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Unbelievable the number of players we’ve let go who go on to flourish
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As per they fail to let them mature. Kyle was doing just fine with us scoring some goals and 2/3 years to go as he grew into the No. 9 type role.
Charlie Goode – another cheap give away. Signed him on a 4 year deal and many CB’s start to deliver aged 26+ and we give him away. Northampton then sell him for a 7 figure fee and a promotion to the prem clause to Brentford. They got that as well !
Now we bring through the academy give them a 1 + 1 deal and in all honesty how many will go in our 2yr clearouts ? Squad stability seems unwanted these days and par for the course the replacements will be worse than those released – as proved over the last 3/4 seasons !
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How many years ago??
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Gary Hooper, Billy Sharp, Andy Keogh…
Yep three lads who we bought relatively cheaply and I presume they were not deemed good enough long term for their respective clubs. They all were absolutely brilliant for us, two of them scored shed loads of goals in a short time and were then sold on for handsome profits that enabled us to become a Championship club. Of course a certain ” amateur ” chairman was in charge at GP back then, not the professional business colossus we have currently running the show, into the ground.
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Hope he scores at least a couple tonight.
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Unbelievable the number of players we’ve let go who go on to flourish
But let’s not forget that they are vastly outnumbered by those we’ve released that failed to make any sort of career in football.
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He scored 11 in 66 games for us, IA.
Let us not forget how many of those were in League One AND how many games was he played wide? (An exercise in futility if ever there was one.)Played as a CF – he would surely have notched better than his 1/6. Maybe up to 1/4 or better.
That would have been quite enough to have kept us up, IMHO – especially in a lower division.1 user thanked author for this post.
He scored 11 in 66 games for us, IA.
Let us not forget how many of those were in League One AND how many games was he played wide? (An exercise in futility if ever there was one.)Played as a CF – he would surely have notched better than his 1/6. Maybe up to 1/4 or better.
That would have been quite enough to have kept us up, IMHO – especially in a lower division.Playing Kyle wide was as stupid as when a previous manager did it with Paddy Madden. The thing with Kyle was his age and we gave all that work away before he started maturing into the role. And since we gave him away with no buy back fee in the deal how many wastes of space have the tried in that role ?
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Miller? 13 goals? Surprised at that. Even in his correct position for us I couldn’t see him scoring. Didn’t seem to know what he was supposed to be doing. Bury rated him.
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