Quote Originally Posted by thehumblegringo View Post
The crux of the matter in my opinion comes down (once again) to the lack of strategy at our club.

The best run clubs don't block pathways in the way we do.

How old is Mayembe now? He's got to be 17 or 18?

He's a dynamic winger who seems to have a lot of creative potential to play wide or up top for us, yet we've gone out and signed Gavin Whyte when we've already got Hoilett, Murphy and Mendez-Laing.

We're a club that offers no pathway whatsoever for younger players and players like Ajayi must see that.

The same argument regarding Ajayi needing to play at this stage of his career could equally apply to Nelson yet we paid a fee for him to sit on the bench.

Other clubs seem to send players like Ajayi out on loan after they sign a new contract at their club (see woodman from Newcastle to Swansea this season) yet our approach is all about the here and now.

Something drastic has to change at our club if we're gonna move into the modern era.

There are blueprints all around us but we just seem to bumble around like Delboy and Rodney hoping for the best.
Ajayi had played fewer than 40 league matches when he left us. Nelson had played over 300 league matches before he joined this summer.