(03-09-2016, 15:32)Salopbaggie Wrote:(03-09-2016, 14:56)Beefy 1965 Wrote: Don't suppose any will matter now if they are free,
Hopefully soon the FA should sanction the takeover so maybe in January we can get some proper players in and jettison the freebies
They may be free Beefy, but there is still a signing on fee, wages and a squad place taken (the one thing we are not short of) and I doubt they would sign just until Christmas. Next summer we already have to look at replacing or renewing Gareth McAuley, Jonass Olsson, Chris Brunt, Craig Gardner, Darren Fletcher, and Saido Berahino and that is just to stand still and of course Brendan Galloway will be returning to his own club.
With our record in the transfer market over the past three or four windows, after all the promises, does anyone have faith that we can replace all of those players with suitable alternatives in just one or even two windows and that is without bringing in the extra players we already need.
I'm afraid, I'm very afraid.
You're right Salop - we've been saying for the last 3-4 windows that a big rebuilding process has got to happen, and it doesn't! Somehow we've struggled through.
Hopefully with the stability (and extra dosh) that the new ownership will bring, we can start getting better, longer term deals done with more suitable - not stop-gap - players coming in.
There is a chance though that EVERY club 's supporters sees their position in a similar light; player's contracts are now generally shorter and so continually coming to an end, and in these days of agents, money, and no loyalty, it would seem to me that this is the way it will now always be.