Josh Gordon

Walsall striker. According to the Daily Mail (sorry) we've 'checked in on him'. Presumably we've made sure he's keeping well in these difficult times.

Its a strange turn of phrase. Which makes me think we're not interested, but the daily mail has pages to fill, and one way of doing is to fabricate nonsense.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...k-250k-rated-Walsall-striker-Josh-Gordon.html

 

Seen him a few times, hes high energy so fits the mold. Bit rough around the edges and he's got a brain, seems a switched on young man.

 

Hope he’s not a FLASH in the pan, I’ll get me coyit

 

Can't see us signing anybody over 23, unless they're of a very good standard. It's almost like agents/journalists haven't followed our transfer activity for the last 3/4 years..

 

Just another Chaplin really. So unless someone’s going I can’t see it.

 

Josh, Josh, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the season!

Easy song pickings for supporters of a certain age.

 

You say that, but I can think of 4 players signed under the current owners who were over 23. 3 of them in the last 2 windows.
The club say they're trying to learn from their mistakes, and surely they acknowledge the naive recruitment strategy is one example.

 

I can’t think who the fourth was, but the three Austrians were signings requested by the Head Coach.

I’m not saying that I don’t think we’ll sign players over the age of 23. I just don’t think somebody who is nearly 26, and has only played a couple of seasons at League One/Two level is what we’ll break the mould for. Another Austrian maybe..

 

Unless I have missed someone our last Josh was Scowen and last Gordon was Owen and we did well with both so why not combine the names with a signing.

 

Dougall is the other I was thinking of.

To be fair, I can't see that we're interested in this lad either (unless the spreadsheet has picked him out), however I do think we'll see more of a mix of players coming into the club going forward. I've always been a fan of signing players, around the age of 22-25, who have come off the back of a couple of good seasons in leagues 1, 2 and the SPL. Similar to when we picked up the crop of players we did in 2015-2017. The wage cap in leagues 1&2 will help us in that respect as well.

 

Never even considered that point re the wage cap.

 

Whilst it doesn't really make us more competitive at this level, it certainly makes our traditionally low wage budget, more desirable.