17-10-2022, 12:33 PM
(17-10-2022, 12:30 PM)Paplane Wrote:(17-10-2022, 12:10 PM)wassy04 Wrote:(17-10-2022, 11:47 AM)Paplane Wrote: When we talk about this season in the future, the non signing of the loan players will be it's defining characteristic. It'll be filed alongside the season where we didnt sign Shorey, when we sold Kevin Campbell, anf when we sold Collymore. And non Forest fans will never see another team 'do a Forest' and spend £150m quid on 23 useless players.
In fairness there were mitigating circumstances in some cases. Villa wanted a silly amount for Davis, Garner wasn't made available until late (although we still should've gone for him), Spence chose Spurs (could we have pushed more, I doubt it would've made a difference), so you're left with Zinc and Lowe. Not sure they'd have made a huge impact, although I'd of taken Zinc personally.
We could've done a deal with Villa. Im sure we might've paid more than his market value but weve done that with other players anyway. We could've held out for Garner - we did that for MGW. And for Spence it seems we never tried to sign him. After the season he'd had, I'm sure we could've shown him some love and pushed harder. The truth is the club thought they could do better. The stats probably showed £17m Awoniyi to be better than £12m Davis. And international Freuler better than a young Garner. And Wales' Willliams better than troubled Spence. And people on here criticise the owner for sacking the recruitment team?
Yeah would be interesting to know the full ins and outs of them all, I suspect Spence wasn't happening. However, the other two we could've definitely done more to bring in. Davis was injured most of the early part of the season and Garner isn't able to get into the Everton team. Do we really think those two would be transforming us?