Summer window

If we lose these players, then unless the recruitment team pull a few rabbits out of the hat then we will have a very hard time repeating anything like last season's position, especially when you consider our buys so far are all extremely young untested kids...but I live in hope

 

This board is nuts like!

now we are selling half a team

just relax and enjoy the beautiful football when it starts again on Saturday!

I’ll be at the shields match hoping to get a glimpse of a couple of the new lads.

 

Think it’s just debate and speculation m8, always nice to have on here, v civilised

 

Pretty sure Speakman has said several times we're building a squad to push for promotion. Hard to say exactly what that means, but I don't think that includes selling 6 of our better players

 

Point taken and agree that if we had to lose one of Ballard or Clarke this summer then it would preferably be Ballard.

 

To be fair my comment was limited to a direct Sanderson/Ballard comparison and didn’t refer to either of the new lads.
As you say they may both be class and I hope they are.

 

So many people making up "rumours" to get clicks and too many of our fans taking it as gospel

 

Getting 15million+ for Ballard would be good financial business especially if it was mostly reinvested, I’d like to think these new lads are well up to the task of filling his boots cos they will be under pressure to hit the ground running, but let’s chill and see what this next week brings

 

Hope so

 

There has been a couple of hiccups, but overall I think Speakman and team have done enough so far to earn a bit of trust

Just my opinion, but I'm relaxed and happy to see how things play out

 

Think it is about time that everybody reverted back to what KS has been saying." We are not a selling club we are a club building for promotion" I guess it is easy to overlook that statement but it is a statement from an official of the club and it is not the first time he has mentioned promotion in the closed season. For me it means that our focus has changed from consolidation in the league and more about looking higher, if that means we have to sell to improve then that is what will happen on the other hand if it is decided that we have to keep our players then that is what will happen. If players ask to leave then my guess is that we will not want players who do not want to be there (it does not look like that at the minute). Clubs will always be bidding for your best players and will try and test thr resolve of the club but KS has said that Ross would like to stay and we know how happy JC and DB are so my guess is that if these players are happy still then we may well be starting the season with them. I think we may lose Pritchard or Embleton maybe even LON or Gooch and maybe even one of the above but hopefully it is all planned and for the good of the club. The only thing I would do is put the not for sale sign up a week before the end of the window to stop any influential players leaving on the last day

 

I would chill a little marras. We're all a bit nervous harking back to the pre KLD regime,where player dealings were very often stupid. However,we're under different management now and we have to get used to not having our pants taken down at every turn. We are now a well run club....at least on the pitch!
The signings of Nectar and Seelt indicate an anticipation of a potential personal problem with Danny Batth...notwithstanding the lack of height issue..... not sure what that is,but the position is covered.....ahead of the game.
Amad gone.....pity....ok,Bellingham in .Ahead of the game. We are not in the business of cashing in early on some of our players....we don't need to...we are well heeled!
Bids will always come in,which we don't need to take,and,in this division,the likes of Clarke and Ballard will know another top season with us this year will allow them an even more lucrative platform from which to jump,in the event we don't make it.
Fear not lads and lasses.....if we can address the cdm issue and resolve the striking options, with everyone fit, we're good to go. Can't wait!

 

That's teh model of course, but I don't think the club are planning to sell any of the likes of Ballard, Clarke, Patterson etc this season. You'd assume the likes of Seelt. Semedo. Triantas are the eventual replacements for some of these players but they will need a season to bed in. Look at the difference in Trai Hume from when he signed to now....

 

Say "The likes of...." more.

Honestly!

 

I honestly think unless them players are agitating for moves we won't be looking to sell until next summer, with that dependent on how this season finishes (promotion and we should keep them for another season again). It will all help the club in terms of points on the board and adding value to those players.

 

Was listening to the Echo pod with Smith/Copley-Paste and they were saying how it feels a season too early for Clarke/Ballard and there is no appetite from club or players to move.
The close season means that the devil finds work for idle hands, especially on Twitter etc. I'm not overly concerned with the rumours to be honest

 

Yep. Just wait and see.

No point in selling just for the purpose of a profit, and I doubt that will happen. As much has been clearly stated.

But all clubs sell players. Real Madrid have sold a big player most summers for years before this year. Others are the same and only the non clubs are exempt from this reality. As long as any fee is what we want and not just any that's offered, just let them get on with it.

They are doing a lot better than we've seen for a long time.

 

This is how I see it too...spot on mate.

 

Yep,another spot on imo.