Jack Clarke

[summaz]

Exactly this. People say rutter isn’t a striker, Clarke isn’t a striker and outstrips his numbers

Aye I'd be having Clarke over him every day of the week like.

 

[Roker Scoreboard]

25

Well there you go, so this £15m stuff is just a piss take. If there's anything actually in it.

 

[Far Tibetan Mountain]

30m upfront or piss off.

25m the club said. Hopefully they mean upfront because he's pretty much irreplaceable.

 

[MurtonMark]

It has everything to do with it. Your argument for proving we wouldn't reinvest the Clarke cash was that the poster had been "paying attention for the last 3 years" despite the fact we've never sold a player for such a figure in this time frame. So you don't have a clue what their plan is for if/when Clarke is sold.

Like when we used the Ross Stewart money to replace Ross Stewart?

 

[Cream Soda]

If Clarke is sold tomorrow, then Mundle would start on Saturday.

I think we’d use some of the money, maybe 50%, towards recruitment for positions around the pitch. I don’t think we’d take that money to find another first choice LW though.

The other 50% would go towards running costs.

Well of course because it would be difficult to replace Clarke in 48 hours obviously I'm referring to the long term, and not in 2 days time.

I don't think we'd spend 20m on a LW either.

Coventry sold Gyokeres and Hamer and signed Simms, Rudoni and Haji Wright.

Like when we used the Ross Stewart money to replace Ross Stewart?

We used the Ross Stewart money to add to the squad.

 

[---Nemo---]

He's under contract for two more years. If we believe he's crucial at having a proper promotion bid then we don't sell,

Unless he fancies the move.

 

[Far Tibetan Mountain]

I agree, i’d love us to say he isn’t for sale this season and just decline all bids.

I want to say something disparaging about his agent right now but he's doing a good job for his client in all honesty!

 

[MurtonMark]

We used the Ross Stewart money to add to the squad.

Jesus wept.

 

[Gaz]

I want to say something disparaging about his agent right now but he's doing a good job for his client in all honesty!

I still think a lot of this is just him pushing out bollocks to media. We’ll soon see

 

[billybobmackem2312]

Be interesting to see if he plays on Saturday.

 

[Mowgli]

We used the Ross Stewart money to add to the squad.

How did that go?

 

[Cream Soda]

Jesus wept.

So we didn't use the money to buy other players no? Rusyn, Aouchiche, Pembele, Seelt, Triantis where all free where they? Ok.

 

[Mowgli]

So we didn't use the money to buy other players no? Rusyn, Aouchiche, Pembele, Seelt, Triantis where all free where they? Ok.

This is simply proof that we won't have a plan and won't be reinvesting the money wisely.

 

[Cream Soda]

How did that go?

Granted. But now youre changing your argument to suit your agenda. The fact is when we've sold a player for a decent fee, we've added to the squad with that money.

 

[Roker Scoreboard]

Unless he fancies the move.

He's under contract to SAFC

 

[MurtonMark]

I still think a lot of this is just him pushing out bollocks to media. We’ll soon see

I hope you’re right, but the track record of the “model” - mainly the Ross Stewart example (refuse to pay the going rate on wages, then cash in and don’t spend the money on a replacement) - does not bode well.

 

[Mowgli]

Granted. But now youre changing your argument to suit your agenda. The fact is when we've sold a player for a decent fee, we've added to the squad with that money.

I've never said that we haven't so I've changed nothing.

 

[Cream Soda]

This is simply proof that we won't have a plan and won't be reinvesting the money wisely.

So we've gone from we won't spend the money to we won't spend the money wisely... Reeto

 

[HABA87]

Thought Leeds were targeting that Jonathan rowe from Norwich anyway

On his way to Marseille £14m plus add ons.

 

[DonaldDownTheWing]

Well of course because it would be difficult to replace Clarke in 48 hours obviously I'm referring to the long term, and not in 2 days time.

I don't think we'd spend 20m on a LW either.

Coventry sold Gyokeres and Hamer and signed Simms, Rudoni and Haji Wright.

We used the Ross Stewart money to add to the squad.

My point was Mundle starts Saturday because he’s clearly the understudy to Clarke. We wouldn’t suddenly see Ruysn or Watson starting there.

As someone has posted above, this Isodor fella from the Russian league looks like a similar type of player to Clarke in that he prefers playing off the left.

I’m not sure what the rumoured fee for him is, but that’s the kind of recruitment I think the club will go for. We’re never going to go and buy the players to get us promoted. We’ll keep buying players we think can improve and hope we have a squad good enough at some point.