[Football] Jayson Molumby

[Cowfold Seagull]

There's a lot of that quite useful thing - a lot of hindsight in play - on this thread and typical for other threads too - for the players that don't quite develop how we'd hoped.
- Should have sold him then, shouldn't have loaned him to them, should have kept him in the squad, should have given him more time - being the usual calls about players that we don't see on a day to day basis, whose development isn't in a straight line, and unsurprisingly doesn't always result in Premier League stardom. But good to know that it would have been fixed if only the club had done this or that or this.

Well said.

 

[GT49er]

There's a lot of that quite useful thing - a lot of hindsight in play - on this thread and typical for other threads too - for the players that don't quite develop how we'd hoped.
- Should have sold him then, shouldn't have loaned him to them, should have kept him in the squad, should have given him more time - being the usual calls about players that we don't see on a day to day basis, whose development isn't in a straight line, and unsurprisingly doesn't always result in Premier League stardom. But good to know that it would have been fixed if only the club had done this or that or this.

Yes, it may be hindsight, but it's right. We sold the player for considerably less than we were offered for him a year or so earlier. In this instance then, the only verdict has to be "Could have done better". Nobody - not even The Albion - gets everything right every time!

 

[chaileyjem]

Yes, it may be hindsight, but it's right. We sold the player for considerably less than we were offered for him a year or so earlier. In this instance then, the only verdict has to be "Could have done better". Nobody - not even The Albion - gets everything right every time!

Well unless you're privy to the exact amounts being discussed and offered as opposed to a couple of press reports , the plans, at the time , for the player, and a whole bunch of other info then not sure how you can be so certain.
And of course the club make mistakes - recruitment and player development is hard - but this is a pretty minor thing to illustrate it with.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

There's a lot of that quite useful thing - a lot of hindsight in play - on this thread and typical for other threads too - for the players that don't quite develop how we'd hoped.
- Should have sold him then, shouldn't have loaned him to them, should have kept him in the squad, should have given him more time - being the usual calls about players that we don't see on a day to day basis, whose development isn't in a straight line, and unsurprisingly doesn't always result in Premier League stardom. But good to know that it would have been fixed if only the club had done this or that or this.

True. But this is a discussion forum, so it is inevitable. Would be pretty boring if everyone agreed all the time.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing etc… of course it is!

 

[GT49er]

Well unless you're privy to the exact amounts being discussed and offered as opposed to a couple of press reports , the plans, at the time , for the player, and a whole bunch of other info then not sure how you can be so certain.
And of course the club make mistakes - recruitment and player development is hard - but this is a pretty minor thing to illustrate it with.

Yes, I do know that The Albion's favourite buzzword is 'undisclosed' but enough infrmation gets out for us to have a rough idea of the fees (though not of the small print, obviously). And Millwall went very public about their £2M offer!
'Could have done better' (in this particular case) is hardly the sort of wild and damning criticism of the club that needs to be defended to the death!

 

[chaileyjem]

True. But this is a discussion forum, so it is inevitable. Would be pretty boring if everyone agreed all the time.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing etc… of course it is!

Of course. All part of the mix. And pointing out that its easy to get those calls right - in hindsight - is worth throwing in there - especially on this thread.

 

[chaileyjem]

Yes, I do know that The Albion's favourite buzzword is 'undisclosed' but enough infrmation gets out for us to have a rough idea of the fees (though not of the small print, obviously). And Millwall went very public about their £2M offer!
'Could have done better' (in this particular case) is hardly the sort of wild and damning criticism of the club that needs to be defended to the death!

Perhaps the club thought he would develop into a first team player or push on even more, perhaps that £2m offer was B.S and so on.
Seems bleeding obvious now - in hindsight. And of course its not "wild and damning criticism" - ha ha. - but just suggesting - its not necessarily as clear cut as it might seem and you want to make out.

 

[GT49er]

Perhaps the club thought he would develop into a first team player or push on even more, perhaps that £2m offer was B.S and so on.
Seems bleeding obvious now - in hindsight. And of course its not "wild and damning criticism" - ha ha. - but just suggesting - its not necessarily as clear cut as it might seem and you want to make out.

So did I, after that very successful loan at Millwall! Hindsight all round, eh!

 

[Jolly Red Giant]

There's a lot of that quite useful thing - a lot of hindsight in play - on this thread and typical for other threads too - for the players that don't quite develop how we'd hoped.
- Should have sold him then, shouldn't have loaned him to them, should have kept him in the squad, should have given him more time - being the usual calls about players that we don't see on a day to day basis, whose development isn't in a straight line, and unsurprisingly doesn't always result in Premier League stardom. But good to know that it would have been fixed if only the club had done this or that or this.

I did question his loan move to Preston on here at the time.