Jobyfox

They’re not the worst players that we’ve ever had. Far from it. But as a transfer strategy it’s about as unimaginative and uninspiring as it could get. Whether different signings would have had a greater output, have more future potential and have some resale value is a matter of conjecture. I just know I wish we’d tried and would have been more forgiving of failure

Still money we could have used on somebody decent.

Ayew, BDCR, Skipp and Edouard were dreadful signings. I know this because even an amateur like me knew that they would be. At their peak they were mediocre players at established, lower to midtable, PL sides. The teams that were now letting them go. They were never likely to make the required difference in quality at a newly promoted team. If we’d signed younger players from the Championship or foreign leagues, who were hungry to make the step up, I’d have been more forgiving. No signing is without risk, but at least we’d be left with players with high potential in the lower league. Instead we’ll go down with highly paid, aging, journeymen who probably won’t make the difference in the Championship and that have no resale value or future potential. BEK was the exception in a transfer window that was otherwise the dictionary definition of poor. Our performance since has been depressingly predictable

Thanks. Much appreciated If anything the January transfer window was irrelevant. The real damage had already been done in the summer window. The winter window is always notoriously difficult to do business in, but you have a chance if you’re building on the previous window. If anything we needed to undo the mistakes of the previous window whilst trying to add quality that would make a difference to the first team. Always a long shot.

Thanks John!

OK - keep it open then, but just have it link to a large ‘on screen’ message: “NOTHING TO SEE HERE”

The Nicky Maynard one was a real saga. We kept offering Bristol City more and more money £3m, £4m even £6m was rumoured. BC, with new investment, were insistent that they “wouldn’t sell to a rival” and would only sell to a PL club. Nicky Maynard never signed another contract with Bristol C and they had to let him go to West Ham (a Championship club) for a fraction of the cost we were offering. Even though West Ham got promoted that season NM never really cut it as a PL player. In retrospect: we shouldn’t have offered so much, Bristol City should have taken our offer and Nicky himself was never in such demand again. He suffered through injuries and gradually went down to the lower levels of the football pyramid and was at League 2 Bury by the age of 32

Just for clarity if you’re disagreeing then you’re saying that performance was worse than the Everton game? Are you sure you disagree?

Hmmm.,, Worst Leicester performance since…. ….. the last game!

If that’s the answer than god only knows what the question is

Time for McAteer to prove he’s not just a League Two level player

Really?

I don’t know. Because it’s his first game in months?

No. Squid games is available

That’s a new level of desperation

Sir. Harold Maguire

How’s Soumare doing?

They’re not very capable of passing anyway

Trouble is - we’re y-fronts

I wholeheartedly concur! Very poor signing, very short term thinking!

I came on here to make that joke 🙁

Nah! I’d rather get rogered by Liverpool, Man City and Arsenal than routinely bent over by Millwall, Preston NE and Stoke. What Basildon is describing sounds more like being mediocre in the Championship and still having a chance to make play offs. That’s what most teams are, but being bad is terribile place to be

Oh FFS!!

I’d like to get excited about him but, as he won’t be here next season, I just can’t But if the alternative is Jordan Ayew … then just play the lad!

One of my opinions, that always gets challenged, is that Matty James is one of our most overrated players. Classic case of his stock rising when not in the team. Matt Jones was exactly the same from another era… but I guess my alternative opinion proves the point of the thread