Jørgen Strand Larsen

samprior said:
Yes I'd rather have a player who's willing to be here. But not if that's going to cost us almost 50m for a distinctly average player for whom it looks like we'll be able to provide no service to.

The incoming manager will then be stuck with him and have no funds.
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But, it's not £50m nowhere near it.
 
samprior said:
I don't understand it. We've finally managed to make profit with our 'but potential' philosophy, only to now waste it all on mediocre 'established' players. It's very infuriating and very depressing. A change in approach that I can't see ending well.
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The only thing is can think of is that, having done it once to completion, Parish doesn't want to start all over again with a core of untried young hopefuls, and instead is trying to assemble a squad that is good to go right now. This he is doing by trying to directly replace outgoing players with ones who, whilst unlikely to be as good, might nevertheless be expected to pick up where their direct predecessor left off to some degree.

Sarr was a direct replacement for Olise. Pino for Eze. Larsen for Mateta. He tried to get one for Guehi in the summer, and only kept the player when he couldn't.

That's the only explanation I can find for this outlay.

Nothing against the player. Hopefully he'll do well. It just seems so much money, especially when we have other options in his position.
 
I’ve never been sadder about a signing than this one. This is the worst piece of business I’ve ever seen from any club. One goal this season, from the penalty spot, and we are smashing our transfer record to sign him. Just truly awful value. This guy is Conor Wickham in disguise…

£30m for Nketiah, £35m for Brennan Johnson, £48m for Grand Larceny… There is simply no way anyone will ever pay more than those amounts to buy them off us. So why are we paying these transfer fees? Who is agreeing these deals? Just extraordinary.
 
Peter de Lisle said:
I’ve never been sadder about a signing than this one. This is the worst piece of business I’ve ever seen from any club. One goal this season, from the penalty spot, and we are smashing our transfer record to sign him. Just truly awful value. This guy is Conor Wickham in disguise…

£30m for Nketiah, £35m for Brennan Johnson, £48m for Grand Larceny… There is simply no way anyone will ever pay more than those amounts to buy them off us. So why are we paying these transfer fees? Who is agreeing these deals? Just extraordinary.
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Worse than City paying £100m for Grealish. Worse than Barcelona spending over £100m for Coutinho? Worse than Arsenal signing Pepe for £70m?

Really let’s get some perspective here. It’s a net spend of about £10m, once you take into account JPM’s fee, for a younger player who plenty of premier league clubs have been interested in.
 
This is a shocker of a transfer, Im sorry I do not like to throw anyone under the bus whether he is a new signing or not, and genuinally hope JSL comes good, but I cannot see it.

What get me though is the point many others have already made, when fans see the club break their transfer record (or get near to it) they are always licking their lips at anticipation of watching their new arrival....as we did when Benteke, Sakho, Wharton et-al all rocked up at SP.

I am literally struggling to find 1% of excitement about JSL, and when I think of the £48m package being agreed, I am almost having heart palpitations.

Yes, I did tune in yesterday to watch him play, or should I say come on a sub because he hasnt even been a starter for Wolves since last November and yesterday I saw why, with two disgusting misses. And I dont care what anyone says about him having his head turned, a professional footballer is just that and there are a million reasons why he would have wanted to hit the net when presented with two glorious chances, not least to sign off on a high note with the Wolves fans.

Speaking of which, as I mentioned Friday, my Wolves Brother-in-Law is naturally laughing his head off at todays news about the deal being completed within 24 hrs. He also added that even last season when scoring a few goals (6 pens) the fans were divided about him because of him going missing for long periods of games, and him being a "one in six performance" player.

God help us.
 
JHB said:
Worse than City paying £100m for Grealish. Worse than Barcelona spending over £100m for Coutinho? Worse than Arsenal signing Pepe for £70m?

Really let’s get some perspective here. It’s a net spend of about £10m, once you take into account JPM’s fee, for a younger player who plenty of premier league clubs have been interested in.
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Those were all awful deals. The big difference is they're by clubs who can afford a big mistake. We can't.

Yes net spend isn't bad. But that doesn't mean you pay it. I don't think he's awful, just distinctly average and we're paying way over the odds. Whilst being left with a small squad and no funds.

For the fee, in order to be a success, he'll need to score about 12-15 goals a season for a few years and eventually leave for a similar fee or more. Good luck to him with the current lack of service. The way we're playing at the moment I'd say there's more chance of him playing against Wolves next season.

At the end of the day I'll of course support him if he comes and I would love to be proven staggeringly wrong. I'll be praying every night that I am 😂🙏...so far I've signed up to 6 different local religious institutions to help out with this.
 
JHB said:
Worse than City paying £100m for Grealish. Worse than Barcelona spending over £100m for Coutinho? Worse than Arsenal signing Pepe for £70m?

Really let’s get some perspective here. It’s a net spend of about £10m, once you take into account JPM’s fee, for a younger player who plenty of premier league clubs have been interested in.
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I was trying to calculate the net figure spent on transfers earlier as thought it would be negligible , Thanks for confirming that’s the case , I’ll be happy once the transfer window closes and the players can clear their heads and get back on form , The new players should be given the chance to prove the doubters wrong .
 
samprior said:
Those were all awful deals. The big difference is they're by clubs who can afford a big mistake. We can't.

Yes net spend isn't bad. But that doesn't mean you pay it. I don't think he's awful, just distinctly average and we're paying way over the odds. Whilst being left with a small squad and no funds.

For the fee, in order to be a success, he'll need to score about 12-15 goals a season for a few years and eventually leave for a similar fee or more. Good luck to him with the current lack of service. The way we're playing at the moment I'd say there's more chance of him playing against Wolves next season.

At the end of the day I'll of course support him if he comes and I would love to be proven staggeringly wrong. I'll be praying every night that I am 😂🙏...so far I've signed up to 6 different local religious institutions to help out with this.
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I understand but what exactly do fans want? Parish gets it in the neck for not investing money from transfer sales back into the squad. When he does invest it back then he gets it in the neck.
 
JHB said:
Worse than City paying £100m for Grealish. Worse than Barcelona spending over £100m for Coutinho? Worse than Arsenal signing Pepe for £70m?

Really let’s get some perspective here. It’s a net spend of about £10m, once you take into account JPM’s fee, for a younger player who plenty of premier league clubs have been interested in.
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I take this point entirely but, of course, your argument relies on seeing it as a net spend when these are actually two separate deals. We could just do one and not the other.

Its not obvious that we need a direct replacement for Mateta at all, given what we've spent on Nketiah and Johnson, neither of whom had had a run at centre forward.

Given our lack of creativity between the middle and final thirds, it could be argued that even if Larsen is a terrific goal scorer we won't get to see it very often. The money would surely be better spent fixing the supply lines?
 
JHB said:
I understand but what exactly do fans want? Parish gets it in the neck for not investing money from transfer sales back into the squad. When he does invest it back then he gets it in the neck.
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I've not given stick for not investing. Yes we need to get players in but the right profile at the right price. Obviously it's positive that we're willing to invest a lot of money, but how anyone can be happy about spending nearly 85m on two pretty average players is not the way to go in my opinion. The fact we are spending just makes it feel like a huge missed opportunity to grow the squad properly and in all likelihood any new manager is now going to get very limited funds.
 
I for one will be giving the Strand a chance. We all moan that we don’t do business and when we do it’s moaning. Let’s give him at least a half before we c*** him off.

I just have this sneaky feeling that Johnson and the Strand are signings by the next manager.

Also lazy f*** Mateta doesn’t want to be here. The Strand is only costing the short fall from Mateta and I bet the fee is not as much as was reported for Larsen
 
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