by Notts Royal »
07 Aug 2019 10:48
Wizard Not impressed at all this. Whatever happened to the academy. What’s the point in having a top rated academy if you never let any of them play for the first team.
Agree - our approach seems to have completely changed from blooding youth and it being a project...to owners wanting promotion & signing loads of foreigners. Chances are, if we are mid table, whilst fans will be happy with that, the owners won’t & Gomes might be the fall guy.
Agree we needed to sign some experienced/older players to supplement the squad we have & young players...but this seems very bizarre!
Have learnt not to get too excited after that transfer window when we got Vydra, John, Piazon, Sa etc
And for me the biggest issue is contract lengths - has João done enough in his career to date to warrant a 4-yr contract? 2-3 would have been more sensible really. Imagine by offering a longer contract we’ve managed to bring down the yearly costs to a certain degree
Would like to see at least Olise & McIntyre in the matchday squad. And now the squad is large again, I’d like to see us shift Barrow & maybe even Swift too