Deano’s wishlist - the Jan transfer speculation/guaranteed nonsense thread

[dave.woodhall]

The biggest figure suggested for Bedeau when we bought him was £900,000 including add-ons, and as he never so much as got a sniff of the first team he probably cost us less than half that. It's still money thrown away but he isn't the first promising youngster who never made it and he won't be the last. We very likely spent just as much on Harry Forester. 

[PeterWithe]

He was a bit of a punt and it hasn’t come off, it happens.

Hogan is the case to get upset about the waste of money.

[sickbeggar]

Just seems the latest in a long line of inexplicable moves. 900k for youth player on only a 2 year contract. Makes you wonder if the manager had anything to do with it at all.

[eamonn]

Harry Forester...blimey, name from the past. Did he end up in Scotland with Falkirk or someone?
Also what came of that Dan Crowley chap who left us for Arsenal?

[Nii Lamptey]

Not sure about Fer.... Looked impressive against us in the cup, but I’d have looked good against that shower!
We’re so desperate for a shithouse in midfield, it’s a case of ANYONE but Whelan or Hourihane!
The alarm bells are ringing reading comments from fans of his previous clubs.... ‘1 good game in 12’, ‘lazy b’stard’, etc.
This, along with his age, feels far too much like deja vu for me.
Hope it works out, but let’s just wait and see before we start booking Wembley trips 🤨

[PeterWithe]

Harry Forester...blimey, name from the past. Did he end up in Scotland with Falkirk or someone?
Also what came of that Dan Crowley chap who left us for Arsenal?

Wasn’t he a Satanist?

[dave.woodhall]

Harry Forester...blimey, name from the past. Did he end up in Scotland with Falkirk or someone?
Also what came of that Dan Crowley chap who left us for Arsenal?

Forester went to Rangers, then Iran and joined a club in the MLS this month. Crowley is on loan in the Dutch second division. I wonder if all three of them had a touch of the too much too soons?

[PeterWithesShin]

Just seems the latest in a long line of inexplicable moves. 900k for youth player on only a 2 year contract. Makes you wonder if the manager had anything to do with it at all.

Two and a half year contract. If he was shit and on a 5 year contract people would moan. If he was good and was leaving on a free, people would moan. If he was good and it came out we'd turned down the chance to sign him, people would moan.

Every single club takes punts on youngsters, it's a bizarre thing to complain about.

[sickbeggar]

Just seems the latest in a long line of inexplicable moves. 900k for youth player on only a 2 year contract. Makes you wonder if the manager had anything to do with it at all.

Two and a half year contract. If he was shit and on a 5 year contract people would moan. If he was good and was leaving on a free, people would moan. If he was good and it came out we'd turned down the chance to sign him, people would moan.

Every single club takes punts on youngsters, it's a bizarre thing to complain about.

Suit yourself. i tend to think if you're buying a player at  17 for 900k you are sort of expecting him still to be developing at 19, especially when we have players who are older and done nothing yet and didn't cost anything

[dave.woodhall]

Just seems the latest in a long line of inexplicable moves. 900k for youth player on only a 2 year contract. Makes you wonder if the manager had anything to do with it at all.

Two and a half year contract. If he was shit and on a 5 year contract people would moan. If he was good and was leaving on a free, people would moan. If he was good and it came out we'd turned down the chance to sign him, people would moan.

Every single club takes punts on youngsters, it's a bizarre thing to complain about.

Suit yourself. i tend to think if you're buying a player at  17 for 900k you are sort of expecting him still to be developing at 19, especially when we have players who are older and done nothing yet and didn't cost anything

We didn't pay anything like £900,000 for him.

[sickbeggar]

Just seems the latest in a long line of inexplicable moves. 900k for youth player on only a 2 year contract. Makes you wonder if the manager had anything to do with it at all.

Two and a half year contract. If he was shit and on a 5 year contract people would moan. If he was good and was leaving on a free, people would moan. If he was good and it came out we'd turned down the chance to sign him, people would moan.

Every single club takes punts on youngsters, it's a bizarre thing to complain about.

Suit yourself. i tend to think if you're buying a player at  17 for 900k you are sort of expecting him still to be developing at 19, especially when we have players who are older and done nothing yet and didn't cost anything

We didn't pay anything like £900,000 for him.

Well 400k then. point still stands

[dave.woodhall]

Crowley was the same age when Arsenal let him go.

[PeterWithesShin]

As Dave says, anyone thinking he's cost us 900k is off the mark. And maybe it's a case of he hasn't progressed so the manager/coaches don't see any point keeping him. Some players just never develop how it's thought they will.

[cdbearsfan]

He cost us pennies. You're never gonna have a guaranteed star, or even a first team player, at that price.

[PeterWithesShin]

He cost a lot less than Barry did over 20 years ago, one made it, the other didn't. It's hardly the end of the world.