I'd rather good players.Quote:
Originally Posted by LA Bluebird
Don't care where they are from.
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I'd rather good players.Quote:
Originally Posted by LA Bluebird
Don't care where they are from.
Me too, I don't want us restricted. All players from anywhere are welcome as long as they're good enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Paget Flashman
Got no issue with this. Personally, I would have let him go this season, but he's a loyal Hall of Fame tier player who always gives his best and can provide some leadership and veteran status in the midfield, so I'm absolutely not upset.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
always gives 100%, is pretty versatile and can play in a few positionsQuote:
Originally Posted by City123
and lets be honest, 15 years at the club, over 400 games, thats commendable and deserves another year :thumbup:
I hope not. Great servant but been injured far too much in recent seasons. We won't have budget to give out sentimental contractsQuote:
Originally Posted by blue matt
My thoughts exactly. He just doesn't have the legs anymore, and is just too injury prone.Quote:
Originally Posted by PontBlue
Totally agree. I don't think anyone who is out of contract should be offered a new one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
Birmingham are after Salech apparently.
they can **** offQuote:
Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
They paid 15m for Stansfield, so £30m starting bidQuote:
Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
Wrexham supposedly interested in Tanner and Davies, but not Robinson as previously rumoured.
I'd take 30m for Salech, that's the price for a half-decent Premiership striker like Muniz. But no way Birmingham go that high, 15m is high for a Championship player.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
Only thing is, I don't trust this ownership to spend the money responsibly.
Depends on what they offer. They aren't lines in the sand to not get rid of outside of an insane offer like Salech or Robertson, but I don't particularly want to lose them for a paltry sum, Davies especially.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
Tanner is in that Wintle camp of me being not sure what to make of him. He can come in clutch sometimes, but often can become a passenger and get outclassed.
Money upfront, fee for every episode the player appears in their doc, more money on appearances, a meeting set up for Tan and co to learn from their owners.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
We will get a meh fee, some disney+ subscriptions and a Ryan Reynolds signed deadpool t-shirt.
yeah I'd take a sensible offer for Tanner. he's probably on a low wage though and usually delivers in local derbies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coyote
maybe the new manager should just tell him we are playing Swansea or Bristol every week
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Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
What we don`t know is which of our players still under contract have told the club they want to stay and which have said they want to leave rather than drop down to League 1 level.
For the latter group then I believe the club should say OK you can go but only if your agent gets the club a very good transfer fee offer. They are under contract and the club doesn`t otherwise have to let them go, but we want players who want to be here and who will give their all on the fields rather than "down tools" like a Keiffer Moore.
I would love to keep Salech if possible as he should be great at League 1 level and enhance our chances of an immediate bounce back to the Championship, provided we reinvest the money from the players who want to leave into new signings who can be leaders on the field (we will need players of the Morrison and Kavanagh type to be physically and mentally strong who will also bring the best out of the younger players around them).
Before we talk about players we actually need a management and coaching set up whatever that is.
We also need a huge boardroom shake up. But it seems it's going to remain unchanged which is a recipe for further struggles.
This was my worry, and why I'm not paying for a season ticket, or probably even attending any of the games this season. I want to starve out Tan however I can into selling the club. The ineptitude is off the charts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
Players in the club and any who come in will have been coached since they were 8yr olds. For me it's the recruitment that has screwed this club. Bulut, Riza, Ramsey, all failed to get a winning side on the pitch with this squad. Whoever our super -wonderful new manager is, he's going to have exactly the same problem..Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
It's almost as if this is a director of football's job. I wonder who our director of football is. Anyone?Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
If anyone pays £30m for Salech they want their head examined.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
I’d be surprised if we make much of a profit if any on Salech. With the new rules on not spending more than 60% of income on wages, I can see a fire sale of any players we can to fund the expensive wages of players that we can’t get rid off (Chambers, Willock, Daaland)
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Originally Posted by PontBlue
24-25 season, 23 gamesQuote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
23-24 season, 35 games
22-23 season, 43 games
21-22 season, 29 games
20-21 season, 40 games
for a old bloke, he isnt doing to badly
How many of those games in the last two seasons (I can't be bothered to look) were just cameo appearances?Quote:
Originally Posted by blue matt
Okay, I decided not to be lazy by leaving the research to others.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
So, here we go....
Joe Ralls featured in 22 Championship games for the 2024/25 season.
Of those games, he started 11.
He played the full-90 minutes 5 times.
He's been a great servant to the club, no doubting.
However, it's a two-way thing. Ralls hasn't had to keep up-rooting his family, moving to far corners of the country, living out of a suitcase in hotels, like so many other professional footballers have had to do. He's never been faced with the challenge of trying to win over a new set of fans (like Peter Whittingham had to at Blackburn).
We can't be nostalgic. His time has come I'm afraid.
Dalman's said he expects 5 or 6 of the out of contract players to leave and that the squad probably needs to come down to about 25 or 26. Expecting a few more to not fancy L1 plus 3 or 4 to come in, maybe experienced L1 players. Also said we don't need to sell our best players to balance the books.