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Post by greyarea on Apr 19, 2018 0:40:34 GMT 1
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Post by upthetown on Apr 19, 2018 1:37:51 GMT 1
Well worth a watch
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Post by kiwiblue on Apr 19, 2018 5:10:53 GMT 1
Makes you realise just how lucky we are to have such an owner Thank You Dean  Long may you reign |
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Post by Convictatthemac on Apr 19, 2018 5:39:10 GMT 1
Spoiler alert, if you are interested in listening to this then don’t read any further.
Took a walk and listened to this. Fabulous insight and made my walk go quickly. The part I took out of it was that the club spent £50-60m on players and won’t be able to do that again. I imagine it’ll be in the £35-£45m as the top end of the range. He also mentioned that they aren’t wanting to turn over the squad too much and Kongolo is most likely to be priced too high for Town.
A lot of interesting stuff in there about the ground and other general interest stuff.
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Post by bluedogs, Esq. on Apr 19, 2018 5:51:09 GMT 1
Tremendous
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Post by loumacari on Apr 19, 2018 7:03:34 GMT 1
Spoiler alert, if you are interested in listening to this then don’t read any further. Took a walk and listened to this. Fabulous insight and made my walk go quickly. The part I took out of it was that the club spent £50-60m on players and won’t be able to do that again. I imagine it’ll be in the £35-£45m as the top end of the range. He also mentioned that they aren’t wanting to turn over the squad too much and Kongolo is most likely to be priced too high for Town. A lot of interesting stuff in there about the ground and other general interest stuff. Very interesting. £35-45m isn’t so bad if we can get 3-4 quality players. Trouble is ideally we need a new left back, centre back (which is why signing Kongolo might be worth the price as he kills two birds with one stone) and probably two wingers? That relies on finding good value in the foreign market, although no reason why we can’t do that again. |
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Post by Convictatthemac on Apr 19, 2018 7:55:33 GMT 1
Spoiler alert, if you are interested in listening to this then don’t read any further. Took a walk and listened to this. Fabulous insight and made my walk go quickly. The part I took out of it was that the club spent £50-60m on players and won’t be able to do that again. I imagine it’ll be in the £35-£45m as the top end of the range. He also mentioned that they aren’t wanting to turn over the squad too much and Kongolo is most likely to be priced too high for Town. A lot of interesting stuff in there about the ground and other general interest stuff. Very interesting. £35-45m isn’t so bad if we can get 3-4 quality players. Trouble is ideally we need a new left back, centre back (which is why signing Kongolo might be worth the price as he kills two birds with one stone) and probably two wingers? That relies on finding good value in the foreign market, although no reason why we can’t do that again. Agree that amount of money should be enough as long as we target quality over quantity. I really think that Kongolo would still be worth the money because we know he fits in and has plugged the hole on the left side. Like you say, he kills two birds with one stone. I’d go for a real quality winger if we could obtain one and an AM to compete with Pritchard. |
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Apr 19, 2018 8:09:58 GMT 1
Maybe it is due to watching years and years of Town doing everything the hard way but we need to make sure we stay in this league first.
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Post by Lard Buttie on Apr 19, 2018 8:18:16 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 8:18:36 GMT 1
Spoiler alert, if you are interested in listening to this then don’t read any further. Took a walk and listened to this. Fabulous insight and made my walk go quickly. The part I took out of it was that the club spent £50-60m on players and won’t be able to do that again. I imagine it’ll be in the £35-£45m as the top end of the range. He also mentioned that they aren’t wanting to turn over the squad too much and Kongolo is most likely to be priced too high for Town. A lot of interesting stuff in there about the ground and other general interest stuff. Very interesting. £35-45m isn’t so bad if we can get 3-4 quality players. Trouble is ideally we need a new left back, centre back (which is why signing Kongolo might be worth the price as he kills two birds with one stone) and probably two wingers? That relies on finding good value in the foreign market, although no reason why we can’t do that again. Good point about Terence Kongolo. It's like signing 2 players. Lowe needs to up his game but I'm sure he is good enough back up, not sure about Malone. |
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Post by upthetown on Apr 19, 2018 8:21:25 GMT 1
Spoiler alert, if you are interested in listening to this then don’t read any further. Took a walk and listened to this. Fabulous insight and made my walk go quickly. The part I took out of it was that the club spent £50-60m on players and won’t be able to do that again. I imagine it’ll be in the £35-£45m as the top end of the range. He also mentioned that they aren’t wanting to turn over the squad too much and Kongolo is most likely to be priced too high for Town. A lot of interesting stuff in there about the ground and other general interest stuff. I don’t think he really said that. He said we wouldn’t spend £60m without outgoings. I think he is just referring to squad size rather than needing large transfer fee income. |
