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Post by iancransonsknees on Jan 17, 2023 9:04:50 GMT
Clarke-Harris couldn’t hit a cows arse with a banjo when Peterborough were in the championship. So no doubt he’s our number one target. Perhaps they're planning for next season 😮 |
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Post by chiswickpotter on Jan 17, 2023 9:05:04 GMT
Teams operate on different timelines. There are now 7 bulletproof teams in the PL and only incompetence is stopping West Ham (50k+ capacity stadium & London based) and Everton with the money they have spent joining this group. With 3 teams relegated, it is almost inevitable the other teams will drop down at some point as teams have to be rebuilt - this is where the cycle originated from. Southampton, Leicester and Palace are all at this point currently.. How clubs handle that shift is key - get it wrong and overspend and the risk of a downward spiral is high. Burnley have always been ready to be relegated and never really aspired to crack the elite. Stoke City’s demise can be traced to the attempt to run the club with less owner finance in the early part of the Hughes era. It seemed to work but we were letting the squad age and were exposed to a key player like Arnie leaving. Our response was to spend high in a short period which was a gamble that failed If we'd reinvested the Arnie money sensibly we wouldn't have been relegated. Yes given how close it was we would have squeezed through. |
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Post by robwahlmann on Jan 17, 2023 9:11:14 GMT
Clarke-Harris couldn’t hit a cows arse with a banjo when Peterborough were in the championship. So no doubt he’s our number one target. Looks a very limited player to me.  |
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Post by Fred Merger on Jan 17, 2023 9:14:35 GMT
Clarke-Harris couldn’t hit a cows arse with a banjo when Peterborough were in the championship. So no doubt he’s our number one target. Looks a very limited player to me. But is he as limited as Jacob Brown or Tyrese Campbell? |
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Post by leesandfordstoupe on Jan 17, 2023 9:23:55 GMT
When you think things couldn't get any worse someone always has the answer. You think AN is better eh? Better tell Everton and Leics. Personally I find neither AN nor Dyche to be aspirational football managers but yes Dyche is even further away from something I would aspire to. If I was a Leicester fan swapping Rogers for Dyche would be heartbreaking. At least if he rocked up here he’d be just another in a long line of dour bastards. |
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Post by chigstoke on Jan 17, 2023 9:28:40 GMT
Clarke-Harris couldn’t hit a cows arse with a banjo when Peterborough were in the championship. So no doubt he’s our number one target. But that sounds like an accurate description of our current strikers, so I think he’d fit well in. |
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Post by robwahlmann on Jan 17, 2023 9:30:55 GMT
Looks a very limited player to me. But is he as limited as Jacob Brown or Tyrese Campbell? I honestly think so.  |
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Post by shrewspotter on Jan 17, 2023 9:33:47 GMT
Clarke-Harris couldn’t hit a cows arse with a banjo when Peterborough were in the championship. So no doubt he’s our number one target. apart from when Stoke rolled into town |
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Post by leesandfordstoupe on Jan 17, 2023 9:39:39 GMT
Clarke-Harris couldn’t hit a cows arse with a banjo when Peterborough were in the championship. So no doubt he’s our number one target. apart from when Stoke rolled into town Last time he played at the bet365 he looked unfit and over weight. Followed Chester across our back line. I wonder why? |
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Post by gaznandi on Jan 17, 2023 9:40:03 GMT
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Post by thebet365 on Jan 17, 2023 9:53:57 GMT
Weren't Posh looking for £7-8m for Clarke-Harris last season? I really struggle to see how we can afford him. He's on the last year and half of his deal I think but I just struggle to see how we afford him. I can't see the Bursik fee being enough to cover any decent amount of the transfer fee he'd cost? Even if it was JCH we looked at on that as well, which personally I can't see.
If there's room in the wage bill now a deal like the Afobe transfer can be arranged, where we take them on loan now and convert it to permanent in the summer. |
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 17, 2023 10:00:00 GMT
I can't see us having any interest in Clarke-Harris, even if we have some cash after a Souttar sale.
He's 29 this year, and Pboro always hold out for big money. I think it'd take something crazy like £4m+ , and you'd hope the days of us paying that for players on the way down, especially with no track record at this level, are over.
He looked poor in the Champo, and only managed 7 non-penalties.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2023 10:04:56 GMT
The Peterborough player we'd be watching would surely be the right winger, Ward?
You can't imagine it would be the centre half as he's attracting PL interest.
Clarke Harris is a carthorse.
