Another thing about 'experienced Championship players' - if they are that experienced in the Championship are they going to take us up to The Premier League?
I'd rather go with a youngster from our own academy or prudently signed from abroad than the same old players who move about from one Championship club to another. Luke Varney for instance is about as experienced a Championship player as they come, 32 years old, has played for 6 out of the current 24 Championship teams and one club was even daft enough to spend £2.5m on him in a failed attempt at getting promoted and ultimately ended up relegated due to these kind of signings.
Signing a player with substantial Championship experience should mean that he can slot in fairly seamlessly, knows his job and how physically demanding the division is.
Logically, if he was a valuable player at his current club he'd be indispensible and a 1st team regular. He'd be under contract and his club wouldn't want to let him go.
Unlikely, but unless we're willing to throw big bucks in transfer fees (and wages).......the kind of Champs player available is either going to be a 'has been' or a 'never quite made it' or wrecked by injuries.
We've seen too many of those in recent times. And Uncle Roly no doubt believes that better value or even better players are available outside of the UK.
You can kind of see his point.
Nail on head oggy.
People keep referring to these experienced championship players like there's a skip full of them available and affordable, and RD is intentionally ignoring it.
There's one place you can find them on the cheap. Little south-east London outfit. Since that Belgian nut job took over he's flogged their top-scorer and centre-half for next to nothing. He even let a couple of their best players go for free cos he was too tight to break the bank and get them to sign new deals.
Totally ignoring the fact that they both wanted to leave!
Kermogant was offered a new deal that HE chose not to sign.
Morrison was out of the team and wanted game time so chose to go to Birmingham on loan and has now made it a permanent deal.
Fair play to Roly for getting some money in for them!
Irrelevant Al. The comment was in response to others defending our shall we say "unorthodox" transfer policy by dismissing the availability of any proven championship players. Wrong. Regardless of the circumstances, Kermogant and Morrison were both proven championship and were both available for a snip. Both have been extremely successful for other rival clubs at championship.
Either there are in fact proven championship players out there at an affordable price, for whatever reason, or Roland is the only stupid mug giving them away for a pittence.
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I'd rather go with a youngster from our own academy or prudently signed from abroad than the same old players who move about from one Championship club to another. Luke Varney for instance is about as experienced a Championship player as they come, 32 years old, has played for 6 out of the current 24 Championship teams and one club was even daft enough to spend £2.5m on him in a failed attempt at getting promoted and ultimately ended up relegated due to these kind of signings.
Either there are in fact proven championship players out there at an affordable price, for whatever reason, or Roland is the only stupid mug giving them away for a pittence.