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Post by drayltonboy (independent) on Apr 19, 2018 8:29:08 GMT 1
All of the players who were signed at the beginning of this season will be on big contracts for at least another season. So, realistically, he can only sell those whose contracts are up this season, as mentioned on other threads. This being so, 35/40 should be all that is required at our level
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Post by Convictatthemac on Apr 19, 2018 8:53:15 GMT 1
Spoiler alert, if you are interested in listening to this then don’t read any further. Took a walk and listened to this. Fabulous insight and made my walk go quickly. The part I took out of it was that the club spent £50-60m on players and won’t be able to do that again. I imagine it’ll be in the £35-£45m as the top end of the range. He also mentioned that they aren’t wanting to turn over the squad too much and Kongolo is most likely to be priced too high for Town. A lot of interesting stuff in there about the ground and other general interest stuff. I don’t think he really said that. He said we wouldn’t spend £60m without outgoings. I think he is just referring to squad size rather than needing large transfer fee income. If you refer to the figure that I prefixed with ‘I imagine’ then you would be correct that he didn’t say that because I was interpreting his talk with saying ‘I imagine’. What I should have added is that the £35-45m figure(that I’m guessing) would be net spend, including the outgoings. I don’t think we will be selling any of our top players unless we have a ready replacement and it was an offer too good to refuse. So having said that, our income from sales will be fairly low which means I can’t see the £35-45m(that I guessed) being that much higher. Sorry if there was any confusion. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 8:55:25 GMT 1
Buying Butterfield for 300k and selling him for nearly 5 million and now he's gone back to be worth 300k again, that lad should have stayed where he was.
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Post by Torquayterrier on Apr 19, 2018 9:21:28 GMT 1
Jamie ''Bad Attitude'' Vardy If we can find our own 'Vardy' for the peanuts Leicester paid for him and it works out as well I'd be delighted. |
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Post by VLP Fan Club on Apr 19, 2018 9:22:40 GMT 1
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Apr 19, 2018 9:25:02 GMT 1
Can anyone summarise what was said? He asked why Terrier96 has an image of a Derby player? |
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Post by Baby Ate My Eight Ball on Apr 19, 2018 9:40:30 GMT 1
Can anyone summarise what was said? No news on the DOF. No plans to increase capacity but working with KSDL to improve the quality of the stadium so that it ‘feels’ Premier League. Master plan for Canalside if we stay up but gave no details. Kongolo is in the shop window and will probably cost too much. One of Dean’s mates is a Halifax fan and recommended vardy to him - he sent Clarky to scout him and Clark said not to buy him as he had a bad attitude. He gets embarrassed when people sing his name. He doesn’t like all the attention hence he’s not done many interviews. Considered going in SS but wouldn’t want the attention. One of his favourite games was the 4-4 at Hillsborough. |
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Post by VLP Fan Club on Apr 19, 2018 9:50:55 GMT 1
Can anyone summarise what was said? He asked why Terrier96 has an image of a Derby player? Changed it before the play off final and its brought us good luck thus far, if we stay up it shall remain until further notice  |
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Post by Torquayterrier on Apr 19, 2018 9:51:17 GMT 1
Wrt money available for players next season that's looking a pretty tight budget for the prem if we are really looking to make a better job than we did this season (assuming we stay up of course). It leaves pretty much no room for error, every signing will have to be a good one and there will be a lot of work to be done in the summer to up our goal threat.
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Post by VLP Fan Club on Apr 19, 2018 9:53:48 GMT 1
Can anyone summarise what was said? No news on the DOF. No plans to increase capacity but working with KSDL to improve the quality of the stadium so that it ‘feels’ Premier League. Master plan for Canalside if we stay up but gave no details. Kongolo is in the shop window and will probably cost too much. One of Dean’s mates is a Halifax fan and recommended vardy to him - he sent Clarky to scout him and Clark said not to buy him as he had a bad attitude. He gets embarrassed when people sing his name. He doesn’t like all the attention hence he’s not done many interviews. Considered going in SS but wouldn’t want the attention. One of his favourite games was the 4-4 at Hillsborough. Thanks! Makes you realise how lucky we are, Canalside is slowly improving and is getting there but the changing facilities and behind the scene areas aren't premier league quite yet and i think the club know this but with the club not expecting to be in the premier league you can forgive them for it not being quite ready just yet! Kongolo was always going to be an expensive buy considering Monaco signed him for £15 million at the start of this season. Vardy is the one that got away in some cases, however, Partying in Halifax till 5am and then playing for Halifax the following day, getting banned from several of the towns pubs and clubs it was going to be a massive risk a risk in hindsight would of paid off. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 10:02:53 GMT 1
Don't forget Rickie Lambert !! Dean admitted he was the one that got away. Shaking his head in disbelief that he thought 27 was too old and acknowledged he singlehandedly got the Saints from L1 to the Premier league!
