Especially with how poor our recruitment and haphazard our planning seems to be.
That's my worry, we have struggled to get deals over the line in recent transfer windows. Going to be a long summer.
Not just that, look who we signed. In the main our best players were our loanees who came with no option to purchase.
Loanees should always be better than players we can sign on permanent deals, otherwise what's the point?
That poor we all agree that the loans were good players...
They should be additions, the icing on the cake. We haven't properly opened up the self raising yet.
Don’t agree. Loanees should accentuate the team because of injuries. Improve the team if normally out of our range and have something to prove or to take a look at fit and finish prior to becoming a permanent
Already stated above your point is???
You are kidding yourself if you think we will be better next season.
Exactly why I don’t get all the “ critchley needs time brigade”…it’s like starting again, not building from……
Critchley came back in last summer and inherited what he had. Some of that was his from before, some was Appleton's. There's been a season for him to assess everything and now he needs to build a squad that's almost totally his. He's got the summer to do it and next season to prove he's got it right.
Loanees are not there in case of injuries. They are players who are either on their way to better things (e.g. Shelvey and Coleman) or surplus to requirements or not yet ready at higher league clubs but better than we have or can afford at our level (e.g. Rhodes and Patino). If we just used them to warm the benches until someone got injured or suspended the parent clubs would not be happy.
Don't be coming on AVFTT and making a totally sensible and well informed comment........You're going to be scaring people
That post is utterly ridiculous and completely the opposite what the loan system is for and why clubs loan their players.
Why a manager would need a season plus friendlies to assess is beyond me. Who has that luxury? What bothers me is he never knew his best team, never had a plan b, never figured out the division and had us in a play off position. I cannot see measurable progress anywhere on the field so why is he suddenly going to get it right next season? I really wish we’d take advantage of hull’s folly.
A club loans a player to keep him happy, to gain valuable match experience and further the players development or for a player to regain fitness, confidence and sharpness.
Your concluding point capturing rather nicely how it has all now become something of a 'Byers' market ...
No one has seen anything from Sadler to Critchley that says lessons learned we can and will do better.
Oh my goodness read. We signed Rhodes who had done nothing for awhile because we had no available forward and couldn’t score a goal. Perfect example of loan - problem/solution.
Look at the team
count, marv, Rhodes, coulson, Lavery, dembele et al. If you don’t call half your team a massive exodus I don’t know what is.
If you’re thinking about the issues in HK, I think the next hearing will be to take pleas. Unless there’s a plea bargain being negotiated, the pleas will be not guilty and the case will be referred up to a higher court for trial.
Seems likely that Gabriel will be on his way too
we let Rob Apter go on loan,some players we gave contracts to,are not better than Apter.
How many times have you seen him play?
So two of those named were ours. That's the point. Every team goes through this every summer.
was our best player in friendlies ,last two seasons.In my opinion he is as good as what’s at the club.
Not true. We should have one or two permanents who are good players, who the fans can relate too!
Friendlies! Tw@t.
Was he fuck he was just OK
I don't know if you'd noticed, but you can't get loans to cover injuries. Season long or January to the end of the season.
Every team replaces six first team regulars each season? I don’t think so because that’s bad business. Two or three yes but not six.
And we got Rhodes and coulson because…
First time round was good
