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Russell Martin has Ross Stewart as his main target **Transfer confirmed **

The irony is that those of us concerned with the lack of investment are portrayed as negative when the opposite is true.
We recognise that this club is massive and with investment is capable of holding its own in the premier league. The clappers are happy to be "sustainable' and playing nice football in the championship for the next five years.

In January this 'negative' poster was saying we could get promoted: the 'positive' happy clappers were saying lets be happy with mid table cos we once bought Grigg and that turned out bad
 
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wicketkeeper said:
The irony is that those of us concerned with the lack of investment are portrayed as negative when the opposite os true.
We recognise that this club is massive and with investment is capable of holding its own in the premier league. The clappers are happy to be "sustainable' and playing nice football in the championship for the next five years.

In January this 'negative' poster was saying we could get promoted: the 'positive' happy clappers were saying lets be happy with mid table cos we once bought Grigg and that turned out bad
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I’ll ask you again.

Can we compete financially with Southampton?
 
Coeus said:
I don't know, there are a million things to consider that would require better knowledge.

I was suggesting something, by the way, I'm suggesting in a very small pool of games, Stewart achieved a statistical performance that Gyokeres could only dream of and Pedro didn't.

I assume it would be something around 5-12m depending on how fit he is? What do you think he is worth? I think if he had a proper contract his value to us would be Gyokeres level.
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I think he's worth 10M at most, that considers his age, injury record, how good he was prior to his injury but also the fact he only did it across a sample size of 13 games.
 
I would imagine we have trawled Europe for strikers in the £3.5m bracket only to be quoted 6/7/8m.

But if we get £8m+ for Stewart then we can then go back in for one of them.
 
wicketkeeper said:
And we were in the premier league for 10 years
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Barely hanging on by our fingertips for most of those years too. Then look what happened when we did eventually drop. Club in massive debt, owner throwing the keys at Martin Baine to sell anything that wasn't nailed down.

You're an utter f#cking berk if you thought those days were all rosey
 
The Situation said:
Piroe is a good comparison.

Same length left on his deal, 3 years younger than Ross and Piroe has done it across almost 100 games at this level compared to Stewart's 13 games.

He just went to Leeds for £12m.

Given the above with Piroe's younger age and record across a far larger amount of games, the reported £8m would seem in line with the market.
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I have no idea to be honest, all I know is the games he played last season, his output wasn't that of a good championship striker like Piroe, he was a massive outlier, it was ridiculous form.

Was it a purple patch or is he a premiership player, is he the same player after his injuries, all no idea.

If we get close to 8 figures it'll be a silver cloud I guess.
 
wicketkeeper said:
The irony is that those of us concerned with the lack of investment are portrayed as negative when the opposite os true.
We recognise that this club is massive and with investment is capable of holding its own in the premier league. The clappers are happy to be "sustainable' and playing nice football in the championship for the next five years.

In January this 'negative' poster was saying we could get promoted: the 'positive' happy clappers were saying lets be happy with mid table cos we once bought Grigg and that turned out bad
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We all want to be promoted. It's complete nonsense to suggest any fan on here doesn't want that, and it's complete nonsense to suggest the club doesn't want that either.

If we went up and came back down with 0 points, it would bring us on lightyears compared to our current position and status.

What some do disagree with however, is how to go about it.

Firing £5m at the likes of Jonson Clarke-Harris, which you have obsessed over for months, is one way of burning any progress we have made in recent seasons to the ground.

Yourself and MurtonMark as an example seem to think because we are "massive" we have a God given right to go up and that we can outbid teams like Southampton and Leicester for players who are after bringing in £175m and £100m+ for players this summer respectively as well as having 3 years of parachute payments to come, simply because we are in the same division.

If that logic worked, teams like Luton should be competing with the likes of Chelsea and Manchester City, by virtue of being in the same league.

The game has moved on significantly since the days of Drumaville and you are describing a completely different financial landscape. We have to find different ways and making the Championship playoffs immediately as a newly promoted L1 team seems to suggest we are on the right track and doing something right.

The EFL is full of big clubs with great histories who also feel they should be back where they belong. The reality is modern day footballers couldn't give a shiney shite about how "massive" we are, how good our fans are or how many trophies we won in the 1800's.
 
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wicketkeeper said:
The irony is that those of us concerned with the lack of investment are portrayed as negative when the opposite is true.
We recognise that this club is massive and with investment is capable of holding its own in the premier league. The clappers are happy to be "sustainable' and playing nice football in the championship for the next five years.

In January this 'negative' poster was saying we could get promoted: the 'positive' happy clappers were saying lets be happy with mid table cos we once bought Grigg and that turned out bad
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You seemed preoccupied with telling everyone how great and wise you are and how shit and blind other supporters are.
 
TravellingMackem said:
You have no idea what I have any idea about, yet let your mouth get carried away.

We’ve offered 15k, which is our limit, as per many sources, and he wants 20k. It’s pathetic and an utterly incompetent way to lose your best player and to run a football club.

Don’t worry though we can play Bellingham up front all season cos he scored 2 goals that one time
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It would have been daft on our part to up his wages whilst he was injured and contributing nothing to the team.
 
Zidane said:
I would imagine we have trawled Europe for strikers in the £3.5m bracket only to be quoted 6/7/8m.

But if we get £8m+ for Stewart then we can then go back in for one of them.
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The problem is theyve all moved on or the selling club not want to lose their player so close to the end of the window so they wont sell thme or put the price up..
 
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