What you don't say is that two were loans so the club could take a look before spending any significant money - including Camerasa, one was a short term deal (Sako) based on a previously successful spell with Roy, one was clearly an incorrect punt (Jach) but no significant funding involved and the situation with Sorloth is well documented - given his time in Turkey he is perhaps much better than was widely acknowledged.
This window I have read we are again looking at a couple of punts from Scotland - Shankland and the guy at Dundee United. People are often critical of Freedman's ability to find lower level gems although Guiata hasn't turned out too badly.I guess the moral is you have to occasionally take a punt - some work but others don't but just make sure you don't expose the club financially.

I presume Camarasa is now free to talk to the Spanish media about his experience here; should be interesting.
I cannot understand loaning a player who never gets used, that's a waste of a loan. Completely inept recruitment.

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I presume Camarasa is now free to talk to the Spanish media about his experience here; should be interesting.
I cannot understand loaning a player who never gets used, that's a waste of a loan. Completely inept recruitment.

I couldn't agree more and very insulting to the player!!

In another post I did mention that in the summer we signed Cahill and Ayew on a permanent deal so not all negative on the recruitment front.

The reason is attitude. Came in with a billy big bollocks attitude, arrogant, sometimes late for training, sometimes not even turning up.

Clearly didn’t fit the culture and with a poor work ethic. No amount of creativity outweighs retaining a strong team culture.

All that said, surely should have been researched better to avoid wasting everyone’s time. Or Roy took a gamble and felt he could get him working. Who knows.

What is also clear is that he would be playing if he was good enough, for enough and committed enough. At least two of those he was not. Not that hard to understand, really.

Edited by SW19 CPFC (13 Jan 2020 11.55pm)

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

I totally agree with this.

Reidewald has shown that we have talented players in the squad he just refused to use.

The manager has surely got to have some say on players we sign?!

Some might blame this on Camarasa's bad attitude, this is all just hear say, but if you know you aren't going to get a look in, then why should you bother.

Roy's been around long enough to know how to keep a job. If he doesn't get involved in transfers, then it's one less thing to be accountable for.