How good were PW new signings

[caytonmiller]

No I would prefer it if we had money to buy better than them.

400k is our record for ladepo and it hasn't been bettered in what 3/4 years.

400k in the championship is a joke.

Nevermind a record signing who doesn't even play for you anymore

You would prefer to buy better than who we have. Feel free to contribute.
How much was ogbene, barlaser, rathbone, Viktor. Would it make you feel better if we had paid a million for each.
Easy spending other folks money and don't give me TS had the chance to take on investors or its TS job to fund the club. It's pure greeting wanting what you don't have. Geez why are glass half empty folk always wanting more

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

You would prefer to buy better than who we have. Feel free to contribute.
How much was ogbene, barlaser, rathbone, Viktor. Would it make you feel better if we had paid a million for each.
Easy spending other folks money and don't give me TS had the chance to take on investors or its TS job to fund the club. It's pure greeting wanting what you don't have. Geez why are glass half empty folk always wanting more

I agree

Could it be possible that higher offers were made but the players concerned were not interested to come to Rotherham?

Or Rob Scott identified some higher value players but Paul Warne's committee didn't want them?

We will never know

[caytonmiller]

This season signings have been really poor expect Humphries. We fetched in 2 strikers that have failed in this league already that are coming to end of their careers, Eaves on a 3 year deal just crazy. Too many old heads at the with no pace.

I disagree on saying both strikers have failed. Tbh I'm not a massive fan of Washington but I wouldn't deem him a failure. His workrate and the 2 goals he has scored are on par with what most of the squad has done.
Smith was deamed a failure in the championship after scoring 5 goals. He then Scores 20 plus goals in league 1, we get promotion and everyone is telling TS to push the boat out and extend his contract. If Washington carries on he will score more goals than Smith did. Eaves on the other hand,. Wow. We have him for 3 years. Really

[caytonmiller]

Above average.

Luton Town spent 2 million on a striker pre season
He was one off the 47 players who attracted a fee

Above average your having a laugh

You should have used Sunderland as a example. 10 million on a Tottenham player plus 3 undisclosed fees for West ham, Berlin, arsenal players and 3 loans from psg, man u and Everton...

Oh wait,. They are below is in the league. Not a great example hmmmmmm

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

You should have used Sunderland as a example. 10 million on a Tottenham player plus 3 undisclosed fees for West ham, Berlin, arsenal players and 3 loans from psg, man u and Everton...

Oh wait,. They are below is in the league. Not a great example hmmmmmm

and if they had a home support of 8000 fans it would have to follow a bout of the black death

[Masbroughstreet]

Could it be possible that higher offers were made but the players concerned were not interested to come to Rotherham?

Probably, you can’t force players to sign. An example being Lewis Grabban, an excellent player at this level, albeit towards the end of his career, he wouldn’t have been cheap but he declined us straight away this summer before we even got as far as offering him anything.

Paul Warne signed the best players he could get with the budget he had out of the players who were willing to come. If he’d been able to get better ones then he would’ve. Every manager at every club signs the best he can get and they would all sign better players if they could.

[mellowmiller]

I agree

Could it be possible that higher offers were made but the players concerned were not interested to come to Rotherham?

Or Rob Scott identified some higher value players but Paul Warne's committee didn't want them?

We will never know

Just for clarification, it wasn't Paul Warne's transfer committee. That idea came from Tony Stewart and the number of people involved in making a decision was something of a frustration for PW.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Just for clarification, it wasn't Paul Warne's transfer committee. That idea came from Tony Stewart and the number of people involved in making a decision was something of a frustration for PW.

Yet PW said “ we all have to agree”, no real indication that he was frustrated about it

[Derbymiller]

Yet PW said “ we all have to agree”, no real indication that he was frustrated about it

Agreed Grist, there is no evidence that PW was unhappy with the recruitment process, in fact his interviews came across as if he was supportive of a group decision process. Seems to me that some on here want to protect the PW image no matter what by re-writing history. He did a very good job for us in L1 (that is why Derby recruited him), the squad of players at Rotherham United are a PW squad, to say they are not is rose tinted madness, he was in charge for 6 years!!!. I think we would all agree that PW and previous managers were frustrated with the budgetary limits imposed, the counter to that is our club has financial stability, our players get paid and we don't have to sell the family silver to keep the lights on.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Agreed Grist, there is no evidence that PW was unhappy with the recruitment process, in fact his interviews came across as if he was supportive of a group decision process. Seems to me that some on here want to protect the PW image no matter what by re-writing history. He did a very good job for us in L1 (that is why Derby recruited him), the squad of players at Rotherham United are a PW squad, to say they are not is rose tinted madness, he was in charge for 6 years!!!. I think we would all agree that PW and previous managers were frustrated with the budgetary limits imposed, the counter to that is our club has financial stability, our players get paid and we don't have to sell the family silver to keep the lights on.

In addition there’s no real evidence that a higher budget wasn’t available. It could have been there but not used