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Based on?

Fucking lol.

I really want him up against those big teams in Europe. Please!!!

@Saint_lambden there you go.

It was a hypothetical extreme example to make a point. Using your own logic we'd be unable to make judgements about players and the people who brought them to the club until we had seen them play for a long period for saints- possibly even the end of the season.

40 million with a sell on and Dibling off to palace would be good business.

Right and I've seen Fellows and Spertsyan play. What's your point.

You're making no sense at all. Hypothetically if we signed Haaland I'd be applauding the club for their ambition and for signing a good player. He could still turn out not to play very well for us. How is that a difficult concept for you to grasp?

I don't agree with you that it's rash unless you wait until the end of the season to judge players. Of course we should judge Spors on how signings perform. Still has some responsibility as well of course.

Of course any judgement will have limitations. I don't think it will happen but I'm happy to say that Spertsyan looks to be a really good ambitious signing for a club like us. He may sign and then be rubbish but I can still applaud the club for their dealings in the transfer market. Similarly someone like fellows with a proven record of success in this division is likely to do very well for us this year if we signed him.

Of course it's a big two weeks for him. It's his job to improve the squad. Two years ago we brought in two players in particular who were starters and improved the team immediately without any need to acclimatise to the country or develop. That's the standard that he will be judged against. Can we bring in those two or three players that will hit the ground running, slot straight into the team and be decent replacements for those who will inevitably leave. We will see that fairly soon after the window closes if not earlier. We don't have to wait till the end of the season to make a comparison to between those types of signings.

You realise expressing an opinion on a transfer window isn't a definitive writing off of any players or managers right? Absolutely bizarre that you wouldn't expect anyone to comment about a transfer window at the end of it. This is an Internet messageboard. You'd be better off logging off till May and then weighing in with your definitive opinion on how Spors has done.

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If that were the case then why put a deadline of responding this evening? You'd just keep stringing it along.

Skacel was my favourite because it actually happened and he was mostly crap.

Yeah Manning is a bad example for me and is more of a Quarshie type signing albeit with previous league experience.

Also they haven't responded to the offer but presumably will this evening? Why wait? And why tell some random Armenian on social media that you will make an announcement later that day?

It's all about when we decide that those players aren't going to happen and we move on to other targets. As long as we get quality in and also decent replacements for the good players who will leave that will immediately. Improve us I'll be happy. Not long left to do that though and the link to the winger yesterday isn't the level of player I'd be looking for in that bracket. Personally I'd like to see us make a big bid for fellows. That's the sort of player I think would improve us immediately. I don't necessarily disagree with signing downs and Quarshie (although in downs' case I would have liked to have seen a more reliable goalscorer signed for that position and a proper Adams replacement) but we must admit that they are quite different players to the ones we signed last time and are more viewed as players with good attributes who have the potential to move up the leagues with us.

Quite possibly but presumably the player isn't too upset about it.

I'll be the first person to congratulate the club if we pulled something like that off. The other side of things is when we signed proven top championship quality like Downes and THB that got us promoted. I'm hoping we recognise when the chance of anything happening is remote and we move elsewhere and down the list.

Right so as suspected it's all a load of bollocks. Look elsewhere.

Which of those were signed by Wilcox and which of those were signed in the championship?

That's the basis I'd be judging him on too. Downes and THB were absolute quality loans with options to buy and they had an immediate positive impact. That's the type of players Spors needs to bring in over the next fortnight or he will have performed clearly worse than Wilcox.

Big two weeks for Spors to prove his worth. Despite some oddballs suggesting we have to wait till the end of the season to judge him, I think it will be reasonable to cast a preliminary judgement on how he's performed this window with shifting deadwood and bringing in new talent.

Like oreily, Gakpo etc.