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View hellzdoms's Profile hellzdoms Flag London 13 Jan 18 10.33pm Send a Private Message to hellzdoms Add hellzdoms as a friend

Money is tight currently by the looks of things. But apart from making crucial signings like a new goalkeeper and a solid CB, i feel the club ought to look into young prospects. A young striker or a midfielder would add further depth, couple of months/years of training maybe he can become 1st team striker.

You never know we might stumble across a wonder kid that will one day be as crucial as Zaha,

 

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View alaneagle1's Profile alaneagle1 Flag Dunstable,Bedfordshire.England 13 Jan 18 11.05pm Send a Private Message to alaneagle1 Add alaneagle1 as a friend

It’s called Academy.
We have one.

 


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View Qwijibo's Profile Qwijibo Flag Bournemouth 13 Jan 18 11.42pm Send a Private Message to Qwijibo Add Qwijibo as a friend

I think FdB wanted that route if you look at Riedewald and the loans

 

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View joe_cpfc's Profile joe_cpfc Flag Basingstoke 14 Jan 18 1.18am Send a Private Message to joe_cpfc Add joe_cpfc as a friend

Originally posted by hellzdoms

Money is tight currently by the looks of things. But apart from making crucial signings like a new goalkeeper and a solid CB, i feel the club ought to look into young prospects. A young striker or a midfielder would add further depth, couple of months/years of training maybe he can become 1st team striker.

You never know we might stumble across a wonder kid that will one day be as crucial as Zaha,

How does it look like money is tight?

 

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View hellzdoms's Profile hellzdoms Flag London 14 Jan 18 8.17am Send a Private Message to hellzdoms Add hellzdoms as a friend

Originally posted by joe_cpfc

How does it look like money is tight?

I mean that by us not being able to spend any significant amount in the window compared to other clubs.

 

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View hellzdoms's Profile hellzdoms Flag London 14 Jan 18 8.18am Send a Private Message to hellzdoms Add hellzdoms as a friend

Originally posted by Qwijibo

I think FdB wanted that route if you look at Riedewald and the loans

That’s what I mean. Even if the player underperforms but is not a flop. You can always make money off him in the future.

 

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View Username's Profile Username Flag Horsham 14 Jan 18 9.12am Send a Private Message to Username Add Username as a friend

Originally posted by hellzdoms

Money is tight currently by the looks of things. But apart from making crucial signings like a new goalkeeper and a solid CB, i feel the club ought to look into young prospects. A young striker or a midfielder would add further depth, couple of months/years of training maybe he can become 1st team striker.

You never know we might stumble across a wonder kid that will one day be as crucial as Zaha,

That wonder kid would still cost us £15m+ now. Unless we're going to spend a lot of money signing a lot of kids, I really don't have a problem with us signing slightly more proven players.

I'll take a James McArthur over a Jose Campana any day of the week.

 


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View Mr_Gristle's Profile Mr_Gristle Flag In the land of Whelk Eaters 14 Jan 18 11.54am Send a Private Message to Mr_Gristle Add Mr_Gristle as a friend

You do realise that we have a lad called Nya Kirby in the ranks? Lokilo also looks like he could develop into a useful player.

Wilfs are very few and far between.

We can't afford to take the Chelsea / Man City approach of buying around 30 young hopefuls to loan them all back out and gamble that 2 or 3 of develop into elite level players.

Remember that Michael Hector we were about to sign from Reading? Opted for the Chelsea loan factory instead...wonder how that's working out for him?

 


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View braunstoneagle's Profile braunstoneagle Flag the middle of bumf*** nowhere... 14 Jan 18 12.58pm Send a Private Message to braunstoneagle Add braunstoneagle as a friend

we can never actually follow that policy unless we have stability in the managerial front.

i feel that in roy we have somebody less likely to walk away like pulis & sam did, but even with that, we all know roys propably got a couple of years left in him as a manager.

it will be interesting to see who he purchases as we have no idea really what he wants in terms of players.

 


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View Willo's Profile Willo Online Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 14 Jan 18 1.23pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

In terms of Academies, I believe 15 PL clubs have a 'Category 1' academy but we are not one of them. We have a 'Category 2' academy.

 

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View dreamwaverider's Profile dreamwaverider Flag London 14 Jan 18 1.31pm Send a Private Message to dreamwaverider Add dreamwaverider as a friend

One thing FdB did really good for us was getting Riedwald. Proving to be a quality player.

 

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View Charmyer's Profile Charmyer Flag Tampa, Florida 14 Jan 18 1.51pm Send a Private Message to Charmyer Add Charmyer as a friend

Originally posted by dreamwaverider

One thing FdB did really good for us was getting Riedwald. Proving to be a quality player.

Amen to that. I think Riedwald has a bright future and provides us with great coverage in midfield and can play CB in a pinch. That's invaluable at the moment

 

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