Alexandre Mendy (transfer rumour)

[SAFC Wilks]

Aren’t Caen in financial ruin and need to sell him?

They best be careful making these multi million demands.

 

[wicketkeeper]

So spunk away 1 million on a loan player that is only going to get used if wecan't beat a teams press, in a league where most teams sit back against us? Do you actually think about what you're saying or just like to have a whinge for the sake of it

Again would you rather we just succumb to the demands of other clubs and pay over the odds just to 'get the deal done'?

I'd rather we realised that strikers cost money. We baulk at paying 3/4 million for a striker because he is older than 29.
But we won't pay 10 million for young strikers like a Simms or a Stansfield.
The truth is we want a striker dirt cheap and it's not going to happen. How many Burstows and Hemirs are we going to bring in before the penny drops.

 

[Fetch Fletch]

Agree. It was a CB crisis that did us in the end. With Batth and Ballard in that team we’d have held on in the second leg. IMO of course, well obviously never know

Gelhardt was a decent non scoring striker for us He linked up well with Clarke, Diallo and Roberts

He caused a lot of bother for teams did Gelhardt, but it did signal the start of the models strange fascination with not scoring “strikers”.

 

[shkatërrues]

At the time we were only a couple of points away from the play offs
We chased Moore for the whole of the January window. We were told he was our number 1 target
What happened

He ended up with a better offer from a club that was willing to pay more than us. He would not have made that much of a difference to us last year

Rightly or wrongly we chucked it in the bin after January and we were playing terribly, Moore wouldn’t have changed that. So why spend a fortune on someone that would hand merely improved our league position by a place or two?

Reasoned argument isn’t going to change your mind regardless of how many people disagree with you so you just crack on peddling your negative agenda marra

 

[Fetch Fletch]

I'd rather we realised that strikers cost money. We baulk at paying 3/4 million for a striker because he is older than 29.
But we won't pay 10 million for young strikers like a Simms or a Stansfield.
The truth is we want a striker dirt cheap and it's not going to happen. How many Burstows and Hemirs are we going to bring in before the penny drops.

You tell us as I’ve not seen any signed since.

 

[LukeoZade03]

I’d rather it took us less than 2 years to buy a serviceable striker

So Would I, I don't think the intention was to buy strikers last year who weren't very good...

 

[Arfa Sleep]

I'd rather we realised that strikers cost money. We baulk at paying 3/4 million for a striker because he is older than 29.
But we won't pay 10 million for young strikers like a Simms or a Stansfield.
The truth is we want a striker dirt cheap and it's not going to happen. How many Burstows and Hemirs are we going to bring in before the penny drops.

Do we or trying to get the best possible deal for the club and not just pay what the selling club wants. We won't pay £10m a young striker because we don't have £10m to blow on one player, where do you think this money comes from?

 

[wicketkeeper]

You tell us as I’ve not seen any signed since.

Mayenda Rustyn . We can buy rubbish strikers for a couple of million. We are good at that

 

[MSC]

I'd rather we realised that strikers cost money. We baulk at paying 3/4 million for a striker because he is older than 29.
But we won't pay 10 million for young strikers like a Simms or a Stansfield.
The truth is we want a striker dirt cheap and it's not going to happen. How many Burstows and Hemirs are we going to bring in before the penny drops.

Not like the glory days of getting Will Grigg to sign.

 

[Fetch Fletch]

Mayenda Rustyn . We can buy rubbish strikers for a couple of million. We are good at that

Bought at the same time.

 

[LukeoZade03]

I'd rather we realised that strikers cost money. We baulk at paying 3/4 million for a striker because he is older than 29.
But we won't pay 10 million for young strikers like a Simms or a Stansfield.
The truth is we want a striker dirt cheap and it's not going to happen. How many Burstows and Hemirs are we going to bring in before the penny drops.

Or maybe we can get the same striker they are demanding 3/4 million for, for 1/2 million by using our advantageous bartering position as the player has publicly said he wants to be here. It's nothing to do with not wanting to pay that amount of money but we don't see value in that anmount and can get a better deal with him.

Have you never negotiated for something ever?

 

[MSC]

Mayenda Rustyn . We can buy rubbish strikers for a couple of million. We are good at that

Aye agree - we need another Stewart level signing - easier said than done unfortunately.

 

[the dude]

Not a chance.
We lost the play off semi through being naive and weaker than Luton bully tactics. Not because we didn’t have a striker.


Burnley and Sheffield were always Automatics.

We needed a fit centre back more than we needed a striker in that 2nd leg!

 

[wicketkeeper]

Do we or trying to get the best possible deal for the club and not just pay what the selling club wants. We won't pay £10m a young striker because we don't have £10m to blow on one player, where do you think this money comes from?

Or maybe we can get the same striker they are demanding 3/4 million for, for 1/2 million by using our advantageous bartering position as the player has publicly said he wants to be here. It's nothing to do with not wanting to pay that amount of money but we don't see value in that anmount and can get a better deal with him.

Have you never negotiated for something ever?

Yes I have and you have to be prepared to walk away because you have viable alternatives. Not sure we are in a position to do that

 

[SAFC_Jack]

I like how no one has any idea of the finances involved, yet have decided it’s done based on nothing else than pure imagination.

 

[LukeoZade03]

Yes I have and you have to be prepared to walk away . Not sure we are in a position to do that

So on one hand you want us to do as they say and pay 3/4 million for him but then we need to be prepared to walk away?

You spout some absolute rubbish, just contradicting yourself and tying yourself in knots here

 

[Roker Mackem]

oh well the dream of a striker was good while it lasted

 

[SAFC Wilks]

I like how no one has any idea of the finances involved, yet have decided it’s done based on nothing else than pure imagination.

Standard for this message board tbf.

 

[SAFC_Jack]

Standard for this message board tbf.

Continually surprised despite posting on here for nearly 15 years

 

[LukeoZade03]

I like how no one has any idea of the finances involved, yet have decided it’s done based on nothing else than pure imagination.

Think people assume it's done due to Roker report yesterday and Di Canio's Knees post, nobody has a clue how much we've paid/offered but the idea it's done isn't based on imgaination