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Bob the slob said:
With talk about bids for Mawson does anyone else think we should look to sell him now for a decent fee (£25 million) and put that money into buying a quality (ish) striker or creative midfielder.
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Given there was talk about Man City sniffing around Rodon in our U23s I wouldn’t be worried about cover. These kids need to come good at some point
 
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It was interesting to hear Pep say in an interview this week something I have thought for a long time. That is that the gap is too big between the under 23's and the PL . He says that the La Liga teams have a second team in the Spanish Segunda league. Years ago we had our reserve team in the Combination but pulled out for financial reasons and ran the reserve team in the Welsh League instead. The poorer standard between the two was noticeable whenever a youngster played for the first team and had a detrimental effect on them. The only answer I see is to give some of our promising youngsters and there are some, a 20 minute runout as a sub in the first team although unfortunately our PL position may not allow this. I don't see that sending out our youngsters on loan is of benefit to them unless they get guaranteed a minimum amount of game time.
 
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Nosugarman1 said:
It was interesting to hear Pep say in an interview this week something I have thought for a long time. That is that the gap is too big between the under 23's and the PL . He says that the La Liga teams have a second team in the Spanish Segunda league. Years ago we had our reserve team in the Combination but pulled out for financial reasons and ran the reserve team in the Welsh League instead. The poorer standard between the two was noticeable whenever a youngster played for the first team and had a detrimental effect on them. The only answer I see is to give some of our promising youngsters and there are some, a 20 minute runout as a sub in the first team although unfortunately our PL position may not allow this. I don't see that sending out our youngsters on loan is of benefit to them unless they get guaranteed a minimum amount of game time.
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Portugal do the same but only a few teams are involved.
Given the money involved teams will not risk youngsters if relegation threatens.
IMO this is where we were really stupid in loaning in two young development players and taking the risk for other teams. Clement took a lot of credit for both of these ad should shoulder a lot of the burden. Abraham I can sort of understand but Sanches was a massive gamble that has backfired spectacularly.
 
Clement didn't want to start them earlier in the season because it would have put too much pressure on them. His wrong decision means there's even more pressure on them now.
 
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Javier Hernandez on the move from WHU. Although he's not done much for them I'd prefer him to Ayew.
Any thoughts?

Also I thought we had reached our loan limit but does the 2 player rule only to loans from othe EPL clubs?
 
I'm getting cheesed off but not surprised about the transfer situation (or lack of) but Carvahal is keeping me entertained.

"When asked about transfer news at his press conference ahead of Saturday’s trip to Newcastle, Carvalhal said:

“The boat is on the sea, but the fish didn’t bite the hook so far.
“When the boat is on the sea, it depends if there is a storm, if the fish are sleeping or not and if they really want to come to the boat or not.

“We are in the process, but I don’t know yet what will happen.”

When asked whether any deals could be an imminent, Carvalhal added with a smile: “I am not on the boat! I am on the beach, so I can’t see the fish.

“We will try to bring in the best quality players possible. I don’t want to talk about how many, but the most important thing is to bring in quality players who can help the players we already have here.

“They are doing so well, with good attitude and commitment, but they need help, with some quality players who can help us go up a level."

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Makes a change from seagulls, I suppose!!!!
ON a more serious note, HJ said in that recent interview that you had to always sell before buying and that was always why he is always late in the window. But the yanks guarantee on the overdraft should have sorted that issue out.....which is why he brought them in. But still the slow window?
 
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FrankfurterBlue said:
Makes a change from seagulls, I suppose!!!!
ON a more serious note, HJ said in that recent interview that you had to always sell before buying and that was always why he is always late in the window. But the yanks guarantee on the overdraft should have sorted that issue out.....which is why he brought them in. But still the slow window?
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He has also said the profit from Summer sales would be available in January.
Sell Mawson early and add that to the Summer money for a decent war chest.
 
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Did anyone actually believe we would do much if any business yet alone do it early. That lot are just full of bullshit. They said after our near miss last season that they wouldn't allow that to happen again and to be fair they have kept there word, because we actually made a few signings and stayed up last season and this year hardly anything of any use signings wise and poised for relegation.
 
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