Summer window

RB Leipzig named a starting eleven entirely under the age of 22 to open the season.

 

I never judge experience based on age, rather I judge by the amount of games they've played.

 

Indeed - Pierre Ekwah is 18 months older than JUDE Bellingham, let alone JOBE

Extreme example. But 8 months ago Pierre hadn't played a professional game and Jude was already one of the best in the world.

 

I am not disagreeing with that but the club have brought in experience Baath Pritchard Evans to go alongside Onien Gooch and Stewart. That is a fairly good balance injuries aside and what we now have is some very experienced younger players with games under there belt as well take Dan Neil I don't actually know how many first team games he has played but would not surprise me if he is getting on to nearly 100 and the experience he has at such a young age is excellent for us.

 

Yes, I know the situations are different.

My point was more that the young players we sign are regularly dismissed as just kids for the future ...

... despite the speed others, like Jobe, have adapted and are fighting their way into team.

We were all crying out for pace and agility quite recently.

 

I was saying to my da. We almost need a two month loan at the start of the season to add to what we have. Obviously no one would do that either.

 

It was rb salzburg i think mate

Unreal talent at that club. Mentioned the lad konate a few times on here last season n hes banging goals in for them now

 

Was it their coach we were linked with also?

 

We were linked to their coach from last season Jaissle who went to Saudi and their new coach Struber. Struber was also pictured with KLD at the Birmingham away game just before the world cup

 

Well considering he was let go to free wages, I don't think there was a big fee involved.
But I'm sure someone will point out we supposedly got £3. 5 million for him.
We didn't.

 

So around what amount did we receive

 

Mate if I knew how much I would post it.
I did hear it was more to do with wage reductions.

 

How would you know the exact details of a transfer within the club.

 

Stansfield being linked to Birmingham

 

Close enough! Fill the team with young talent, they will grow, sell a few, refill. When we’re challenging the title add a couple of seasoned pros.

I don’t think I would be selling all 3 older heads right now, but I think i can see the logic. I don’t think any of them would have been playing many minutes by 2025 if all goes to plan.

 

So keinan davis cost Hull just 1m. Would've been all over that.

 

He didn’t say he knew the exact like, he said he didn’t know the exact

 

If you don't mind me saying Bob, this is where you're go wrong.

You're contradicting someone and posting guesswork as a fact.

He wasn't so much let go as wanted by another club prepared to pay for him.

 

I know the point you’re trying to make even though it’s Salzburg not Leipzig, but they’re playing in Austria and continually outspend everyone in the division by miles. They also have numerous feeder clubs to allow free movement of players and dodgy deals. If you look at how many players they bring in from Africa etc and send them to Liefering it’s like they’re people trafficking

My point is that I’m not against having a load of younger lads in the team at all, it’s exciting to watch but there has to be a limit because they need game time to develop and we can’t even offer some of them that now so why bring in more? What is the use of having someone as talented as Ba on the bench because we can’t give him a run of games to prove how good he is and then sign another 3-4 who’ll be in the same position when we’re on a budget?

This isn’t about the likes of Gooch, Bathh and Pritchard by the way I couldn’t give a ****e if any of them leave. It’s just about having a little bit of experience and quality in general.

 

Is Tone just applying pressure by persistently saying we’re close on forwards. It was a couple of forwards from “world football” 2 weeks ago. On Saturday, it was a striker in on Sunday. Nothing appears to have materialised yet.