They've done good business selling players brought in to the club under previous regimes but done awful business when replacing those players because they've not increased the spend on the individual players brought in they've gone for the buy cheap in bulk option and bloated the squad with substandard punts it is a trend started during Conway's "best transfer window ever" and continued by the current DoF and Owners. It's no coincidence that the only player to look anything like good enough consistently from last season's recruitment was the one they spent a bit of money on DKD.
Fair enough looking back we seemed to get in alot of transfer fees. Potts,Moore,pinnock, lindsay etc in 6 months and did it all get reinvested? Schmidt was a poor signing.
I remember at the time we tried to sign Ivan toney and we bid more than our record transfer fee. Posh didn't want to sell to us. We then seemed to go full scatter gun with it. Awful recruitment. But I'm not sure the money all went back to rebuilding the squad.
I mean, for a very small fee, and very few opportunities, he did score a couple of really important goals, played a part in an extraordinary great escape. As for a striker (or strikers) we’ve improved - Woodrow scored loads having not done previously, Moore the same, Morris, Cole…
Peterborough paid £650 000 for him and sold him for 5million I doubt we were ever in the race to sign him from Peterborough. May have been from Northampton before he went to Newcastle.
Player trading has been reasonably successful over the last 6 years. Overall profit up to the end of the accounts to 2024 is £13.1m. Overall losses amount to just short of £22m over the same period. Despite the fact that the club has averaged over £2m pa in transfer profit the losses have dwarfed that figure at around £3.75m pa.
I get that schmidt scored some important goals that kept us in the league. Most of the time he never impacted a game enough when he was on the field. I'd argue if we had signed better players as opposed to loads of gambles with no experience we might not have needed to be in a "great escape" same for Clarke odour who last time I looked couldn't get a game in league two, schmidt now plays in Austria and doesn't score many there.
Barry Fry tells the story. We put in a record bid and Ivan Toney really wanted to come here, this was just after his loan ended. But Fry told him "if you stay here for one more year I'll make you a millionaire next year." And he did!
We could have got him in the summer of 2019, following promotion. It was between him and Mallik Wilks. The coaching team at the time preferred Wilks. He was cheaper, younger and more versatile was the thought-process. They’d both just enjoyed similar League One campaigns in terms of goal contributions. Looks foolish with hindsight. But at the time, it didn’t. Lots of threads on here at the time saying Toney wasn’t all that, based on his brief loan spell here as a teenager. Wilks had just scored 16 goals with 12 assists in a Donny side that reached the playoffs. Sadly, Wilks scored once in 15 games and was bombed out on loan whilst Toney lit up the division below scoring 7 in the first 7 games, being named EFL POTY and eventually going to Brentford for a deal worth £5,000,000 a year later.
What I've learned from this thread. No one knows the exact fees recieved/paid for almost anyone. So many different quotes. Mine is spot on. Undisclosed.
Key word in above “hindsight”, same as the two lads from Leeds who at the time most thought were good signings for us but turned out not to be. We’d be flying high if we could use hindsight to sign players.
Darragh Mcantony says different.. He said he had both Toney and his dad in his office begging him (his words) For him to be able to join Barnsley. He said stick with me a bit longer and I'll get you a better move and more money.. Went to Brentford so good for his word. The fee after all the add ons were nearer 9 million..
You see people can dress that up which ever which way they want.. But at the end of the day, it's just bad management
Well, we've got through one Transfer Window and DKD is still here, so we're safe for a few more days.
