Never sign a player that isn’t sure if he wants to come to us. We only want hungry players.
Kubo would be earning in excess of £100k a week if he came. He's a big name player in La Liga.
TFG could sanction a 150-200m spend pretty easily as long as that came without a ridiculous spiralling of wages too.
It's why I'm doubtful of Grealish, Gallagher and to a degree Luiz as all three would be on 100k plus I'm guessing minimum of they arrived.
Can likely get the likes of Kubo, Mcatee, Elliot, Doake etc on around 40-60k tops. On a loan I maybe can see us adding a big wage earner but not on a permanent deal currently
Sorry.xJust kick a man when he's down Exeter !
Opinions and that. But the potential productivity upgrade from JWP is hard to argue with. Sometimes you have to go with someone who will be a horses for courses signing.Except the fact Gueye isn't and never will be a good sitting player. And that the player you want is utter horseturd
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I'll let the team canteen know, then.Never sign a player that isn’t sure if he wants to come to us. We only want hungry players.
Another week and people will be begging for Soucek and McGinn.With all this disparaging talk of signing the Longstaffs and Soucek’s of the world, I do wonder how this forum would of reacted, if it had been around in the 80’s , to the news that Everton were signing 2 washed up, injury plagued,journeymen called Andy Gray and Peter Reid.
Something about not judging books by covers I think.
We can only hope that the next Gray & Reid are just around this transfer corner
Never mid waiting for Luiz to make up his mind just go and buy Hackney from Middlesbrough, a very good footballer a wonderful passer of the ball. scores goals and would be a lot cheaper, leaving more money to buy other players.
Money we spent was never the issue mate though really.
It was the wages we offered which like United are finding can massively wreck your club for years
Wages rather than fees is definitely it, as we aren't busting our 130kish per week limit for any player this window, as both Jarrad and Tarky for two would be knocking on DM'S door almost immediately.
100%. Said it before in this thread, I think in 3 years time Hackney would be looked back at as a much much better signing. Fits next to Gana stylistically perfectly for this year tooNever mid waiting for Luiz to make up his mind just go and buy Hackney from Middlesbrough, a very good footballer a wonderful passer of the ball. scores goals and would be a lot cheaper, leaving more money to buy other players.
This is the key really. I don't think it's fully grasped/understood by football people, although some are starting to get it (I think Thelwell actually did).
The PL is the final stop for most players (outside of like 10-12 clubs in Europe). If the player doesn't work out, you can't move them on.
It's why it's quite hard to turn a football team around quickly.
100%. Said it before in this thread, I think in 3 years time Hackney would be looked back at as a much much better signing. Fits next to Gana stylistically perfectly for this year too