valefan16
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The rumour was we paid a decent fee for him with add ons. We’ve made big money this summer with Forrester to Bolton 200k, a youth lad to Newcastle for 200k and a “record fee for a school boy” to Villa so moneys coming in. The owners have spent £10 million in buying and financing the club since 2019 but a lot has had to be invested in the ground, infrastructure etc as the ground was in bits.Well if signing Ryan Loft is anything to go by . Either your club has no money or ambition or both.
Do wonder how much the DC situation cost as well, five year deal to let him go a year into that. The Portsmouth situation seemed to trigger the downfall in January.
Loft seems to be the boo boy at the moment, we always have to have one for some reason, he’s played 3 45 minute spells and 60 yesterday as he was nowhere near fit when he came then got injured, he’s missed a few good chances but actually thought he looked decent yesterday and held the ball well and battled well (more than most of our side who looked half arsed).
Can’t imagine Uche has come for peanuts either but again the issue there is he’s not played since February so miles off fitness.
We are massively looking at young players though for the future, our youth system is producing us some great prospects and we’ve apparently completed a deal for this American lad who’s been on trial with Brentford and was wanted by Arsenal but it’s all very mid to long term if we don’t keep the same focus on now.
We’ve clearly invested more on higher quality loans hence Devine, Arblaster and Balmer for example but too many kids in an XI and you have a situation like yesterday, two very young centre halves, an 18 year old at LWB (who is actually a Right sides forward) and a young but talented midfield. They had zero experience or nous to turn that around when it went against us.
I get what we are trying to go, develop, sell on and increase the budget and power in the market we’ve got to be very careful not to go backwards in the current time.