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When any of the current regime speak all I hear blah blah blah blah blah
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We’re 91st In the EFL and played more games than most with a shocking goal difference and the odds are stacked against us to a degree as we’re so poor.
No matter how much money you throw at a player is someone who’s going to make a difference, match fit and thus you would imagine already playing for another EFL team sign for us? I would suggest only if they’ve fallen out with their current club/manager or know they won’t get a new deal in the summer?
Also to be fair to Hurst why would he put a new player on a big contract that might not be sustainable in non league and risk p1ssing off the rest of the squad.
We’ll end up with a few free agents and loans, then it’s fingers crossed they come good.
The current team are still pretty sh1t good players very rarely sign for sh1t teams, if they do it often goes wrong.
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I'd be amazed if Fenty and Day are sanctioning any deals at the minute.
I don't think funds, within reason, are a problem. It's how attractive we are as a club. Be that from someone who we want to sign or someone who could come here on loan.
Propping nearly everyone else up, takes a brave or desperate man to sign a contract knowing you could have a relegation on your CV and/or a big pay cut coming up in the summer. Equally so we've been a car crash of an outfit for the last 6 months, would you loan your young players to us?
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That comment was made BEFORE the deal with the consortium was agreed.
We are now in a Catch 22 situation. Old board will not finance the club as there is no way of getting the money back. The new board will not finance the club in case the buy out fails.
The big problem is with the EFL dragging its feet in approving the sale of the club, which can take 2 or 3 months to complete. By that time, the window will have closed
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We were told that money would not be a problem in the transfer market and the covid clause would be removed. Their is now only a short time before the transfer window ends and our signings are 3, 2 on loan and a free one.
What has happen to the promised money to bolster the squad, or has penny pincher Fenty ( I'm off with my cash) refused to sign the cheque again. We do not know who is or was or in what order Hurst's list of transfer targets are or have been.
Given our current position you can understand some of his targets not wanting relegation on their cv's, but money, or the right amount, is always known to change a players mind. Also will Day/Fenty only agree to a short term deals. We don't know, so where the promised cash?
I think you make a valid point. I think to Fenty and the gang though "money not being a problem" does not equate to what most of us would recognise. What they really mean is "money not being a problem...as long as it is the minimum we can get away with" which is just one of the problems we have faced in these dreary Fenty years. We should have taken the bull by the horns early in this transfer window, as the board have great experience in relegation battles from the Football league, but they are incapable of learning anything, ever. A worse bunch of penny pinching nobodies over a sustained period would be difficult to find.
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Lincoln seemed to manage it. Got new investment and went from the ar$e end of non league with 2000 fans, to storming the National League, cup giant killings and breezing through League 2, seeing their attendances rocket.
They didn't do that by not offering wages above and beyond the league norms.
Of course, they had a whole pre season to put the plan into action and we don't. Neither do we have the new owners in charge as of yet. We don't know where we are at with that and we may well have to start the revolution from the National League by the look of it.
Thanks John and Phil.
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January 28, 2021, 10:25am |
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Hey, let's be honest, who is going to sign for the club 2nd bottom in EFL that's worth more than a free or loan. We are a T. I. T. (team in trouble). UTM. OR UTMM (up the meak mariners).
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Hurst said that we needed 6 or 7 new players. We have 4 signings so far. Personally I feel that we definitely need more midfield and striker options.
Maybe its Rodman and LJL that are coming. Not sure if that is enough, frankly.
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Quoted from 140067
Hey, let's be honest, who is going to sign for the club 2nd bottom in EFL that's worth more than a free or loan. We are a T. I. T. (team in trouble). UTM. OR UTMM (up the meak mariners).
Money talks. I don't think players would be particularly worried about our league position. If we offer £1,500 a week over 18 months and a mid table side offer £1,200, I am pretty sure they would come here. Hurst is a credible manager, we are in the process of a takeover and must still be considered one of the 'bigger' clubs in League 2. When all this chaos ends, how many other clubs take 1,000 away to midweek games. We should try and focus on what we have going for us and the overhaul of the club following the takeover. One thing is for sure, if I read The Fishy I would think twice about coming!!!!!!
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Thanks John and Phil.
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