What Is The Clubs Transfer Strategy

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Uwantlee & ThePromisedLand nail a lot of good points as to why this window is OK in context of where we are, but disappointing in context as to where we are headed. There are lower league clubs having to sell their better players at knock down prices because of the pandemic. The pandemic is as much an opportunity as it is an obstacle.

But we're in no position to take advantage of that opportunity because of awful buys in previous windows, due to investing in a recruitment division that has been poor with it's spend, and clueless with it's strategy.

Now this an outlandish suggestion that will get some stick, but I genuinely think Marinakis owes us. Players we've spent millions on such as Soudani & Silva have moved to Oly for "undisclosed" fees, whilst we've taken their rejects in the likes of Dias, Guerrero, Cafu etc.

It's been a unfair exchange, and all Marinakis has done has sell off our academy produce to fund his mistakes at our club.

To make amends I'd like to see him sell some of the trash we've signed go to Oly, and give that money to Hughton to spend in the Summer. It's a far easier league to do well in, and players like Christie, Blackett, Artur etc. have half a chance of doing something over there like Derbyshite did.

Marinakis came here, we were a toss team fighting relegation. 62m worth of sales later - mostly from the academy - we're still a toss team fighting relegation. It's not fair that our academy and the roots left by Doughty & the likes have carried his mistakes so much. So it's about time for a bit of payback IMO.

I am of course totally aware that the last thing he would ever consider doing is anything like that.

It's also based on the assumption that the players would actually want the moves. They can't be *forced* to move.