Johannes Spors

[Gloucester Saint]

16 hours ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

Yes, don't know what I was trying to ask. I was thinking if we get £25m for Dibling/Fernandes, does Spors then have that to spend on the rebuild because £25m goes a long way in the Championship. It becomes a bit like when we bought Ricky Lambert which I vaguely recall cost a lot more than other teams in that league could afford at the time.

It wont be £ for £ as some needs to be held back in case we don’t make it back up in 2 years/huge investment in a whole squad if promoted. It’s better than 2023 as there isn’t the damage from a January splurge, SAA brought in a bit and if Sheff Utd get autos that’s probably £10m in the bank from BBD so a small profit there. Dibling, Fernandes and THB should get buyers by pre-season starting, Ramsdale might take longer.

So we should have a very good Champ promotion squad budget overall but the amount of transactions is daunting plus a new manager. Hope Spors doesn’t have a holiday planned. 

[Badger]

On 06/03/2025 at 22:19, S-Clarke said:

 

What people are saying is that there's no issue buying young players, but filling the squad up with those £10-15m signings isn't a good tactic. We'd have been better off buying 1 or 2 £30m players, and then using the rest …, We didn't need to splurge what we did on BBD, Archer, Wood, Suguwara etc - there's around £30m right there which could have gone on a 'match starter'. We'd have lost nothing if we hadn't sign those, such has been their involvement.

It’s often said that we’d be better off with a couple of £30-40m starters than several £15m prospects who we hope to ‘grow’ and I agree with it to a point.

But there are still players available within ‘our’ preferred price bracket (to compliment the ‘starter’ signings, not instead of). How much did Bournemouth pay for the Hungarian LB, or Semenyo (rather than Sulemana) , and Huijsen, all now linked with £50m bids ?

Bowen cost West Ham c£20m. You mention Bottman. Lille signed him for less than we paid for Salisu the same summer ffs. Criminal waste. 
 

The players are out there but time after time we regularly make poor selections and recruitment, irrespective of the price. 

Edited 9 hours ago by Badger

[Badger]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

It wont be £ for £ as some needs to be held back in case we don’t make it back up in 2 years/huge investment in a whole squad if promoted. It’s better than 2023 as there isn’t the damage from a January splurge, SAA brought in a bit and if Sheff Utd get autos that’s probably £10m in the bank from BBD so a small profit there. Dibling, Fernandes and THB should get buyers by pre-season starting, Ramsdale might take longer.

So we should have a very good Champ promotion squad budget overall but the amount of transactions is daunting plus a new manager. Hope Spors doesn’t have a holiday planned. 

Isn’t BBD only an option for them though ? I wouldn’t be surprised to see him back with us however Sheff Utd do. 

[Gloucester Saint]

3 hours ago, Badger said:

Isn’t BBD only an option for them though ? I wouldn’t be surprised to see him back with us however Sheff Utd do. 

Yes, not compulsory but he’s been scoring every other game for them so far, and he did well for Wilder before in the PL for half a season on Wilder’s return, even if Sheff Utd didn’t. Wilder did well first season up.

Edited 4 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[Badger]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Yes, not compulsory but he’s been scoring every other game for them so far, and he did well for Wilder before in the PL for half a season on Wilder’s return, even if Sheff Utd didn’t. Wilder did well first season up.

Which begs the obvious question ... 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Badger said:

Which begs the obvious question ... 

He played BBD feeding off a target man in McBurnie. Not as a flippin’ winger.