The Josh Brownhill Contract

My view is to not sell in January - wait until the Summer

Ultimately we can't stand in his way

 

Clearly the club is a selling club and if the bucks are offered they will sell.
We have Korey coming back and Messengo and Palmer and Nagy.
He will be sold.

 

One thing RR - if we have a reputation of getting players, developing them and selling them on to better things - then youngsters are more likely to come to us

To an extent LJ is the opposite to GJ in this respect

 

Agree 100% however caught on this if city have aspirations of premiership football you need to keep your better players.
If there sold continually then it is going to be very hard.

 

Most players want to play at the highest level in their short careers. I can’t blame them for that.
If we get promoted then he’ll stay with us. If we don’t then anything could happen.

 

It's true, but how many times have we lost out better players, only to then be surprised by how much better the replacements are? Reid and Flint definitely spring to mind.

 

Yeh have to agree on that one especially Flint-Reid we have not replaced his goals but was it a one season wonder ? before that he was struggling to get into the team.

 

That’s a good point, better young players will be attracted to us knowing we develop players well and allow them to then move hopefully to the Prem. I’m sure , along with actually getting game time that was what attracted Massengo to us. Long may it continue, of course unless at some point we can actually get promotion ourselves some would argue what’s the point.

 

'Long may it continue, of course unless at some point we can actually get promotion ourselves some would argue what’s the point'.

LJ starts his 5th year as HC on February 6th.

Be fair, GJ did a brilliant for City on a relative shoestring compared to LJ.
Was GJ allowed 60 signings in his first 3+ years in charge ?

Nothing to do with LJ being opposite to GJ .
Financial circumstance/backing is the sole reason LJ is able to spread his net so wide.

 

Really? I'm surprised you haven't mentioned this before?

 

Time's moved on RP, not many clubs in the championship runs on a shoestring......

 

He doesn’t understand we are spending more , but also receiving more for players we sale. It’s called inflation, actually that’s not true it’s just prices have gone crazy in football, you have to live in the now.

 

Any other manager it wouldn't be an issue for RP........................But it's LJ............

 

I think that a lot of our recent financial ‘freedom’ can be attributed to that Mark Ashton chap. His dealing in the transfer market, both buying and selling, have been mostly brilliant - there are a couple of exceptions (Diony etc) but we are in reasonable financial shape and within FFP largely due to him - which means we CAN release funds for players.

 

Striker Striker Striker N0 1 priority

 

I agree, however it’s not that easy finding a striker within our budget that wants to come here and will be a top level championship striker, Fam is a decent championship striker, he cost around £5m and is probably worth a similar amount and if played , and without injury/suspension etc will get 10-15 goals a season. The type we need would be over double that , then there’s the wages And also him actually wanting to come , oh and then There’s the DNA , not quite so easy now is it?

Afobe cost £12m, and the only reason he was prepared to come here is because it didn’t work at Stoke and we gave him an opportunity to kick start his career , without that he wouldn’t have even considered us.

 

I've always felt with Fammy that there was a good player in there somewhere. The last game he played, albeit curtailed, has almost convinced me.
Would love to see him and Afobe in the same team.

 

But he seems to like it here and he suits our play.