Transfer News January 2021/22 Transfer Window

[Bornyellow]

That is , experienced quality defender. Something we could do with rather than Thornily tbh

Yes but this is the kind of signing we could only dream of, this shows the level we are ultimately up against to get out of this league.

 

[Oufcrealist]

That is , experienced quality defender. Something we could do with rather than Thornily tbh

It is. Some clubs are making some quality signings, us?
Let's hope we do. If the owners are serious about promotion it's a must.

 

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

Yes but this is the kind of signing we could only dream of, this shows the level we are ultimately up against to get out of this league.

True

 

[Oufccraig45]

It is. Some clubs are making some quality signings, us?
Let's hope we do. If the owners are serious about promotion it's a must.

We will see how interested the board are about promotion in this window always on about the next level but yet to see the colour of their money

 

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

We will see how interested the board are about promotion in this window always on about the next level but yet to see the colour of their money

Think without them we would be a middling lower league one / League two side with very little to look forward to .
They are keeping us afloat basically while offering us an escape route from the kassam so we could finally fulfil this County's potential

 

[RyanioBirdio]

We will see how interested the board are about promotion in this window always on about the next level but yet to see the colour of their money

They’ve spent plenty this season. They’re paying six figure fees just to loan players like Kane and Whyte, let alone sign them permanently. Plus big wage contributions on them and the likes of Holland, big fees for the likes of McGuane, turning down bids for Stevens and Brannagan in the summer etc. They’ve shown their ambition, and they’re still offering to spend more. The club are chasing two Championship players right now, and there may well be others on top. The budget is yet again very good at this level, as it has been for the last couple of years.

Perhaps it might be wise for the recruitment and management teams to start spending the money a little more sensibly, rather than gobbling up nine forwards / wingers and eight central midfielders at an enormous cost.

 

[Paul Cannell]

So where is the problem if the board's spending hand over fist?

 

[WRox]

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They’ve spent plenty this season. They’re paying six figure fees just to loan players like Kane and Whyte, let alone sign them permanently. Plus big wage contributions on them and the likes of Holland, big fees for the likes of McGuane, turning down bids for Stevens and Brannagan in the summer etc. They’ve shown their ambition, and they’re still offering to spend more. The club are chasing two Championship players right now, and there may well be others on top. The budget is yet again very good at this level, as it has been for the last couple of years.

Perhaps it might be wise for the recruitment and management teams to start spending the money a little more sensibly, rather than gobbling up nine forwards / wingers and eight central midfielders at an enormous cost.

I completely agree with this, but for balance, even spending well for a club our size, there is no-one in the top 9 in L1 we’re blowing out of the water and there are some budgets considerably higher than ours. The frustration is exactly as alluded to really, if the squad was as well balanced as our best XI we’d be more competitive. I’d have thought that’d be the easier bit to manage as well.

 

[OxfordYankee]

They’ve spent plenty this season. They’re paying six figure fees just to loan players like Kane and Whyte, let alone sign them permanently. Plus big wage contributions on them and the likes of Holland, big fees for the likes of McGuane, turning down bids for Stevens and Brannagan in the summer etc. They’ve shown their ambition, and they’re still offering to spend more. The club are chasing two Championship players right now, and there may well be others on top. The budget is yet again very good at this level, as it has been for the last couple of years.

Perhaps it might be wise for the recruitment and management teams to start spending the money a little more sensibly, rather than gobbling up nine forwards / wingers and eight central midfielders at an enormous cost.

They have *spent stacks.

*wasted

 

[Yellow There!]

They have *spent stacks.

*wasted

That's the spirit

 

[Mellowyellow]

They’ve spent plenty this season. They’re paying six figure fees just to loan players like Kane and Whyte, let alone sign them permanently. Plus big wage contributions on them and the likes of Holland, big fees for the likes of McGuane, turning down bids for Stevens and Brannagan in the summer etc. They’ve shown their ambition, and they’re still offering to spend more. The club are chasing two Championship players right now, and there may well be others on top. The budget is yet again very good at this level, as it has been for the last couple of years.

Perhaps it might be wise for the recruitment and management teams to start spending the money a little more sensibly, rather than gobbling up nine forwards / wingers and eight central midfielders at an enormous cost.

What the board have done is to be commended, up to this point. We now need to see the same level of commitment again, as the boards of the other clubs are doing to keep us competitive, and keep us in the running. If not we could well see top 10 as a success, with the squad broken up at the end of the season as so often happens. It's as if it's two mini seasons in one. We've finished the first and just got into the top 6. We now go again, but as it stands we are behind the competition in terms of resources and updating of the squad. Lincoln and others are going to spoil the top 6 party, and to stay at the table we need to be competitive.

 

[dabigfella]

Looks like the standard procedure in the window for United. Let everybody sign good players early on and when they have finished we take the best of what's left.

Sounds bad, but the last few years have shown that we haven't done too badly with this process.

 

[ECYellow]

Reading today's match report, Cooper is in Covid isolation; not Ireland as some are claiming.

I alluded to this 6 weeks ago. He’s not been in England since Mid-December.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

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I completely agree with this, but for balance, even spending well for a club our size, there is no-one in the top 9 in L1 we’re blowing out of the water and there are some budgets considerably higher than ours. The frustration is exactly as alluded to really, if the squad was as well balanced as our best XI we’d be more competitive. I’d have thought that’d be the easier bit to manage as well.

