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12 hours ago, ktfoxes said:

It's his job to get the highest fee possible and Sheffield United were willing to pay that, you can hardly blame Rudkin for Sheffield United's own financial problems under your own weird logic he'd have accepted the first offer and got well below what they were willing to pay which we would all rightfully call stupid

They clearly weren't willing to pay the extra we wanted

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Posted
36 minutes ago, CornwallFox said:

They clearly weren't willing to pay the extra we wanted

I’m still not convinced we ever really intended to sell Souttar.

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Posted
32 minutes ago, CornwallFox said:

They clearly weren't willing to pay the extra we wanted

It could be argued that a lot of the leaking of supposed agreed deals coming out of SU several weeks ago including quotes to that effect from Wilder constituted an attempt to get the player to force our hand and demand a move which I’m pretty sure breaches FA rules . In this instance I believe the club/ Rudkin / whoever were probably right since they clearly had no intention of getting close to our valuation and even if they agreed something ,if rumours are true they couldn’t meet their obligation by which time we would have lost a player and the fee and the possibility of a sale elsewhere. 

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Posted (edited)
17 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

Souttar is an ok passer of the ball. Not great but not terrible either. He's clearly not an obvious fit for a Russell Martin side but he's slightly more suited to RM's style than Okoli. Don't be surprised if our first choice CB pairing ends up being Souttar plus a young loanee from a PL club brought in after Faes goes.

Hopefully that's the case, we need a left sided loanee and move him to the right. 

 

Souttar was good in the world cup and last week's mistake aside he's a solid defender. 

 

He should be the best in the league if you don't handicap him with RMs tactics. 

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Martins words were he wants to keep him, which I know someone would think are mind games, but he has also been captain for the last two games, would you do that with a player that’s wants to go or the club wants to go?

Posted
21 minutes ago, teblin said:

I'm no fan of Wout, but he's probably most suited to RM brand of football, then the other 2.

Possibly, but he’s also got the worst attitude of the three. Not a chance he’ll knuckle down and do a job for us in League One. 

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Just now, ClaphamFox said:

Possibly, but he’s also got the worst attitude of the three. Not a chance he’ll knuckle down and do a job for us in League One. 

Oh yeah, not saying they should play him. Just Skill set.

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Just now, ClaphamFox said:

Possibly, but he’s also got the worst attitude of the three. Not a chance he’ll knuckle down and do a job for us in League One. 

It’s like making the case for Winks being better for the system. The attitude negates any benefit. Those players have to be sold. 

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i just hope the club stand firm on Souttar, got a feeling Sheff U will come back in with a loan offer (again) or something(plead poverty etc cos of their situation)

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Will hopefully be different this week. Get it into the Admiral and get Burns, Watson, Alves, Howell, Page, Chaplin (delete as approproiate) running around him. We can play 50% tippy tappy shite, but if we launch it into the channels well 8 or 9  times a half then the high press will soon get to fook. I believe old school managers call it 'playing football' ie if they press you, go more direct into the space, if they sit off you get the ball wide quickly and get people in and around the box.

A simple game made complicated by fools. 

Posted
8 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

I really hope we can move him on, his performances against both Northampton and Notts County were enough to tell me he was in self preservation mode and wants out, whilst he may not be throwing his toys out of the pram to force the clubs hand, he also clearly isn’t committed to the club or playing this season in league one. 
 

We really need to be active and get something agreed with interested clubs that works for all parties involved. Hanging on to him will end in tears for us. 

I’ve heard good things about Souttar generally—eg, very grounded and professional, with a positive attitude. He was clearly not on it last weekend, but from what I’ve heard I would expect him to refocus and commit to the cause if he ends up staying. I can’t say the same about Faes. 

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49 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

I’ve heard good things about Souttar generally—eg, very grounded and professional, with a positive attitude. He was clearly not on it last weekend, but from what I’ve heard I would expect him to refocus and commit to the cause if he ends up staying. I can’t say the same about Faes. 

Hmmmm heard similar about others but unfortunately I will judge based on what I see in the pitch and in the case of Souttar and so many before him, he doesn’t want to be here and is going through the motions and trying to avoid injury. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Hmmmm heard similar about others but unfortunately I will judge based on what I see in the pitch and in the case of Souttar and so many before him, he doesn’t want to be here and is going through the motions and trying to avoid injury. 

It may well be that nobody else is interested, if so he'll have to knuckle down and take the risk of getting an injury like any other footballer, if he doesn't scouting reports on him will be poor and he won't get his move in January.

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3 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

I’ve heard good things about Souttar generally—eg, very grounded and professional, with a positive attitude. He was clearly not on it last weekend, but from what I’ve heard I would expect him to refocus and commit to the cause if he ends up staying. I can’t say the same about Faes. 

There are only positive things said about Faes by people who know him personally. The only thing that matters is on the pitch personality and Souttar has not been with it recently.

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To be fair to him, being under offer by a club you played for more than us would be quite unsettling.  He also fairly recently got back from the world cup excitement to find himself playing in League 1.  It would be quite normal to need to take a few games to get used to the idea.  It's the manager's job to motivate him if he stays and get the best out of him.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, FoxesWalk said:

Doubt anyone pays what we want. Need to get at least one ball playing centre back to play alongside him. 

What we want now, and what we might want at the end of the window are very different things. Make no mistake, the club will want to sell him.

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1 poor game in my recollection, considering he has a couple of Gobshites either side of him (Okoli & Thomas) plus in the 90 odd minutes he had 2 Eejits in font of him (Skipp & Choudhury) you have to give the bloke a break… :beer:

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1 minute ago, NewquayFox said:

1 poor game in my recollection, considering he has a couple of Gobshites either side of him (Okoli & Thomas) plus in the 90 odd minutes he had 2 Eejits in font of him (Skipp & Choudhury) you have to give the bloke a break… :beer:

It was his mistake that led to the goal, and the shot that McCarthy saved, what is the point of blaming the players around him instead of criticizing him?

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5 hours ago, NewquayFox said:

1 poor game in my recollection, considering he has a couple of Gobshites either side of him (Okoli & Thomas) plus in the 90 odd minutes he had 2 Eejits in font of him (Skipp & Choudhury) you have to give the bloke a break… :beer:

There is some sort of favourites effect where for some reason certain players being shit is the fault of those around them. But for other players, when they're shit they aren't given the same leeway to blame everyone else.

 

Strange really.

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Posted
12 hours ago, Finn Claw II said:

This has got Wrexham transfer deadline day deal written all over it

Am I right in thinking deadline day is 1st September? If so, we have a game that day which could impact team selection if we are still accepting offers for players, particular those in the squad for the match.

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Get the fat ***** gone. Spends 3 years on the treatment table and when he does finally get fit(ish), thinks he's above us and plays half-arsed like an absolute fanny. 

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