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Keith S30S said:
Money talks to all clubs at league one level. They got him for nothing in the summer. His previous known transfer fee was £200K. Barnsley paid £750K for Moore, offer them about double and they will sell.
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Do we have double?
How much increase do they get for going to championship. Don’t sell Moore and now it’s potentially a 3 horse race Barnsley Luton Pompey. I wouldn’t sell for double.

Not sure the Charlton lad is the answer. Didn’t impress for me in the first game.
 
The Sheepfolds End said:
It’s very easy to blame the Maja situation on Short but I think that’s unfair. The wheels were in motion for a sale of the club before May 2017. Short was hardly likely to make contract extensions of young, unproven players his priority (or direct Bain to make it his priority) when he neither knew which division we’d be in or whether he’d be running the club.

Donald has had time to sort this out. He has tried. Maja and / or his people didn’t want it to happen with the terms offered.
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Giving contract extensions is only part of it. It's the terms in those contacts that matter most. Why spend all that time, effort and money developing these lads if we're not going to protect our assets? They should have terms that triggers automatic extensions based on performance.
 
janey said:
This for me, it was what I posted when the story he wasn’t signing first came out. JR has done nothing but be positive about him, and talk up the relationship between them.
If it’s true he told him he’d sign Maja has been less than fair to him.
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I’m genuinely shocked J.
 
The Rat said:
Yeah we can but they won’t

Seems all to be about income and not football at the minute
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Exactly. We can't offer the money or the prestige that even a shit PL side can atm (or even a good Champ side).

Our good youth players are at a level that could compete in L1, so we're going to see a lot of them in the first team; and then they'll be away.

A lot of PL sides will be watching us blood our youngsters now as we're almost the perfect set up for youth to shine and them to poach players away. Top academy, average first team, not much money.
 
Keith S30S said:
We can surely spend what we earn. We were trying to buy Grigg without selling Maja.
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In theory, I’d say Grigg will come in as originally intended but can’t see us then spending the Maja fee on someone else, personally my view anyway.

If we really wanted Grigg should have signed him earlier, now left wIth one striker
 
The Rat said:
It’s going to be tough like, it’s worring that we have 1 senior striker and he’s Wyke

You can have as much intention as you want but it’s hard work signing good players. Pivotal moment in the season

We needed a new striker anyway, not sure why not got one already it’s late January, had plenty of time
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Bids have gone in (None of which anybody knows the offers) already. January window not ideal for all this shit, but apparently Bordeaux are after a striker, and even they haven't signed him yet, so hold your horses. Chelsea still to sign Higuain as well. Everything is always left late in football. Let's just hope we can get certain/the right deals over the line
 
The Rat said:
Absolutely agree word for word

I’m also sick of this agenda stuff, I just want to get promoted, that’s it.

The club was debt free and we’ve had a hell of a lot of fees come in, for big crowds like they asked but seen very little investment so far

9 days left so we will see but nothing to indicate we will invest much of it back
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Another dig at the owners, give it a rest ffs
 
hypersonic said:
Exactly. We can't offer the money or the prestige that even a shit PL side can atm (or even a good Champ side).

Our good youth players are at a level that could compete in L1, so we're going to see a lot of them in the first team; and then they'll be away.
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I think we’re trying to be clever for our own good, no reason why 4 of our best young takers should be expiring in 6 months, something is going wrong
 
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