sage owl Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 46 minutes ago, poite said: Could do with him right now What for testing, food delivery ?. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fudge27 Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 29 minutes ago, Jamie_W said: Who did we break the bank for who was as good as him and at the peak of his career age-wise? I’m sure if we could have got him we would have. Pretty much everyone of the Premier league squad signed after big Ron left. De Bilde, Sibon, Hinchcliffe, Jonk, Donnelly, O'Donnell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fudge27 Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 33 minutes ago, @owlstalk said: Better than him? Really? He's solid. He's strong, fast, and reads the game amazingly well Yea. He's a good championship defender. Wouldn't class him as best in the league. At that price and the Implications not worth the risk to our long term finances Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshowl Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Very very good championship defender and has the type of character we are sadly extremely lacking. The exact type of player we need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daleblue Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Too much money for us, would have been lunacy in the predicament we are in with FFP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurujuan Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 When I chat with Chelsea fans, most of them scoff at those figures, and suggest that he probably went for about £3m Even that though, I would suggest, was beyond us. Nobody wanted him here more than me, and he was probably our best signing for many a year. Consistently good performances, week after week, and excellent leadership qualities Exactly what the Fulham fans are saying now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodgyowl Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Watched him in a few Fulham game's this season he was outstanding an absolute rock then watched our defence what a loss, talk about the rights and wrongs of finances all you want but we wouldn't have conceded the amount of goals as we have if he was still here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wilyfox Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 We all wanned Hec back, but was never gonna happen with the sums involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurujuan Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) 8 minutes ago, wilyfox said: We all wanned Hec back, but was never gonna happen with the sums involved. Think early on, Iorfa’s form softened the blow somewhat, until like everyone else’s, it fell off a cliff edge How so many players can suddenly, and dramatically, lose form, all at the same time, beggars belief. Who knows whether whatever caused it, wouldn’t have had the same effect on Michael Hector, were he here Edited April 9, 2020 by gurujuan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyblack Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 We couldnt could we? We had done our over spending prior to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wilyfox Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 2 minutes ago, gurujuan said: Think early on, Iorfa’s form softened the blow somewhat, until like everyone else’s, it fell off a cliff edge How so many players can suddenly, and dramatically, lose form, all at the same time, beggars belief. Who knows whether whatever caused it, wouldn’t have had the same effect on Michael Hector, were he here Exactly. Saying we'd be far better with him now is a moot point. Our squad switched off at Christmas. Hector would probably be one of those too, because the issues here infect the whole group. We were shipping goals even with Hector. His form - like many - improved once Jos was ousted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyblack Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 30 minutes ago, fudge27 said: Pretty much everyone of the Premier league squad signed after big Ron left. De Bilde, Sibon, Hinchcliffe, Jonk, Donnelly, O'Donnell Donnelly and O'Donnell, got loads of games out of those two..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fudge27 Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Just now, billyblack said: Donnelly and O'Donnell, got loads of games out of those two..... Exactly and broke the bank wage wise to get them both. On long contracts. Never know how a move will turn out, so to be so reckless, when we have such stark warnings in our recent past is stupid bordering on insane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZicoSterland2 Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 2 hours ago, @owlstalk said: £5 million pounds is nothing for a defender of his quality 27 is no age either Was definitely worth every penny if we are serious about challenging for promotion Not a great idea overspending with EFL already on our case. The days of £5 million deals are not on the agenda. Hence the summer deals we did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZicoSterland2 Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 1 hour ago, gurujuan said: Think early on, Iorfa’s form softened the blow somewhat, until like everyone else’s, it fell off a cliff edge How so many players can suddenly, and dramatically, lose form, all at the same time, beggars belief. Who knows whether whatever caused it, wouldn’t have had the same effect on Michael Hector, were he here Have to agree as the first half of last season when the team was struggling Hector was no better than the rest. He had an excellent second half but 5 million for a player in the last year of his contract when money is tight would have been madness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bladeshater Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 If we would have broke bank to sign hector how many on here would have mullered chansiri for spending above FFP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adelphi1867 Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 2 hours ago, @owlstalk said: Don't think it should ever be a case of one vs the other If we truly really genuinely want to compete we should be securing the best possible available players So ideally you'd have Hector AND Iorfa in the same starting lineup Only if we can afford them. We are in the mess we are in because of that kind of thinking. Maybe we should have been looking at him earlier in his career when we were throwing money about like confetti for over aged, one season wonders of a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sefton owl Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 How times change. Up until Christmas everyone was saying how having Borner on a free was much better business which it clearly was. Yes we’ve been shocking at the back since then, however i think everyone knows that both borner and iorfa are more than capable of returning to the form they showed first half of the season. I don’t think spending such a sum would have solved the underlying issues within the team. It’s an approach we have taken for far too long now and has put us in the peril we still face with the EFL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 2 hours ago, nbupperthongowl said: How old is Iorfa? Makes hector look slow.... will only get better and c£260k Iorfa is not a patch on hector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Rimmer Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Why is having 12m left on his contract relevant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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