Truckle Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 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. CBRammette, jono, kevinhectoring and 5 others 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimeram Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Is this Part One? atherstoneram and RadioactiveWaste 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Just now, oldtimeram said: Is this Part One? Part 3 is better oldtimeram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truckle Posted September 16, 2021 Author Share Posted September 16, 2021 Could have gone for Ian Dury instead of Barry now you come to mention it. Wouldn't put it past us. RadioactiveWaste 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratpackram Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Am I the only one who thinks Barry Bannon is class Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 1 minute ago, Ratpackram said: Am I the only one who thinks Barry Bannon is class No jono and Ratpackram 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_wilcockson Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 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. plymouthram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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