18 Jul 2024 23:34:31
You look at the recruitment and see a change since we won promotion
Initially we needed players fast and some paid off and others didn't
Now we haven't got the problem of trying to put a team together anymore and arre being savvy in the transfer market
Selling players for a profit when moving them on is new territory for us as a club
When you look at what we got promoted with and now look at the value of the squad?
It's a fantastic achievement in two years
Now it looks like we will purchase the freehold of the land aswell
That's some achievement from marinakis as an owner and also not leaving the club with debts as he's turned that into shares
This club is so on the up
Ventros has taken a lot of stick but marinakis has stood firm
The likes of murillo and danillo would not of been signed i suspect without him
The squad looks better and younger now the old boys have gone, but round of applause for the likes of navas, fillipe, boly, kouyate, woods, who still has a lot to offer, and cook for their professionalism in getting the club to this situation, along with Steve Cooper, who started all of this
Onwards and upwards.
19 Jul 2024 05:32:48
Well said mate.
Great Post.
19 Jul 2024 07:38:18
I remember when we used to sign players on a 4 year contract or so and then let their contract run down and the player leaves for nothing. I'm glad those days appear to be gone. It feels a bit different this season. No scattergun approach to signings. I'm feeling a lot more confident and optimistic about the coming season than I did this time last season. Hopefully, with the height that we've acquired at the back, including the goalie, we can reduce the amount of silly set-piece goals we concede and with a bit of luck MGW will take pre season to learn how to take a good set-piece himself.
19 Jul 2024 07:55:12
Brilliant and perceptive post DTP ??.
19 Jul 2024 08:10:34
Good post DTP, we seem to be heading in the right direction, we now have a plan and hopefully we keep the nucleus of the team and keep adding better players in our weak areas.
Keep the Faith.
19 Jul 2024 08:14:13
See the "New Kit" on sale.
Very little "New" about it tbh.
19 Jul 2024 08:55:06
Great Post Ff. Sums it up perfectly.
19 Jul 2024 09:17:36
The realities of playing PL football. Club has to squeeze as much revenue from fans. I've bought the shirt, so I accept that contract with my club.
19 Jul 2024 09:47:55
We’ve basically gone back to the highly successful Dane Murphy plan buying young hungry cheaper players with ( hopefully ) a bigger sell on value. Apart from Boly and Woody it’s quite a young squad.
19 Jul 2024 11:17:06
Just need to offload, obrien, Worrall, Dennis, mighten, Richards, Hwang and bring in a striker, left back, centre back and another winger, then the squad would be strong.
19 Jul 2024 13:24:00
DTP, we made so many player purchases I'm not sure who we still have out on loan, is Shelvey ours, the Canadian lad?, and Turner must be going. But got to agree with players brought in so far I think inproves the squad,
Glad to see the guy who recommended Hwang isn't having any input, he really made a cock up with Hwang! ?.
19 Jul 2024 14:53:57
Should hwang his head, ok ok just joining in.
19 Jul 2024 17:20:23
Excellent post 79!
19 Jul 2024 19:25:31
The Canadian and shelvey are gone red vespa
Fans need to realise we hadn't got a team when we got promoted, never mind a squad
We bought on mass because we had to and we bought some players so that if we got relegated immediately we would still have some championship players, now is the time to move those players on
Some talk about awoniyi as if he's the only player we've bought that injured, we'll boly niakhate had more than their fair share of injuries to aswell as wood and not forgetting Richard's
End of the day We are doing really good business both on and off the pitch.
20 Jul 2024 00:18:06
Well I've seen one sh1t keeper after another. Always going to struggle for left hand defender. As for some championship players mate? I've seen a lot better than we have. Remember how hard it is. Our production can only be taken on time. Know it's easy said. But why kid. Just my opinion. And btw nobody's perfect blah blah blah. Not me bringing ya down dtp the opposite.