Ham Green":mrq5fugg said:
I can just see it now. We get 1.5M for Ladapo, Adams spends it on five players, a "wee nugget" with a long injury record, two defenders from Macclesfield reserves with six senior games between them, and two experienced pro's who end up playing all their games in the SWPL. Followed by Adams lamenting that "we cannae dae any better wi the budget Ahm gi'en".
Yes, because managers just get a real buzz out of selling their best players and having to rely on a continual squad of revolving uncontracted freebies. It's one of the great pleasures of the industry, having the expectations of success on your shoulders and losing your best signings all the time to bigger clubs.
IF we did sell Ladapo for £1.5m, it will mean a player Adams signed for nothing in a bargain bucket 6 months ago will have made the club a small fortune. Which makes your point about DA signings playing SWPL football or having injury records slightly redundant. Freddie is one of the division's top scorers, he's played nothing but first team football and hasn't had an injury yet.
"Wee nugget" was also Sturrock's phrase, not Adams, so if you're going to mock our manager try not to use press snippets from 2001 made by another manager.