Err or they've just been delayed and could be completed next week. Chill out. It's June!
Yes it's June, and we're one of the only if not THE only EFL club not to make a signing. You might be skipping in the meadows but it worries me.
Err or they've just been delayed and could be completed next week. Chill out. It's June!
No point in reading your posts. You have a hatred for a most successful Southend United manager and never miss any opportunity whatsoever to have a pop. COMPLETELY ignoring the fact that every year PB gets us higher in the league with higher crowds.
I am sure you will moan about PB if he were to win the Champions League..you can always search for something.
It's always hoping. How about he keeps his trap shut until a player actually signs for us. It's the same every year.
Yes it's June, and we're one of the only if not THE only EFL club not to make a signing. You might be skipping in the meadows but it worries me.
And every year we actually do sign players , good players ! We've already said we are having a smaller squad, meaning the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity ! But yep, lets instead just sign 6 players nice and early , just so we can say we've signed 6 players regardless if they are players wanted ...
Oh and PB HAS improved our position year on year. Anyone who sees that as a failure, isn't being honest with themselves, in my view.
No point in reading your posts. You have a hatred for a most successful Southend United manager and never miss any opportunity whatsoever to have a pop. COMPLETELY ignoring the fact that every year PB gets us higher in the league with higher crowds.
I am sure you will moan about PB if he were to win the Champions League..you can always search for something.
Success and failure are very subjective. There can be no argument that our position has improved consistently under PB.
Spot on.
I'd rather we sign 3 good players than 6-7 average ones.
We all know that PB hasn't got a great deal to negotiate with, financially. If we offer someone £4,000 a week, for example, the first thing that player's agent will do is say to any other club who is interested that if they offer £4,500 they can outbid us.
In the end, it will come down to the player wanting to be here, because of PB and what he is trying to achieve with this club.
We'll rarely win a wages race and with agents pushing for the best deal for the player and ultimately themselves, we're just part of the negotiating cog in the wheel of fortune for the player.
Frankly, I don't care if we haven't signed anyone on 31st July, because if a Cox & Ferdinand come here by the end of August, I'd take that.
Oh and PB HAS improved our position year on year. Anyone who sees that as a failure, isn't being honest with themselves, in my view.
Spot on.
I'd rather we sign 3 good players than 6-7 average ones.
We all know that PB hasn't got a great deal to negotiate with, financially. If we offer someone £4,000 a week, for example, the first thing that player's agent will do is say to any other club who is interested that if they offer £4,500 they can outbid us.
In the end, it will come down to the player wanting to be here, because of PB and what he is trying to achieve with this club.
We'll rarely win a wages race and with agents pushing for the best deal for the player and ultimately themselves, we're just part of the negotiating cog in the wheel of fortune for the player.
Frankly, I don't care if we haven't signed anyone on 31st July, because if a Cox & Ferdinand come here by the end of August, I'd take that.
Oh and PB HAS improved our position year on year. Anyone who sees that as a failure, isn't being honest with themselves, in my view.
Whatever Trevor..You know what I am saying rings true
Spot on.
I'd rather we sign 3 good players than 6-7 average ones.
We all know that PB hasn't got a great deal to negotiate with, financially. If we offer someone £4,000 a week, for example, the first thing that player's agent will do is say to any other club who is interested that if they offer £4,500 they can outbid us.
In the end, it will come down to the player wanting to be here, because of PB and what he is trying to achieve with this club.
We'll rarely win a wages race and with agents pushing for the best deal for the player and ultimately themselves, we're just part of the negotiating cog in the wheel of fortune for the player.
Frankly, I don't care if we haven't signed anyone on 31st July, because if a Cox & Ferdinand come here by the end of August, I'd take that.
Oh and PB HAS improved our position year on year. Anyone who sees that as a failure, isn't being honest with themselves, in my view.
This, whilst 90% spot on, has one flaw.
As we found last season, because we didn't have a Ferdinand or Ranger or Wordsworth we effectively lost out on a play off (or better). One of the keys is to get your players in so they can acclimatise to their new surroundings and players during pre season.
Wordsworth was already our player and Ranger signed on 3rd August. Not ideal, I grant you, but I'm sure the club had to be 100% confident that they were making the right decision with him on personal and fitness levels.
I'd also wager that we got Anton actually BECAUSE of our poor start. PB could well have gone to Ron after the Fleetwood match and said something along the lines of "Unless we crank up the offer, we won't get Anton. You can see we need him after today" and so we got him to sign, when we might not have been able to, back in June/July.
David Webb and Steve Tilson were more successful and on less budgets