Dennis cost 90k

[Mark_Ross]

I'd say £90 would be too good to refuse, let alone £90K.

Note to self : that's not fair. Apologies.

It's just that this season is so frustrating... & could be tragic.

[slack_pie]

"..quality players on a free." Rather an oxymoron, methinks. I know what you're driving at though, if the £300k is accurate-ish we could have bought perhaps two or three decent-ish stalwarts to prop up the defence or add bite in midfield or goal-keep.

Bunging out such a large sum is a risk we can ill-afford if the goods aren't immediately shown to be worth it. He's not on his own though is he? Hemmings and Dennis have yet to live up to their price-tags. Then again, if the manager isn't up to it...

Why is it an oxymoron? Price doesn't always correlate with quality. There are many other factors, including potential, age, time left on a contract, etc., that make up a transfer fee. More often than not it's the selling club driving up the price because a) they don't need or want to sell, and b) they know the buying club have the money and are willing to part with it.

Each year there are countless quality players available for free, not because they're rubbish but because they're out of contract. That's how we signed Hughes, Davies, Bishop, Westcarr, etc.

For a club in L2, it makes more sense to spend 300k on the wages of quality players like those above than on a single player's transfer fee. What happens if he breaks his leg? What happens if he just turns out to be rubbish?

[PedroTheFisherman66]

we don't sign rubbish players !!
they just become rubbish when they get here !!! ( joking!)

[durhampie]

we don't sign rubbish players !!
they just become rubbish when they get here !!! ( joking!)

Do you mean players like Ricky Green and Andy White..

[LaxtonLad]

Why is it an oxymoron? Price doesn't always correlate with quality. There are many other factors, including potential, age, time left on a contract, etc., that make up a transfer fee. More often than not it's the selling club driving up the price because a) they don't need or want to sell, and b) they know the buying club have the money and are willing to part with it.

Each year there are countless quality players available for free, not because they're rubbish but because they're out of contract. That's how we signed Hughes, Davies, Bishop, Westcarr, etc.

For a club in L2, it makes more sense to spend 300k on the wages of quality players like those above than on a single player's transfer fee. What happens if he breaks his leg? What happens if he just turns out to be rubbish?

OK, slack_pie, not really an oxymoron, but you were talking about "free" players and the ones you have mentioned were signed with the idea of almost limitless Munto money paying their wages. I don't know what their wages were but the likes of Schmeikel were earning him enough to buy him an Aston Martin (so the story goes), Lee Hughes was far and away the best striker in League Two and must have been on a fair whack, so bang goes the "free" tag - one way or another you pay for a free player if he's quality.

I think we do agree though, £300,000 for a single player is an extravagance for a L2 club like us and maybe should have been spent on signing two or three less expensive players in more urgent positions.