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14 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

He wasn't a great signing but is he really as bad as the pasting he takes on here?

 

I don't really understand the vitriol either. He was an unnecessary signing (we already had right-backs) and too expensive (£3 million?), but none of that is his fault. He's not a world beater by any means, but he's a perfectly adequate Championship-standard player, and played in  season where we got all the way to the play-off final. Plus a side that are going to finish a lot higher in the league than we are this season want to sign him permanently, so he can't have been too bad for them either. ?‍♂️

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8 minutes ago, Olton Ram said:

I don't really understand the vitriol either. He was an unnecessary signing (we already had right-backs) and too expensive (£3 million?), but none of that is his fault. He's not a world beater by any means, but he's a perfectly adequate Championship-standard player, and played in  season where we got all the way to the play-off final. Plus a side that are going to finish a lot higher in the league than we are this season want to sign him permanently, so he can't have been too bad for them either. ?‍♂️

*left backs

It makes sense that we got another in. Lowe was deemed not to be ready, and Fozzy was an injury risk (deemed correct on that).

We should have learned from the past regarding signings when Hughes and Bryson were injured and got a loan in instead.

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5 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

*left backs

It makes sense that we got another in. Lowe was deemed not to be ready, and Fozzy was an injury risk (deemed correct on that).

We should have learned from the past regarding signings when Hughes and Bryson were injured and got a loan in instead.

Yes, sorry GoC, left-back. Typing fingers going faster than brain!

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1 hour ago, Olton Ram said:

I don't really understand the vitriol either. He was an unnecessary signing (we already had right-backs) and too expensive (£3 million?), but none of that is his fault. He's not a world beater by any means, but he's a perfectly adequate Championship-standard player, and played in  season where we got all the way to the play-off final. Plus a side that are going to finish a lot higher in the league than we are this season want to sign him permanently, so he can't have been too bad for them either. ?‍♂️

That's pretty much my take on it - he's a functional championship left back. The problem is, we bought him from a prem club, for prem money, on prem wages.  He's just (one of) the most recent example(s) of our stupid transfer policy of buying average players at the top of their value, not using them properly and then giving them away for nothing.  Any blame and anger should be aimed at the people that set that transfer policy and sanctioned his signing.

If we genuinely thought Lowe or Buchanan were going to be good enough but weren't ready yet, and we wanted cover for Forsyth, we should have got a loan for a season, or picked up a 30+year old on a free for a season or something.  There seems to be so little thought or long term planning in our transfers, you have to wonder if anyone knows what they are doing.

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