Bye Bye Heggem?

[baggieal]

Great Williams featured as to be honest he looked an upgrade on Furlong. I would like to see young players ( playing tonight ) - Whitwell and Bostock given a chance.

Why bring on players like Wallace which weakens the team every-time when youngsters could be given a go!

No objection to Jed being Boiler Man!

[Omegstrat6]

Personally, I think selling Heggem is a mistake. Unless we suddenly start to be able to bang in goals I can foresee a few second halves like our opening game when we end up desperately defending a one goal lead.

With a weak GK, we need a strong defence and yes, both Williams and Campbell sounded promising, but the former has a lot to learn and the latter admits that the transition to the "grind" of the Championship will take time. Caleb did alright on loan but from what I read, he lacks pace and still learning.

Probably all academic by the time I post this, but I thought Phillips and Heggem would work well together and provide us with both the experience and steel needed in our centre backs. Of course the profits would be good from his sale but if we really do need the money, then I'm with Al and would reluctantly rather sell Tom at this time.

[stargazer_1962]

The club is being run at a loss.
You're allowed to lose so many million over a rolling 3 year period. 10's of millions in fact.
If you go over then you're in trouble, so as the club has stated we are not out of the woods and need to act accordingly.
I think the GK position is the most important to fix so if its heggem or fellows, one needs to go to obtain the right GK.
Window shuts end of Sept I think so we will fret until then I guess.
COYB

[WBA123]

Why let one of our best players leave? He and Phillips would have been a strong pairing at the heart of our defence. What worries me is who could be next, Fellows, Price? Not the best way to be building for the future.

This is exactly what we need to be doing as a club. Buying players for 500k and selling them a year later for 10m. Don't get too attached to players, they are commodities to be brought and sold. For far too long now we've held onto players instead of cashing in, Jonny Evans and Berahino come to mind.

Look at teams like Brighton and Brentford, they regularly sell their best players and replace them with their excellent scouting department. These are the sides we need to benchmark ourselves against and copy.

For the first time in a long time, I have got a lot of faith in the people making these decisions at the club. We need to reinvest the Heggem money and do the same thing again. Buy low and sell high.

It should be said, there will be bumps in the road. For every Heggem, there will be a Frabotta. But I'm a lot happier with this model than the one we had 5 years ago which signed Diangana, Grant and Zohore for a combined 30m+.

[soulman101]

Looks like Krystian Bielick the centre half from Blues is going to sign for us .
Also Toby Collyer ,youngster from Man u on loan for the season, he is a midfielder .
Which could the likes of Harry Whitwell going out on loan .
Wrexham are signing a winger from Ipswich for a record ?10m

[Omegstrat6]

Looks like Krystian Bielick the centre half from Blues is going to sign for us .
Also Toby Collyer ,youngster from Man u on loan for the season, he is a midfielder .
Which could the likes of Harry Whitwell going out on loan .
Wrexham are signing a winger from Ipswich for a record ?10m

For £1m, the Bielick move seems a sound one. I know he didn't get regular starts for Blues last season as Davies preferred others before him (which may be a concern?) but he has been a key player for them in the past as well as selected as captain. Certainly he has both experience and positional flexibility (though usually plays as either a central defender or defensive midfielder) which has attracted several clubs. Doubtless him being already settled in the Midlands helped sway it for us.

Don't know too much about Collyer, so looked him up and as a young defensive midfielder with potential, a loan could be good for us to boost squad options.

I'm sure the club will hang onto most of the profits generated by Heggem's sale in order to give us a buffer against PSR (as well as meaning we don't have to similarly cash in on the likes of Price) but with other defensive players now in place, I still think we should be looking first at a decent and proven GK and secondly at a creative midfielder.