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Tommy Watson ( ...off to Brighton)


Mackem2017 said:
Of course it is do you think clubs have academies so they can have a first 11 of academy players in the lineup? Like it or not we are a championship club and developing young players and selling them to those in a higher league is absolutely part of the plan.
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Same with every single club though surely?
 
Definitely Maybe said:
I don't think this is 'the model' as such. A Premier League team higher up the food chain has identified one of our players. That would happen regardless.

An example of the model is signing Clarke, developing, selling for a profit whilst signing Mundle before he leaves as his replacement. Not developing a youth player and losing him to a Prem team.
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People refer to the ‘model’ and that’s fine if it’s easier to understand, but ultimately the club are trying to do what all well ran clubs try to do:

Recruit well
Develop your own young talent
Sell at the right time

It’s as simple as that. And I think we are getting quite good at it.

As for the food chain, there are the two Spanish giants and then every club in world football is a selling club. Fact.
 
What's with this food chain crap?

We're currently 24th in the food chain, does this mean we can just go and sign any player we want from the food chain from 25 and below?🤔

Load of f***ing crap.
 
Wakoro said:
Lihadji, sold as soon as someone showed an interest despite him being here 2 seconds.

This is the model, offer uncompetitive wages then sell the player ASAP if they don't sign the contract. It's what they did with Stewart and Clarke too. If we have any other prospects worth something they'll be sold too before we get a chance to see them make their mark.

Got to get rid of these dodgepot owners asap. I don't even think they have the money to invest, they'll just keep saddling debt onto the club and selling our best young lads undervalue to service the debt and to pay other club costs.

Even if we get promoted they won't invest the funds required to stop up, the promotion money will mostly disappear. I don't trust them even slightly, KLD already lied to us multiple times including how much of the club he owned, and the other owner has been taken to the high court for misleading investors. Dodgy AF and I don't want them at our club any longer.

If a solid offer comes in for a player, they are gone.
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Why did Cirkin for example extend his contract for 3 years in 2023 if the club offers uncompetitive wages?

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The club obviously identify which players really need to be on the higher wage, according to a budget.

If the player thinks they can earn more then we then receive a decent fee.

I don’t see the problem, the owners said from the start that the aim is to be more self sustainable.
 
Definitely Maybe said:
Same with every single club though surely?
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Yep for most clubs outside the top league, what we are doing differently to most but similar to some is to buy the best young raw talent from around Europe that we can attract and hoping they develop into quality players that we can either have in our first team for many years or sell for big profit and then reinvest in the squad. Whether enough gets reinvested is open to debate though.
 
SAFC Wilks said:
His daft yellow card when he slowly closed them down and completely mistimed a challenge?

If that’s the only example of him pressing or getting stuck in during the game, then it’s not a good one.

Where do you draw the line though? Does he continue to train with the first team squad in that case?
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No. Lad doesn’t want to be here. So drop him back into the u21s. Promoted someone from there who does want to be here. Give any minutes that were planned for him to Aleskic.
 
Mackem2017 said:
Yep for most clubs outside the top league, what we are doing differently to most but similar to some is to buy the best young raw talent from around Europe that we can attract and hoping they develop into quality players that we can either have in our first team for many years or sell for big profit and then reinvest in the squad. Whether enough gets reinvested is open to debate though.
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Who is the best young raw talent we've signed from Europe like?

Mayenda has done OK, other than that I'm scratching my head.
 
Mowgli said:
We didn't sell Clarke as soon as possible at all. We turned down bids from the PL a year before we sold him.

Why do people pass off any old nonsense as fact?
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He was here about 2 and a bit year - not very long.
 
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Get that Finn tied down to a 3 year contract with automatic extensions before we promote him to the first team and drop Watson back to u18’s straight swap .
 
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