Spent £10m on L1 players (6 Viewers)

Travs said:

Gyokores was slated for quite a while when he first joined.

And this time last year people were suggesting selling Wright and Simms for a huge loss just to recoup some money, as they were "shit"

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Domo said:

everyone keeps bringing this up. players come from lower leagues, think sporting fans were saying "£20m on a championship striker? he wont be able to do it here" ?

im aware vik and the players you've listed here are very different players, but the statement is still the same, we're not going to buy from the premier league, and were not going to buy top players from the championship. our pool is very good L1 players, and "unknown" players from lower leagues in europe (aka saka, hamer etc)

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AFCCOVENTRY said:

Collins
Kitching
EMC

Worth it for nearly £10m from L1?

To be fair EMC will be judged by the end of the season and his preferred position is on the left. Hopefully he proves himself.

But spending £10m on players who cant step up from L1 and make an instant impact is shocking. Kitching and Collins failures. Have we passed the valuable Vik/Gus money down the drain?

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Domo said:

everyone keeps bringing this up. players come from lower leagues, think sporting fans were saying "£20m on a championship striker? he wont be able to do it here" ?

im aware vik and the players you've listed here are very different players, but the statement is still the same, we're not going to buy from the premier league, and were not going to buy top players from the championship. our pool is very good L1 players, and "unknown" players from lower leagues in europe (aka saka, hamer etc)

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Domo said:

ohare - wasnt playing for villa
vik - wasnt playing for brighton
sheaf - wasnt playing for arsenal
simms - wasnt playing for everton

we brought them in with limited knowledge apart from spells theyve had at previous loan clubs.

i personally dont value top flight norwgian/turkish/belgium leagues as "top" sides/leagues, theyre as risky as buying L1. you have no idea how a player will translate to the champ, just look at Rodrigues.

not all transfers will work out, we all said it was a waste of time buying Vik, and many on here werent happy with simms/wright, said they were overpriced etc, when they scored nearly 40 goals last season.

every club knows we've got a big wad of cash, and are going to demand higher prices.

EMC - its going to take time, bassette - its going to take time, its been 9 games, we had a shit start last season, shit start the year before, its not been great, but we're always so fucking pessimistic, all the time. get a grip and get behind the lads its doing my fuckign head in.

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AFCCOVENTRY said:

Can’t say I agree with this. Yes we can look at L1 but it has been our worst pool and we don’t sign anyone from lower leagues in Europe. They’re all top flight euro leagues

We signed Vik for £1m from Brighton a Premiership club. Worth the risk.

Gus came from top flight Eredivisie for £1.5m.

CoH was a free from Villa

Tatsu came from top flight Belgium Pro League for I think £2m

MVE came in from top flight Eredivisie for £3.5m

Torp £2m from top flight Norwegian league

Simms came from Premiership £3.5m

Bassette was playing top flight Belgium football for £2m

Rudoni was championship (although relegated) £5m

Wright £7m top flight Turkish league

BTA £2m from Championship play off rival

We’ve done some horrendous overspending on the L1 players in the last couple of transfer windows. Currently they look like L1 players.

Not saying all the above foreign signings have worked out but we payed more for Liam Kitching than MVE!

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AFCCOVENTRY said:

Collins
Kitching
EMC

Worth it for nearly £10m from L1?

To be fair EMC will be judged by the end of the season and his preferred position is on the left. Hopefully he proves himself.

But spending £10m on players who cant step up from L1 and make an instant impact is shocking. Kitching and Collins failures. Have we passed the valuable Vik/Gus money down the drain?

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quinn1971 said:

But it’s every season, we’re playing catch up all the time, that’s what’s doing my fuckin head in, so another building season then ? Get your point, but we’ve lost all our quality players that were able to turn those bad starts around, not sure this lot have got the same in them

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Domo said:

i thought any idea of automatics were crazy at the start of this season anyway. sure we've got holes, injuries dont help, but i still dont think we've found the right mix of the squad we have anyway. theres plenty of negatives but theres still alot of positives.

wilson playing well again, dovin a great starter - thats refreshing.
simms/wright we know they can score alot of goal, you dont lose that.
we have bassette, who i think it an absolute raw talent.
MVE - incredible
eccles will always put in a shift
sheaf who we can rely on
saka is back, we thought he was gone for good
and although everyone sees it as a negative MR has a bolstered coaching staff, a performance director, and a owner that actually invests and cares

these are all the things we dreamt of a few years ago.

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skybluecam said:

Wilson isn’t playing well he’s been crap

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AFCCOVENTRY said:

We’ve paid pretty significant up front fees for both.

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Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:

What SBT feels like at the moment:

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AFCCOVENTRY said:

Collins
Kitching
EMC

Worth it for nearly £10m from L1?

To be fair EMC will be judged by the end of the season and his preferred position is on the left. Hopefully he proves himself.

But spending £10m on players who cant step up from L1 and make an instant impact is shocking. Kitching and Collins failures. Have we passed the valuable Vik/Gus money down the drain?

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Grendel said:

We won’t have spent the sort of money quoted on Kitching or Mason Clarke

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Ring Of Steel said:

Gyokeres came from a Premier League team, not L1- did he have an “instant impact?”

Hamer if memory serves had people calling for him to be offloaded as a liability a few months after joining.

The very two players you’re holding up as where the money came from, who as we now see have great ability, both had pretty underwhelming starts to their careers with us, and had people on here saying “get rid”.

You’ve then said these guys we’ve bought cost £10m (when they didn’t), and are hanging them out to dry even though they came from a lower level.

Leaps, distortions all over the place on this one

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covboy9 said:

EMC pedigree is awful and I’ve seen absolutely nothing from him

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