Re: Re: Re: Only one team undefeated now...
Originally posted by The Dutchman!
Still loans (JEffers and Pennant) are better than nothing... some experience...
Mmmmm well I hope Pennat has gone for the experience (can't help but doubt it) but there's no way that Jeffers has gone for experience.
It's sign of how hard up we are that we're having to get people off the wage bill, apparently they've paid us £750k for the season's loan plus all his wages, usually when big clubs loan out players they pay a chunk of the wages but we're not doing this at all.
Obviosly strecthing the budget to resign PV & RP has meant that economies have to be made elsewhere.
I'm sure if somebody had made a decent bid for Jeffers then he'd have gone.
I doubt we'll ever see him play for Arsenal again.
On what you said about lac of cover for TH & PV apparently our squad is 31 players of who 4 are keepers, 6 are on loan & 5 have never made a fist team appearance(so going by past experience they're not going to be blooded lightly).
So we're defiitely a bit light.
But the good news is the or that the scouts are doing in bringing in young players, don't now if you read the Standard yesterday but the young Yank we've just brought in sounds a great talent & at 19 he might challenge for a place even this season, he's training with the first team squad & hasn't looked out of place.
Plus we've signed a young Czech player with a Greek name.
And quite excitingly we've nicked the star of the Barcelona youth side, Fabresc Fabregat 16, & put him on a 6 year deal, apparently they're fuming which is always a good sign.
The only reason I'm not getting to carried away with that one is that about 4 years ago we signed the then 'star' of the Barca youth team Nano & I haven't heard a word about him since

so hopefully the 2003 version will do a bit better.
But I think it's a sign of how things are for us now, we can't compete in the transfer market so we have to spot & then nurture young talent, nothing wrong with that as long as they actually get a go before they're too old.I don't expect them to dislplace people like Henry but there's no excuse to play people liek Cygan/Luhzny ect ahead of genuinely talented youngsters.