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Post by isleofmanterrier on Apr 19, 2018 10:50:36 GMT 1
A couple of other interesting things:
•Wagner wants to stay at Town as long as we're in the premier league.
•When asked on Schindlers value, he said he has a value away from the pitch that cannot be put a price on. (My interpretation of that is he will not sell unless a mega offer came in)
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Post by bluedogs, Esq. on Apr 19, 2018 10:58:48 GMT 1
I would say, you have got that the wrong way round.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 10:59:11 GMT 1
Very interesting. £35-45m isn’t so bad if we can get 3-4 quality players. Trouble is ideally we need a new left back, centre back (which is why signing Kongolo might be worth the price as he kills two birds with one stone) and probably two wingers? That relies on finding good value in the foreign market, although no reason why we can’t do that again. Agree that amount of money should be enough as long as we target quality over quantity. I really think that Kongolo would still be worth the money because we know he fits in and has plugged the hole on the left side. Like you say, he kills two birds with one stone. I’d go for a real quality winger if we could obtain one and an AM to compete with Pritchard. There must be less erratic players than Kongolo available in that role at half the supposed price though. For all what he brings that is positive, he seems even more susceptible than Hefele to a total and utter cock up where it looks like he's never kicked a football before! For a left footer he has a very awkward left foot. I'm with you otherwise....a decent full back who ideally can cover Schindler (with Hef currently as backup to Zanka), a decent physical technical winger if available (but bearing in mind we have Kachunga effectively adding to Ince, VLP (and Quaner) here, so it's not hypercritical given we don't know what Ince/Kachunga are likely to be at after a good break and full pre season....winger could be a nice January boost. And then an actual effective equal to Pritchard is second key area, so we aren't throwing Ince in there....someone like Palmer still as a chance to be that player, seems to be over his injury but not getting the minutes so must be more attainable than he was last summer. Or someone else. But on the number 10, I do also like the alternative of packing things a bit deeper as we did late v Watford when introducing Billling without losing Mooy or Hogg. Bearing in mind we'll have Williams back who seems ready made for that "we're a hard tackling defensive unit of 3 but if I get the ball I'll drive forward with it" type role. Tweaks. Kongolo replacement. Pritchard alternate. Someone better or similar to VLP/Ince....in that order. And try and get away with another season out of Hogg but please please please take the armband well away from him. |
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Apr 19, 2018 11:07:56 GMT 1
Agree that amount of money should be enough as long as we target quality over quantity. I really think that Kongolo would still be worth the money because we know he fits in and has plugged the hole on the left side. Like you say, he kills two birds with one stone. I’d go for a real quality winger if we could obtain one and an AM to compete with Pritchard. There must be less erratic players than Kongolo available in that role at half the supposed price though. For all what he brings that is positive, he seems even more susceptible than Hefele to a total and utter cock up where it looks like he's never kicked a football before! For a left footer he has a very awkward left foot. I'm with you otherwise....a decent full back who ideally can cover Schindler (with Hef currently as backup to Zanka), a decent physical technical winger if available (but bearing in mind we have Kachunga effectively adding to Ince, VLP (and Quaner) here, so it's not hypercritical given we don't know what Ince/Kachunga are likely to be at after a good break and full pre season....winger could be a nice January boost. And then an actual effective equal to Pritchard is second key area, so we aren't throwing Ince in there....someone like Palmer still as a chance to be that player, seems to be over his injury but not getting the minutes so must be more attainable than he was last summer. Or someone else. But on the number 10, I do also like the alternative of packing things a bit deeper as we did late v Watford when introducing Billling without losing Mooy or Hogg. Bearing in mind we'll have Williams back who seems ready made for that "we're a hard tackling defensive unit of 3 but if I get the ball I'll drive forward with it" type role. Tweaks. Kongolo replacement. Pritchard alternate. Someone better or similar to VLP/Ince....in that order. And try and get away with another season out of Hogg but please please please take the armband well away from him. Really? Kongolo erratic? Wow |
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Post by VLP Fan Club on Apr 19, 2018 11:11:19 GMT 1
