Originally Posted by
Rjk
Looking back over the last few windows:
THis season:
Collins
Wintle
Both frees but too early to tell if a success
Giles looks like being a good loan move
Last Season
Moore - Excellent business
Wilson - A very good loan move
Ng - good for the fee
Watters early to tell.
Jonny Williams - wht was that all about?
Osei-tutu - unfortunate with injuries - made sense on paper
Ojo - meh ok loan I suppose
Phillips - Good signing
Benkovic - waste of time
Definitely more good than bad there
19/20
Glatzel - occasionally looked decent, but not a good buy for the money
Flint - is a good player at this level, but we paid £4m for him- im not convinced in hindsight we can call it a good move when he's only played about 50 times for us and might leave at the end of the year. Good player - poor value.
Vaulks - he's done ok, but not great value at £2 million
Vassell - very unlucky with injuries, i think he looks a decent player but another 2 million wasted unfortunately
Whyte - another £2 million with little to show for it - didn't look a terribl move on paper though - if perhaps slightly overpriced
Pack - decent purchase for the money
Sang - free - now looks a good move
Nelson - free - very good business
Joe Day - free - why?
Smith and Sanderson loans and Traore signing - meh.
Definitely more bad than good.
18/19
Sala - :(
Murphy - Looked a sensible move on paper - good young championship talent - potential to increase in value - hasn't happened for whatever reason.
Decordova Reid - Again - good move on paper, wasn't used well - recouped most of the money when he left us to join a better team - I don't think the signing was the issue here.
Smithies - very good keeper at this level, but at almost 4m arguably a waste of money when we had other options.
Cunningham - 3.6 million and played for us 14 times
Bacuna - 3 million and he's been ok - I'm sure we could have picked up similar players for less and on less wages.
Arter/Camarasa loans were good
Niasse less so.
For different reasons we havent gained any longer term value from any of those investments.
17/18
Madine - terrible business
Tomlin - £3 million and hasnt played a lot - when he has he's been generally good
Danny Ward - did ok, cost 1.5 million - decent signing i'd say.
Omar Bogle - didn't work out, wasn't too expensive
Lee Camp - free - ok
Paterson - Free - excellent
Loic Damour - Free - didn't really work out
Ethridge - Free - Excellent
NML Free - Excellent.
There seems to be a pattern emerging that we generally have a better success rate with free or cheaper signings than we do when we spend any significant money.
Seems line we've had some better transfer windows more recently, but are we actually better ad recruitment or were we just due some luck?