The budget is currently around 7th for the division. One more big signing and as it stands it would probably be 6th. Taylor, Winnall and Agyei cost almost £10,000 per week between them. Henry and Brannagan are both on the best part of £5,000 per week each. Kane, Whyte and Holland are all on 7/8k a week at their parent clubs and we are paying very healthy chunks of it, on top of decent loan fees. McGuane is on around four grand a week and cost circa 300k. Hanson is on over £3,000 per week and barely gets a kick. We have reserve players earning more than a lot of first choice players were earning two seasons ago when we got to the playoff final.

This is a large and pretty expensive squad, make no mistake. We are proper players in this division and there is more to come. Everybody should be very happy with the investment from the board, especially at the same time as the stadium stuff has been going on. They could’ve only cared about that and put the playing squad on the back burner, but they’ve stepped up. I would urge caution to anybody who thinks they aren’t showing ambition or being supportive enough. They’ve spent (and turned down) a lot of money over the past year especially, and are still offering to write cheques.

It’s not up to the owners to make sure that the squad is balanced and doesn’t have more wingers than defenders, or to get the deals done early. They employ management and recruitment teams to handle that stuff, and to spend the money that they make available. Other people in the organisation might need to take a little responsibility.

Still two weeks of the window left and some big games to play in the meantime. Let’s see what’s what come February…

 

[westyorkshireexile]

I alluded to this 6 weeks ago. He’s not been in England since Mid-December.

I was simply saying what appeared on the official website report today. If you and Egg wish to make it into a never-ending saga about his whereabouts, feel free to carry on.

 

[Scotchegg]

I was simply saying what appeared on the official website report today. If you and Egg wish to make it into a never-ending saga about his whereabouts, feel free to carry on.

But you didn't simply do that. You used something I said a month ago and tried to use that to belittle me.

Your ITK knowledge knows no bounds.

 

[westyorkshireexile]

But you didn't simply do that. You used something I said a month ago and tried to use that to belittle me.

I never mentioned anything you said a month ago personally. You seem to have a persecution complex.

 

[werthersoriginal]

The budget is currently around 7th for the division. One more big signing and as it stands it would probably be 6th. Taylor, Winnall and Agyei cost almost £10,000 per week between them. Henry and Brannagan are both on the best part of £5,000 per week each. Kane, Whyte and Holland are all on 7/8k a week at their parent clubs and we are paying very healthy chunks of it, on top of decent loan fees. McGuane is on around four grand a week and cost circa 300k. Hanson is on over £3,000 per week and barely gets a kick. We have reserve players earning more than a lot of first choice players were earning two seasons ago when we got to the playoff final.

This is a large and pretty expensive squad, make no mistake. We are proper players in this division and there is more to come. Everybody should be very happy with the investment from the board, especially at the same time as the stadium stuff has been going on. They could’ve only cared about that and put the playing squad on the back burner, but they’ve stepped up. I would urge caution to anybody who thinks they aren’t showing ambition or being supportive enough. They’ve spent (and turned down) a lot of money over the past year especially, and are still offering to write cheques.

It’s not up to the owners to make sure that the squad is balanced and doesn’t have more wingers than defenders, or to get the deals done early. They employ management and recruitment teams to handle that stuff, and to spend the money that they make available. Other people in the organisation might need to take a little responsibility.

Still two weeks of the window left and some big games to play in the meantime. Let’s see what’s what come February…

Yeah I agree we can’t complain about the money, no one expects us to match the likes of Wigan. Recruitment has been a bit flawed in the last year, Agyei and Winnall haven’t worked out and we should have signed a tough defender and midfielder rather than two of the wingers. Every club has a few sidelined guys but we have half a dozen who play little part.

 

[Mellowyellow]

The budget is currently around 7th for the division. One more big signing and as it stands it would probably be 6th. Taylor, Winnall and Agyei cost almost £10,000 per week between them. Henry and Brannagan are both on the best part of £5,000 per week each. Kane, Whyte and Holland are all on 7/8k a week at their parent clubs and we are paying very healthy chunks of it, on top of decent loan fees. McGuane is on around four grand a week and cost circa 300k. Hanson is on over £3,000 per week and barely gets a kick. We have reserve players earning more than a lot of first choice players were earning two seasons ago when we got to the playoff final.

This is a large and pretty expensive squad, make no mistake. We are proper players in this division and there is more to come. Everybody should be very happy with the investment from the board, especially at the same time as the stadium stuff has been going on. They could’ve only cared about that and put the playing squad on the back burner, but they’ve stepped up. I would urge caution to anybody who thinks they aren’t showing ambition or being supportive enough. They’ve spent (and turned down) a lot of money over the past year especially, and are still offering to write cheques.

It’s not up to the owners to make sure that the squad is balanced and doesn’t have more wingers than defenders, or to get the deals done early. They employ management and recruitment teams to handle that stuff, and to spend the money that they make available. Other people in the organisation might need to take a little responsibility.

Still two weeks of the window left and some big games to play in the meantime. Let’s see what’s what come February…

Fine, but it remains, whatever the board do or don't do in this window will determine where we finish in the league. As competitors improve their squads, we are currently sitting still.
Bring on board the players the world and his wife knows we need, and we could finish top 6, bring in no players and top 12 is as good as it might get, especially the way results are currently going.

 

[bashamwonderland]

The Wycombes, Yeovils, and Lutons of this world show that an unrealistic budget isn't mandatory for promotion, let alone a healthy stab at the playoffs. KR needs to perform with the squad he's got - it's his squad after all.