Golden Blunder closing down the Kamara thread has inspired me!
Every season there are a selection of players we are linked to who seem sensible or smart option and don't happen.
These can be expensive like Koulibaly instead of Maguire or free like Kamara.
The point is for one reason or another they make sense.
The point here is not to have a hissy fit or any other moany responses given on the Kamara response. It's simply trying to understand why our scouts/ buyers take different decisions to the hype that fans are attracted to. Our current squad gives very little confidence that their decisions are any better than we would have made! And indeed they are now gone.
Do I care if Kamara comes, no not really. Am I am expert, no, but is there enough noise and interest around him and a sensible solution to one of our problems being free as a transfer and yes despite the wise cracks I know that isnt completely free, but we won't be talking about a Haaland deal where the transfer fee roles into the package. It will have been cheaper to get him free for sure.
So given we are in the summer and now is the time to talk transfers why not have a place to capture the ones that didn't happen. We can then go back next summer and see if the spilt milk was right or not.
One from a previous year was Ndombele. On hindsight now we've not really missed out much there!
But instead of Lindelof we could have got Van Dijk. Instead of Matic (I think this was the timing) we could have got fabinho. The former I don't think was well known or well hyped. The latter wasn't overly shouted about. Both have obviously been hugely successful.
So anyway this is the place to capture those players where there was a degree of hype, but didn't get signed and thus we can question why without a load of moaning noise. If that's all you can do I don't think a forum during the transfer window is for you.
Every season there are a selection of players we are linked to who seem sensible or smart option and don't happen.
These can be expensive like Koulibaly instead of Maguire or free like Kamara.
The point is for one reason or another they make sense.
The point here is not to have a hissy fit or any other moany responses given on the Kamara response. It's simply trying to understand why our scouts/ buyers take different decisions to the hype that fans are attracted to. Our current squad gives very little confidence that their decisions are any better than we would have made! And indeed they are now gone.
Do I care if Kamara comes, no not really. Am I am expert, no, but is there enough noise and interest around him and a sensible solution to one of our problems being free as a transfer and yes despite the wise cracks I know that isnt completely free, but we won't be talking about a Haaland deal where the transfer fee roles into the package. It will have been cheaper to get him free for sure.
So given we are in the summer and now is the time to talk transfers why not have a place to capture the ones that didn't happen. We can then go back next summer and see if the spilt milk was right or not.
One from a previous year was Ndombele. On hindsight now we've not really missed out much there!
But instead of Lindelof we could have got Van Dijk. Instead of Matic (I think this was the timing) we could have got fabinho. The former I don't think was well known or well hyped. The latter wasn't overly shouted about. Both have obviously been hugely successful.
So anyway this is the place to capture those players where there was a degree of hype, but didn't get signed and thus we can question why without a load of moaning noise. If that's all you can do I don't think a forum during the transfer window is for you.
