Transfer Rumours January 2023 Window

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If we dont get a minimum of 3 good players in then we are down.

Bennett/Harris swap would be absurd.

Im sure its bollox.
 
We're not shopping at Harrods anymore.

In fact we may well be at the sale section in Poundland.

We need a left back. Bennett is a left back. He played well for us over 3 years or so. We don't have another left back we can rely on and O'Dowda is more valuable further forward.

If Bennett wants to return I say give him a contract to the season end and then review.

Harris to Wigan or Stoke, I don't care particularly if there is another striker coming in.
 
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The system is a joke.

How many promising talents are hoovered up by the bigger / tier 1 academy clubs that end up getting discarded when if they'd stayed at their original clubs would have had a much better grounding, more opportunities to play at a good level and probably secure a much better future?
 
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The system is a joke.

How many promising talents are hoovered up by the bigger / tier 1 academy clubs that end up getting discarded when if they'd stayed at their original clubs would have had a much better grounding, more opportunities to play at a good level and probably secure a much better future?
Difficult one really all round with many points of view but that’s 3 gone this season.
 
Is it something we have no choice in? Can a Prem Academy plunder players from lower level academies for nominal fees?

Or can a club like City tell them to foxtrot oscar?
sadly if the players want to go/move there's little the club can do whilst they are still "juniors"... it's only after they turn 17 (I believe) that the club can offer a professional contract... prior to that they can come/go pretty much as they please and the club that loses out gets limited compensation...

The bright lights of Prem clubs is often enough to turn their heads but it's very often a short term gain for them as they become one of many "talented" youngsters at such clubs and it becomes harder to shine and much, much more difficult to break into the first team....