Man of Harveys
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Is that a fair description of our recent open exit door policy? That phrase seems to be knocking around in my head when watching all this hullabaloo/shenanigans/kerfuffle.
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A fire sale when there hasn't been a fire
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Superphil
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Trouble is, there is a £14M fire somewhere in there.
Man of Harveys
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And it's not exactly BURNING a hole in their pocket. I'm here all week, try the veal etc.
Codner pharmaceuticals
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Fire sale means selling in a panic when you are in a weak position and not getting the true value.
I don't think for one second we have been in a weak position. I don't think we have sold anyone undervalue. Do you really?
I don't think for one second we have been in a weak position. I don't think we have sold anyone undervalue. Do you really?
Grombleton
Surrounded by <div>s
- Dec 31, 2011
- 7,356
Ah, buzzwords. So often misused.
BUTTERBALL
East Stand Brighton Boyz
Summer Clearout - Bargains to be had - everyone must go!
Fitzcarraldo
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- Nov 12, 2010
- 960
I think that whilst it does look like that, that isn't really what has happened. Ulloa, Buckley, Upson and Bridcutt all got offered the chance to play Premier League football. Higher lever. More money. They must have wanted to leave. We got a fair price for the 3 that got sold. Upson leaving would have also freed up a chunk of wages to reinvest. Selling these players isn't a fire sale, it's just the normal mechanics of the football league transfer market. Bigger club at a higher level comes in for best players of club lower down the pyramid. The other players that got released would have just been a case of freeing up wages (Kuszczak) and getting rid of some of the dead wood (Orlandi, Lopez).
So long as we bring in able replacements, which I don't think we have yet, all will be fine.
So long as we bring in able replacements, which I don't think we have yet, all will be fine.
Man of Harveys
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Totally fair point, in terms of the prices we've achieved. But it's still a clear out like I can't ever remember seeing before.
It's all just so damn STRANGE. I wonder whether something larger isn't afoot (I have no idea what).
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Just a changing of the guard innit. Happens every now and again.
Seasidesage
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A fire sale involves selling assets that you want to keep. Not sure Ulloa apart that's the case. For example had Sami wanted Buckley wouldn't he have started him on Sat?
TSB
Captain Hindsight
TWO players.
Hardly a fire sale.
Sake.
Hardly a fire sale.
Sake.
London Irish
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It's slightly similar to what has happened to Southampton, only that they seem slightly cleverer in finding replacements - that Tadic is some player
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,161
At a pinch, could be a way of re-energising the playing side. Most of these on the way out have had one or two bites at the play-off cherry and been found wanting. OK, against Derby we probably had no real right to be there in the first place and were found out as seriously unworthy of progressing any further, but there was no excuse against Palace the previous season. As a minimum, a place in the play-off final was there for the taking, if that set of players could have been collectively arsed to raise their game, despite Poyet's antics. That was the big chance, and it don't come round too often. We blew it bigtime, and the fact that palace survived their first season in the big boys club only makes it worse. In the grand scheme of things would far rather have a group of unsung players hungry for success or at least a Wembley final. Bit of team spirit wouldn't go amiss, it served us well at Withdean.
Man of Harveys
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When they change the guard, doesn't another set of guards normally turn up? Anyway.
kevtherev
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Geriatric Seagull
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Perhaps they're having a fire sale in anticipation of what happens when there's an electrical fire because there's no-one left to turn the lights out!
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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i dont see its a fire sale for reasons covered. we've moved players on for good money.
more concerned with what we do now with cash in hand and two weeks to do business. at its core we have some good, if young players. 3 or 4 should make it a decent side, a couple more for depth and it starts to look like a good squad. the money is there, the new manager has had time to evaluate, lets wait a while before wetting the bed.
more concerned with what we do now with cash in hand and two weeks to do business. at its core we have some good, if young players. 3 or 4 should make it a decent side, a couple more for depth and it starts to look like a good squad. the money is there, the new manager has had time to evaluate, lets wait a while before wetting the bed.
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
There was no fire, the amount of bed wetting on here, nothing would have caught alight