Why Do We Keep Buying So Badly?

Blue Beard · **Joined:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:12 pm **Posts:** 694

I mentioned this in another thread and it got me thinking.

We have wasted a lot of money - either in transfer fees, wages or both - on a lot of players recently.

Behan, Yantorno, McSweeney, Boyd, Kyle, Luscombe, Nish, Parker, Mackay, Donaldson...

The list goes on and I'm sure you could add to the throng of obscurity and mediocrity.

But it begs the question...why?

Is it poor scouting? No scouting? Poor choices by management?
Poor communication between the staff?

tucker · **Posted:** Fri Aug 24, 2012 8:58 pm

I dont think its just our club who do this, I think you will find the majority of clubs go through players like this.....

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

signing a player at our level, mostly rejected by other clubs always carries an element of risk, for every dimi n porter you get those above.

offshorepoolie · **Joined:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:32 pm **Posts:** 6011

Thought McSweeney was decent and never got a fair crack of the whip myself

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

offshorepoolie wrote:

Thought McSweeney was decent and never got a fair crack of the whip myself

One of the few players we had who had pace and could control and run with a ball. Something were badly missing.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

del horno is 1 of only 4 spanish players to have won a premier league title...

anyone name the other 3 without cheating?

Joe Mac · **Posted:** Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:20 pm

David silva?

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

3 out of 4

Ritchies birthmark · **Joined:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:31 am **Posts:** 5637

Fabragas??

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Ritchies birthmark · **Joined:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:31 am **Posts:** 5637

pique?? Can't remember many Spanish players at title winning prem sides at all

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:37 pm

I've heard this question before and I'm sure one of the answers is Jordi Cruyff, Spanish Passport holder wouldn't have got anywhere near Man United's first team without his old fella!

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:55 pm

PJ_Poolie wrote:

I've heard this question before and I'm sure one of the answers is Jordi Cruyff, Spanish Passport holder wouldn't have got anywhere near Man United's first team without his old fella!

Can I just clarify that non of us would have amounted to much in life or in fact anything at all without at least one decent ejaculation from our old fella. But if my Dad was Johan Cruyff I reckon I'd put that on my CV.

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:07 am

Its not just buying players that we seem to struggle with. We dont typically do well in the loan market either. How many times do we see other league 1 sides with decent loan signings who look head and shoulders above the rest of the players on the pitch.

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:14 am

Grave wrote:

Its not just buying players that we seem to struggle with. We dont typically do well in the loan market either. How many times do we see other league 1 sides with decent loan signings who look head and shoulders above the rest of the players on the pitch.

Rarely.

League One loan signing's are normally young lads from Premiership and Championship clubs. Name one recently, the better sides don't rely on loan players. One in ten probably make an impact.

Roy O'Donovan made sure we didn't get relegated a couple of seasons ago so I'd say on that one alone we've done OK.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Ritchies birthmark wrote:

pique?? Can't remember many Spanish players at title winning prem sides at all

Correct

Ritchies birthmark · **Joined:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:31 am **Posts:** 5637

Can't beleive ya made me wait all night lol.

To keep up with the trivia and no cheating......

10 players have played for both man u and Newcastle in the prem, name them?

parmo · **Posted:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:22 am

I also think it's more to do with comnections in the game at the top level clubs etc... Turner/Cooper/Wadsworth do/did have them but only occasionally has it got us what we needed at the time.

Merson got some cracking loans at Walsall on the day they beat us 3-1 at home to almost scupper our play off chances.
Alhtough P[ools were below par, players like Joachim and Surman were simply too good for us that day.... bizarre that they were even at a mid table league one side with nothing to play for admittedly, but almost certainly if Merson hadn't been their manager then they wouldn't have gone there in the first place

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:25 am

Obertan
Owen
Cole
Simpson
Butt

parmo · **Posted:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:26 am

they've all played for Pools?? (chortle)

Ritchies birthmark · **Joined:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:31 am **Posts:** 5637

5/10 mister b

Joe Mac · **Posted:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:30 am

Alan Smith
Rossi

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:40 am

Gillespie

parmo · **Posted:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:41 am

Rochdale

Ritchies birthmark · **Joined:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:31 am **Posts:** 5637

pooliestreetband · **Posted:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 11:43 am

Ritchies birthmark · **Joined:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:31 am **Posts:** 5637

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6473

Ronny Johnson

Blue Beard · **Joined:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:12 pm **Posts:** 694

The entire Malaga squad...

dykey · **Posted:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 9:23 pm

Ernie Taylor

Ritchies birthmark · **Joined:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:31 am **Posts:** 5637

Fensy wrote:

Ronny Johnson

And that's the 10

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