Walshie is God Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 So with time running out lets have a little poll, would you prefer there to be No Buy at all or another seemingly Panic Buy?
lcfc278 Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 With there being lots of questions about our financial state and borrowing against future TV money, I'd much rather we stuck with what we have then splooge £35m on someone like Harrison which would be the definition of a panic buy at that amount. I like him and he's a good player but not for silly money like that.
Ric Flair Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 Grey area, we are desperate for signings so in that sense there's panic in our actions of ensuring they are signed by the deadline. If we've ran out of options and move on to players not really part of our careful and considered targets then it can obviously be a risk but there's probably been many examples of successful panic buys over the years.
Hamilton Fox Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 No buy, don’t want to end up with another vestergaard. The main point though is we shouldn’t be in the position of panic buying when we’ve had all month to arrange something and months before that scouting and lining those players up. 1
Lako42 Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 Seeing as we are completely shite and there are a few days left of the window I would class any signing as a panic buy. 1
KFS Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 Ask your mrs how she feels about Christmas just gone. There’s your answer 1
Walshie is God Posted 26 January 2023 Author Posted 26 January 2023 Just now, KFS said: Ask your mrs how she feels about Christmas just gone. There’s your answer She aint put her new toy, sorry present down yet 1
Swarles Barkley Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 Panic Buy so I can moan about how shit the panic buy is rather than moan over how shit signing no one is
ParkerPen Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 5 minutes ago, FLAN said: Panic for me. For the lolz +1
Gazza M Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 Spend the cash on removing our burnt out wreck of a manager and his tactics if not backing him financially as we can't carry on with Brendan ball with this set of players. Rather that than panic buy. 1
StriderHiryu Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 (edited) No buy. Getting into financial trouble gets you into the point of no return. Even if we are in the Championship, with our facilities and recent success we can attract talent. Look at Brighton and Brentford. Arsenal even! Stick to the strategy and trust the process. (Cringe I know) Edited 26 January 2023 by StriderHiryu 1
Stadt Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 After the summer we had, with only a 3rd choice GK and replacement for a deoarting first team player, January should have been busy for us. Glover was in post, our financial situation is better yet we're approaching panic buy territory. It's comically inept once again. Top has to go if he won't replace Rudkin. 1
Dahnsouff Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 Two things The perceived Panic buy is pretty normal these days due to shift of power within the game, so the panic moniker is a fan thing only I think Related to #1 but why the hell would (evil) agents want anything but a deadline day deal?
StanSP Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 I'd take a panic buy because at least there's a possibility he may come good and provide an adequate contribution. With no buy, we're left in the same/similar rut as we are now. You could argue Faes was a panic buy at the end of the summer window. He's turned out alright and just needs someone competent next to him to be part of a solid defence. Panic buy may have greater risk, but then the reward could be higher too... 2
Ric Flair Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 13 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said: No buy. Getting into financial trouble gets you into the point of no return. Even if we are in the Championship, with our facilities and recent success we can attract talent. Look at Brighton and Brentford. Arsenal even! Stick to the strategy and trust the process. (Cringe I know) I'll counteract this by saying, we risk financial ruin from relegation anyway and another thing to add is that let's say we do stay up, I've absolutely no faith we can make 10+ deals next summer that we need if we can't get a few deals across the line in January when we had all the weeks off during the World Cup to discuss with teams and we also have funds to spend. These next few days make or break us IMO. 1
StriderHiryu Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 2 minutes ago, Ric Flair said: I'll counteract this by saying, we risk financial ruin from relegation anyway and another thing to add is that let's say we do stay up, I've absolutely no faith we can make 10+ deals next summer that we need if we can't get a few deals across the line in January when we had all the weeks off during the World Cup to discuss with teams and we also have funds to spend. These next few days make or break us IMO. If we are in the Championship with parachute payments and tons of players off our wage bill, it will be fairly clean to assemble a new squad. Anyone that is still around will probably be at a level way too good for the Championship too. When we were last in it, it was brutal to get out of, but in recent years most teams that go down come straight back up again, or do it in two. Burnley are a good example of it being a positive for them, they were never going to play the sort of football they are now when in the Premier League. The opportunity to rebuild has helped them. Everton is the example to avoid. Tons of awful signings for too much money, they will be in dire straights when they go down. Who was our last panic signing? A certain Jannik Vestergaard...
Ric Flair Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 2 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said: If we are in the Championship with parachute payments and tons of players off our wage bill, it will be fairly clean to assemble a new squad. Anyone that is still around will probably be at a level way too good for the Championship too. When we were last in it, it was brutal to get out of, but in recent years most teams that go down come straight back up again, or do it in two. Burnley are a good example of it being a positive for them, they were never going to play the sort of football they are now when in the Premier League. The opportunity to rebuild has helped them. Everton is the example to avoid. Tons of awful signings for too much money, they will be in dire straights when they go down. Who was our last panic signing? A certain Jannik Vestergaard... I'm very scared about what's owed to this Australian bank, whatever parachute payments there are go to them for 2-3 years, so then we are having a fire sale and having to quickly rebuild and I repeat, we are atrocious at multiple transfers being completed in even a modest amount of time. This window was an audition for what's to come and if we fail to get a couple more in then the possible ramifications is stark. 2
StriderHiryu Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 1 minute ago, Ric Flair said: I'm very scared about what's owed to this Australian bank, whatever parachute payments there are go to them for 2-3 years, so then we are having a fire sale and having to quickly rebuild and I repeat, we are atrocious at multiple transfers being completed in even a modest amount of time. This window was an audition for what's to come and if we fail to get a couple more in then the possible ramifications is stark. What if the plan is that Rodgers gets sacked in the summer (when it's cheaper) and a new manager is backed with signings to start a new era? IMO this has been the clear plan for the club since the start of the season. We are clearly not backing this manager! The signings we have made will work for this or the next one. They likely didn't sack him in the summer because the new Head of Recruitment wasn't in yet. If you take emotion out of it and look at the pure business logic behind it, this approach makes sense. I don't agree with it myself, but I'm not the person funding the club. I run my own business and it's tough. People think it's easy to run a football club, but it really isn't. Once a bad decision is made, it has ramifications and you have to live with those ramifications for a while before you can fix them, even if you realise the error of your ways. 1
Grebfromgrebland Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 A panic buy might work out. Players that we have tracked for a long time tend to be a disappointment.
AKCJ Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 Panic buys aren't always failures and we desperately need an option for the RW and CB spots. To not buy a winger and centre half would be a ridiculous gamble IMO.
Captain... Posted 26 January 2023 Posted 26 January 2023 Faes was someone we'd scouted and we knew he was affordable and available and we're aware of Fofana's possible departure. Vestegaard was a panic buy on the back of Fofana's injury.
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