By the evidence of the last week in the transfer market, very little.
Transfer News 2022/23 Season Incoming Transfers and a few other things
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He was never going to come here when the likes of West Brom were looking at him.
pay the 300k
300k better off on duds like jones and Murphy
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Can’t say never will be, Bournemouth are in the premier league & have the same size stadium as us. Our owners have as much if not more money than their owner as well. Saying we never will be is pretty defeatist when with the right people in the right positions we could be another Bournemouth or Burnley
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Ok what’s black and white and red all over?
Yeah pay the 300k and then the player waits and sees what other clubs will pay the 300k - it genuinely amazes me that people don’t get this. It’s not a simple matter of pay the money get the player.
There is a lot to criticise this transfer window but not getting a player who went to West Brom is not one of them.
at the start of the window not late
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I'm sure that when Robinson was so excited about a player coming in, he was talking about Thomas-Asante. We were certainly very close to bringing a striker in, and it looked all done one night, but collapsed the following day.
On this, and Ryan Hardie, I don't think we could have done any more. We made very competitive bids, and out bid a number of league one clubs. But we were never going to compete with a Championship club looking to go back up to the PL this season, and Plymouth were simply not selling Hardie.
I'm not saying that we got everything right, but there were players that were properly identified and scouted (best of league 1 and 2), they would have both strengthened our squad and offer a real investment opportunity, and we offered very good financial packages. That wasn't enough unfortunately.
On this, and Ryan Hardie, I don't think we could have done any more. We made very competitive bids, and out bid a number of league one clubs. But we were never going to compete with a Championship club looking to go back up to the PL this season, and Plymouth were simply not selling Hardie.
I'm not saying that we got everything right, but there were players that were properly identified and scouted (best of league 1 and 2), they would have both strengthened our squad and offer a real investment opportunity, and we offered very good financial packages. That wasn't enough unfortunately.
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The owners would have to break the rules to compete with Bournemouth they did and if we did with the right manager then yes we could, but our owners seem more prudent than there spend thrift owner……that’s the difference.
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If we had made a bid, the players agent would be leaking the news to let other clubs know.
do it early then. Sick of the excuses and then we have to settle for sub standard injured players
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That's OK then, as long as we tried, you sound like a primary school teacher on sports day.
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I will keep the thread going until tomorrow morning, then it will be locked. We need to move on and focus on the league.
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Lots of clubs have had a miserable window - see what Coventry fans are saying. However we did have an excellent "war chest" and it has not been used wisely. We were not chasing the right players and that is at the door of KR.
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Other than Hardie and Thomas-Asante, who else did we identify and scout from league one and two? I just cannot believe we didn’t manage to get any of them over the line, yet we got Murphy, Wildschut, Anderson, Browne (in the last window) who are all costing us more than a pretty penny.
I suspect we got players no one else genuinely competed for and wanted to take a chance on, and the better league one and two players were persuaded elsewhere for whatever reason. It can’t be just money!
Not trying to be difficult or funny, but it’s a serious point, with the wages and fees we’ve paid and offered, we should have been able to secure top L1 and L2 players with the money we’ve had available.
But the money is still there we know over the next year or so we are going up I was born in Kidlington I took my Son around there the other week and Oxford it was always special but its now amazing a new ground it will one day be in the premier league and be where it should be
How many people does a transfer tie up?
Can the recruitment team work on multiple transfers at the same time?
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