.
Eastwood and Wright were Coleman choices and O'Donovan was Boothroyd panicking because we didn't have any strikers.
David Bell has been attrocious this season. I can't remember him putting any decent crosses in or beating a man, let alone assist or score. The last 2 games have been like playing with 10 men because of Bell.
Even Ferguson makes mistakes in the transfer market-no scout and no manager exists who makes the perfect signing each and every time; it just doesn't happen. For every Ronaldo there's a Djemba-Djemba and a Kleberson...
Bell had played for Norwich & Luton in the championship. Can't see he would have been recommended by a scout. Would be managers choice I'd imagine. Thorn would have scouted the more obscure ones like Mifsud, Gunnarsson and for a balanced view, Robbie Simpson.
Anyone remember that keeper? Massimo Taibi?
Then Bebe, dong fangzhou.....list could go on.
If you throw enough shit some will stick
i believe the players you mention were awarded extended contracts by that football guru, ken dulieu, after he carefully assessed their abilities
Why wouldn't you trust thorn with a budget?
Look at the players he has got on such a small wage, albeit loans.
Nimely
Norwood
Gardner
And then in the past as chief scout,
Gunnarsson
Westwood
Best.
Then after that you could include Carroll and Henderson who City could of had on the cheap!
Bell had played for Norwich & Luton in the championship. Can't see he would have been recommended by a scout. Would be managers choice I'd imagine. Thorn would have scouted the more obscure ones like Mifsud, Gunnarsson and for a balanced view, Robbie Simpson.
Manager Andy Thorn told the club's official website: "Bell and McPake have signed new deals committing them to the club for the next couple of years.
"Belly has been a revelation since we took over and after the injury troubles he's had he is now looking forward to spending more time in the first team.
"James also missed a lot of football last year with his broken back but he's got a few 90 minutes under his belt now and he's only going to get better.
"I brought both players into the club when I was chief scout and both are players I'd admired for quite a while."
:facepalm::facepalm:
Manager Andy Thorn told the club's official website: "Bell and McPake have signed new deals committing them to the club for the next couple of years.
"Belly has been a revelation since we took over and after the injury troubles he's had he is now looking forward to spending more time in the first team.
"James also missed a lot of football last year with his broken back but he's got a few 90 minutes under his belt now and he's only going to get better.
"I brought both players into the club when I was chief scout and both are players I'd admired for quite a while."
:facepalm::facepalm:
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