Not really. Huddersfield were a promotion chasing side under no pressure to sell, with an owner who's a fan who's been bankrolling their transfers. We'd have been talking over £5M to get him, and for £1.8M fee you could pay Sharp £20k a week for 3 years and you'd only be spending about that. So you'd have been looking at 3 years wages for Rhodes as an additional spend. The difference with Hamill and Sharp if there was going to be one would be that the Allams know nothing about football. If there's a player everyone raves about playing first team football and scoring goals it must seem like a better deal than a 4th choice winger who's barely played for Wolves and who nobody has mentioned to them before.
Exactly the point. The fact is, that Nick really rates Fryatt and towards the end of the transfer window(and emergency transfer window), his concern was not with his striker, but the fact that the wide men were not performing. He doesn't rate Mclean, Stewart was doing nothing, Brady flattered to deceive, Garcia wasn't match fit and neither was King, who had little match experience anyway. Stick Marshall and Hammill either side of Fryatt, with Koren in the hole and the best defence in the league and you should be laughing. You'd still have King, Stewart and Brady on the bench and far more options to mix things up, I can certainly see the thinking.
Why did Nick Barmby go on about Billy Sharp in his interview with Burnsy if the deal was not possible. why did he say that bringing in a high paid striker was bad practice? If there was no money? If it was known in January that the money was not really available why elaborate on a fiction?
It was, Ben Marshall, Stoke academy player who'd just had a very successful half season loan at Sheff Wednesday. He ended up being signed by our favourite flattop for £750k(he scored 3 in 16 for Leicester).
I think the jist is that money was available, if it was for a player that the Allams felt we needed. They know **** all about football so are basically relying on who can shout the loudest for the longest to work out what we need. All the fans and everyone in the local media were saying we needed a striker with no mention of more wingers. They didn't really buy into a novice manager and his long time colleague saying we didn't need one and just wanted midfielders, maybe lost faith in them a bit and withdrew the funding. That loss of faith would at least explain the Hamill approval and then reversal from an Allam viewpoint. Clearly as Nicky you're going to think that they're taking the piss if they do that. I think we need to get that Italian bloke in as director of football, he can tell the Allams to sit on one side of the table, Nicky on the other, and then he can start banging their heads together and telling them to grow the **** up and talk about these things sensibly in private and not through the media as Nicky has done and the Allams now are doing.
That's the thing isn't it? For me it was never a case of A is right and B is wrong therfore C should happen etc...... It seems we have a collective **** up from Barmby, Pearson AND the Allams that really... well I couldn't give a **** anymore as long as they all put some IQ into it and get their acts together (and not their ego's) for next season. The in-fighting is damaging for the club and we are going to end up a mid to lower table laughing stock if some memebers of the HCAFC don't start acting sensibly soon. (Those that remain.) I'm sick of reading about all this dirty linen to be honest. It really doesn't help sell season tickets either! Allams/Hull City - TAKE NOTE! Otherwise, you might find the people spending 'your' season pass money on a foreign holiday or a 42" 3D telly this summer instead. You need to smarten up you lot down at the circle.
We were never in for King when Pearson was in charge. Ironically, Walsh wanted to bring Drinkwater to us, but Pearson didn't think he was good enough, then he signed him for Leicester. I don't think Marshall had anything to do with Pearson, he was making a splash in League One with Wednesday and there were plenty of clubs looking at him.
I had been saying for quite a while before all this happened that we needed wingers more than strikers because none of them were performing enough. I also said that if we all agree that we like Fryatt, where was another striker going to fit in?
