Linked with Connor Washington?

perseus said:

Peterborough have got the right idea. Sell a player when he is in form. Get more dosh.

Best value is to be had when a previously good (rather than hyped-up over-rated) young player is going through a bad spell (rather than reverting to normal standard after exaggerations about his ability). .

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Stato said:

Or to look at it another way:

Reading keep Blackman until the end of the season then he walks away for nothing and they have to spend £3M+ to replace him.

Like us with Barnes, they were between a rock and a hard place.

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maltaseagull said:

Regardless of if it is us or not, they do seem to have a knack of finding players to sell on.

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Icy Gull said:

Hope it's not us. We have a pretty crap record of buying lower league strikers who produce the goods, since we've been at the Amex.
I have to confess that I haven't given up on Baldock though, I like him and hope that he comes good.

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ferring seagull said:

Wasn't he with Wet Sham previously ?

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NooBHA said:

The problem with buying from Peterborough is the fact that they got a lot of their recommendations from the Man Utd scouting system when Ferguson was there. These were players that Man Utd looked at but thought not good enough for premiership but good enough for the lower leagues so Alex ferguson tipped Darren Ferguson off about them and they duly sign a good lower league player.

What then happens is they do very well in League One and everyone ques up to pay Peterborough lots of money for them from the Championship or the Premiership. Then when signed for them they can't really make the step up and that was the reason why Man Utd never signed them in the first place.

So for that reason I hope that he is not interesting Brighton. Let the others throw good money away.

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edna krabappel said:

Hmm, I think it's a bit harsh to suggest that all their big sales have been incapable of stepping up.

Britt Assombalonga did well for Forest before suffering a very bad knee injury. George Boyd has done alright for himself, and played in the Premier League for Burnley. Lee Tomlin is at Bournemouth as a result of being influential for Middlesbrough in the Championship. Dwight Gayle would, I think, be a good Championship striker, though not good enough for the Premier League. Aaron McLean made a good career for himself for a time after moving on from Posh. CMS...yeah, ok.

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edna krabappel said:

Hmm, I think it's a bit harsh to suggest that all their big sales have been incapable of stepping up.

Britt Assombalonga did well for Forest before suffering a very bad knee injury. George Boyd has done alright for himself, and played in the Premier League for Burnley. Lee Tomlin is at Bouavernemouth as a result of being influential for Middlesbrough in the Championship. Dwight Gayle would, I think, be a good Championship striker, though not good enough for the Premier League. Aaron McLean made a good career for himself for a time after moving on from Posh. CMS...yeah, ok.

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portslade seagull said:

Problem is our track record is very poor with these type of hopeful punt signings striker wise

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