Yep.
I'll hazard a guess the club won't be trawling around the 'potential rough diamond' bin and now certainly won't be turned down in the process.
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I'll hazard a guess the club won't be trawling around the 'potential rough diamond' bin and now certainly won't be turned down in the process.
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Bit of a difference in playing styles between us and Burnley
Megazone
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Glad we learnt from the Liam Dickinson signing
GT49er
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Like we did with Jahanbakhsh and Andone, eh? Should work out well............................
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I'd say all our signings we've been tracking or even bidding for for a while. Some we hear about because the selling club or agent has leaked to the press and some we don't
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It was when he cleared the running track and stand at Withdean during the warm up I began to worry.....
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macbeth
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Or Maupay....
..also, I find it very hard to believe that we only became aware of Webster after last season....
Seasidesage
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Why do people expect every signing to succeed ? There are so many variables with players, from injuries to domestic circumstances to plain bad luck that can affect how a player does at a club. No matter how diligent you are, you will have some that don't work out. For every Ali J, I never seem to hear much about the Websters, Bernardo's, Propper's and Trossards that we have signed and that is before we get to the Alzate and Connoly's we have brought in for little or no outlay etc. The recruitment team at the Albion have been excellent over the last few years and deserve praise for where they have taken us as much as Potter and Hughton before him.
Seasidesage
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Maupay they tried to sign before he went to Brentford so he was on the radar. Clarke I think we were already in for? Webster however, you may well be right as that did seem odd at the time after signing Clarke. Potter will clearly have had a hand in these signings and he presumably has to sign off on everybody who comes into the 1st team squad at least. I think we have recruited brilliantly overall and we are just beginning to see the fruits of their work coming into the 1st team squad.
I may be wrong but I think we are seeing the start of Bloom's next phase of his plan. How do we get into and stay in the top 10? Recruitment must be one of if not the most important element of that project. There are 3 or 4 more of the U23's who have a chance of making the first XI IMO and if that happens what an achievement for the club and its forward planning that would be...
The_Viper
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This, and at least we spent 15 million for AJ, and not 40 feckin million for people like Joelinton
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This is a fair comment. I get the impression that things are a bit more joined up between the manager and recruitment now than they were. Chrissy didn’t always give the impression that he wanted the players he got. The value of Ashworth I think will be in ensuring that everyone is on the same page. This doesn’t mean we’ll never sign another dud, but that we’re more likely to be recruiting to a more focussed plan.
You're almost certainly wrong on Clarke.
Potter and his scout Kyle Macauley, were in the stands at Fratton Park in their Swansea club merch, scouting Clarke, during the week before he agreed to join the Albion.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/two-players-swansea-city-boss-16288751
Seasidesage
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Interesting. Especially, when you think that given Swansea's finances it would've been very difficult for them to have signed him.....
100%. If you’re hiring a number of people on an ongoing basis you’re always going to get a few wrong now and again for a multitude of reasons - football is no different from any other industry. The recruitment team have got far more right than they have wrong, and for massively less money than some of our competitors have been spending on individual players. Would add at least Gross, Knocky and Duffy to the above that were bought for absolute buttons in PL terms........all are comfortably 8-figure value players now and worth at least 5x what we paid for them.
On Friday 'our' man scored the kind of goal that probably bought him to the Albion's attention.
2 from 2, having been somewhat shitehouse:-
2 from 2, having been somewhat shitehouse:-
Blimey pick that out.
Just scored again for The Royal Oak at Lagness.
The one that got away.
The one that got away.
warmleyseagull
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Are you the only one interested in this thread?