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Alexandre Mendy (transfer rumour)

Disco_Pants93 said:
It's the clubs fault there aren't senior strikers and the young lads have had to play, not their own. You can't just write them off based on that.

It's a pre season friendly man and he got an assist :lol: :lol: :lol: Chris Rigg looked absolutely anonymous in league games last season yet there's zero criticism of him.
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Maybe because Chris Rigg at 16/17 years old as showed more than Hemir, Mayenda, Triantis, Hejlde, Bennette, Ba, Aouchiche combined.
 

Perryqhill said:
Give over. We finished that season with a catalogue of defensive injuries but we were struggling to break aides down often and reliant on Amad' s individual brilliance second half of the season. I was harping on and on about how someone as bang average as Chris Martin (who had bene free when the window shut and went to QPR and scored more than Gelhardt) would have give us a different option at times as we had gone through too many games where two banks of four completely shut us out and we were having to overplay to get chances all the time.

The moment Simms went back, after the first half of the season when he and Stewart were out, it should have been abundantly obvious what was needed. Instead we brought in Gelhardt eventually and listened again to KS talking about versatility and telling us all how we dont play with a traditional number nine.

That was clearly the start of the poor Windows and when we needed a forward.
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Yep. The sad thing is gelhardt is better than the three we brought in for “for the future”. At least he was a none scoring player who could run.
Binxy said:
Maybe because Chris Rigg at 16/17 years old as showed more than Hemir, Mayenda, Triantis, Hejlde, Bennette, Ba, Aouchiche combined.
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And to be fair some of them may come good, but to rely on them coming into the first team was nuts. Rigg has shown more than them at 16/17. I hope that it doesn’t stop our own under 21s come through as some of them look as good as the foreign contingent.
 
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wackyjacky said:
When they said they had a 5 year plan they obviously meant 15 year plan at the pace we're going at. Signing loads of young'uns constantly just means we're continually on the treadmill of waiting for them to get up to speed as once they do we'll sell them (if they're any good).
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Doesn't particularly look as if its going to kick on anytime soon.

The idea was selling would increase the type of quality we were signing, but when selling Stewart, Gooch and the mutterings of KS on Lihadji "incredibly positive deal" "create immediate opportunities in the transfer market" then we went out and took more gambles. Quite likely as anything else would represent a decent increase in what we were paying and maybe breaking the wage structure.

Also maybe KS and the club over egged just how valuable those Stewart and Lihadji deals were and how they were structured.

So we're basically hoping for some gems to turn up or develop at the moment, having had a fortuitous first season up where a half decent January might have seen us promoted and a budget far in excess of what we'll get from selling Clark, Bellingham, Neil etc and could have gave the whole process a massive shunt forward.
Provider said:
I find it staggering that anyone can claim our January 22/23 business was good.

We signed Ekwah, Lihadji, Geldhart and Joe Anderson.

Only one of those players could be considered to have had a decent impact on the first team and even that hasn't been a prolonged impact.

We signed a CB who barely got a minute when we had no other fit CBs ffs.
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I actually forgot that's when we signed Lihadji, such was his impact.
 
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Disco_Pants93 said:
He's also been afforded more first team opportunites than many of those combined.
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Thats not really true. I don't think there's too many players who haven't been given opportunities by now.

Triantis and Bennette went out on loan, as did Mayenda. You could say Bennette was unlucky after the Southampton game to disappear.

I'm sick of seeing Ba pick up yellows and make poor choices. He's just not good enough.

Aouchiche started brightly and then I thought he was poor, before a late renaissance right at the back end of the season.

Hjelde was bought and had a run of games in his preferred position and was largely hopeless so taken out for his own good.

Hemir was miles off the pace mostly, had a couple of cameos where he'd get involved for a few minutes and then fade.


Rigg at least looks like a footballer and hasn't looked out of place.
 
It’s almost like we can sign either
Players who are very young, or not good enough who then struggle to make in roads into the first team (bar undropable Jobe, whom I do rate before anyone starts)
Decent players who we rely upon but are injury prone.

You’re going back a good few windows before you get to any regular players who are good enough for the first team.
 
Don't forget guys, Chris Riggs played unfamilar out of position last season as a right winger/attacking midfielder which he is doing well at his age despite that not suit him at all. That's when he want to learn from this experience and move on to the next step. However, his preferred position as a CM, he's class above all
 
R5Skywalker said:
Taylor is a better prospect at 21 as a full back than Hjelde at 20. There's 8 months between them.
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Not really. Taylor wasn't good enough, but with mitigating circumstances. That's why he couldn't get a game for hartlepool and is now at a league 2 club. The fact he was overlooked despite us having no lbs towards the end of the season emphasises he must have been well off the required level. Hjelde does look wank, but he has played at this level at a younger age as well as a couple of appearances in the premier league. He's a better prospect but he has looked woeful
 
radjee gadjee said:
He’s a non executive director so is not part of the executive team, has no management responsibility and sits as a board member to give an independent view of running the business. Therefore can give input but does not have any say in decisions made.
So when it comes to Managerial appointments, he has no official say whatsoever.
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Yes ,he is an non-exec and has no real say but a Non-Exec is supposed to be the external check to the Board. The trouble is He doesn't seem to be saying anything about the current and previous situation or lack of a forward for the last 20+ months...
 
molthemackem said:
Yes ,he is an non-exec and has no real say but a Non-Exec is supposed to be the external check to the Board. The trouble is He doesn't seem to be saying anything about the current and previous situation or lack of a forward for the last 20+ months...
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I agree totally mate. The alternative could be that he is doing exactly what you say but KLD, Sartori, KLD’s brother, Speakman et al are ignoring him as they will do it their way no matter what as they are so arrogant they think they know better than anyone else.
 
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