Josh Scowen. There are so many players I’ve (thankfully) forgotten. It’s not long ago really when we were signing league one workhorses. And now. Somebody pinch me. I must be dreaming.
There’s also nothing to stop, I guess, if we don’t get promoted, of repeating the exact same loan for ALL of next season.
still think that there will be a double announcement over this weekend.. or at least something more in the way of a name coming in and possibly on one/two leaving
I genuinely think if we don’t go up, players will be very keen to come here, they know they’ll get minutes the coaching is clearly of a very high level so they will improve, we’re the perfect place for young lads to start out and for those who have lost their way, whatever happens we are in a very good place, in my possibly very deluded opinion of course
I am going for 10:00, someone I know is getting buried today at 10:00, so thats my non logical thought process
For the last couple of years looking at the signings we’ve made and the ones that teams in the prem with a similar model to ours make I have been dreaming of what Speakman could do with the pull of the premier league and that type of budget at his disposal. I feel like this is the biggest sign of what we’d be able to do in the premier league
It's why we need to stick to the plan. The plan is what puts us in a good position. Spending sensibly, committing to young players, never switching into 'now or never' mode. If we just stack our squad with senior pros in order to take a swing at going up, we're just AN Other football club. The way that KLD and Speakman have built things, we are a club that players want to join - and academy players want to stay at. We must preserve that regardless of the level we get to.
I agree with the sentiment of this, and you'd hope we could find another few of similar potential if we didn't go up this year. However, we have been a little lucky with Jobe and Le Fee both having close ties with people within the club. I'm not sure either would be here without Dodds/Speakman and Le Bris. I guess the hope is that now we've shown ourselves to be a good home for players of that ilk then more will come without needing the close ties to some of the staff etc.
the story says he will be re-integrated into the U21s and re-assessed this month. Basically he'll probably play a couple of U21 games then they'll decide at end of window what to do.
Barely playing at Kilmarnock iirc and seems like he struggled when he did, will either be staying with U21's or going back out on loan
I’m sure I read somewhere that we have an OPTION to buy at the end of the season which becomes an OBLIGATION to buy if we get promoted. So in theory if we want to keep him we can - assuming he wants to stay. And if we do sell Jobe or Rigg in the summer, then we’d have the finances to do it. That’s how I’m looking at it
Yes absolutely that seems possible. I think the thing that would prevent that, even if we do sell Jobe or Rigg (or both), is his wages. I doubt we'd be willing to pay him premier league level wages in the championship, for the reasons @FellTop said yesterday. So I think the only way to keep him would be a loan in the championship and a permanent in the Premier
That’s correct I can’t find the article but if we go up it’s £16 million plus performance related bonuses if we don’t it was £19.1 million straight up it’s bugging me I can’t find it anymore
