You've been bleating on for ages about spending 30-35m on Aarons. How many rightbacks are going for double that? It's more that if someone is over 25 you call them an oaf and if they're under 22 you're reapplying the lipstick on your sock puppet.
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You've been bleating on for ages about spending 30-35m on Aarons. How many rightbacks are going for double that? It's more that if someone is over 25 you call them an oaf and if they're under 22 you're reapplying the lipstick on your sock puppet.
I doubt financially it is goin to make a huge impact
windymiller
Player Valuation: £50m
Virginia is likely leaving us, him going out on loan only benefits us to the tune of 50% of his wages being paid by somebody else, which is immediately counteracted by us giving those wages to Andy Lonergan. If we'd sold Virginia and weren't paying him anything then maybe I could make some sense of it but we're not. I'd have much rather given a youngster a try and let Lonergan try his luck elsewhere.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £50m
It won't but he's not coming here for free, I'd have rather given a youngster a chance.
Maybe our young goalies aren't very good?
steven
Player Valuation: £35m
Yeah. Virginia is leaving us on loan to play games…as otherwise he’d have been third choice here…which is not good for his development.
Tyrer sounds like he is injured so bringing in an experienced keeper for a year makes sense in case Pickford or begovic picks up injuries ?
Toffe3m4n
Player Valuation: £70m
Virginia is on his way out, so it's a stop-gap I guess.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £50m
Lonergan isn't very good either so we would have been no worse off. It is very unlikely that both Pickford and Begovic will be injured/suspended at the same time so the only time our third choice keeper will likely play is if one of them is injured and the other one gets sent off.
steven
Player Valuation: £35m
How else are we supposed to keep putting two keepers on the bench? Hell…I reckon we could push the boat on there and have three this year.
We are loaning one and the next one is injured
windymiller
Player Valuation: £50m
Virginia is going on a loan with an option to buy clause. He likely isn't coming back. So either we plan for replacing him with another young keeper or we kick the can down the road by signing old bench occupiers on yearly contracts. In isolation, this is not a big deal, but I worry that we have little to no faith in our youth set up which is no way to run a club. If our young players are no good then we need to look at changing our youth system, but the same coaches remain, players in the u23s are given contracts into their mid-twenties and so on... This seems a symptom of that malaise to me, we don't trust our youth system to give us a third choice goalkeeper that will almost certainly never play a game so we sign a geriatric who has played 7 games in three years instead. You can say it makes sense but I just don't see how.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £50m
How bad is this injury? If he's out for months then fair enough, if he's out for a few weeks it's not. If he's out for months why not just keep Virginia?
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £80m
Olsen and Virginia out. Begovic and Lonergan in. Really not a big issue for us in the scheme of things.
Mitch Ward's Minder
Player Valuation: £5m
10 years after we tried to get Lonergan from PNE on a free, we've finally got our man on a free. Dreams do come true.....
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