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I have reason to believe we have done a lot of scouting in Italy, which did surprise me.

But maybe some of the top teams have more players they are willing to loan with mandatory buy clauses.
Italian players so rarely settle that I’d be somewhat dubious. However there are certainly young player who have moved to Italian clubs that are found to be on the outside. There’ll be Huijsen style bargains to have for absolute certain.
 
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The other one mate <laugh>

They really shouldn’t have gone down
Yeah but I’d say they probably did deserve it in the end with some of the mismanagement like refusing to let Alvaro Valles go back to Betis for €3m then him refusing a move to Villa in January and then Las Palmas terminating his contract and letting him go on a free
 
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I have no problem at all with bringing in a few lads. We have to, I know that. The thought of 10 for example just doesnt sit well with me. If we can bring in 4 or 5 really good players I will be confident enough. We dont need a revolution, more evolution please. I would bet good money we see progression from Rigg next season to match or better the progression from Jobe this season. Will need his chance to play though, and not as a sub or rotation (rotation not being something I see Regis doing much of)
You're both right, we want a strong spine of quality signings, but we need a squad too.
 
Yeah but I’d say they probably did deserve it in the end with some of the mismanagement like refusing to let Alvaro Valles go back to Betis for €3m then him refusing a move to Villa in January and then Las Palmas terminating his contract and letting him go on a free

Aye madness that. And he was a proper keeper.

From what I gather it’s a very political club and it costs them.
 
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I really dont agree mate. But maybe I am an old fart who thinks the modern game is a bit ****e.

How can we love a side as much as we have and then jump to bench most as soon as they get success. It makes playing the game de-motivating. Plus the hardest thing for any coach is to create a team and a squad that is 100% together and committed, not to mention better than the sum of its parts. Signing players is fraught with danger, and the danger spirals as the fees do. If our starting line up next season doesnt have 5 or 6 of the play off team in it I will be a bit ashamed really. And definitely sad.

I dont want us to become like the majority of soulless premier league teams. I would rather we keep giving our best young talent the chance to play. It means the best young talent keep joining our academy. We are onto something special with this group. Personally I would hate to lose the connection with them we have. It has been a long long time since we had a squad and fans as connected as we do now, maybe since Reidy, that was a powerful dynamic that went tits up when we started spending big. Lets not assume we havent got something like that rolling here.

It's a really fine balance that they've got on their hands I think. Like you, I don't want to see too many players discarded, but there's no point in sticking with it if we're not remotely competitive.

I think we need 20 players who can be called upon to compete without being totally shown up in that league.

Right now I think we have 13 (including ELF)

Patto, Hume, Cirkin, Ballard, O'Nien, Jobe, Le Feè Neil, Rigg, Roberts, Mundle, Isidor, Mayenda

That leaves 7 signings needed for me at present.
The difficulty I have is figuring out what we do with Alese and Huggins. They're the kind of players where we need to be ruthless and move on I think.
 
Apart from Rudoni and Hamer I’ve never heard of any of the loads of players named on here as possibles and as I read each post I want them all.

It goes to show there are thousands of fantastic players all over the World.

We know it’s going to be difficult next season but the difference this time is the 3 Amigo’s KLD, KSS and RLB. They are the best we’ve had for ages and KSS has done a fantastic job finding some gems so I expect some surprises to come.
 
I'm not in the Hamer fan club like some mind. I don't think he's what we need and I think his price would not be value for money.

I expect Neil to play further forward next year with a more orthodox DM behind him. So to me, the CM spots are almost full with ELF, Neil and Rigg in there with 1 to replace Jobe, 1 possibly more experienced player (a PL Alan Browne) and then a DM specialist.
 
I'm not in the Hamer fan club like some mind. I don't think he's what we need and I think his price would not be value for money.

I expect Neil to play further forward next year with a more orthodox DM behind him. So to me, the CM spots are almost full with ELF, Neil and Rigg in there with 1 to replace Jobe, 1 possibly more experienced player (a PL Alan Browne) and then a DM specialist.

I rate Hamer, proper rate him, but don’t want him here for PL one bit.
 
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It's a really fine balance that they've got on their hands I think. Like you, I don't want to see too many players discarded, but there's no point in sticking with it if we're not remotely competitive.

I think we need 20 players who can be called upon to compete without being totally shown up in that league.

Right now I think we have 13 (including ELF)

Patto, Hume, Cirkin, Ballard, O'Nien, Jobe, Le Feè Neil, Rigg, Roberts, Mundle, Isidor, Mayenda

That leaves 7 signings needed for me at present.
The difficulty I have is figuring out what we do with Alese and Huggins. They're the kind of players where we need to be ruthless and move on I think.
Isn’t Jobe off to Germany imminently? Shame if he is but we have to trust the club.
 
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At least we have the option to loan to the championship some of the fringe players who need games.. aleksic, jones, seelt. Need some quality and power through the team, hopefully rigg steps up in the middle now, can’t see him getting a sniff on the wing in the prem. Can see us bringing in 8+ and shifting a lot, wove got faith in a lot of this team to step up but they’re going to need help
 
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It's a really fine balance that they've got on their hands I think. Like you, I don't want to see too many players discarded, but there's no point in sticking with it if we're not remotely competitive.

I think we need 20 players who can be called upon to compete without being totally shown up in that league.

Right now I think we have 13 (including ELF)

Patto, Hume, Cirkin, Ballard, O'Nien, Jobe, Le Feè Neil, Rigg, Roberts, Mundle, Isidor, Mayenda

That leaves 7 signings needed for me at present.
The difficulty I have is figuring out what we do with Alese and Huggins. They're the kind of players where we need to be ruthless and move on I think.
I think there are those that surprise you so it’s hard to make a call but I think some in there will struggle. Roberts I think will struggle against stronger defenders and will be a liability by gifting the ball. I like both fullbacks but think they may struggle with the pace and ability they face running at them. We need to find players who’ll bring out their strengths of the others.
 
It's a really fine balance that they've got on their hands I think. Like you, I don't want to see too many players discarded, but there's no point in sticking with it if we're not remotely competitive.

I think we need 20 players who can be called upon to compete without being totally shown up in that league.

Right now I think we have 13 (including ELF)

Patto, Hume, Cirkin, Ballard, O'Nien, Jobe, Le Feè Neil, Rigg, Roberts, Mundle, Isidor, Mayenda

That leaves 7 signings needed for me at present.
The difficulty I have is figuring out what we do with Alese and Huggins. They're the kind of players where we need to be ruthless and move on I think.
I would give Huggins a chance. He has looked a star when fit imo. If he is fit through pre season I would keep him.
 
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