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Mohamed Dräger
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Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
I'm not so sure this guy has been a 'drain' - we signed him in the champ from our friends, received world cup money, loan fees and there's a purchase option on him. More like creative accounting in this case I suspect.
Edit: and I'll add to that it probably links with us signing another favourite bomb squadron in Hwang - seems that one club will 'help' the other out when they are in a better financial position.
Edit: and I'll add to that it probably links with us signing another favourite bomb squadron in Hwang - seems that one club will 'help' the other out when they are in a better financial position.
Statto
Free Kick Specialist
If our FFP limits are more than Oly's and we can afford it without pushing our squad with worse players than we could afford without doing it then it makes sense for the clubs to help each other by distributing players. I think we got Cafu from Oly as well as a few others and they got Bowler and Hwang on loan from us.
Other clubs where they have similar/shared ownership have been doing it for years, one season Watford had most of the squad on loan from Udinese, indeed the Pozzos signed some of those and just loaned them straight to Watford which presumably meant Watford didn't need to pay the transfer fee or player's wages / signing on fee. They did the same with Granada as they own them all, though I think that season meant that the league tightened the number of players one club could loan from another and then the limits of the number of loans in the squad at all.
As for Drager, yes he has got us WC money, loan fees etc without actually really playing at all for us, and if we do sell him before his deal is up we'll get the transfer money too. We've done similar with other players in recent years.
Slim Jim
First Team Squad
Ashley
Steve Chettle
Who?
DapperDan
Steve Chettle
Our longest serving right back
Redemption
Chief Eye Roller
FC Basel regularl Champions League fodder.
Ashley
Steve Chettle
That fact is a particularly grim one.
Its another one off the books at least I guess.
Retro
Geoff Thomas
Hmm why did they delete the tweet?
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
Nah, Finn Back is still with us and has played more first team football than this lad.
Ashley
Steve Chettle
Assuming it was at Basel's request as they haven't formally announced it yet:
Alf-engelos Mindminackers
The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
I still stand by my original appraisal of this completely obviously pointless signing....
Honestly, thank God we're having such a sensible window for a change, coz cluttering our wage bill up for years with daft agent/goon-driven random punts has been our biggest mistake in the past few years.
Good riddance and take our "let's take an ill-researched punt on X player" MO with you.
Honestly, thank God we're having such a sensible window for a change, coz cluttering our wage bill up for years with daft agent/goon-driven random punts has been our biggest mistake in the past few years.
Good riddance and take our "let's take an ill-researched punt on X player" MO with you.
Berkshire Red
Jack Armstrong
He wasn't in Nottingham very much, Alf. Spent most of his time out on loan. Doesn't look like he cost us very much at all, in fact we may have even made a profit on him!
Samba's Water Bottle
First Team Squad
They've signed Lewis Grabban?
Well. Ross Wilson really is a genius!
And that was a very satisfying move too! 