Its a fair point you make and we clearly and rightly wont sign any player for the sake of it. I came away from last night quietly confident we will keep the players we want to keep unless they decide to leave or we get absolutely silly offers. Again, that's my interpretation of what Speakman said when talking about it.
I've never felt like KLD/Speakman wouldn't spend if they were to get value for money, not sure why - I know a lot think the opposite but I feel sure they'd spend a decent wedge if it was a good short and long term investment.
I wasn't at the talk so have no idea what was said other than that reported on here, but I've said before (and was shot down), I have always had the feeling that funds would be made available for the right player, without any sale.
Watched under21’s quite a bit and all you could hear were the coaches shouting””hemir move. Hemir run” was not very interested in putting a shift in. There is a player in there. Hope we can motivate him
Just looked it up, seems they missed a 5 off there. Probably good business for both teams. Ipswich are going to ha e a very stacked side if/when they get relegated.
I dunno why but I still really like Hemir, often wonder if one of his early chances went in how he would have faired, if he can’t be arsed though then it’s right to move him on
Pretty poor negotiation from Ipswich for their agreed deal for Delap to shoot up by £14,999,999 in under an hour.
He is a likeable lad and I think lots of us were willing him to score. Some players just enjoy running (Ross Stewart and Shane Long for instance) and it's obvious Hemir is naturally not one of them. That's what we need from a CF though. Hemir is supposed to have put a lot of work in this summer so let's see what he looks like in preseason. If he's not at it then a loan, definitely.
Said it at the time and got a bit of stick but I still think giving him the number 9 shirt was utterly stupid and putting unnecessary pressure on him.
Clear for all to see the service into him was piss poor he’s just an easier target to pin the blame on. Hopefully kick on this season under the new manager or get a loan, although I’m not too sure how he’d fair on loan he’s still only getting to grips with life here.
Agree with that, shirt number heightened expectations coupled with a few goals against poor opposition (Mallorca aside) then bombed out the team after one start, I don’t think we did him any favours
Simms wasn’t really a runner either and worked in our systems, just about finding a way to get the ball into him/play to his strengths l, I’d like to see him hang around until as late as possible then we can loan him if needs be
This is what bugged me more than anything. People screaming at him to press when nobody else is pressing. He’s f*cking 6’4 and built like a proper 6’4 gadgee, he’s not a spindly thing like Stewart who’ll run all day. Go and watch Haaland tell me how much he presses or how many touches of the ball he has, same goes with Lukaku. The amount of energy they’d waste aimlessly pressing is just not worth it. If we wanted a player to do that then that’s our problem for signing the wrong type of player.
It almost felt like we were going out of our way to knock his confidence, you don't play a young striker and haul them off for missing one shot. Fancy him to crack on this season with Reggie in charge.
