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i wouldnt be paying a fee for anybody over 25. He did very well for us but i dont think hes experienced enough at the championship level to justify paying a fee. Another loan then i would snatch your hand off.
 
 

i wouldnt be paying a fee for anybody over 25. He did very well for us but i dont think hes experienced enough at the championship level to justify paying a fee. Another loan then i would snatch your hand off.
 
 

We know the age profile of the first-team squad has been unbalanced since Administration - I'd contend that is an absolute given.
Some moves were made last season to improve it, but resources & restrictions combined to make it something that would take another couple of windows, so I think it's entirely right if the club IS looking more at the 22-28 range than outside of it (bar signings for the U21s etc of course). That doesn't mean that ALL of the signings have to be in this range, but having 13 squad members over the age of 29 as we have at present (at least until the Retained List is published) is probably 5 or 6 more than is desirable for balance. Given that 3 or 4 of the current over 30s are likely to get new contract offers, I don't think there's much space for others brought in from outside.

Because it’s how you progress as a club now, the modern game is about athleticism and intensity and you pay for recruitment with player trading unless you’ve got a sugar daddy. 
 
look at the top 6 in the championship, they all play a similar style and recruit in that age bracket. Now look at the bottom 3 and they are the polar opposite. 
 
I have zero interest in us signing 30 year olds on frees because it’s obvious what will happen. It should only be done as a worst case scenario, certainly not at the start of the summer.

In the first couple of years in the prem survival is the only thing that matters, once you get into year 3 you get full benefits of a permanent financial advantage of teams in the championship & every promoted team going forward. 
 
I don’t blame Forest for throwing money at it it just shows the lunacy of the elitist financial system in football. At the end of the day it’s worked for them

they are lucky b*******, officially the lowest tally to stay up even if they win
 
not good as they are slowly stabilising as a prem club & once you get in that cycle it takes a lot of incompetence to get out of it

i wouldnt be paying a fee for anybody over 25. He did very well for us but i dont think hes experienced enough at the championship level to justify paying a fee. Another loan then i would snatch your hand off.
 
 

Has anyone apart from Sky ever really called it the most exciting league though? I don’t think you can argue it’s the best in terms of quality but it’s never been exciting. I agree with g star as well VAR has made the viewing experience significantly worse

i wouldnt be going anywhere near a player with an injury history like his

we know PW is an expert at this level, thats why we hired him in the first place. the issue now is he has failed over and over again at the next level, thats a bit of a worry to me but thats all on paper and in different circumstances.
 
im not warnes biggest fan but i hope he can push us on back to being an established championship team now and he would have done well, i think you can only really judge his ability as a manager based on what we achieve next year because we knew he has league one sussed.

If our budget is 900k then we may as well look forward to league 1 again.
There's no way he'll only be given under a mill. We just wouldn't compete, he's already said that.

i wouldnt be going anywhere near a player with an injury history like his

can you work at the clubs recruitment department?
 
exactly the sort of players we should be targeting, under 25 year olds from the lower leagues with 35-40+ games played every season. its the only way we will be able to build a proper squad if the budget is allegedly as tight as people are making out.

i wouldnt be going anywhere near a player with an injury history like his

think we will learn a lot next season not only about warne but the ownership.
 
how much money is clowes willing to put in? a championship owner is going to have to underwrite big losses every year and thats before squad investment. will our recruitment strategy shift to more long term? can warne actually compete at championship level? 
 
i think if we have a boring season its been a success

i think this would be a no brainer, despite the amount of goals he has conceded he is a very good goalkeeper and at any age where he could be here for years. 
 
lets be honest if a player avaliable for 900k is "far too expensive" then its gonna be a difficult season, since when have we been so skint. this squad will need upgrading, you arent gonna do it for peanuts. we will be competing against teams that have 10m+ players

can you work at the clubs recruitment department?
 
exactly the sort of players we should be targeting, under 25 year olds from the lower leagues with 35-40+ games played every season. its the only way we will be able to build a proper squad if the budget is allegedly as tight as people are making out.

my grandson sent me a picture like this with the caption "showing up to my biggest haters funeral just to make sure hes dead" 😂

think we will learn a lot next season not only about warne but the ownership.
 
how much money is clowes willing to put in? a championship owner is going to have to underwrite big losses every year and thats before squad investment. will our recruitment strategy shift to more long term? can warne actually compete at championship level? 
 
i think if we have a boring season its been a success

I have mixed feelings on Warne. He's done well to get us up but let's be honest we were favourites and had in-built advantages. The championship will be a whole different monster and while Warne does have a track record in league 1 he doesn't really have one in the championship. We do need to temper our expectations i think. There's little chance of a tilt at the play offs and survival is the big priority. That might be difficult to take at first...  

I think the big issue is recruitment. We were a big pull in league 1 but in the championship we are less so and the squad needs significant additions. Who knows if Warne is the man but we should back him until otherwise.

i am not overly concerned about who, but can we please change the profile of player going forward. my main critique of our league one spell is we have been far too short sighted, if we hadn't made it this season we would have had to start again. it paid off in the end but it was a risk.
 
we need a younger profile of player with good athletism as thats what the modern game is all about. I dont want a bunch of 30 year olds on frees. we are gonna have to shell out some money if we are gonna compete in the champ.

it would have been the full house of idiotic fanbases relegated if forest had joined them but that looks unlikely now
still will take this though, it is even funnier that they finally got rid of their awful last owner and replaced him with another moron who is only keeping them on side with ridiclous 60,000 seater stadium plans when they cant fill a 30k one.

my grandson sent me a picture like this with the caption "showing up to my biggest haters funeral just to make sure hes dead" 😂