wellsince75 Posted 21 hours ago Report Share Posted 21 hours ago Caught my eye that 3 of our 5 perm signings came from clubs relegated last season - wonder if that’s partly how we landed them - or perhaps just a coincidence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purestate Posted 21 hours ago Report Share Posted 21 hours ago 10 minutes ago, wellsince75 said: Caught my eye that 3 of our 5 perm signings came from clubs relegated last season - wonder if that’s partly how we landed them - or perhaps just a coincidence Yes, seems like more than a coincidence. Surely makes probably easier to deal with both club and player. Them to reduce wage bill and him to step back up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted 20 hours ago Report Share Posted 20 hours ago 47 minutes ago, purestate said: Yes, seems like more than a coincidence. Surely makes probably easier to deal with both club and player. Them to reduce wage bill and him to step back up. Players often have a relegation release clause too, which no doubt helps. Talking earlier about the U19 trialist striker - if he's anything like that 17 year old playing for Aston Villa tonight we should get him signed up! That Villa guy is an absolute unit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted 19 hours ago Report Share Posted 19 hours ago 11 hours ago, Mad Dog said: I wonder if A.Trialist cut the mustard yesterday? Can't find any highlights yet. https://x.com/keltyheartsfc/status/2087547283302650364?s=61&t=PGc8UcmdT5aDdco-qWkrFw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well_said Posted 8 hours ago Report Share Posted 8 hours ago 21 hours ago, Mad Dog said: I wonder if A.Trialist cut the mustard yesterday? Can't find any highlights yet. No, he was nothing special. Just a young lad starting out in the game . It will be a long time before he is first team material , if ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizzlyg Posted 6 hours ago Report Share Posted 6 hours ago Saw headline saying we paid €600,000 euros for Hodge!!, now that's a statement of intent. Good to see club investing some of that transfer money received Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewarkfanclub Posted 4 hours ago Report Share Posted 4 hours ago 2 hours ago, grizzlyg said: Saw headline saying we paid €600,000 euros for Hodge!!, now that's a statement of intent. Good to see club investing some of that transfer money received I saw that. If true, its certainly a statement. Would be close to a club record fee paid for a player I would imagine. I know we did get a helluva lot more than that for Watt, so the money is there, but even still. Alfred did make a point of saying we would stick to the model that has been successful, so we wont be throwing cash around left, right and centre. But it certainly allows us to target a higher calibre player than we maybe could in the past. Obviously with the caveat we will be hoping to develop Hodge into another Eli Just type fee in a couple of years. Good times. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted 47 minutes ago Author Report Share Posted 47 minutes ago I'd certainly hope we're spending a bit more on players than we were, and not just because we have money to spend at the moment. It should be part of the model. We have progressed from getting players on a free transfer and hoping to get a million or so for them, to spending a couple of hundred grand and hoping to get a bigger profit margin, and now we're looking at players who cost around half a million and while the ceiling in what we can command in transfer fees is real, we'd hope that spending that half a million means the player is more likely to be worth four or five million in a year or two. It's not an exact science, of course, but it stands to reason that someone valued at half a million with the pedigree that Hodge has is more likely to have a higher ceiling than someone we get for nothing and who doesn't quite have that background. A calculated risk for sure, but hopefully it'll pay off more often than not. And that's not to mention that we are able to sign players on longer deals when we're spending more, rather than a season at a time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizzlyg Posted 4 minutes ago Report Share Posted 4 minutes ago 42 minutes ago, David said: I'd certainly hope we're spending a bit more on players than we were, and not just because we have money to spend at the moment. It should be part of the model. We have progressed from getting players on a free transfer and hoping to get a million or so for them, to spending a couple of hundred grand and hoping to get a bigger profit margin, and now we're looking at players who cost around half a million and while the ceiling in what we can command in transfer fees is real, we'd hope that spending that half a million means the player is more likely to be worth four or five million in a year or two. It's not an exact science, of course, but it stands to reason that someone valued at half a million with the pedigree that Hodge has is more likely to have a higher ceiling than someone we get for nothing and who doesn't quite have that background. A calculated risk for sure, but hopefully it'll pay off more often than not. And that's not to mention that we are able to sign players on longer deals when we're spending more, rather than a season at a time. And the bonus of hopefully being able to attract players due to the style of football we are playing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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