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Alexandre Mendy (transfer rumour)


Nathan Gunn said:
This is the bit i struggle with the most. Surely it's so much more efficient to buy before we sell. The moment we sell a Clarke for £20m+, clubs will immediately add an extra few million onto their asking prices. We would do exactly the same if a club came for our players after just making a huge sale. I expected us to bring in a couple of players for £4m ish this summer knowing there would be a sale coming later on to cover it.

We will end up in a position where the owner seizes the opportunity to make a big profit on a sale, then naively goes back to the original approach of replacing for around £1m to try and repeat the process again. I can see us making great progress until we lose a big player...
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Why would it be naive to continue to do something that has worked?
 
Father Jack Hackett said:
I’d have snapped their hands off for Ekwah’s
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Sure someone said he has the highest sell on fee % of about 30% . Not sure if true but take that into account and the lads age and potential if he can find some fire in his belly to really kick on and I can see why, but I think he could leave before the window shuts with options ahead of hm in midfield
 
Father Jack Hackett said:
I honestly don’t think that’s possible - not consistently, anyway
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Easy to forget the lads only 22. Last season was his first full season in senior football. He played under 3 different managers. He was always going to struggle for consistency.
He’s a good player and will have a good career.
 
mart said:
Easy to forget the lads only 22. Last season was his first full season in senior football. He played under 3 different managers. He was always going to struggle for consistency.
He’s a good player and will have a good career.
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and he played better when 20 year old Neil and 16 year old Rigg did his running for him.
I simply can’t see him being a RLB type player as he seems to want his midfield to graft. He has quality, no doubt but I think he’s a luxury player.
 
andy78 said:
Well even the ones they have spent money on, Rusyn and Mayenda, really dragged on last year and at points looked like they had fallen through (like Mendy now as well), so they aren't even decisive on the strikers they do want and rather than getting them in early and letting them have a pre-season with us, they fanny about and make it harder for them to hit the ground running.

At some point it's going to have to change, we've muddled through it so far but it'll bite us eventually.
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Agreed.

The difference between getting that last playoff spot or missing out completely is usually a few points. Every game we play without a proven striker whilst the window is open seems an unnecessary gamble to take.
 
andy78 said:
We can't even sign one striker and you think we'll get rid of all 3??
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Whether we would or not I’d expect or at least hope we’d be trying to move them on for a fee or for development.

If it’s their wages preventing us from bringing in the 2 strikers we need we should be making every effort to move them on
 
parsonjohn1985 said:
The issue is we signed Ross Stewart. So now we seem to think that's going to happen often. But it happens about once a decade.

We should be signing the next Ivan Toney or Ollie Watkins. Toney went for £5m and got Brentford promoted

Watkins signed for £2m in 2017 then was sold for £28m

Both convert to around 4-6m in today's market. So when we sold Stewart about that much should have been set aside to sign a striker. And not touched for anything else. We could be sitting here with Stansfield, or even Simms if we'd been proactive. Either could sell for more than that if they have a couple of successful seasons
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Whilst I absolutely agree I think it again comes down to costs. They'd rather lay out up to 2m (or 2.5m allegedly for Rusyn) and medicre wages than spend maybe a little bit more on a stand out L1 or L2 player or even where there may be a bit more competition from championship clubs and hence more wages involved.

Just more and more relatively low cost gambles. That may work to a degree in other areas when semi talented players come in, but when you haven't got an established forward and those who come in aren't ready it becomes a glaringly obvious issue and its beginning to add up.
 
flanny1 said:
Whether we would or not I’d expect or at least hope we’d be trying to move them on for a fee or for development.

If it’s their wages preventing us from bringing in the 2 strikers we need we should be making every effort to move them on
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I doubt the wages of those 3 are preventing us mate. They'll be on peanuts.
 
nandos sonic sauce said:
We invested too much in (As in too many as well as money) in young lads. You have to blend them in with a mixture of experience and signing Browne and looking to sign Mendy proves they have realised this. The question now is getting the signings over the line . I was convinced Clarke would be gone this summer but the more I see and read I think he may just stay unless it's a huge bid which can come out of the blue and late on from any team in the prem with their money so it's gonna be an interesting end to the window. It's not interesting at the minute like :lol:
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Yeah I agree. But toney wasn't unproven when they signed him. Neither was Watkins.
 
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