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Typical derby recruitment department from the last 10 years. In the summer go in for Marvin Johnson to be messed about in wages etc. have a look at smith and get the same. Up comes January we spend nearly the whole of January looking for a striker. Send in a loan bid the week before the deadline to none other than Sheffield Wednesday again. Agree to pay wages and then get messed around saying they want a loan fee. Instead of moving and having a really good look around we again stick the satnav on to Yorkshire again to the same club and ask for the other striker and get messed around in wages. Ohh and Rotherham where we had Washington from also hail from Yorkshire. 
 
do we literally scout Yorkshire only or has warne give up the coffee machine for Yorkshire tea 

Not stricly about January signings, but I thought an profile comparison with our 3 main promotion rivals would highlight where we were need to focus our attention on.



 
A few points of note:
1. I would say Warne's intended age profile is close to what Bolton currently have - the majority between 22 and 29, with more regular starters being in the upper end of that range. However, Bolton are known for having a more patient passing style. More game time over the rest of the season to the likes of Blackett-Taylor, Nyambe, Fornah and Ward would go some way to addressing the imbalance.
2. Those 3 clubs combined have given players aged 30+ 10538 minutes. We've given almost double the minutes to players over 30, with overr 12000 minutes to those aged 32 and over. Peterborough have almsot no players over the age of 24!
3. Both Portsmouth and Peterborough have given more minutes to those 21 and under. This is where we should have included Thompson and DRobinson much more than we have done. Occasional game time to the likes of Brown also would have helped. Rooney's injury is a mitigating factor.

If we sold Cashin we’d need a replacement for him because there’s no obvious CB partnership at the club to replace him. 
Nelson and Bradley together would be a disaster.

Questions have to be asked with the recruitment strategies we seem to have no plan b at all

Thankyou for the explanation together with @DCFC1388
So is that saying that if we had sold Bird and or Cashin we could've spent a bit more as I for one would've sold Bird and maybe both if it gave us the funds to get out of this division, but going to contradict myself here and say I would not want Warne spending our money so maybe a small budget might be best ...If we had the right manager ( in my eyes anyway ) I would've sold Bird 

What do you mean “if DCFC are restricted differently”?
We are still subject to an approved business plan following admin aren’t we? Did I imagine all of that? I don’t get why people are expecting us to trade in the same way as other sides when the permanent signings we made in the summer were all reported either as free agent signings (Bradley, Ward, Elder, Vickers, Nelson, Nyambe, Waghorn - with the associated signing on fees and wages), or buy now pay later under various terms (Wilson, Fornah, Washington). Even the one “fee” we have spent on Jan, the first fee we’ve spent since 2020 or something like that, is a £300k loan on the promise of some future transfer in the summer.
We are restricted differently to other clubs at present. Someone please confirm I’ve not lost my marbles 

What is the point in our scouting department? What do they actually do all year?

Plan Z

We dont have the money to buy anyone so why would we be looking there? Until the summer we are still under restrictions so just need to bide our time in the market.

I mentioned it in another thread, but McIntyre is exactly the type of player we should avoid. Since being in the Reading first team, he's been out for an everage of 4 months every season, including 3 motnhs out already this season.

This guy has more mobility than Hourihane.

I already thought that when someone mentioned springett 😂

Harvey white signs for derby on deadline day 

We can't be letting players leave if we aren't bringing any in. We are light on numbers as it is.

I'm not too stressed about us bringing anyone in, honestly. It seems like we're struggling to highlight players who can make then team better and that's a concern. I'd love to see what Mark Thomas has been doing for the past 12 months - there is clearly a disconnect between him and Warne that needs addressing. 
If we're waiting around to see what Michael Smith is going to do, like he's the only striker in the world who can improve us, then the whole recruitment strategy needs binning. 

We'll be fine! 😄😉 
 
 

I would be amazed if Ince came back here, imagine his wages are too large and he's not a Warne player in the slightest.
The obsession with ex-players continues.

makes we wonder just what exactly was in those pots Warne talked of.....

Peterborough signing  a Brentford winger on loan so they’ve strengthened.

he's cobblers!!!......
 
 
I mean he's gone to the cobblers lol

It seems even though we have the largest attendances and income we can't compete with Bolton Pompey and even Charlton and Oxford ffs !!   😧 What that man MM has done to this club!!! grrrrrrr 🤬

Springett already been snapped up elsewhere so not an option 😉

Great 😊 

Bobby from Liverpool, been there, done that

Mohamed Salah is now injured 😬