There must be less erratic players than Kongolo available in that role at half the supposed price though. For all what he brings that is positive, he seems even more susceptible than Hefele to a total and utter cock up where it looks like he's never kicked a football before! For a left footer he has a very awkward left foot. I'm with you otherwise....a decent full back who ideally can cover Schindler (with Hef currently as backup to Zanka), a decent physical technical winger if available (but bearing in mind we have Kachunga effectively adding to Ince, VLP (and Quaner) here, so it's not hypercritical given we don't know what Ince/Kachunga are likely to be at after a good break and full pre season....winger could be a nice January boost. And then an actual effective equal to Pritchard is second key area, so we aren't throwing Ince in there....someone like Palmer still as a chance to be that player, seems to be over his injury but not getting the minutes so must be more attainable than he was last summer. Or someone else. But on the number 10, I do also like the alternative of packing things a bit deeper as we did late v Watford when introducing Billling without losing Mooy or Hogg. Bearing in mind we'll have Williams back who seems ready made for that "we're a hard tackling defensive unit of 3 but if I get the ball I'll drive forward with it" type role. Tweaks. Kongolo replacement. Pritchard alternate. Someone better or similar to VLP/Ince....in that order. And try and get away with another season out of Hogg but please please please take the armband well away from him. Really? Kongolo erratic? Wow Agreed with you on this, Natural centre half playing left back and he looks fully assured every time he's under pressure, the word erratic doesnt spring to mind! my only downside to him is that he's not very effective going forward but he is naturally a centre back so its understandable |
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Post by kes on Apr 19, 2018 11:20:12 GMT 1
Can see major changes at Canalside & not just building work if it is to become a Prem standard facility. Inevitably parts will have to become far more secure & isolated from the members.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 11:20:35 GMT 1
Really? Kongolo erratic? Wow Agreed with you on this, Natural centre half playing left back and he looks fully assured every time he's under pressure, the word erratic doesnt spring to mind! my only downside to him is that he's not very effective going forward but he is naturally a centre back so its understandable He did look a bit erratic making that hook shot towards Zanka and LDP in the 91st minute on Saturday. Thankfully Zanka made an erratic pass and Ince scored with an erratic shot. |
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Post by Convictatthemac on Apr 19, 2018 11:47:37 GMT 1
Agree that amount of money should be enough as long as we target quality over quantity. I really think that Kongolo would still be worth the money because we know he fits in and has plugged the hole on the left side. Like you say, he kills two birds with one stone. I’d go for a real quality winger if we could obtain one and an AM to compete with Pritchard. There must be less erratic players than Kongolo available in that role at half the supposed price though. For all what he brings that is positive, he seems even more susceptible than Hefele to a total and utter cock up where it looks like he's never kicked a football before! For a left footer he has a very awkward left foot. I'm with you otherwise....a decent full back who ideally can cover Schindler (with Hef currently as backup to Zanka), a decent physical technical winger if available (but bearing in mind we have Kachunga effectively adding to Ince, VLP (and Quaner) here, so it's not hypercritical given we don't know what Ince/Kachunga are likely to be at after a good break and full pre season....winger could be a nice January boost. And then an actual effective equal to Pritchard is second key area, so we aren't throwing Ince in there....someone like Palmer still as a chance to be that player, seems to be over his injury but not getting the minutes so must be more attainable than he was last summer. Or someone else. But on the number 10, I do also like the alternative of packing things a bit deeper as we did late v Watford when introducing Billling without losing Mooy or Hogg. Bearing in mind we'll have Williams back who seems ready made for that "we're a hard tackling defensive unit of 3 but if I get the ball I'll drive forward with it" type role. Tweaks. Kongolo replacement. Pritchard alternate. Someone better or similar to VLP/Ince....in that order. And try and get away with another season out of Hogg but please please please take the armband well away from him. I wouldn’t say erratic, he’s a young guy coming into arguably the best league in the world and I think his upside potential is top 6. If Monaco paid £13.5m for him then I can’t imagine that they will part with him for less than £18m for him. Since he’s been in the side I’ve felt we have been tighter at the back and a better team for having him. That all said, if we can’t afford him then a very solid LB who can go forward would be welcomed, not sure who we could get but I have no doubt we will have an eye on a cheap yet good prospect. When it comes to the winger, we need an upgrade on RVLP/Ince and co. We need someone who has an end product because that’s been where we have struggled this season. I hope we break our transfer record on this position. |
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