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Convict Colony

Convict Colony

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18 hours ago, Nordic Saint said:

Anyway, he's nowhere near as good as Göztepe's top goalscorer, Rômulo Cardoso, who is on loan there from a Brazilian club until June. Now, he really does look the business. I wonder if we could swap one of our current so-called strikers for him, but I guess Göztepe wouldn't be interested in any of them as, thanks largely to Rômulo's goals and assists, they are currently the 3rd highest scoring team in the Turkish Super Lig, behind Galatasaray and Fenerbahce. 

Never heard of romulo before so took a look at gozteppe's team and they have some interesting footballers who are in the 20-22 age range.

Romulo - forward - 22 - 7 goals / 4 assists - he is on loan from althetico parense and his contract runs out jun 25 - gozteppe have the option to buy which i would assume they would to stop it going to the free market.  He is a nice height as well 1.93m or 6ft 3in, he is giving me hulk vibes, check out the goal below.

Juan - forward- 22 - 3 goals / 2 assists

Altikardes - defender - 22 - 2 goals / 1 assist

Hugo -midfielder -20 - 0 goals/assists

Matsuki  midfielder - 21 - 1 goal / 3 assists

Miroshi - midfielder - 22 - 2 goals / 0 assists

Dennis - midfielder - 20 - 0 goals/ 0 assists

The midfielders listed here have only played under 500mins but are the ones who have been scoring, the established midfielders around 900mins.

https://www.whoscored.com/Teams/254/Show/Turkey-Goztepe

 

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Wade Garrett

Wade Garrett

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On 21/12/2024 at 10:18, OldNick said:

I will be upset if we let Tall Paul go, he gives me hope and great entertainment. As you say it will be typical blinkered Saints to let someone who could score 5-10 goals between now and the end of the season

I haven’t seen much to suggest he’ll get 5 goals for us.  I’ve seen him kick fresh air in the box once or twice but that’s about it.

He is a good outlet for Ramsdale’s long balls though.  Would only let him go if we have incoming strikers.
 

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Wade Garrett

Wade Garrett

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4 hours ago, Convict Colony said:

Never heard of romulo before so took a look at gozteppe's team and they have some interesting footballers who are in the 20-22 age range.

Romulo - forward - 22 - 7 goals / 4 assists - he is on loan from althetico parense and his contract runs out jun 25 - gozteppe have the option to buy which i would assume they would to stop it going to the free market.  He is a nice height as well 1.93m or 6ft 3in, he is giving me hulk vibes, check out the goal below.

Juan - forward- 22 - 3 goals / 2 assists

Altikardes - defender - 22 - 2 goals / 1 assist

Hugo -midfielder -20 - 0 goals/assists

Matsuki  midfielder - 21 - 1 goal / 3 assists

Miroshi - midfielder - 22 - 2 goals / 0 assists

Dennis - midfielder - 20 - 0 goals/ 0 assists

The midfielders listed here have only played under 500mins but are the ones who have been scoring, the established midfielders around 900mins.

https://www.whoscored.com/Teams/254/Show/Turkey-Goztepe

 

Not for me.  Would be another one not good enough in the squad.

Saint_clark

Saint_clark

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7 hours ago, Convict Colony said:

Never heard of romulo before so took a look at gozteppe's team and they have some interesting footballers who are in the 20-22 age range.

Romulo - forward - 22 - 7 goals / 4 assists - he is on loan from althetico parense and his contract runs out jun 25 - gozteppe have the option to buy which i would assume they would to stop it going to the free market.  He is a nice height as well 1.93m or 6ft 3in, he is giving me hulk vibes, check out the goal below.

Juan - forward- 22 - 3 goals / 2 assists

Altikardes - defender - 22 - 2 goals / 1 assist

Hugo -midfielder -20 - 0 goals/assists

Matsuki  midfielder - 21 - 1 goal / 3 assists

Miroshi - midfielder - 22 - 2 goals / 0 assists

Dennis - midfielder - 20 - 0 goals/ 0 assists

The midfielders listed here have only played under 500mins but are the ones who have been scoring, the established midfielders around 900mins.

https://www.whoscored.com/Teams/254/Show/Turkey-Goztepe

 

Matsuki and Juan are already Saints players, by the way.

