damianb1 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 According to numerous posters over the last few weeks we were going to be amazed at the signings coming in. Now I'm happy with the recruitment so far but would it be fair to say we havent signed a marquee player (certainly considering the ticket prices). If we are to make one, what are of the pitch and who might it be, also who would fans deem suitable to warrant the suspected prices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueandwhitematt Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 The bigger problem is trusting what people on here say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StudentOwl Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 It's almost as if those people saying that we'd be amazed by the standard of signings were making things up and pretending to be ITK... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueblood Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Maybe to CC the likes of Lopez, Matias and Lucas are high quality signings. I've not really seen much of them, so will judge them on what I see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancobian Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 I suspect we were in for Rhodes got priced out and moved on, which I'm happy with.....Marquee signing rarely work out, would rather sign several players and prospects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wilyfox Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Kenwyne. Boom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damianb1 Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share Posted July 31, 2015 But is kj really a marquee signing? I would love us to sign jr as personally I feel he is the best finisher outside the prem by a country mile, but would not feel comfortable at the price quoted nor sure he would fit into the system I suspect cc wants to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wilyfox Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Tiz in my book. 7yrs and 40 goals in the prem. experienced proven international. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StudentOwl Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Tiz in my book. 7yrs and 40 goals in the prem. experienced proven international. Only problem is that that's fewer than 6 goals for every year he's been in the Prem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wilyfox Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Only problem is that that's fewer than 6 goals for every year he's been in the Prem! We're not at that level, so I don't see it as a problem until we are. You don't get a 7yr prem career for being rubbish, and a quantity of goals aren't easy to come by up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StudentOwl Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 We're not at that level, so I don't see it as a problem until we are. You don't get a 7yr prem career for being rubbish, and a quantity of goals aren't easy to come by up there. I dunno Wily... Steven Fletcher and Emile Heskey have done a good job of making it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopparberg Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Who is Marquee and when's he getting here? Any YouTube clips? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southie_Owl Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 (edited) Who is Marquee and when's he getting here? Any YouTube clips? He was at Owls in the Park. Big white thing moved about as quickly as Nuhiu and a Similiar size too â›ºï¸ Edited July 31, 2015 by Southie_Owl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIOwl Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Marquee Mark? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal M Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I move a lot of concrete on the QVC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morepork Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Couple of things - 1. I've asked about this before but to my knowledge it wasn't substantiated so effectively the "marquee signing" is a bit of an OT myth, I don't believe anyone at the club has ever said this? 2. Regardless, I firmly believe it was our intention to sign a couple of higher profile English players that may have fitted the bill, certainly one of those would have been a centre forward, however it looks likely we've just been priced out. By priced out I mean we are unwilling to spend the ludicrous amounts of money it would now take to lure the likes of Rhodes or Wickham to S6, I for one am pleased about this. Whatever we build it needs to be sustainable, the chairman has stated this previously. Whilst not blown away I'm pretty happy with our transfer activity so far, there's certainly room for improvement though. Even with the expertise on hand the signing of players must still be pretty daunting to Mr Chansiri, he's had a lot to get his head around in a short space of time. Seriously, outside of banking, does any other world exist where you pay someone a fantastic wage then pay them again to score goals or create them......obviously incentives exist in business but not to the degree we see in football, speculation of course but I believe these are the kinds of things that have slowed our transfer activity and possibly cost us a few deals on the way. We need to get better at these things and I'm certain we will in time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theowlsman Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Signings within tent should've been completed at party in the park. Would've been proper crowd-pleasers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viva hate Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I don't recall Burnley making a marquee signing to get promoted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurujuan Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 (edited) I don't recall Burnley making a marquee signing to get promoted. Or Bournemouth come to that. Yeah they paid over £3m for Wilson, the then Coventry youngster was hardly a marquee signing He certainly turned out to be one though Edited August 1, 2015 by gurujuan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
since59owe Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I don't recall Burnley making a marquee signing to get promoted. True Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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