... I'm thinking it's not just players, whenever we get someone great in the recruiting dept they get nicked off us too
So there's competition, but they want us to drop the price! I think it's normal to wait for the competing parties to give us their best price until some drop out and see where we are then
I’m certainly not,but one thing I’ve noticed is that the club have seriously gone backwards since he’s gone and maybe others as well. Leaving Reed to run the joint for so many years seriously ****ed us right up. Then making so many mistakes with various owners haven’t helped. The club has definitely taken its eye off the ball
This the same Reed who navigated us to 7th and 6th? The same Reed who was heading up the football side of the club as we went up the leagues? That Les Reed, yeah? I agree that things went seriously stale and we've made many, many mistakes over the years, but to pin it on Cortese leaving and Reed taking over - well, I think it's a much bigger & complicated picture than that and can't all be pinpointed to one event, or one person.
Shea Charles. - City’s U23 captain. - Described as a ‘versatile and committed’ player. - A ‘rolls-royce’ defensive mid. - Pep has already given him his Premier League debut.
Of course they want Saints to drop the price. What club wouldn’t. Talk about saying the bleeding obvious. Such crap reporting.
Really want to keep Alcaraz but, providing they pay a good fee, Napoli is a good club to sell to. They are a selling club like ourselves so if he makes it to the top then we can benefit from a healthy sell on clause.
I mean, I'm not surprised he's leaning heavily to joining the reigning champions of Italy to play Champions League football for the club of Maradona, over playing with Moussa Djenepo and Lyanco again in the second tier of English football, away at Stoke and Rotherham. Interested to see what happens as he hasn't shown many signs of kicking up a stink so far...
Yeah, there's a lot to be said for the model, even if it's going to sting when some of them move on quickly. If a year here gets you straight into Liverpool's lineup (and half a year earns a transfer to the defending Serie A champions), there will be more Lavias and Charlys, even if I'd prefer to keep the original recipe.
I cannot see that happening now we are out of the Premier League. We will be seriously down the pecking order when it comes to attracting future talent. I am bemused that some in here have not really grasped what the impact of relegation will be. I can see all the better players leaving in August with the exception of any whose deals have failed to get over the line. If anyone remains, it will almost be by accident or if our evaluation of a player's worth is genuinely seen to be realistic as is the case of JWP. What people have not really explored either is the fact that other clubs will also be charging iver the odds should we wish to sign a player having acquired a decent income from the sale of the likes of Lavia. It is too early to call how next season pans out yet I think we should be expecting the current squad to be denuded of all the most skillful players. I do agree that we should be trying to recruit experience - you wonder just how much the lessons of last season have been learned.
Will they? The reason these big clubs are willing to sell the likes of Lavia is that they lack the leverage to keep them; limitations on the length of contracts for teenagers means that you can't expect them to spend years on loan or in the U23s anymore. It won't have come as a surprise to City that Lavia might be very good, that's the reason they ensured that there were sell-on clauses in all of the players we brought in. Getting the initial transfer fee and then a sizable wedge from the sell-on when a big club came in is what City would have been after here.
