It may be some hundred and three days away, but on the 8th of June 2015 our summer transfer window re-opens. I don’t know about you but I’m already thinking about who and what we need to try and progress from our present standing. While I think it’s fair to say we will pretty much all agree on what’s required, the bigger question is what does our owner think we need? My guess is he’ll spend as little as possible to keep our current status in the Premier League. For me, the prudent, cautious approach, though I know some will say **** right stingy, is better than blowing big bucks on aging and possibly ‘had their day’ players. That said there surely has to be room for two, maybe three, quality experienced players who may well be 26 and over and I do feel we are far too rigid in our transfer policy. For every cracking little player like Ayoze Perez you will most likely get 3 or 4 mediocre duds. I also think Graham Carr being hailed a scouting genius is a bit much too, yes he’s un earthed a few gems but also a couple of duds as well. We have also been linked to many players on the well built up dossier of Grahams only to find ourselves outbid by other clubs due to our owner not wanting to be part of a bidding war. What then is the point of Carr putting in so much leg work if in the end we won’t pay the asking price. Again this just serves to show our rigidity in both age and price restrictions and this must be detrimental to us ever building a team of quality good enough to truely compete on any level. It’s also policy to wipe our own noses and we obviously sell to buy now and though that makes some financial sense it only works if you replace the quality you lost straight away; leaving it until the next window just leaves you in a perilous position.I would like to see us break the constraints a little and bring in a couple of quality guys alongside youth, what do you think?
KIMTOON
is this toon loaning 5 players to the mighty rangers purely a book-keeping exercise ?
the only one getting any game time is vukic, what is up with bigirimana ?
we get a blob on and call one of the bairns back from gatesheed when they try to play him in their reserve team, yet are happy to have a bunch of our “academy starlets” (quote from the evening chronicle), fall into a football playing black hole north of the border. all somewhat bizzare if you ask me.
Munich Mag(Quote)
i can see the makkems winning at old trafford today 🙄
Munich Mag(Quote)
Kim
Yes I’m hapy that were financially sound, Seeing as we’ve been skint for most of my time as a supporter, IE selling Beardsley to pay for the new stand
Id like us to plug the gaps in the squad but Im not for he balance sheet champions ***** considering the shambles Shepherd left behind
CC(Quote)
Oh and we’ll win today 2-0 Cisse & Perez
CC(Quote)
CC, we still have a huge debt now though, it’s just we owe it to Fatty and not the bank 😉
kimtoon(Quote)
Everyone is still complaining about the same **** I see…yawn…. well done to Big Dave and Kim for putting some effort into the blog tho…
Aussie Magpie Fan(Quote)
Indeed now its my turn to point out that we aren’t paying interest on said loan, you point out that we aren’t receiving money for the SD signage and we go round in circles with the same innane arguements that have this place dying on its ****
Shame as it was a laugh when Toonsy started this site off; We were midtable then in the Pardew arriving/Carroll departing days, So was still plenty to moan about but its all gone a bit .org
CC(Quote)
No contribution from CC or AMF I see other than bitter comments 🙄
Troy Stavers(Quote)
Ah the resident wums on hand to question other peoples contribution…
CC(Quote)
Bring back Pardew. I never doubted you for a minute.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Aussie @ 306 Cheers 😉 and dont forget your welcome to talk about the positives if you like, maybe you can point out some of the positives that most of us don’t know about or haven’t realised ❓
Big Dave(Quote)
AMF@306, welcome back mate 🙂
Munich Mag(Quote)