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Badger

Badger

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12 hours ago, Convict Colony said:

Never heard of romulo before so took a look at gozteppe's team and they have some interesting footballers who are in the 20-22 age range.

Romulo - forward - 22 - 7 goals / 4 assists - he is on loan from althetico parense and his contract runs out jun 25 - gozteppe have the option to buy which i would assume they would to stop it going to the free market.  He is a nice height as well 1.93m or 6ft 3in, he is giving me hulk vibes, check out the goal below.

 

https://www.whoscored.com/Teams/254/Show/Turkey-Goztepe

 

All well, and good, but cold and wet Wednesday in Stoke spring to mind ?

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Nordic Saint

Nordic Saint

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12 hours ago, Convict Colony said:

Never heard of romulo before so took a look at gozteppe's team and they have some interesting footballers who are in the 20-22 age range.

Romulo - forward - 22 - 7 goals / 4 assists - he is on loan from althetico parense and his contract runs out jun 25 - gozteppe have the option to buy which i would assume they would to stop it going to the free market.  He is a nice height as well 1.93m or 6ft 3in, he is giving me hulk vibes, check out the goal below.

Juan - forward- 22 - 3 goals / 2 assists

Altikardes - defender - 22 - 2 goals / 1 assist

Hugo -midfielder -20 - 0 goals/assists

Matsuki  midfielder - 21 - 1 goal / 3 assists

Miroshi - midfielder - 22 - 2 goals / 0 assists

Dennis - midfielder - 20 - 0 goals/ 0 assists

The midfielders listed here have only played under 500mins but are the ones who have been scoring, the established midfielders around 900mins.

https://www.whoscored.com/Teams/254/Show/Turkey-Goztepe

 

Sport Republic are proving to be brilliant owners for Göztepe. They're having one of the best seasons, possibly the best in their history.

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Turkish

Turkish

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21 hours ago, Nordic Saint said:

Sport Republic are proving to be brilliant owners for Göztepe. They're having one of the best seasons, possibly the best in their history.

we're also in the best period of our history so double bubble for SR

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Saint Fan CaM

Saint Fan CaM

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Just need a top striker and defensive midfielder. Should be loads of options thrusting themselves forward for the opportunity to shine with the worst performing team in EPL history (potentially).

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Badger

Badger

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On 26/12/2024 at 14:28, Saint_clark said:

Matsuki and Juan are already Saints players, by the way.

Think he was highly rated when we signed him. 
 

Don’t we also have a 17 year old wonder boy joining from Japan in January as well ? Although probably spending six months in Turkey first as seems to be the way. 

Turkish

Turkish

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2 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

Why don’t we just sign players better than what we have in our first XI, instead of wasting money on more shit?

 

We don’t buy success we breed it

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Holmes_and_Watson

Holmes_and_Watson

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23 hours ago, Turkish said:

we're also in the best period of our history so double bubble for SR

And so early in our 10 year plan. I can only hope we remain humble with our feet on the ground when things get even better.

Turkish

Turkish

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4 hours ago, Badger said:

Think he was highly rated when we signed him. 
 

Don’t we also have a 17 year old wonder boy joining from Japan in January as well ? Although probably spending six months in Turkey first as seems to be the way. 

Our Turkish cousins seem to be be doing rather well out of this relationship don’t they. Having their best season for ages with a load of players on loan from us. Who’d have thought the multi club model was to domainate the minor leagues by owning a premier league club

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saintant

saintant

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17 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Our Turkish cousins seem to be be doing rather well out of this relationship don’t they. Having their best season for ages with a load of players on loan from us. Who’d have thought the multi club model was to domainate the minor leagues by owning a premier league club

Only clever Rasmus and his football genius pals at SR.

die Mannyschaft

die Mannyschaft

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I thought Saints spent £96m already on players, plus the large sun's on a few players last season would mean no money for Jan window or the usual sell first then see what dosh iz avaliable.

