Would be a bold move to let Worrall and McKenna leave. With Felipe injured, would mean we had Murillo and Omobamidele backed up by Yates(?) and Abbott(?) until our AFCON players come back in mid Feb.
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Our financial position may force us into making sub-optimal choices. It's all about the numbers....not the football ones, the accounting ones.
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Bamford would be fine (subject to a very good medical). Adams is a meh. If either of those come in, I assume we'd see Origi out as well.
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As it is now, I'm not quite sure.
We're struggling with the accounts we've just submitted because there's a period of EFL allowances in there (rather than PL which are obviously higher). Transfers in this window aren't being included in that return, they'll be in the next one, when we'll have more room for investment. Or, put it another way, we'll be able to lose more without getting punished. If we're only just under/over at the moment I feel unless we go crazy that we'll be ok next time. Of course this will all change if we're relegated.
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Bamford would possibly be a better fit for breaking with pace. I rather like Adams, but he's more battling in areas than stretching the play.
I can't claim to know from the numbers...but our activity looks atypical and excessive, compared with equivalent clubs. There's some good accounting going on to even have us close.
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What tricky says is true but if you look at other team's benches, they often don't have a full complement of 9, sometimes have 2 goalkeepers and usually have a fair sprinkling of under 21s (there's obviously a lag but Brennan isn't enough for our academy to have delivered recently - Cash, Worrall and Yates will all be 27 in May, Brennan himself will be 23).
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This is true. If you have a decent crop of youngsters who can 'do a job' (come in and give you twenty high tempo minutes, to rest other players towards the end of games), then you can concentrate the money you spend on 'quality'. If you look at liverpool, they have (more income for a start) good players brought in...but also youngsters who can play in all areas of the park, and they are regularly getting game time. We started from a position (a couple of years ago) where we didn't even have a viable first team squad.
It feels like we are bringing in the sort of players that we can get twenty good games out of, and we have to rotate others in while they play, and ultimately ship most of them out, and get new ones.
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Bamford and pace are words which don't appear together in the same sentence very often (unless also accompanied by "lack of").
I have always liked him as a player and while I don't approve of his new Alan Smith hairdo, there is a certain homecoming theme to him signing. But the years haven't been kind and I am not sure he is still l up to it as a Premier league footballer.
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I don't want to see any ex players come back for a final pay day. They have ALL been disasters who have cost the club lots of money.
Neil Webb not great on his return
Des Walker cost us the play offs creating one goal and scoring another own goal for Sheff U
Andy Reid 2 years collecting big money while injured
Dawson injured almost all the time and was on 25k a weekThere is far too much sentiment on taking back players who were quite happy to leave but just as happy to return to rip the club off. Not one has added value on the pitch and judging by the results didn't add to the dressing room. I saw the crap how Dawson was supposed to be a positive in the dressing room, when in actual fact we couldn't buy a win while he was skimming the club for a fortune.
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Bowyer, Birtles, Hodge, Guediora?
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Apparently we want more for Richie Laryea than Vancouver are able and/or willing to pay, so he is returning to Forest.
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Nuno’s desire for a smaller squad is going well.
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Could be a quirk of the totally-good-at-doing-what-it-purports-to-do FFP wank.. there will be situations where it’s better to hold on to a player you don’t want, and ultimately lose more money, than to move him on in any particular season for an amount that doesn’t cover the FFP write off.
That said, I don’t recall much money changing hands for him so, then again, perhaps in this case that’s unlikely.
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One was a cup game with a slightly weird cup type line up, and as I say we don't know whether there is some fitness issue. It's premature to conclude Nuno doesn't rate or want him. However, often there is no smoke without fire.
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Colback!
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If we'd been playing Man U in the league that day that would've been the team. They were the players available.
