Aaron Nemane signs on loan from Man City

[craig 5,199]

Underwhelmed, not least because it's a loan signing again. Let's hope this doesn't presage the Warburton pattern of assembling a guns for hire team. Vladimir Weiss apart, most loanees have no affinity with the club.

 

Bartley seemed to have an affinity

[craig 5,199]

So what do we do? Never try anybody because everybody will play 10 men behind the ball? He's as good a bet as anything likely to be available at a reasonable price and netted 2 in one game against the unmentionables and another against the sheep when his team are likely playing 9 men behind the ball and he's up there battling it out alone against an entire defence.

 

Everybody is a gamble but he has a proven record playing in a side creating little in the way of chances.

 

And therein lies the difference. His team playing 9 men behind the ball is exactly why he gets more opportunities. The fact that his opponents dont play 9 behind the ball opens up opportunities for him.

[Frankie 8,172]

We employed Mark Allen for his knowledge of such players so I think we have to trust his judgement here.

 

On the surface it seems strange we're signing someone on loan for the development team but I suspect that's to try and temper expectations a tad. In other words, if he features for the first team (and I think he will soon enough) and does well, great we can extend his loan and/or offer him a full-time contract for next summer. If he doesn't then there's no real loss.

 

Of course we all want quality international players instead of unknown youngsters but not every signing is going to be like that.

[Bill 13,717]

We should be an Under25 side with maybe only 2 or 3 older experienced pros.

 

The economic reality is the majority of our first team squad need to have sell-on value.

 

A fine idea if you're happy aspiring to be second best.

[JFK-1 1,675]

And therein lies the difference. His team playing 9 men behind the ball is exactly why he gets more opportunities. The fact that his opponents dont play 9 behind the ball opens up opportunities for him.

 

But there's another side to that coin. With Motherwell he's often a lone wolf trying to take on an entire defence single handed and still getting goals. In our team he will be supported by a pack of assistants drawing bodies off creating more space/options for him.

 

And at the ed of the day what else are we supposed to do? Never sign any strikers at all because what's the point when they will be playing against a wall of 10 men? If that were the case it would have been pointless signing Morelos too because I doubt he was playing against 10 man walls in Finland.