Need a forward and winger. Knowing Saintz it will be players from championship or some 2nd division in eurooe

Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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1 hour ago, Turkish said:

Our Turkish cousins seem to be be doing rather well out of this relationship don’t they. Having their best season for ages with a load of players on loan from us. Who’d have thought the multi club model was to domainate the minor leagues by owning a premier league club

Two is not 'a load'. Plus neither of them cost much. Allows them to get regular gametime in a European league in conditions Sport Republic control and helps with work permits.

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Turkish

Turkish

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10 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Two is not 'a load'. Plus neither of them cost much. Allows them to get regular gametime in a European league in conditions Sport Republic control and helps with work permits.

So you agree they’re doing well out of the arrangement 👍

Turkish

Turkish

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5 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Yep, plus Saints are benefitting as well for the reasons I listed.

The benefits are incredible aren’t they, as we look up at the rest of the league from The basement. The loan of Lis was an incredible success for us for example 

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revolution saint

revolution saint

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3 hours ago, Turkish said:

The benefits are incredible aren’t they, as we look up at the rest of the league from The basement. The loan of Lis was an incredible success for us for example 

Come on Turks, give the guy a break.  He plays computer games about football and knows far more than the rest of us.  

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Andrew Watson

Andrew Watson

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Agree with the above post,we are coming bottom and nothing changes that. Secondly why would any player want to come to this total mess of a club? Some players could up their wages considerably,but is it worth that to put your career back a couple of years. Marcus Liebherr apart we really have had some Dreadful,clueless owners in the last 20 years.

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AlexLaw76

AlexLaw76

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1 hour ago, Pamplemousse said:

Is there any point in signing anyone?

A) Better off saving money for the rebuild in the summer

B) Sport Republic would waste the money anyway

Start trying to shift the likes of sully, cancel Cornets loan and fuck knows regarding BBD

FarehamSaintJames

FarehamSaintJames

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The next month is going to be funny with all the gamers coming out confused as to why we’ve not sold Brereton-Diaz, Sulemana, Armstrong, Bella-Kotchap, McCarthy, Lumley, Stephens, Taylor etc

Anyone that is expecting our squad to be completely different in a months time is living in a world of delusion. 

It’s already been quite funny reading some of the comments on social media suggesting we should spend £20m here and there. 😂

AlexLaw76

AlexLaw76

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8 minutes ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

The next month is going to be funny with all the gamers coming out confused as to why we’ve not sold Brereton-Diaz, Sulemana, Armstrong, Bella-Kotchap, McCarthy, Lumley, Stephens, Taylor etc

Anyone that is expecting our squad to be completely different in a months time is living in a world of delusion. 

It’s already been quite funny reading some of the comments on social media suggesting we should spend £20m here and there. 😂

I’m looking forward to seeing which next unknown Brazilian we sign to loan straight out to our Turkish cousins… for our fans to get excited on said player one day tearing it up for Saints 

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S-Clarke

S-Clarke

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Lock the keys to the credit card away. Do not let them spend a single penny.

It's not needed. It will not change anything.

Wait until the summer, make money back and rebuild again to try to be competitive in the Championship.

There is absolutley no sense in spending a penny in January, so you watch them splurge £50m on another Sulemana, Ounachu and Orsic show.

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Dark Munster

Dark Munster

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3 hours ago, Pamplemousse said:

Is there any point in signing anyone?

A) Better off saving money for the rebuild in the summer

B) Sport Republic would waste the money anyway

I certainly agree about A).

But regarding B): yep, can't argue with that either.

Göztepe

Göztepe

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On 28.12.2024 at 20:42, Turkish said:

Türk kuzenlerimiz bu ilişkiden oldukça iyi bir şekilde faydalanıyor gibi görünüyorlar, değil mi? Bizden kiralık bir sürü oyuncuyla uzun zamandır en iyi sezonlarını geçiriyorlar. Çok kulüplü modelin, bir premier lig kulübüne sahip olarak küçük ligleri kontrol altına almak olduğunu kim düşünebilirdi ki?

