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This Larsen kid though. How far down the list must he have been? We’ve needed at least three strikers in since May, why would we only start bidding for one now? It seems late in the day for names to be popping up out of left-field on a daily basis. It was Hoppe the other day wasn’t it? And Gayle, Muniz, Armstrong, Gyokores and the Preston lad. And Forss. How far have we moved down our list of top targets?
 
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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.

Yep, this is how the optimist in me would like to think too - it's not that we’ve moved down our list with Larsen, it’s that Tav leaving has enabled us to move up the list!
 
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.
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 that
Hence why our budget has just been upped.

We had enquired about Greaves 7-8weeks ago, the Hull owner confirmed it but said hadn't had a bid. Now we have the spence/tav money we have started making our opening bids.

We had clearly identified targets with the early pre-season budget and then a budget should we sell players etc and are now acting on it.
 
It's not just that 1/6 time period, unless we are lucky they will need time to adopt and for us to assess them, before you know it, it's getting into October.

Mind you if we do get it right we could do a Forest type season.
 
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"
 
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"
all 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.
 
weight of a midtable championship team
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.
 
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
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.
 
all 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.
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 moment
 
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.
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.
 
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 would have been classed as mid table prior to the play offs being introduced. We haven't challenged the automatic spots very often.
 
The good thing about having room in the squad is that we are not sat here waiting to sell players so we’re actually a step ahead, we’ve added to to each area that needed addressing in keeper,wing and strikers. Tav is the only player wel miss as things stand . We’re actually better than the team that started last season that drew with runaway champions Fulham . Payero and Connolly won’t be missed
 
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