Plymouth bid 750k for Jatta

[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.

[The_Pie_Man]

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.

That theory is fine - I doubt anyone can question the logic behind the idea, if indeed that is what the owners are doing. Sustainability is key. However, we must not lose sight of the facts.

This is the weakest League 2 in many years - you do not have *big* teams with a budget exceeding anyone else. There is no Wrexham, or Stockport, or even the Stags, whose spending is at a higher level. The fact Walsall are 12 points clear with a game in hand, with Crewe and Vale coming next says it all! There is plenty of dross in this league and we have a tremendous opportunity to go up this year, potentially automatically. It would be extremely disappointing to throw that away by flogging our best players to fit a so called *process*.

I am not criticising the owners, but they need to be careful what they wish for.

[Notts78]

I think under any other regime I?d be bothered about selling key players - not that it happened often. Under this regime they have consistently found gems and there is no reason to think this wouldn?t carry on.
We seem to go through this every January now? Woots, Ruben, Macca, JJ and now Jatta (there may be others) - the reality is we have only let one key player leave in January and that?s because he wanted too. My gut is that the bros will only sell in January if an inflated offer is received or the player himself says let me go.
Folk calling the bros and the way they run the club out is quite frankly embarrassing