23 Jun 2024 11:21:25
I don't want to come across negative or I'm slamming anyone, I just feel kellyman, young attacking midfielder from Villa is least needed profile we need at moment,
And as I huge fan of olise and someone who's slammed our sporting directors, stepping away because we feel value isn't there is good despite the initial feeling of disappointment,
Thst said there's fine line between great potential and proven quality, proven quality is likely to cost more, we need fine tuning,
Would you expect us to return to Nico Williams or thst ship sailed due to attitude / wages?
23 Jun 2024 12:20:22
Matt, I’m only guessing but the criteria for signing a player has so many factors that us fans are not really bothered about.
The vast majority of us just want top players who can improve the team immediately. Very few fans take much notice of our academy talent until there on the threshold of the first team and even fewer know anything about players from a global talent pool.
23 Jun 2024 13:00:24
I think that goes due to having a great owner like Roman he bought players for the now an instant impact. ok some didn’t work but it was for the now. These new owners are setting up for the future there will come a day where they will be thinking no more spending we have the best young talent in the world and to be quite honest if we have the right people a round these young players then we they may well have a point and we may well have a great squad for a number of years but that depends on a lot of things to work. I think we are all able to figure out what the clubs doing but I do think it’s going to be hard for the next few seasons.
23 Jun 2024 13:15:53
Nib, under Roman and like all owner a percentage of our signings didn’t turn out as planned but he got the investment in our academy set up spot on. For many years it was the envy of virtually every top club.
23 Jun 2024 13:32:37
It goes back to spending money with youth and future players when now we’re lacking those key proven players GK + ST to transform our team, not more young prospects.
23 Jun 2024 21:32:30
So many on this site wanted Onana as an experienced goalkeeper. There are no guarantees!
24 Jun 2024 00:45:11
Matt I’d say Nico was firmly off the list. Attitude problems (past and possibly present) but wage demands mostly. Bilbao don’t really sign players due to their strict recruitment so they pay their players top top salaries to keep them. No way I see us paying £300k/ week to him at his age.