Tobermory 99 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 21 minutes ago, Smogzilla said: Lots of the u23s training with the 1st team. A couple of spicy wingers in there. Wonder if they'll get a run out in pre season? Who are our spicy wingers? Link to post Share on other sites
Brunners 7,952 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 2 minutes ago, Tobermory Whitby said: Who are our spicy wingers? I can only imagine he's thinking of the two u23 wingers we signed last summer, Sam Folarin & Isaiah Jones. Folarin was pretty heavily featured in the video and seemed to be getting lots of praise. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
TLF10 4,440 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 As @SzilardNemethsCurtains said even if we matched Brentford offer, chances are he would still have gone to Brentford over us as Brentford are in a better place than us at this moment in time. No criticism of us. Just the current cycle of both respective clubs. Lets just relax and not claim our incompetence has led us to miss out on Goode. Brentford would likely always have been his preferred option even if we had a bid accepted 2 Link to post Share on other sites
edinboro 804 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 We cannot slag the club for over spending and that slag them for going out of budget. We are where we are. Money will be allocated for different positions. I really hope we get Gibson as that will trump all other centre half signings in our league. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
TeaCider24 12,403 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, TLF10 said: As @SzilardNemethsCurtains said even if we matched Brentford offer, chances are he would still have gone to Brentford over us as Brentford are in a better place than us at this moment in time. No criticism of us. Just the current cycle of both respective clubs. Lets just relax and not claim our incompetence has led us to miss out on Goode. Brentford would likely always have been his preferred option even if we had a bid accepted But we didn't have a bid accepted, because the club wouldn't go up to a fairly low key £1m, so we'll never know. Hard to see it as anything but a failure on the club's part. Going off reports we're trying to spend over double that fee on this Joe Williams. I'll retract my criticism if we get Gibson back and keep Fry. Link to post Share on other sites
GrimsbyBoro 1,959 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 1 minute ago, TLF10 said: As @SzilardNemethsCurtains said even if we matched Brentford offer, chances are he would still have gone to Brentford over us as Brentford are in a better place than us at this moment in time. No criticism of us. Just the current cycle of both respective clubs. Lets just relax and not claim our incompetence has led us to miss out on Goode. Brentford would likely always have been his preferred option even if we had a bid accepted Isn't it our recent incompetence that makes Brentford more attractive? Link to post Share on other sites
Jamie-H 1,322 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 He spent his youth career at Fulham and that story weeks ago about him preferring QPR to us implied to me it was a West London thing to him the fact he's ending up at Brentford doesn't surprise me. Question now becomes who's next because Dunkley's moved, we aren't competing for Rob Dickie at the 2 million price they want and the better Scottish CBs like Mckenna cost even more than Dickie. Link to post Share on other sites
Neverbefore 10,695 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 I want gibson more anyway, not fussed on missing him. I am concerned that its losing out on yet another player we cant afford to sign to clubs that 2 years ago were below us in the pecking order. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
thatoldchestnut 583 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 There must be some big and nasty centre half in a foreign league who we can get. Link to post Share on other sites
nunthorpered 1,920 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 2 minutes ago, Neverbefore said: I want gibson more anyway, not fussed on missing him. I am concerned that its losing out on yet another player we cant afford to sign to clubs that 2 years ago were below us in the pecking order. Don't know for sure but i bet it was the length of contract. He's just signed 4 years with another option of a year with Brentford. Imagine we would offer him 3 maximum and thats a stretch Link to post Share on other sites
RiversideRed 1,216 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Problem is we've been getting Gibson for the last few transfer windows and been told it's practically a done deal and it's never happened. It would have been nice to get Goode and Gibson both in and we'd have had four CB's and just needed a proper LB to complete the back line. Warnock want's four in by the end of the month so I wonder what four positions that is? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
scotty189 925 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 no big miss as long as Gibson comes in ! Link to post Share on other sites
Neverbefore 10,695 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 2 minutes ago, nunthorpered said: Don't know for sure but i bet it was the length of contract. He's just signed 4 years with another option of a year with Brentford. Imagine we would offer him 3 maximum and thats a stretch Team talk saying we wouldn't stretch to a mil. Link to post Share on other sites
Smokedsalmon 1,247 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 He's a League 2 CB who hasn't played at this level before and who they wanted 1m+ for. He would be 3rd choice behind Hall & Fry and we have Wood & Stubbs training with the first team to play back up for those two. In terms of WHERE we need to invest our limited funds, CB was simply not the most important position. No reason whatsoever to be upset about losing out on this one. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites
SzilardNemethsCurtains 2,844 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 We are damned if we do and damned if we dont, theres pages of the club getting maligned for overpaying for players but now we are trying to careful and balance the books we are told we should have just stumped up the million pounds for a league two player 2 Link to post Share on other sites
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