Plymouth bid 750k for Jatta

[maddogslater]

What I find bizarre is a poster switching between user name accounts on the same thread 🤔

[Elite_Pie]

What I find bizarre is a poster switching between user name accounts on the same thread 🤔

To be fair, he made sure there was thefulltenyards between posts!

[SwalePie]

To be fair, he made sure there was thefulltenyards between posts!

[1955pie]

Of the 3 clubs mentioned, if Jatta were to move I think his best choice would be Bolton.
Although they may well be in the same division as us next season.
Best to stay with us AJ.

[Big Bob]

Surely we can't let him go and lose another good player when we're trying to get promotion. Doesn't make sense

[Mud Pie]

hope AJ's agent's post is genuine. It does seem that he's happy at Notts from the outside...

There's lots to argue from Notts' POV: the speed of his integration into the English game, their belief in him to bring him over, the sharp curve of his development under Maynard and the coaches, and Notts' technical style. Probably also McGoldrick's influence, and the potential for greater gains (than Plymouth!) in his future - especially if/when we get promoted this year.

But you never know how a person thinks from watching them on telly, some people are very immediate and $$$. This doesn't look like that kind of situation to me from what I gather online, but it's realistically only a matter of time before he gets bought.

And it could be worse, it could MKD splashing that kind of cash in his face.

[the_anticlough]

Can't we see if he's the new George Weah before letting the likes of Plymouth have potentially a multi-million pound player

The only players I can name from those 5 West African countries between Senegal and Ivory Coast are Titi Camara and George Weah. Just checked and Weah was a year older than AJ when he first stepped foot in Italy...

This is all tongue in cheek but I suspect there's far more potential, and money, in our Centre-forward than the figure quoted.
If we keep AJ we will be playing Plymouth next season.

[i961pie]

Certainly hasn't been reinvested in the playing squad YET as we know for a fact we aren't getting a seasoned pro to replace Crowley like we need instead we are expecting basically kids with barely a professional game in men's football to replace him and we have been crying out for god knows how long sine Macca left for another striker which so far hasn't materalised.

You mean kids with barely a game in men's professional football like George Abbott?

[irishpete]

Seen a rumour that Jatta was supposed to sign for Bolton yesterday. The word was used so who knows??

[slack_pie]

And this is sort of the point.

I don't want Jatta to go either (let's get out there early). But...

As I interpret the strategy, it is not to get promotion but it is to get sustainable promotion where, once we go up we have the funds to bring our squad up to the standard required to stay up. The experts within the club will have a clearer idea than us who can make the step up and who will need to be replaced, and how much it will cost. And it won't necessarily be our most effective players who are most able to take the step up. I'd say that Jatta will be able to make the step up but the point/strategy is not about Jatta, it is about the funds he will generate on sale to grow the team and the finances. "And so it goes" as Billy Pilgrim would say

I'd watch and support Notts whether we're at Wembley or Ebbsfleet, but on the whole I'd rather be doing a Brentford.

The bros are bit like value investors but in football rather than the stock market. They see a player whose market value seems to be below their actual value for whatever reason, give them a platform to shine, and then sell them on for their actual value, or even at a premium. Buy low, sell high, repeat. In the process, the club benefits from quality players coming and going and hopefully climbs up the pyramid slowly but surely.

Every decision is about extracting maximum value, whether that's recruitment or tactics.