Quote Originally Posted by tomytony View Post
Just a thought.

Had Adkins/Clough/Wierd just overseen the same tranfer window as CW what would the reactions be?
None of them had the ability TT to convince McCabe not to sell the family silver. CW remains in credit for that. None of them had Mitchell either a much better scout than Cloughs brother who only scouted where he went on holiday - Scotland. Adkins would never have gone for the lower league players and we would have had to sell Brooks to fund expensive has beens.

Overall its been ok but thats probably down to CW and Mitchell having a lot of influence over the type of players we've gone for. Those doing the negotiating need to be much better in the next transfer window. We're in the championship now and fees and wages have gone up considerably in this window alone. We're not going to get away with offering a paltry £250k as an opening bid for a player still in contract in League 1 anymore. Sitting and hoping Clubs will cave in just because we're a bigger club, think Southend won't work either.

We need to be wiser about agents, we lost out on three players at the death, we need to avoid former players who use us to get better deals, Holmes and we need to stop the habit of silly bids, Coady. Its a learning curve and looking at CW's face at 11.30 pm last night he will make sure mistakes are not repeated.