It's painfully clear that the current squad is nowhere good enough to challenge for promotion ... either automatic or via the play-offs.
Yes, we have some time to improve the squad, but we've left ourselves a lot to do.
Even with what we have, we look like a hoofball team aiming for Stockley's head.
OK, so that's Plan A. There is no apparent Plan B.
Is the honeymoon over for Sandgaard? Yes, he has saved the Club. But he has shot himself in the foot with the fine words about reaching the Premier League in five years.
If we believe what we read, we also committed to a £500k per year rental agreement with Duchatelet for the next 15 years. Nice. And someone else with have to deal with the consequences when that agreement comes to an end.
No significant investment in what was going to be a Summer of Love where we built a squad to "blow it out of this division."
Sandgaard seems to be a nice guy, with honourable intent. But I sense that the cost of his dreams is now dawning upon him ... and he's coming up short.
Football is not a place to make money, Thomas. In fact, the opposite.
If you want into this, you have to do better.
To play devil's advocate Ipswich are throwing money about and bought a lot but not winning either Lincoln proved last season that you can compete in this league without spending too much. Tom may be saving his money for until we get to the Championship. Then he spunkz it all and gambles. That's the feeling I get from the guy.
We aint getting anywhere near the Championship without significant investment.
Our academy's best prospects have been taken year on year and we are left with the lesser prospects. Our professional squad lacks any stand out players.
We have signed 2 league 1 cast offs in midfield who may improve. Stockley is a good signing but needs to play in a 2. He doesn't score enough to play up top on his own.
Our 20/21/22 year old players aren't good enough.
Significant investment is a phrase I'm not comfortable with. It seems to be an excuse to pressure owners to spend to keep up with others.
It is a term to state how much investment we need in this squad of players. I dont think for a second we should be paying lads 10k a week in this league or spending fortunes but we need significant investment in the playing squad. We aren't close to having a competitive squad so it's significant.
We payed our players a lot more than Lincoln last season and they done well.
I am not sure what you mean here. I love the Defence and Keeper - maybe another left back. The midfield is not great. We also desperately need wingers and a goal scorer.
Sorry was using Lincoln as an example that overhauled their squad well. We chose to pay big wages for Watson Gunter Matthews and countless others. I'd rather us try our youngsters than pay these wallies money. I'm in a minority I know mate.
I can only presume you didn't go to watch Charlton last night. Elewere was decent. Roddy, Ghandour and Clayden looked no where near good enough.
I trust @ButtleJR & @Covered_End_Lad on most of their Charlton content, however I do believe he can speak in a similar way to that post. I doubt he'd be calling journo's stupid etc though.
Also one for you guys, understaand it was Andy Marshall who would tell cawley all the gossip beforehand. seems inline with cawley not knowing/releasing as much since marshall has left.
Really can’t understand why we wouldn’t be in for him. Proven at this level and in a position we need options for.
Slow again....
We’re we slow to react on Baah? Or just saw he scored 3 in 21. Twice against us and largely fuck all else.
We are looking for players to get us out of the division as opposed to a punt on someone who might come good
He got himself out of this division with Watford .
In that case go and support them and you can get out of this division too.
Watford can afford to stockpile players on the chance they will become great / we don’t have that sort of luxury at the moment so he shouldn’t really be on our wish list!
Fast forward a month and we will all be hailing Gallen and TS for holding their nerve and pulling off some great signings, at great prices - or we will be back to 'he's got no money, we'd be better off with... etc etc' . Noises definitely started coming out about a lack of funds a few months back but i reckon that was to try and reverse some of the division blowing money image that may have been built up so better value could be achieved. However, we will only know once we know, everything else is a guess.
Really can’t understand why we wouldn’t be in for him. Proven at this level and in a position we need options for.
Slow again....
We’re we slow to react on Baah? Or just saw he scored 3 in 21. Twice against us and largely fuck all else.
We are looking for players to get us out of the division as opposed to a punt on someone who might come good
He got himself out of this division with Watford .
In that case go and support them and you can get out of this division too.
Watford can afford to stockpile players on the chance they will become great / we don’t have that sort of luxury at the moment so he shouldn’t really be on our wish list!
We seem.not to algorithm one player at the moment. Watford was a dump of a ground accessed via an allowing the60's. The club was a joke. Now look.
If that's spellchecker then something is awry with your phone!
I'm sure we can "compete with Shrews", but it is irrelevant if we are not interested in him, we know we are short in the recruitment of players, but we aren't gonna go after someone who becomes available just because they are available,.. trust in Steve & Co to get it right...sooner the better.
Fast forward a month and we will all be hailing Gallen and TS for holding their nerve and pulling off some great signings, at great prices - or we will be back to 'he's got no money, we'd be better off with... etc etc' . Noises definitely started coming out about a lack of funds a few months back but i reckon that was to try and reverse some of the division blowing money image that may have been built up so better value could be achieved. However, we will only know once we know, everything else is a guess.
Several scenarios could play out really, even if we have money to spend. I'm assuming we'll get some loan players plus
a) we spend money and sign 2 or 3 excellent players b) we have cash but miss our targets and instead spend significant money in desperation on mediocre players c) we have cash but miss our targets and instead end up making a couple of cheap signings (of the Josh Parker ilk) d) we have cash but miss our targets and instead end up giving free agents a go or combinations of the above.
Couple of things - the supposed TS LinkedIn message was posted elsewhere but not by who we are all assuming! Secondly TS hasn't stopped talking to fans on LinkedIn, I can vouch for that, and before anyone assumes differently I've been in contact with TS for just over 12 months, and 'No' I've not been talking to him about transfers or anything on the playing side.
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Elewere was decent.
Roddy, Ghandour and Clayden looked no where near good enough.
This was during the club purchase saga.
a) we spend money and sign 2 or 3 excellent players
b) we have cash but miss our targets and instead spend significant money in desperation on mediocre players
c) we have cash but miss our targets and instead end up making a couple of cheap signings (of the Josh Parker ilk)
d) we have cash but miss our targets and instead end up giving free agents a go
or combinations of the above.
He'd spell it Ass
Secondly TS hasn't stopped talking to fans on LinkedIn, I can vouch for that, and before anyone assumes differently I've been in contact with TS for just over 12 months, and 'No' I've not been talking to him about transfers or anything on the playing side.