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Luke Armstrong - A good miss?

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I imagine the deal will go through as soon as the transfer window opens as the club will be keen to “do the right thing”

My understanding at the time was that Harrogate were as much to blame for the deal failing as we were. Why would we therefore be expected to 'do the right thing'
Its an unacceptable price for a League 2 striker who is not playing regularly.
 
My understanding at the time was that Harrogate were as much to blame for the deal failing as we were. Why would we therefore be expected to 'do the right thing'
Its an unacceptable price for a League 2 striker who is not playing regularly.

hes not playing regular now, he was there top gs last season,we wanted a striker, so went after him, agreed the price, then between the 2 clubs left it too late to finalize,dont no how you can say its unacceptable price if we ok d it,if it was unacceptable, we would have said no?? a lot seem to be blaming Armstrong for this,cant see why,we went after him
 
why would we sign him in jan, when fletcher is here all year?
 
I imagine the deal will go through as soon as the transfer window opens as the club will be keen to “do the right thing”

So Harrogate initially priced him out of our range. Wrexham look at other targets who's price then starts to approach the Armstrong fee. We go back to Harrogate meet there price on deadline day, Harrogate then say okay but we aren't going to let the deal go through until we have a replacement in place.
But its Wrexham who should do the right thing.

£500k for someone who has scored 1 goal so far this season. Bickerstaff has 2 goals.
 
hes not playing regular now, he was there top gs last season,we wanted a striker, so went after him, agreed the price, then between the 2 clubs left it too late to finalize,dont no how you can say its unacceptable price if we ok d it,if it was unacceptable, we would have said no?? a lot seem to be blaming Armstrong for this,cant see why,we went after him



when we agreed the deal , he had a full season left on his contract. In January , he'd effectively only have 4 months left until he became a free transfer - if we got him on on the 1st of Jan , he'd take a few weeks to get up to speed and work his way into the squad , so we'd be paying £500k for about 3 months of a player rather than the 8 months we'd have effectively been paying for had the deal gone through.

Also we're not talking about a player who's immediately going to start here .

He's no a Palmer type player & If Mullin is fully fit ( we have to hope he is ) by January , Armstrong would effectively be £500k to sit on the bench instead of Dalby - yes he may give us a long term option after Mullin , but I'd want to be very sure of that if that's what we're paying £500k for ( from what I've seen he's not anything like Mullin - he's more of a penalty box finisher )
 
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We should offer them 50k in January as a lesson for being greedy in the summer.
 
when we agreed the deal , he had a full season left on his contract. In January , he'd effectively only have 4 months left until he became a free transfer - if we got him on on the 1st of Jan , he'd take a few weeks to get up to speed and work his way into the squad , so we'd be paying £500k for about 3 months of a player rather than the 8 months we'd have effectively been paying for had the deal gone through.

Also we're not talking about a player who's immediately going to start here .

He's no a Palmer type player & If Mullin is fully fit ( we have to hope he is ) by January , Armstrong would effectively be £500k to sit on the bench instead of Dalby - yes he may give us a long term option after Mullin , but I'd want to be very sure of that if that's what we're paying £500k for ( from what I've seen he's not anything like Mullin - he's more of a penalty box finisher )

you got 500k 3times ? bet you watched Mullin b4 he came here too,i no i didnt never heard of him
 
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you got 500k 3times ? bet you watched Mullin b4 he came here too,i no i didnt never heard of him


Yep , I'd Seen Mullin play at Tranmere and during his big season at Cambridge although the Cambridge games were via a steam during covid - Armstrong is just a different type of player
 
His form has dropped off a cliff since missing out on his big move. Doesn't suggest great mental strength to me.
 
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