Only 2 low profile players are on loan.

Lord Duckhunter

Lord Duckhunter

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I know people want us to keep our powder dry and save the money for the summer, but we can’t go on like this. We can’t go down with a handful of points and then think we’ll hit the ground running next season.
 

I don’t know the rules around numbers, but I’d look at a couple of loans to plug some glaring gaps, centre midfield in particular and maybe somebody who knows where the goal is. Surely there’s youngsters or senior pros who would be up for a loan for game time. 
 

In terms of permanent transfers, we clearly need players that will play in championship. It will be different than the last time because we were an established premier league club, with a chance of avoiding relegation. We signed guys who wouldn’t play in the lower level. Only a deluded half wit would sign thinking we’re staying up this year, so if a top level championship player is available at a reasonable fee, let’s get him in early. He’ll see the required level, and we will see if he cuts the mustard when/if we get promoted again. 

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Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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22 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

I know people want us to keep our powder dry and save the money for the summer, but we can’t go on like this. We can’t go down with a handful of points and then think we’ll hit the ground running next season.
 

I don’t know the rules around numbers, but I’d look at a couple of loans to plug some glaring gaps, centre midfield in particular and maybe somebody who knows where the goal is. Surely there’s youngsters or senior pros who would be up for a loan for game time. 
 

In terms of permanent transfers, we clearly need players that will play in championship. It will be different than the last time because we were an established premier league club, with a chance of avoiding relegation. We signed guys who wouldn’t play in the lower level. Only a deluded half wit would sign thinking we’re staying up this year, so if a top level championship player is available at a reasonable fee, let’s get him in early. He’ll see the required level, and we will see if he cuts the mustard when/if we get promoted again. 

I agree with that LD but there’s an elephant in the room - the players would be recruited by Rasmus Ankerson (Bitcon is a front for Rasmus let’s be honest). If we had a genuine, independent, DoF with profile - different story.

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revolution saint

revolution saint

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Need to trim the squad dramatically before even thinking of bringing anyone else in.  It's a bloated mess right now, can't be good for anyone and must make things harder for the manager. 

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macca155

macca155

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19 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

I know people want us to keep our powder dry and save the money for the summer, but we can’t go on like this. We can’t go down with a handful of points and then think we’ll hit the ground running next season.
 

I don’t know the rules around numbers, but I’d look at a couple of loans to plug some glaring gaps, centre midfield in particular and maybe somebody who knows where the goal is. Surely there’s youngsters or senior pros who would be up for a loan for game time. 
 

In terms of permanent transfers, we clearly need players that will play in championship. It will be different than the last time because we were an established premier league club, with a chance of avoiding relegation. We signed guys who wouldn’t play in the lower level. Only a deluded half wit would sign thinking we’re staying up this year, so if a top level championship player is available at a reasonable fee, let’s get him in early. He’ll see the required level, and we will see if he cuts the mustard when/if we get promoted again. 

Problem is nobody trusts SR. A lot of the resources are there they just need to be managed well.

Personally I would bin off ABK, Sulemana, BBD, Ross Stewart, Smallbone, Bazunu, Cornett, Taylor, Aribo, Larios, Frazer, and retire Lallana. None of those add anything extra and it will bring in some cash and release wages and a loan place. In some cases it will make space in the treatment room.

Bring in Joe O'Brien-Whitmarsh to support in midfield, he should be ready now. SAA and Jay Robinson also need to be considered. Obviously we have Shea Charles and Dom Ballard for next year but another decent Championship level midfielder would do no harm. JWP is warming a bench somewhere.

In the summer Saints will lose Dibling, Onuachu, KWP, Ugochukwu, and regretfully Fernandes. Ramsdale will probably stay he has too many relegations against his name now, he needs to rebuild a bit.

See where they are then at the end of the season and fill in the gaps where necessary.

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Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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40 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

I know people want us to keep our powder dry and save the money for the summer, but we can’t go on like this. We can’t go down with a handful of points and then think we’ll hit the ground running next season.
 

