Friday 28 November 2008

Bad business

It's got to stop. The continuing merry-go-round of players won't help us get the points we need to avoid relegation. We have to get some continuity in the squad as well as the preferred eleven. Yesterday's loan activity, frankly, was a major disappoint for me. 

On reflection, I think the real news was that Luke Varney has been sold to Derby albeit in the shape of a loan move until the transfer window opens. His and Derby's comments reflect that. As if to off-set the sale of one of our most promising players - let's face it he was just that in spite of his run of misses in front of goal - we have signed Deon Burton. I can't dress this up as anything other than it is - an act of short-term desperation. Parky needs to make a comment about Dickson and Fleetwood here. They haven't been given a fair crack of the whip and if they offer us nothing more than Deon Burton then they must be finished, just like him. 

Many will be pleased to see Varney go but not me. He is still young and under a different management may yet blossom. Perhaps we will get a decent fee but I believe we will live to rue yesterday. 

4 comments:

  1. I don't see much point in giving Fleetwood a go, He has hardly set Cheltenham and Brighton alight. In fact Cheltenham were glad to get shot of him.

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  2. Dave - I too am sorry to see Varney go .. but it cant be a conincidence that the supposed fee involved (£1.5 million) is almost identical to the pay-off that Pardew is said to be getting for being a failure ... so we have sold promise to pay for failure
    I am not optimistic about our chances, despite an much improved performance against QPR

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  3. "Perhaps we will get a decent fee but I believe we will live to rue yesterday"

    15th December, probably...

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  4. If we get £1.5m I'll be surprised. It will be a sad irony if one of our most promising players and last reasonable assets has to be sold just to pay Pardew off.

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