BoroMart
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unless we sell Fry for 12m and sign a young cheap backup CBThe difference is Muniz can be loaned players like Larsen aren't available for loan. We can't afford to buy muniz 10 million Larsen 10 million
unless we sell Fry for 12m and sign a young cheap backup CBThe difference is Muniz can be loaned players like Larsen aren't available for loan. We can't afford to buy muniz 10 million Larsen 10 million
Hull have reported the offer for Greaves, the Sporting Director of Groningen is on video discussing Boro making 2 offers for their striker.How can you be so certain we have made this offer?
I think that's your answer, we thought he would be too expensive to be one of three strikers we needed. So we looked down the list.....then Tavernier was sold, the budget changed and Larsen came back into our financial window.We’ve needed at least three strikers in since May, why would we only start bidding for one now?
A good point well made TBF.I think that's your answer, we thought he would be too expensive to be one of three strikers we needed. So we looked down the list.....then Tavernier was sold, the budget changed and Larsen came back into our financial window.
I think that's your answer, we thought he would be too expensive to be one of three strikers we needed. So we looked down the list.....then Tavernier was sold, the budget changed and Larsen came back into our financial window.
I would say Fry..If Greaves came in I’d suspect either McNair or Fry would be leaving to offset that - most likely Paddy
That is bang on what happened, Wilder had even confirmed that would happen in an interview should the financial situation change (selling Spence at the time) that they would 're-asses targets and look to invest the money' 'steve has always backed the club' or something like thatI think that's your answer, we thought he would be too expensive to be one of three strikers we needed. So we looked down the list.....then Tavernier was sold, the budget changed and Larsen came back into our financial window.
all clubs fail with transfer targets, we are trying to punch above the weight of a midtable championship team which makes it harder.Is anyone else aware of any other club's having similar struggles recruiting this window - specific examples of player deals falling through etc on the scale it seems to have happened for us. Genuine question as the line peddled out seems to be "everyone is finding it tough"
£12m?unless we sell Fry for 12m and sign a young cheap backup CB
Do you think we would struggle to get 12 for him? Certainly lower prem sides were looking last year for around that fee. I wouldn't be surprised if Bournemouth come in for him, they've shown previous interest and are in the market for 2 CBs£12m?
We finished 7th last year and have flirted with similar places finishes ( bar the woodgate fiasco) regularly inc the play off loss I’d hardly say we were a mid table side.weight of a midtable championship team
I do think we'd struggle to get that for him. We got that for Spence who had a much better season and has more attacking attributes which cost more.Do you think we would struggle to get 12 for him? Certainly lower prem sides were looking last year for around that fee. I wouldn't be surprised if Bournemouth come in for him, they've shown previous interest and are in the market for 2 CBs
Pretty understandable that some of the deals take time - e.g. any loans of premier league strikers waiting for incomings before they can be released. The Hoppe one doesn't seem too unrealistic though and even that appears to have been a struggle. The longer the 'its tough' narrative goes on - and I mean season after season - the more suspicious I grow of the gulf between what the club says it can pull off, and what it actually means. Although trying to remain calm for the momentall clubs fail with transfer targets, we are trying to punch above the weight of a midtable championship team which makes it harder.
I don't hear much about where other clubs have failed except when it's our club, but Im sure there are plenty. It's the nature of the business.
If we look at our average position in the last decade it is 8th. We can argue that we're a just short of promotion or a top midtable team, it's semantics at the end, we're not a shoehorn for a promotion challenge, and that's a harder sell than a perennial play off team that just needs a final push over the line, or a yo-yo side with parachute cash.We finished 7th last year and have flirted with similar places finishes ( bar the woodgate fiasco) regularly inc the play off loss I’d hardly say we were a mid table side.
We’ve been competing regularly for years.
We would have been classed as mid table prior to the play offs being introduced. We haven't challenged the automatic spots very often.If we look at our average position in the last decade it is 8th. We can argue that we're a just short of promotion or a top midtable team, it's semantics at the end, we're not a shoehorn for a promotion challenge, and that's a harder sell than a perennial play off team that just needs a final push over the line, or a yo-yo side with parachute cash.