What do you expect when you sell your best players?

InglebyUTB

InglebyUTB

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Yes Michael Carrick has to go for his incompetence, but Steve Gibson has a lot to answer for again. Two seasons in a row we have sold one of our best players and failed to replace them.

Iheanacho is an embarrassment. Overweight and lazy.

A club who is actually wants to get promotion doesn’t sell their best players, it doesn’t happen.
 
Even if you can't get the player you wanted in a January market that is obviously tricky to deal in?

Would have been crazy to have spent the money just to get someone in, rather than someone who would fit the bill
 
JM14 said:
It’s crazy not to replace him
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That’s a different argument, Brighton, Brentford et al have made a huge success of selling their best players but buying well.

Carrick, if he likes can hide behind the fact we sell our best players but if he wants to be a success he will need to prove himself at clubs that sell their best players. No club in the championship would have turned down £20m for a player they bought for a fraction of that only 18 months prior.

Not to sound like a stuck record but trying to say the selling of Lath has cost us a shot at promotion is nonsense, the cracks run far deeper than that.
 
Pak_Doo_Ik said:
That’s a different argument, Brighton, Brentford et al have made a huge success of selling their best players but buying well.

Carrick, if he likes can hide behind the fact we sell our best players but if he wants to be a success he will need to prove himself at clubs that sell their best players. No club in the championship would have turned down £20m for a player they bought for a fraction of that only 18 months prior.

Not to sound like a stuck record but trying to say the selling of Lath has cost us a shot at promotion is nonsense, the cracks run far deeper than that.
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Brighton and Brentford wouldn’t sell their best players then replace him with a very expensive loan who’s career is on a downwards trajectory, and who was poor last time he was at this level
Yes the cracks run far deeper, but it’s just yet another example in a long line of **** shows by the club
 
JM14 said:
Brighton and Brentford wouldn’t sell their best players then replace him with a very expensive loan who’s career is on a downwards trajectory, and who was poor last time he was at this level
Yes the cracks run far deeper, but it’s just yet another example in a long line of **** shows by the club
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What should we have done then? Reject £22m and got no one in? Or bought someone we didn't rate just to get a body through the door?
 
JM14 said:
Brighton and Brentford wouldn’t sell their best players then replace him with a very expensive loan who’s career is on a downwards trajectory, and who was poor last time he was at this level
Yes the cracks run far deeper, but it’s just yet another example in a long line of **** shows by the club
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That’s what I said

Brighton, Brentford et al have made a huge success of selling their best players but buying well.

Selling Lath has not cost us promotion, even with him the season was slipping away (or do we forget the draws against Cardiff, Plymouth, Wednesday or the home defeats against Bristol City and Coventry).
 
NI_Red said:
What should we have done then? Reject £22m and got no one in? Or bought someone we didn't rate just to get a body through the door?
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Considering we knew from August he was likely to go in this window, I would have hoped we might have a plan to get a replacement in immediately.

I didn’t expect us to spend a fortune on a loan, who clearly is nowhere near match sharpness, who was poor last time he played at this level and who’s career is on a massive downward trajectory. And a player we have no chance of signing permanently (thankfully) so will have to replace him in the summer anyway.
 
JM14 said:
Considering we knew from August he was likely to go in this window, I would have hoped we might have a plan to get a replacement in immediately.

I didn’t expect us to spend a fortune on a loan, who clearly is nowhere near match sharpness, who was poor last time he played at this level and who’s career is on a massive downward trajectory. And a player we have no chance of signing permanently (thankfully) so will have to replace him in the summer anyway.
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It's not as simple as that, we're not playing Football Manager. When we approach a club about a player, they know we have £22m burning a hole in our pocket. Obviously we couldn't get a replacement in without spending stupid money.
 
NI_Red said:
It's not as simple as that, we're not playing Football Manager. When we approach a club about a player, they know we have £22m burning a hole in our pocket. Obviously we couldn't get a replacement in without spending stupid money.
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That’s the risk of selling players in January, either pay more for his replacement or don’t sell until the summer.
Don’t just sell then replace with an expensive mediocre loan and totally write the season off in the process
 
Imagine if LL had played in the first half today instead of Iheanacho, in that weird set up. It might've have been a much different game, it would really have suited him

Silly conjecture, I know
 
Gibson took the money, do not blame Carrick.

Iheanacho was not a Carrick choice, no head coach would request a CF who had played 3 games in the last 25 or so. Carrick is a good man being hung out to dry by others sadly, yes he carries baggage and blame, but he is no Scott
 
RavsFan said:
Gibson took the money, do not blame Carrick.

Iheanacho was not a Carrick choice, no head coach would request a CF who had played 3 games in the last 25 or so. Carrick is a good man being hung out to dry by others sadly, yes he carries baggage and blame, but he is no Scott
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Agree with all of that.
Carrick will inevitably take the fall, but Scott should be following him out of the club. This disaster is pretty much on him
 
InglebyUTB said:
Yes Michael Carrick has to go for his incompetence, but Steve Gibson has a lot to answer for again. Two seasons in a row we have sold one of our best players and failed to replace them.

Iheanacho is an embarrassment. Overweight and lazy.

A club who is actually wants to get promotion doesn’t sell their best players, it doesn’t happen.
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If you go back two steps ..
Going into the season with only two strikers, as opposed to three , makes your negotiations much much harder when it comes to replacing one .

Whoever you are looking to buy from KNOWS your desperate
 
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