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Players we kept too long?


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There's been so many over the years, who either weren't good enough but stayed, or were very good but we missed opportunities to sell which we'd later regret. 

 

I'll start us off. 

 

Mark Beevers. Came onto the scene as a promising academy prospect. Attracted some attention from big clubs but after a couple of decent seasons it just fizzled out. 

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We are so bad at self scouting and being aware of the market.

 

We desperately need somebody whose job it is is to sit and look at our players, find out if the right time is to sell them and either make it happen, or make everyone aware of any risk financially if we decide to keep them and they either go for a pittance or run down their contract.

 

The amount of money we must have lost in player revenue from transfers and continuing to pay contracts to players who are not worth it must be scary.

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14 minutes ago, SallyCinnamon said:

Forestieiri

Reach

Rhodes

Jones 

Abdi

Lees

Westwood

Fox

 

We made ZERO money on all these players and let them leave for free.

 

Scandalous. 

 

I reckon that if we did the Wednesday thing and sold them off cheaper for what they were worth, your probably looking at £8m for all of them.

 

Instead we got £0. Definition of incompetence. 

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20 minutes ago, SallyCinnamon said:

Forestieiri

Reach

Rhodes

Jones 

Abdi

Lees

Westwood

Fox

 

We made ZERO money on all these players and let them leave for free.

 

Scandalous. 

To make money on players you have to find a buyer.
Nobody would have ever bought Abdi or Jones from us. Lees was given a huge 5 year deal on big money which priced him out of a move. Teams may have looked at Westwood early doors but certainly nobody would be interested in him over his last few years with us.

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2 minutes ago, 83owl said:

To make money on players you have to find a buyer.
Nobody would have ever bought Abdi or Jones from us. Lees was given a huge 5 year deal on big money which priced him out of a move. Teams may have looked at Westwood early doors but certainly nobody would be interested in him over his last few years with us.

And some of them become worth more ability wise to you than the fees you’d get, especially in that 29-32 age bracket. Difficult. 
 

Worth noting Gary Hooper was attracting interest that December from palace and Brighton before his hip went bang at Forest after a great scoring spell. 

 

Just our luck, that injury was him done.

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