We played the "oh we are newly promoted and have no money" card so "can we please have them on loan and only cover 20% of their wages please, please".
What’s Boro’s excuse then? Almost like you can’t get it right all the time.
What’s Pembele on you reckon?
Absolute donkey. Could neither head the ball or do anything with it at his feet. All he has is strength in a tussle and putting himself about. His only contribution here was giving us a "shape"
Broadhead played a lot more central.
So twice as many games as our 4 strikers have scored in, is that right? As for WILL have to pay for him, they’ll only pay that if he’s a success, so it pays for itself.
Yet he went to Ipswich where he’s not a guaranteed started? He went there because they made him a better offer, we were after him when he left Wigan for Ipswich
So an initial price of £3m is not worth it for the extra goals. You do know how football works don’t you? We’ve probably paid the equivalent of that, if not more, for 4 non goal scoring forwards.
No he didn't he played on the left we played Stewart as only central striker and he played 40 odd games
The up to £8m figure is not really relevant as it only kicks if we’re promoted, so then £8m becomes a bargain. You think Doyle is a car crash? Even on loan he’s far better than anyone at the club presently, FFS.Simms signed for Coventry before we sold Stewart. We couldn't afford a deal that could go up to £8M at the time. Coventry could as they had sold Gykores for £20M.
In hindsight we should have signed Broadhead. Reasonable cheap and he did well when he played in league one. Unfortunately he was plagued with injuries when he was here so that put him in the high risk category. Sod's law is he's been largely injury free at Ipswich.
People who think recruitment and running a football club are easy are 10 a penny. It isn't.
I was delighted when Moyes became our manager. End of story
We had zero chance of signing Doyle anyway. He's not a great defender, canny footballer but a bit of a car crash one on one.
I said he played more centrally, not through the centre. He certainly didn’t play on the wing.
He did Pritchard mainly played behind the striker he was mainly on the left where he plays for Ipswich mainly
They might have , but im not sure they would have made us that good we would have been better than 2/1 to win them .
So now he played ‘mainly’ on the left? He didn’t play left wing did he? But I’ll give you credit for squeezing the word ‘mainly’ 3 times into one sentence. I certainly wouldn’t swear by it but I’d think that’s a record.
you might not call it left wing call it left side if it helps you sleep.
I think it would be more reasonable to say some loans work better than others .
Doyle is better than Ballard?
From what I was told the truth is somewhere in between as it often is. I heard the photo shoot was booked in & shirt printed with his name on for Broadhead's PERMANENT signing but Everton moved the goalposts at the last minute by offering him a new deal which he signed. We were then asked if we'd take a loan instead, we were not happy about it but had no one else lined up so accepted but Wigan already had a loan offer on the table so that was offered to Nathan as well & as it was closer to home & with Simms & Stewart getting off to a flyer he took that option. What Neil said was somewhat true but not the whole story & obviously said with a bit of bitterness because he backed out of a done deal. Fwiw I don't blame the player, it was Everton who pissed us about & I still think the fact he was made available for permanent in January at the same time Everton recalled Simms it was a no brainer to get the deal done ddespiteany feelings about hat had gone on in the summer.
This for me he has his faults but he's a good striker at this level, still young too. His hold up play still needs a lot of work but that's something a lot of cf's only master at their peak. One of the reasons I would develop Jobe as a cf, his hold up play is exceptional considering his age.