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Post by leesandfordstoupe on Jan 17, 2023 10:07:59 GMT
I can't see us having any interest in Clarke-Harris, even if we have some cash after a Souttar sale. He's 29 this year, and Pboro always hold out for big money. I think it'd take something crazy like £4m+ , and you'd hope the days of us paying that for players on the way down, especially with no track record at this level, are over. He looked poor in the Champo, and only managed 7 non-penalties. Unfortunately it’s the type of deal we do over and over again Dwight Gayle being the most recent example. No fee to Newcastle or not it was a very expensive deal for a player so far into a downward curve he’d nearly hit the floor. |
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Jan 17, 2023 10:12:36 GMT
The Peterborough player we'd be watching would surely be the right winger, Ward? You can't imagine it would be the centre half as he's attracting PL interest. Clarke Harris is a carthorse. Unless he’s signed a contract of late it looks like he’s out of contract this summer coming |
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Post by LGH87 on Jan 17, 2023 10:13:37 GMT
The Peterborough player we'd be watching would surely be the right winger, Ward? You can't imagine it would be the centre half as he's attracting PL interest. Clarke Harris is a carthorse. Unless he’s signed a contract of late it looks like he’s out of contract this summer coming I still wouldn't sign him. |
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Jan 17, 2023 10:17:12 GMT
Unless he’s signed a contract of late it looks like he’s out of contract this summer coming I still wouldn't sign him. Joe Ward? |
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Post by leesandfordstoupe on Jan 17, 2023 10:21:30 GMT
I still wouldn't sign him. Joe Ward? Clarke-Harris I think. I gave it a thumbs up on that basis anyway. |
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Jan 17, 2023 10:22:36 GMT
Yes I think he meant him👍 |
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Post by caine on Jan 17, 2023 10:22:48 GMT
That one gone as know we were linked
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Post by leesandfordstoupe on Jan 17, 2023 10:25:59 GMT
Last big pay day. He’s bound to be keen. |
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Post by LGH87 on Jan 17, 2023 10:25:59 GMT
Yes I think he meant him👍 Yeah sorry, was on about the carthorse. That Ward lad looks a decent player tbf, is he the one out of contract then? |
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Post by leesandfordstoupe on Jan 17, 2023 10:27:37 GMT
That one gone as know we were linked Blown out of the water by the mighty gas FFS. |
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Jan 17, 2023 10:28:39 GMT
Yes I think he meant him👍 Yeah sorry, was on about the carthorse. That Ward lad looks a decent player tbf, is he the one out of contract then? By the looks of it yes |
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Post by chamberlain on Jan 17, 2023 10:33:19 GMT
That one gone as know we were linked Blown out of the water by the mighty gas FFS. Blackburn |
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Post by leicspotter on Jan 17, 2023 10:36:44 GMT
Will you please stop this utter, utter garbage. All of the clubs you mention would swap owners with us in the blink of an eye. Are we well run? A genuine question. We got ourselves needlessly relegated from the Premier League due to complacency in the transfer market (we stopped spending) and poor managerial decisions (not sacking Hughes and the appointing Lambert). We then wasted three years of parachute payments due to throwing as much money around as possible without any real strategy or thought. We lost £26 million last year. £56 million the year before that. Does that suggest to you that we are well run? Since relegation we have not even finished in the top half. There is nothing in the last 5-7 years that suggest that this club is anything other than poorly run. It's not "the owners" per se, it's more the fact they have put Jon in charge and he is seemingly clueless, but will Peter and Denise see that and do something? Doubtful I'm afraid |
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 17, 2023 10:42:38 GMT
Are we well run? A genuine question. We got ourselves needlessly relegated from the Premier League due to complacency in the transfer market (we stopped spending) and poor managerial decisions (not sacking Hughes and the appointing Lambert). We then wasted three years of parachute payments due to throwing as much money around as possible without any real strategy or thought. We lost £26 million last year. £56 million the year before that. Does that suggest to you that we are well run? Since relegation we have not even finished in the top half. There is nothing in the last 5-7 years that suggest that this club is anything other than poorly run. It's not "the owners" per se, it's more the fact they have put Jon in charge and he is seemingly clueless, but will Peter and Denise see that and do something? Doubtful I'm afraid What would Peter do differently? Jon has taken Scholes' place as the catch-all baddy for our ills. |
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Post by Timmy on Jan 17, 2023 10:46:19 GMT
It's not "the owners" per se, it's more the fact they have put Jon in charge and he is seemingly clueless, but will Peter and Denise see that and do something? Doubtful I'm afraid What would Peter do differently? Jon has taken Scholes' place as the catch-all baddy for our ills. Always needs to be a scapegoat for the boo boys. Scholes out!!! Oh wait.. |
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Jan 17, 2023 10:52:17 GMT
Massive chopper circling around Basford belonging to Denise Coates, come from Newcastle on Tyne.
Make of it what you will.....
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Post by scfcwebby on Jan 17, 2023 11:08:01 GMT
Massive chopper circling around Basford belonging to Denise Coates, come from Newcastle on Tyne. Make of it what you will..... Andy Carroll? |
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