Brilliant finish well done lad starting to settle in and getting some important goals and points for one of our closest rivals, which could send us down. superb piece of business though to get £2.5 m for him cough
Yeah I’d much rather have Moore and his 6 goals than Chaplin and his 12. Chaplin has outperformed Moore in every single stat this season.
B Both wouldn’t have played at same time though Helen. This thing about the board selling him gets boring, we know it would have been nice to keep him and yes we didn’t have to sell him, but it’s very well documented he wanted to leave, he failed in an attempt to move to Cardiff after failing a medical, Stendel virtually didn’t play him in warm up games, he was all but gone and the club clearly planned without him.
We could, or at worst we could have replaced KM with a similar player to have a 'Plan B' option. Instead, the best window ever yielded Patrick Schmidt.
I thought we sold Moore and brought in the ghost" as his replacement? Not sure why we would compare him to Chaplin.
I do agree he wanted to go, I could tell that at the open day he was just going through the motions Again though, should we have waited 6 months till January?
Will never know will we. He could have been the difference, equally he could have made us worse. Personally I don’t think he would have made much difference, the first half of the season when he might have made a difference he was dire. Equally scoring goals hasn’t been the issue, it’s conceding. If we’d sold Pinnock to Wigan, I could totally agree. Equally I don’t get the selling to a rival comment, nobody in the Premier league was going to sign him and is unlikely a club in league 1 would have stumped up the money needed, if Wigan hadn’t bought him they can’t have been much difference in there league position could there.
We didn’t replace him with Chaplin, but Chaplin, Moore and Woodrow wouldn’t have all played. So the point is if Moore had stayed Chaplin wouldn’t have his stats that are nearly double Moore’s in every department.
This I agree with a plan B would have been nice and would be my only criticism over the board selling him.
Could easily see how they could have been rotated in the current formation. selling Moore for 2.5m to a rival and replacing with Patrick Clean Shorts is not good business, that’s my point..
When we sold him i wasnt best pleased but i reasoned that we wanted to play a different way perhaps and it may have been the managers wish. With 2 years left on his contract, we cashed in. All this about "oh he wanted to leave" stuff mmmmmm.....i would argue 60% of our young squad would, if they were established enough. The transferring of our best players is inevitable. ..as i keep saying...its who we replace them with, as well as receiving a good price, that is the key.
Wouldn't Moore and Chaplin have played instead of Chaplin and Brown with Brown dropping onto right midfield and Woodrow at the head of the diamond?
Good money , if thats correct but how good was his replacement? Otherwise thats just money in the bank iooking pretty.
Thats even worse then...not replacing him at all. The only thing i can think of ...is that we wanted to change our style. However i think it more likely we just saw an offer on the table and snatched their hands off (like pinnock).
But would Moore have given you the same return as Chaplin? Based on his performance this season no. Who would you have sold him to then? Everyone in this league is a rival. Personally I think the £3.5 reported for an unproven player in Championship who has injury issues(failed a medical) and was leaving is not bad money. Not replacing him was the only bad bit for me.