03-09-2018, 21:46
Phil, while we'll never know the answers to yours questions of non replacements and replacements for Chadli and McClean, they made it clear they never wanted to stay and fight. Harvey Barnes if we take him as McCleans replacement is a definite upgrade from what we've seen so far. Evans was another who didn't want to play for us and Bartley has come in his place and had looked sound up to now for me. 3 bad eggs gone and replaced by 2 who at least want to play for us.
4eva is spot on, we could easily have sold both Dawson and JRod for a hefty amount of dough and had that not been reinvested then I would have sided with the "asset stripping" theory. Instead we've kept both at least until January and also added a striker who looks like he could bag us 20+ goals this season, to at least convert some of the chances that have gone begging for the last couple of seasons.
While it's still far from rosy and we are at the mercy of injuries to key players we've made a decent start and we have at least got a few options off the bench. I'm positive in the fact that I believe we've cut our cloth to suit our means, income will go down without a doubt, it's daft to think otherwise and the fact that we've got some money for the high earning players who didn't give a chuff about us is fine by me. Moving them on is nothing like stripping our best players, it's about getting rid of bad blood and bringing hungrier players in who want to play for OUR club
4eva is spot on, we could easily have sold both Dawson and JRod for a hefty amount of dough and had that not been reinvested then I would have sided with the "asset stripping" theory. Instead we've kept both at least until January and also added a striker who looks like he could bag us 20+ goals this season, to at least convert some of the chances that have gone begging for the last couple of seasons.
While it's still far from rosy and we are at the mercy of injuries to key players we've made a decent start and we have at least got a few options off the bench. I'm positive in the fact that I believe we've cut our cloth to suit our means, income will go down without a doubt, it's daft to think otherwise and the fact that we've got some money for the high earning players who didn't give a chuff about us is fine by me. Moving them on is nothing like stripping our best players, it's about getting rid of bad blood and bringing hungrier players in who want to play for OUR club