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Fantastic.

 

Who

 

Neither has Messi, but despite only being about 4ft 10 he’d probably be ok.

 

Of course according to other fans we have bought three good players and one poor one the point remains the same we can only judge when the squad is completed and we see how individuals fit into the squad.

 

I spoke to a group of Burton fans when we played them last season who all agreed we had signed a good player in Hope Akpan. If he was to move tomorrow I wonder what our fans would say

 

I agree with this but what baffles me is that if you read back at what Burton fans, Bury fans and Walsall fans say about Ismail then im not sure he is Bowyer type player. He sounds like a greedy show pony with no end product who rarely turns up. The complete opposite of the type of player I'd expect GB to go for. The only thing I can suggest is that he must be on peanuts.

 

But surely we should be signing players that are actually better than the shower we have? Then your comparisons would be more like; Hines v Doyle
Oliver v A.O’Connor
McHugh v Wood
Atkinson v Akpan

because our 1st team players from last season are now on the bench and replaced by better in the 1st team?

 

Glowing endorsememt.

I’ve no idea if he’s going to be any good, looks like a bit of a punt. We’ll find out soon enough.

 

No one actually mocked you! It’s all just a bit premature, don’t you think? We haven’t even reached the middle of June, so what makes you think we have finalised our transfer business for this particular window? If you acknowledge that we haven’t yet finalised our recruitment for this window, why the early, judgemental comments on players you most probably haven’t even seen play?

I’ve seen you quote the £350k figure a few times now, care to expand on how you have come to this figure? - genuinely intrigued.

 

this if you watch it properly is EXTREME poor defending rather than a good goal

fair enough mate.

 

You were right in the first instance, his pace is pretty whatever, it's the defending that's eye-catching.

Absolutely awful.

 

Someone quoted an average of £1500p/wk on L2 players. Whilst Devine, Richards-Everton, Ismail and Hornby will be on around that amount (average), I’d expect French to be on less. I estimated a total of around £6700 p/wk for the 5 players combined. Obviously I don’t know their salaries, but let’s say Ismail is getting £2k, 3 are getting around £1.3k and French around £800p/wk, it adds up to the figure I quoted above. Hope this clarifies where my figures came from.

Of course the recruitment hasn’t finished. But every time we sign (what most others on here have deemed) a “squad-filler”, it reduces the pot left to bring in the quality we need.

Let’s say £200k is put aside for signing-on fees, transfer fees and Agent fees, plus the circa £350k we are paying the 5 new signings, this leaves us with just £450k (ave £8600p/wk) across 6 players. This wouldn’t even cover the average wage of 6 L2 players, let alone signing the half a dozen quality additions we need.

 

Yeah, like my postman.
Problem is, we keep getting the mail for someone else...!

 

Will have probably missed out on our targets by then and will end up with Longstaff on loan and that’s it.

 

Mate, your post just consists of pure guess work.

“Let’s say” we’ll just revisit at the end of July.

 

Has he accepted? I've not seen anything. Wonder if there's a deadline.

 

It's not about a deadline. His agent will more than likely be talking to other clubs.

For me he isn't good enough to wait for anyway.

 

unless he moves Ismail will Be competing with probably the best winger playing in league one

 

Who’s fairly injury prone - I’m sure he’d get game time.