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h_m_boro said:
Looked a good signing even at that price. Liverpool were reluctant to sell, hence the big fee. Hasn't worked out, not the first won't be the last. Better players than him have made mega money moves and flopped 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️.
Certainly interesting comments......😳😳
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Liverpool also have a great habit of getting over inflated transfer fees for their players too.
Brewster £23.5 million
Joe Allen - £13 million
Benteke - £32 million
Ings- £20 million
Lovren - £10.9 million
Harry Wilson - £12 million
Shaqiri - £9.5 million
Skrtel - £5.5 million
Carrol - £15.75 million 😮
 
I will give him the same chance as I have given them all since Raich Carter. I like NW but it would have been a bit crazy giving him more money to spend when hes already said he would leave 4 months after the next transfer window.
Bang average record too.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
What do people make of the transfers he made that got sheff utd, Northampton and Oxford to 4 promotions. Seems odd to focus on 2 failed transfers.
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Fans tend to focus on their own team and what a manager did there rather than their wider track record. How many promotions has NW managed? its only 8 (eight) but some Boro fans on here only quote his record in 2021 and even believe they are being balanced!
 
Randy said:
Liverpool also have a great habit of getting over inflated transfer fees for their players too.
Brewster £23.5 million
Joe Allen - £13 million
Benteke - £32 million
Ings- £20 million
Lovren - £10.9 million
Harry Wilson - £12 million
Shaqiri - £9.5 million
Skrtel - £5.5 million
Carrol - £15.75 million 😮
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You missed the big ones, Coutinho for £120m and Suarez for £70m!

Liverpool's net spend is a thing of beauty. Over five years their total net spend is £150m; they've won the title, a European Cup, and came runner up in both.

Fulham spent £100m to finish second bottom one year.

That Coutinho deal was unbelievable when you think they turned him into Salah, Mane and Firmino plus change.
 
Nero said:
Do people really believe than Managers actually get involved in the negotiation of fees and player salaries? With the amount of games in English football a Manager is highly unlikely to do that.

A Manager and coaching staff will scout players, evaluate their character and then recommend them to the club. It's then the job of CEO and people to make a deal happen. Wilder correctly identified Brewster as a young player with real potential who could score goals. It hasn't happened, but he personnel didn't spend £20 million of Sheff United's cash.
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remember watching Brewster playing for England Schoolboys on the TV and he looked a class apart from the rest...
 
He's not solely in charge of transfers and he'll have come to the club knowing that full well. There's a recruitment team headed up by Kieran Scott which will need sign off from Steve Gibson and which will have been guided by the wants of Wilder.
 
Redwurzel said:
Fans tend to focus on their own team and what a manager did there rather than their wider track record. How many promotions has NW managed? its only 8 (eight) but some Boro fans on here only quote his record in 2021 and even believe they are being balanced!
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Because some of us only care about Boro, not what Warnock did many years ago at a different club. His record at Boro is absolutely average, and that's why he was sacked
 
Not sure the negative comments are representative of the Blades fans I know, yes the strikers he bought in haven't worked out but not many were complaining when they bought them in. Clubs like us and Sheffield Utd will always be taking a risk when we spend a big wedge (for both of us) on a striker.....see Britt and Alves!
 
Redwurzel said:
Fans tend to focus on their own team and what a manager did there rather than their wider track record. How many promotions has NW managed? its only 8 (eight) but some Boro fans on here only quote his record in 2021 and even believe they are being balanced!
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a balanced record would include looking at how many sackings he has on his CV, hw many failed promotions. Warnock has had 3 promotions in 25 years Wilder has had 3 promotions in just the last 7 years.

To be honest what either manager were doing 20+ years ago is largely irrelevant, the football landscape has changed, finances have changed, tactics have changed, what's important is have the managers learned and changed with them, Wilder has, Warnock didn't. Warnock was always yesterdays man.
 
Liverpool are having clubs teeth out with their crazy valuations for players that barely feature for them. Cant think of one recent liverpool player that really went on to do the business at premiership level. Harry wilson at fulham is ok but not prem class yet.
 
Very true that.

On the flip side plenty of ex-Chelsea players seem to do the business though don’t they - Zouma this season has been brilliant, then there’s Bamford, Lukaku, de Bruyne, Salah. Billy Gilmour looks a serious talent who’ll probably go the same way, not sure why Norwich aren’t playing him.
 
God they seem bitter towards him. The man took them up and had them finish 9th. A better version of Karanka in some ways. I accept it went wrong for him there but they seem ungrateful for what he did for them before that. I'm sure their neighbours across the city would kill for the ride Wilder took them on.
 
Clevo said:
God they seem bitter towards him. The man took them up and had them finish 9th. A better version of Karanka in some ways. I accept it went wrong for him there but they seem ungrateful for what he did for them before that. I'm sure their neighbours across the city would kill for the ride Wilder took them on.
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By getting them up and staying up for a season he brought in 220mill+ in revenue which must have put the club on a very good financial footing
 
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