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  1. e-red

    e-red Well-Known Member

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    All the best players have stayed and it’s not been a selling window.

    The rest of the news is not so good possibly because of the good news. No sales means no money and we recruit more in hope than expectation.

    We are left with one of the weakest forward lines in the division, with very few options. I feel sorry for Clarke, because this can’t be what he wanted.

    We need nine points to avoid relegation so we should be OK this season, but if we don’t get a board with deeper pockets, I can see the decline continuing.
     
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    Not selling players is overrated, if it means you can't bring players in that you need to strengthen the squad. For example, we should've sold at least one of Cole, Kane and Williams rather than let all three run their contracts down. And we reportedly turned down a bid for Styles during the relegation season, which turned out to be a terrible decision.
     
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    Yes to progress we need to rotate players and sell for a profit.
     
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    Isn’t that the problem though? Any thoughts of building a team becomes secondary.
     
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    I completely agree. Since Parekh took the reins, our sales have dropped and we're not turning the squad over. If we're losing our better players on free transfers and clogging up the squad with players on long deals only able to loan them out, you're not going to have the scope to bring in good new additions, and the result is having to subsidise the club to the maximum.

    I really thought we'd sell one of Connell or Phillips this window, and either would have been the right decision.
     
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    When the owners won't spend more than they need to protecting their investment. The club needs to wheel and deal to hopefully unearth some gems.
     
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    On the plus side if Benson can stay fit and injury free we have strengthened our midfield
     
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    Hindsight that decision about Styles though, would have been uproar if he’d been sold and we still got relegated.
     
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    Whether there would be uproar shouldn't be the main driver. If we had a CEO / DoF with a track record of making good decisions, it would dampen down any uproar.

    Plus, Styles was awful that season.
     
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    Tonjytyke Well-Known Member

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    Brilliant idea Stevie!
     
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    Problem is the keep unearthing lumps of rock that when the try to polish them into gems turn out to be just lumps of rock
     
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    No I’m saying you said it was a bad decision in hindsight.
    If we’d stayed up it would have been seen as a positive.
     
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