Reasons to be Cheerful

[Truckle]

Reasons to be cheerful

If we were not under an embargo, then we would almost certainly not have any of these players:

Curtis Davis

Phil Jagielka

Ravel Morrison

We would almost certainly not have seen:

Festy Ebosele

Louis Watson

Dylan Williams

Jack Stretton

And I don’t think we would have seen so much of Louis Sibley.

In a parallel universe, where we are not under an embargo we could quite easily have swapped them out for this lot.

Davis = Teden Meng

Jags = Matt Clarke

Ravel = Barry Bannon

Festy = George Edmonson

Dylan = Max Lowe

Jack = Sam Baldock (see what I mean!)

Louis Sibley = Sone Aluko

Pure conjecture but assuming we had I would say that would add up to a shed load of money for a marginal gain on what we have.  

[oldtimeram]

Is this Part One?

[RadioactiveWaste]

Just now, oldtimeram said:

Is this Part One?

Part 3 is better

[Truckle]

Could have gone for Ian Dury instead of Barry now you come to mention it. Wouldn't put it past us.

[Ratpackram]

Am I the only one who thinks Barry Bannon is class

[Rampage]

1 minute ago, Ratpackram said:

Am I the only one who thinks Barry Bannon is class

No

[r_wilcockson]

1 hour ago, Truckle said:

Reasons to be cheerful

If we were not under an embargo, then we would almost certainly not have any of these players:

Curtis Davis

Phil Jagielka

Ravel Morrison

We would almost certainly not have seen:

Festy Ebosele

Louis Watson

Dylan Williams

Jack Stretton

And I don’t think we would have seen so much of Louis Sibley.

In a parallel universe, where we are not under an embargo we could quite easily have swapped them out for this lot.

Davis = Teden Meng

Jags = Matt Clarke

Ravel = Barry Bannon

Festy = George Edmonson

Dylan = Max Lowe

Jack = Sam Baldock (see what I mean!)

Louis Sibley = Sone Aluko

Pure conjecture but assuming we had I would say that would add up to a shed load of money for a marginal gain on what we have.  

Agreed Mel...

In all seriousness he has a point, it just depends what your ambitions are. I think we can survive this season, whilst developing the young players so they'll either be even better next season / we can sell on for a sizeable profit - that's the academy model. Not having these players, but then never giving them a chance and them all leaving on a free, whilst simultaneously splashing cash on players with little expected return for a perceived short term gain. 

If we'd stuck with the academy model for the last 5 years or so, we wouldn't be in the mess we are now.

[RoyMac5]

1 hour ago, r_wilcockson said:

I think we can survive this season, whilst developing the young players so they'll either be even better next season / we can sell on for a sizeable profit - that's the academy model.

If we want to sell on our young players at a 'sizeable' profit we have to be in the Prem. So keep them, go up and then cash in!