I don’t know the rules around numbers, but I’d look at a couple of loans to plug some glaring gaps, centre midfield in particular and maybe somebody who knows where the goal is. Surely there’s youngsters or senior pros who would be up for a loan for game time. 
 

In terms of permanent transfers, we clearly need players that will play in championship. It will be different than the last time because we were an established premier league club, with a chance of avoiding relegation. We signed guys who wouldn’t play in the lower level. Only a deluded half wit would sign thinking we’re staying up this year, so if a top level championship player is available at a reasonable fee, let’s get him in early. He’ll see the required level, and we will see if he cuts the mustard when/if we get promoted again. 

We'll be no worse than we were in the second half of 2022/23 or than Sheff Utd were last season and both those teams did/are doing pretty well in the Championship the following year. We're already stacked with decent Championship players, over 30 of them by my reckoning so we don't need to sign any more.

If we can cancel Cornet's loan somehow then maybe we can make better use of that in January but otherwise I really don't see the point in doing much.

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ErwinK1961

ErwinK1961

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1 hour ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

I know people want us to keep our powder dry and save the money for the summer, but we can’t go on like this. We can’t go down with a handful of points and then think we’ll hit the ground running next season.
 

I don’t know the rules around numbers, but I’d look at a couple of loans to plug some glaring gaps, centre midfield in particular and maybe somebody who knows where the goal is. Surely there’s youngsters or senior pros who would be up for a loan for game time. 
 

In terms of permanent transfers, we clearly need players that will play in championship. It will be different than the last time because we were an established premier league club, with a chance of avoiding relegation. We signed guys who wouldn’t play in the lower level. Only a deluded half wit would sign thinking we’re staying up this year, so if a top level championship player is available at a reasonable fee, let’s get him in early. He’ll see the required level, and we will see if he cuts the mustard when/if we get promoted again. 

We already did that in the summer window and it’s got us to where we are now. 

hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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56 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

We'll be no worse than we were in the second half of 2022/23 or than Sheff Utd were last season and both those teams did/are doing pretty well in the Championship the following year. We're already stacked with decent Championship players, over 30 of them by my reckoning so we don't need to sign any more.

If we can cancel Cornet's loan somehow then maybe we can make better use of that in January but otherwise I really don't see the point in doing much.

If we sell THB, Dibling, Ramsdale, Fernandes, Sulemana, kwp and Onuachu then we'd still be able to line up with 

Bazunu/new keeper

Bree/Sugawara Bednarek Woods/Edward Taylor/manning 

Downes Charles/Smallbone 

Aribo/Lallana

Armstrong Amo-Ameyaw/Fraser/edozie

Archer/BBD

I'd probably bring in another winger and a striker and probably an Aribo alternative but otherwise we really don't need to spend anything. People saying we will struggle are overestimating how much of a step down the quality is. We may struggle inexplicably but at the moment we'd be amongst the favourites for promotion and rightly so given our proven championship quality in virtually every area of the pitch (even weaker areas from last year should be stronger such as a more experienced Charles, a more clinical championship striker in Archer and hopefully a new and improved keeper. In fact the only area where we may look weaker is at rb. 

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hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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1 hour ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

I know people want us to keep our powder dry and save the money for the summer, but we can’t go on like this. We can’t go down with a handful of points and then think we’ll hit the ground running next season.
 

I don’t know the rules around numbers, but I’d look at a couple of loans to plug some glaring gaps, centre midfield in particular and maybe somebody who knows where the goal is. Surely there’s youngsters or senior pros who would be up for a loan for game time. 
 

In terms of permanent transfers, we clearly need players that will play in championship. It will be different than the last time because we were an established premier league club, with a chance of avoiding relegation. We signed guys who wouldn’t play in the lower level. Only a deluded half wit would sign thinking we’re staying up this year, so if a top level championship player is available at a reasonable fee, let’s get him in early. He’ll see the required level, and we will see if he cuts the mustard when/if we get promoted again. 

I agree that if they are available I'd bring in the best championship striker we can get now and get them up to speed before next year. Looking at a list maybe Sainz or Latte Lath. 

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