Full backs included a player that we sold for "up to £20m". Nobody is interested in our full backs now, not even us.
Yes we did, and we need to to keep afloat. But at the time scott came in Spence wanted out of the club.
CBs are a slight improvement but we'd have been just as well keeping Wood so giving him away for buttons isn't a ringing endorsement.
He was sold because he wouldn't sign a new deal and wanted out through lack of game time. We got a hefty sell on clause added. Rav Van Den Berg is the direct replacement as our young promising CB, and is a far better prospect
Midfielders we had Howson and Tav, we have Howson who is old and Hackney (not a KS buy) so weaker overall because of Howson's age. Barlaser is no better than Saville or Wing and we'd make no significant profit if we tried to sell.
I would prefer a younger howson
Tav and Hackney are like for like, although Hackney has a higher ceiling. KS got a good fee for Tav, and ensured we kept our asset value by getting Hackney signede up long term
Barlaser cost 1m Saville cost 7. He's slightly better than Saville and infinitely better than Wing.
Wide and 10 are slightly better but only because they were really dreadful back then.
McGree or an aged Bolasie?
Jones now with experience or Jones then?
Forss and Azaz or Mendez-Laing and Browne.
Yes it was terrible then, but far far better now.
Strikers were expensive rubbish and now they are cheap rubbish. The important bit is that they are rubbish.
the important bit in an FFP world is value. He inherited poor strikers in their prime on huge wages and ,massive transfer fees. This summer will be the first year we are financially free from Britt and Fletcher from an FFP calculation. Britt alone was about 5.5m last year on our FFP, and 11m the year before that. We now have FFP space and yes, we need strikers, we brought in Lath who has done ok at 4m and Rogers who was sold on quickly at massive profit. rogers wasn't really ready to paly CF, but will be in 18months and that was the plan, ease him into it.
Dieng or Archer
Glover or Stojanovic
Bangura or Marvin Johnson
Rav Van Den Berg or Wood
Lenihan or Hall
Barlaser or Saville
McGree or Bolasie
Forss or Mendez-Laing
Azaz or Browne
Lath or Britt
I'd be shocked at anyone who would take the old option over the new option on pretty much any of those. Of course we have improved, while bringing the age down and taking the asset values up