[Albion] Tomer Hemed - contract extended according to Premier League

macbeth said:

This 100%. I suspect sacking CH was part of this decision, to make us a more attractive prospect for players in terms of playing style, however, as you say, no point bringing in a new manager if they don't have the cash to tailor the squad the way they want it. Trouble is, fans seem to equate this with splashing 30 million quid willy-nilly on players and then paying them obscene wages (reminiscent of the transfer strategy of a certain club up the road in Croydon), which isn't the case. Whilst my point about insane wages stands, I do think the ceiling has to be raised slightly if we want to compete. Whilst the moneyball strategy has yielded some diamonds, if we want to get anywhere in the mini-league that is 7th-20th in the PL, then we need to put our money where our mouth is. And that's not to say that TB hasn't delivered fantastic investment, because he has, but its probably better if we're signing players that GP has specifically picked out as his desired targets that are also interesting the likes of Bournemouth, WHU for, say, 5 million more and want 10k more in wages than another target who plays in a weaker foreign league and isn't as desired, but whom we know to be a bit cheaper. That doesn't mean going insane, it means taking a continually measured, but a fundamentally less subservient and more competitive approach in the transfer market. It's a matter of small margins. Paying that extra 3-5 million in transfer fees here and there, and offering that extra 5-10k in wages here and there, particularly if the player is one of our no.1 targets, could well be the difference between being forever in that 17th-15th battle or moving into that 10-15th battle and beyond, which I assume, judging by the decision to sack CH, it's something TB is very keen on.

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Barham's tash said:

Murray
Andone
Locadia
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Hemed

Don’t need 4 when you play one up top

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Barham's tash said:

Murray
Andone
Locadia
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Hemed

Don’t need 4 when you play one up top

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Gritt23 said:

Completely agree.

I think you can break up your 7-20th mini-league into two. 7-14th and 15-20th. We are the top end of the latter, and want to move into the bottom of the former. To do that we need to compete for the players those teams are chasing. My fear is that the club think we've already signed the players to get us there, and CH just didn't get the best out of them. I'd love that to be the case, and Potter starts getting a tune out of Ali J and Locadia, but I can't see it. To be in the next mini-league up, we need to stop getting scared off when our targets are being chased by clubs who will bid into the £20m+ category and beyond £60k in wages.

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symyjym said:

If these videos were adverts for a player we were interested in we would all look forward to his signing. I would even go out on a limb and say with Murray's age and pace taken into consideration, that Hemed is the best striker we have.

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blockhseagull said:

Hemed isn’t any quicker than Murray though.

If we didn’t have Murray I’d keep Hemed

But seeing as we need a new striker I’d let Hemed go and get games somewhere as he deserves to play.

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Ninja Elephant said:

That is potentially the most ridiculous thing I have ever read on here. Ridiculous to suggest that our best striker is the one who was robbed of his squad number last summer and then sent packing off to QPR, where he was, at best, par for the course. He is quite clearly not up to this level physically, intellectually or technically.

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symyjym said:

Like what Bloom and Poyet did with Murray and Mackerel Smith Yep Hughton, Hemed and Locadia we all make mistakes

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symyjym said:

He's not that slow Hahahaha

Murray's legs give way when dribbling more than 5 yards.

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Ninja Elephant said:

What even is that response? Murray left when his contract expired, he wasn't robbed of his squad number to be handed to someone else and Mackail-Smith, nothing to do with mackerel, inherited the number 12 shirt which was vacant when he signed. LuaLua's loan had ended. Also, Mackail-Smith wore #12 for Peterborough before signing for us.

Hemed is nowhere near the required standard for Premier League football, but he was an important part of our progression from relegation candidates to promotion candidates. He wasn't quite good enough to get us over the line, we needed to re-sign Glenn Murray in order to do that, but he was an important member of that team.

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Bozza said:

Players at the end of a contract don't usual sign another deal so that their owning club can then punt them on. They prefer to be free agents so that the bulk of any transfer fee goes to them as a signing-on fee.

It would seem strange that Hemed wilfully re-signed to us so I can only guess we had an option on extending the deal that he had no say but to agree to.

(Someone has probably made this point already - I've not read the thread)

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blockhseagull said:

He isn’t quick... you can’t say Potter wants pace and then mention Hemed. They are just too similar in many aspects, but Murray is just better than Hemed.

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Ninja Elephant said:

What sort of fee are people expecting us to get for Tomer? He didn't do a great deal for QPR last season and there's no real threat of him being involved for us. I think anything north of £1million is outstanding business for us.

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hans kraay fan club said:

On the basis that we sold Baldock for somewhere in the region of FIVE million, I think you are seriously undervaluing Hemed.

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hans kraay fan club said:

On the basis that we sold Baldock for somewhere in the region of FIVE million, I think you are seriously undervaluing Hemed.

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symyjym said:

I implied that he has more pace than Murray and is probably no slower than Locadia and Andone. Of course Hemed doesn't have the pace of Stirling.

As I said; If Murray has to dribble more than 5 yards with the ball his legs just give way. Next season Murray will only be good for the last 20 mins coming on from the bench.

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blockhseagull said:

That will be the same Glenn Murray who scored 13 goals this past season ?

I’m not saying he should be our first choice striker but he is a long long way in front of Hemed as a goal threat at this level.

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Ninja Elephant said:

Murray has a history of scoring goals at this level, not massive amounts but enough to keep every team he's played for in this league. Hemed's not close to being as good as Murray, which is largely why we got promoted with Glenn in the side, rather than Tomer.

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blockhseagull said:

That will be the same Glenn Murray who scored 13 goals this past season ?

I’m not saying he should be our first choice striker but he is a long long way in front of Hemed as a goal threat at this level.

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