We always knew we wouldn't be buying players - despite selling Ched. Maybe we should sign Adam Smith, goalie released by Northampton, we've a vacancy for a sex offender ...........
I don't want to pour a stream of cold water all over Brooks BUT how good is a 19 year-old Sheff Utd don't consider capable of challenging for a place in a Championship side likely to be? Especially considering they just paid us £500,000 for a striker who wasn't a success for us last season.
Matt's idea of bringing back Armand is nearly on the mark. We'll need someone big and who'll come free. He was a player of potential but he has now failed to make an impression at several clubs. But to me that kind of player would be more important than another of GC's bad loans, though I agree with Pooch that a season-loan does give a youngster time to settle in & show what he can do. GC's loan batch were rushed into the team at two day's notice and buried in failure. They got into the team but were given a dog's chance of success.
I was amazed Donohue was Players' Player of the Seaon, maybe I need to reassess him. I've always thought Zaine Francis-Angol from Kidderminster should be a league LB. He was a Spurs youngster, played a lot of games for Motherwell and if GC wants to play wing backs he'd be ideal. Northampton also released a player Emmanuel Sonupe (is that right?) who was loaned to Kiddy. He's 20, was at Spurs playing alongside Harry Winks. At U-18 level he was an England international. How far can anyone regress in such a short time? Wouldn't rescuing a player like that make more sense as, if he develops, he'll belong to us rather than paying for the use of an untried youngster a local team wants to bring on without putting him in their own first team ........
When Sheff Utd signed Che Adams they quickly jumped him from Ilkeston to their own first team. Clearly they think David Brooks is behind the point a boy playing for Ilkeston was at when they signed him. My reasoning is that we should therefore be looking at the Ilkestons for signings. BUT I do think keeping a close eye on local clubs further up the food chain is also a good idea. We have so many bigger, better clubs near us and we all too rarely pick up their juicy discards. But Gboly and Dimaio worked ...... It is a huge advantage for us over a club like Plymouth who'd have to go to Bristol (who aren't all that in any case!)
If we'd announced we'd taken David Hirst's lad from Wednesday to play on loan for us up front with Ricky German I'd be excited for the new season. This one seems like another marker on the two-year road to play Guiseley to me. Hope I'm wrong.
I don't want to pour a stream of cold water all over Brooks BUT how good is a 19 year-old Sheff Utd don't consider capable of challenging for a place in a Championship side likely to be? Especially considering they just paid us £500,000 for a striker who wasn't a success for us last season.
Matt's idea of bringing back Armand is nearly on the mark. We'll need someone big and who'll come free. He was a player of potential but he has now failed to make an impression at several clubs. But to me that kind of player would be more important than another of GC's bad loans, though I agree with Pooch that a season-loan does give a youngster time to settle in & show what he can do. GC's loan batch were rushed into the team at two day's notice and buried in failure. They got into the team but were given a dog's chance of success.
I was amazed Donohue was Players' Player of the Seaon, maybe I need to reassess him. I've always thought Zaine Francis-Angol from Kidderminster should be a league LB. He was a Spurs youngster, played a lot of games for Motherwell and if GC wants to play wing backs he'd be ideal. Northampton also released a player Emmanuel Sonupe (is that right?) who was loaned to Kiddy. He's 20, was at Spurs playing alongside Harry Winks. At U-18 level he was an England international. How far can anyone regress in such a short time? Wouldn't rescuing a player like that make more sense as, if he develops, he'll belong to us rather than paying for the use of an untried youngster a local team wants to bring on without putting him in their own first team ........
When Sheff Utd signed Che Adams they quickly jumped him from Ilkeston to their own first team. Clearly they think David Brooks is behind the point a boy playing for Ilkeston was at when they signed him. My reasoning is that we should therefore be looking at the Ilkestons for signings. BUT I do think keeping a close eye on local clubs further up the food chain is also a good idea. We have so many bigger, better clubs near us and we all too rarely pick up their juicy discards. But Gboly and Dimaio worked ...... It is a huge advantage for us over a club like Plymouth who'd have to go to Bristol (who aren't all that in any case!)
If we'd announced we'd taken David Hirst's lad from Wednesday to play on loan for us up front with Ricky German I'd be excited for the new season. This one seems like another marker on the two-year road to play Guiseley to me. Hope I'm wrong.