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Originally Posted by louisleftboot
It is relevant if the player talks to us and another club. We can’t afford to waste money on players, others can.
Begs the question, are we offering the right money? Are we too scared to offer too much in case they fail? Other clubs can afford a failure.
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Every signing can fail, but better signings have less chance of failing.
By offering poor cash we get lots of punts. Our three strikers are last year's punt, this year's punt and Oswell (where the jury is out). Could two punts equal one good played? Maybe, but we seemingly can't get out of the cycle of collecting loads of waifs and strays and spending the same money anyway.
Ultimately in a footballing sense we're in a bad way; a rookie manager, no assistant, a one day a week coach, a goalie coach who may or may not stay (depending on whether his house sells, apparently), virtually no scouting network and an old school field to train on. Oh yes, we don't have the spending power to sign the mythical 'small, quality squad'.
Why should we expect things to be going well?
To me we feel like a semi-pro club with full-time players.