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Jordan Henderson (signed for Brentford)

You're the ones saying he'll bring on the young lads, the same young lads who've went through promotions and came from behind in tough games to show a togetherness.

Now your mate is saying the club are clueless because they aren't signing Henderson and we'll struggle because of it!....damn right I'm laughing! 😆
You talked about team talks man, let that sink in.
That's before you've dismissed the influence a bloke who has Captained one of the biggest clubs in the world to every domestic trophy and champions League victories, played for England over 80 times and captained them, over 430 PL appearances can have on a squad that has less than 100 PL appearances as a collective.

You're in absolutely no position to be laughing at anyone. The opposite, you're making it easy for people to laugh at you
 

Speakman is in charge of recruitment but whoever has made the decision at the club it is a poor one and the only rationale I can see is they don’t want a big character around the place who will likely question things if they ain’t right. Given JH has won everything as a captain and if I was in their shoes I would welcome him with open arms for the food of the club.
I see we're back to the "yes man" bollocks again. Christ, the season hasn't even started yet!
 
I have been complimentary regarding the recruitment however we are way short on premiership nous. JH would give us that with spades. I would love to know the rationale and why Speakman seams reluctant to have a big character around the place who has achieved way more than anyone currently at the club.

As a general point this is a football message board, I have an opinion as do you so I’m not sure why i need to wind my neck in.

I’m saying we need some premier league nous to complement the young lads.

If we get off to a poor start we will needs some real leadership and I couldn’t think of anyone we could attract in our current position who would be better than JH.

Spot on, still amazes me as to the level of response from some in how they reply to people’s opinions and that’s all it is. Speakman’s ego might not be able to cope with Jordan Henderson being at the club.
 
It would be wrong to make any comment about the ability of the lads we have signed as I like most of us know very little about them.

What I would say it has to be a concern that we will lose all of them excluding Le Fee in Dec for 2 to 4 weeks. The age of three of them totalling 62 and two of them are from with the greatest respect from a very average league in Belgium. It’s a calculated but hopefully the lads will prove to be exceptionally good signings. We are going into a league where it takes no prisoners and where for past two seasons all three teams have come straight back down. I watched a side last season that on many occasions wasn’t particularly good to watch, we got promoted and all credit has rightly been given to RLB. We all have our views but surely we need some greater experience to help what is going to be the youngest side in the PL.
Agree 100%
 
You're the ones saying he'll bring on the young lads, the same young lads who've went through promotions and came from behind in tough games to show a togetherness.

Now your mate is saying the club are clueless because they aren't signing Henderson and we'll struggle because of it!....damn right I'm laughing! 😆
Which is the same as the last 6 clubs who were promoted and got relegated straight away with less than 30 points.

I don't think you're grasping the gulf between the standard of football at all
 
Spot on, still amazes me as to the level of response from some in how they reply to people’s opinions and that’s all it is. Speakman’s ego might not be able to cope with Jordan Henderson being at the club.
Rumour was JH wanted to come back earlier and Speakman didn’t encourage it. I appreciate a rumour.

However, this should be the most obvious signing in our history. A local lad who has won it all as captain returning to his hometown town club to play in a young team that is absolutely crying out for some boys and experience.

If it doesn’t happen the only rationale in the decision I can see (rightly or wrongly) is they don’t want a big character questioning them. That is not in the best interests of the club.
 
Which is the same as the last 6 clubs who were promoted and got relegated straight away with less than 30 points.

I don't think you're grasping the gulf between the standard of football at all

And Henserson is the key is he? Someone should tell the rest of the clubs who'll struggle this season too.

Maybe Liverpool will come back in for him, seeing as it's such a no brainer that he'll bring success!

Speakman and the board out for doing such a shoddy job!
 
Which is the same as the last 6 clubs who were promoted and got relegated straight away with less than 30 points.

I don't think you're grasping the gulf between the standard of football at all
As I have said there is a massive difference between Div 2 and Div3 and the premier league.

If we get off to a poor start heads will drop and then that’s when we will need real leadership. Speakman and RLB might rue this decision then. Hopefully, someone at the club will get their finger out to make this happen before it’s too late.
 
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