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Jonson Clarke-Harris

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  1. Blond Bombshell

    Blond Bombshell Well-Known Member

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    Teessidemackem Well-Known Member

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    Me too, id be suprised if he wanted to put himself through another League 1 promotion battle though.

    Hes probably looking at how well Toney done last season and seeing Arsenal and West ham after him.
    They paid peanuts for him less than a year ago. If only we had decent scouts like Peterborough.
     
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    don't care how much money KLD has - if we start spending £8m on one player, in league one, it would be ridiculously stupid.
     
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    Can't see it for reasons above. Trick is getting the next big thing. Over to you ks
     
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    Absolutely this!!peterborough want stupid money for players. If it was a £2m fee with extras taking it to 8m over 3 or 4 years then so be it
     
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    Why would it? If that is our capability why restrict ourselves? I am not remotely interested on transfer prices and if we spend £30m to build a squad that can compete at the level above ours it would seem to back up the long term view. We need to build a nucleus that can roll through L1 and compete in championship. We should be giving players 3 year deals because they are good enough to move through the league with is, that might mean paying championship tfr fees.
     
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    8m is abit steep considering hardly any of us knew who he was a year ago. Toney done it over 2 seasons before his big money move to Brentford so he showed he wasnt a one season wonder.
    On the flip side we need out of this league asap so spending the odd 750k here and there wont do us any favours either.

    Wolves took a gamble a few years ago in the Championship by spending big on Ruben Neves and Costa to help get them into the Premiership. Theyve never looked back since.

    A few big money signings are definitely needed for us. Players that can come in and do a job straight away for us and keep their place the following season in the Championship.
     
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    But the Neves fee is an average cost fir an average championship player nowadays! I wouldn’t want to spend 8m on anyone in this league.

    besides p, if he’s worth 8m then wyke can’t be that far behind?
     
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    Yes it is now mate but it wasn't 4 years ago when they signed him and Costa for a combined fee of nearly 30m. That kind of set the tone for transfers in that league now.
    I agree by the way i wouldn't pay 8m for him either, theres not many players that are worth 8m that would come to league 1 to be fair. A few players worth what we paid for Grigg would do nicely, just along as we have someone capable of negotiating the transfers unlike Donald.
     
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    For me its a smoke screen for the failures of the coach. To easy to link Clarke-Harris with LJ
     
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    They must know that won't work. Supporters are disapointed and angry at present. That will be worsened if we have a poor start to next season. To be honest the players we've been linked with in the main have not been good so hope media ate wide of the mark. If as we expect we don't turn it around tomorrow and don't have a positive summer it'll be another new boss midseason and same excuses. I'm playing for a miracle tomorrow as a rebuild would be much easier in championship imo
     
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    They're mostly so wide of the mark, they're not inbthe sam country/city, let alone pitch/stadium. Just the usual clickbait ****e
     
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    Ridiculous amount of money for a lad at his age who has had his career.

    Too much risk in it. We don't need another grigg on our hands.
     
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    Agree we should be lowering the highest average aged squad in the division. Those linked apart from lad at morecambe won't to this. At present have to hope they know what they're doing. They've nit had a chance to show yet so wait and see.
     
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    The salary cap was abolished. Back to the old restrictions and those are even more lax. Still won't be spending that unless we gain promotion
     
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    If the bullshit story by the Chronicle about McGeady is anything to go by, the media are well wide of the mark. There are some piss poor journalists these days. Hetherington and Cass must be looking on in disbelief.
     
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    Clarke harris ! yep i would be very happy next season Wyke and Mcgeady going the other way maybe and flog flannagan to south shields.
     
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    You do South Shields a disservice
     
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