Replacements in summer - who was better than those who left?

[gurujuan]

Only Brown really made any sense. Dunkley was bizarre, and Windass and Paterson for a fee, oh dear

[Swiss Toni]

11 minutes ago, Inspector Lestrade said:

What did people think would happen if you sell your best players and you get lower standard players?.  

 

You add quality not take it away.

Here lies another problem, we DIDN’T sell any of those players and therefore lose more money by just letting so many contracts of big wages run down. If we’d been able to sell one or two of those players then the quality of the side now would surely be uplifted somewhat..

[Guest]

33 minutes ago, SallyCinnamon said:

No issues with Dunkley signing really. Low risk free transfer won’t be on a lot due to his injury. Will prove a good player when back fit. Well covered in the centre back area so we aren’t desperate for him to come back. 
 

The issue with recruitment is signing 4 strikers but not one of them being a target man who can hold the ball up and link the midfield and attack. We let go of Fletcher and Nuhiu but didn’t replace them. 

 

How much would you say is low risk?

We signed him  on a 2-year contract and it is getting towards a quarter of those contracted games passing by before he has even reached fitness to be considered. Surely that money, whatever it amounts to, could have been better spent elsewhere? 

[S36 OWL]

27 minutes ago, SallyCinnamon said:

We have enough to stay up this season.

 

Pulis will sort it.

 

You can quote this at the end of the season.

 

Let’s not all lose our rag. 

 

Where are the goals coming from to stay up? 

[SallyCinnamon]

Just now, hirstyboywonder said:

 

How much would you say is low risk?

We signed him  on a 2-year contract and it is getting towards a quarter of those contracted games passing by before he has even reached fitness to be considered. Surely that money, whatever it amounts to, could have been better spent elsewhere? 

Well we recruited for Monk to play three at the back. 
 

I’d instead be questioning why we decided to recruit for a formation which was failing us weekly last season. 

[Brissy-owl]

squads pathetic, u would think the 6 points given back would have atleast installed some motivation and desire to put the gas on and climb the table, pub grounds for us next year I'm afraid, vankers

[Guest]

1 minute ago, SallyCinnamon said:

Well we recruited for Monk to play three at the back. 
 

I’d instead be questioning why we decided to recruit for a formation which was failing us weekly last season. 

 

Maybe so, but even then we should have recruited players who were actually fit to play the formation we were recruiting for, as we then had to further recruit by signing Flint in a panic, a player who has hardly played competitive football in a year or so, going straight into a team with a congested fixture list and guess what, he picks up a muscle injury. 

[SallyCinnamon]

3 minutes ago, hirstyboywonder said:

 

Maybe so, but even then we should have recruited players who were actually fit to play the formation we were recruiting for, as we then had to further recruit by signing Flint in a panic, a player who has hardly played competitive football in a year or so, going straight into a team with a congested fixture list and guess what, he picks up a muscle injury. 

Again, with -12 points who did you think we could have recruited? 

[@owlstalk]

2 minutes ago, SallyCinnamon said:

Again, with -12 points who did you think we could have recruited? 

 

Kieran Lee

[Shetland Owl]

should have kept Dave, would have been our best striker in todays squad

[areNOTwhatTHEYseem]

25 minutes ago, Inspector Lestrade said:

What did people think would happen if you sell your best players and you get lower standard players?.  

 

You add quality not take it away.

 

In an ideal world, yes.

 

Unfortunately, cost-cutting, rather than adding quality, was our primary driver during the summer transfer window.

 

Wednesday are a bit like a middle-aged bloke who'd just been given a promotion at work, bought a big four-bedroom semi in a leafy suburb, and splurged on a brand new sports car.

 

Now his wife's left him and he's been made redundant, he's had to sell the car and downsize to a two-bedroom flat in a seedy part of town, and is desperately hanging around bars in the early hours of the morning hoping to find any old skank who'll give him a shag.

 

That's Wednesday in 2020.

 

That's where we are.

 

[Guest Grandad]

Id have kept Nuhiu and Lee - and Hutchinson.

 

Hutchinson would have been the perfect back up this season and could have covered at both Centre Half and in midfield.  If Luongo continues to be fit in sporadic phases Hutch would have been the perfect squad player. It might have helped him stay fit too

 

And I would have definitely pulled out all the stops to keep Fox and Fletcher - rather than offering them insulting 70% reductions on their salaries

[Guest Bulgaria]

2 hours ago, @owlstalk said:

 

 

Why are we hating on the recruitment team?

Did I miss someting?

No, but the recruitment team did. They lost the nouce to find anyone fit, not injury prone and someone who ain't got a pot belly.

[Dutch McLovin]

None

 

We lost quality replaces with crap but we saved loads on wages doing so.

 

Personally would have kept a couple of them around. However we need to invest in some quality quick to stay up.

[Steve Down South]

Recruitment is one thing, what I find just as worrying is the fact that we couldn’t replace any of these players from our own under 23s.  Just one would have been a start.

[SallyCinnamon]

31 minutes ago, @owlstalk said:

 

Kieran Lee

I would have 100% given him a new deal to be fair. 

[Andrew6666]

2 hours ago, @owlstalk said:

 

 

Why are we hating on the recruitment team?

Did I miss someting?

It's another dig at Monk because Pulis wasn't as different as some have hoped.

 

Deflection tactic 

[shandypants]

2 hours ago, hugeowl said:

Windass for Winnall 

 

The other’s haven’t been replaced 

that’s the problem 

Absolutely this ^^^^

 

2 hours ago, Grandad said:

I think Pulis would love Atdhe

and absolutely this^^^

[Steve Down South]

12 minutes ago, Grandad said:

Id have kept Nuhiu and Lee - and Hutchinson.

 

Hutchinson would have been the perfect back up this season and could have covered at both Centre Half and in midfield.  If Luongo continues to be fit in sporadic phases Hutch would have been the perfect squad player. It might have helped him stay fit too

 

And I would have definitely pulled out all the stops to keep Fox and Fletcher - rather than offering them insulting 70% reductions on their salaries

These are the two I was most disappointed to lose, but can only pay what we can afford.  Mismanagement of finances over a number of years meant we were fighting a losing battle when it came to keeping our better players.

 

Happy enough to see Hutchinson and Nuhiu go, despite some on here warning of them being snapped up by our Championship rivals.

[Mike Hunt]

1 hour ago, SallyCinnamon said:

No issues with Dunkley signing really. Low risk free transfer won’t be on a lot due to his injury. Will prove a good player when back fit. Well covered in the centre back area so we aren’t desperate for him to come back. 
 

The issue with recruitment is signing 4 strikers but not one of them being a target man who can hold the ball up and link the midfield and attack. We let go of Fletcher and Nuhiu but didn’t replace them. 

No issues??

He could go down as a rival to Abdi in the signing injured players category 

He was a gamble and no one knows if it’s going to pay off

but signing him has probably meant we did not sign a player for another position and then had to sign another centre half because he wasn’t fit 

and you talk about spaffing money