(24-02-2020, 04:28 PM)Strawberry Avenger Wrote: Recruitment has Forest 5th in the table. And, at times, banging on the door to 2nd place.
That's an improvement on last year.
They did bring in Sow and Samba. They had a better window to bring in better players.
SA.
Some good balanced posts as always SA, esp the one previous.
The thing is, for me what's improved us so much since last year has been Lamouchi & the academy players, Cash & Worrall esp.
Sow, Samba & Ribero have definitely played there part. Recruitment have definitely done OK in the summer. Not great IMO, I think Sow is brill but too injury prone, Samba their biggest hit, & Ribero good but again a little fragile.
But Jan has literally see them make the same mistakes they were making before again at a key time. Unfit or unsuitable players bought in to no immediate positive impact what-so-ever.
My opinion of their signings would be as follows:
Sow - Hit
Ribero - Hit
Samba - Hit
Silva - OK
Ameobi - OK
Chema - OK
Mir - Miss
Bostock - Miss
Semedo - Miss
Muric - Miss
Diakhabi - Miss
Da Costa - Miss
Jenks - Miss
Adomah - Miss
Benalou - Miss
Bong - Miss
Pele - Miss
Bonatini - Miss
Milosovic - Miss
That's an incredibly poor strike ratio IMO. Not all transfers work out, but I think it's fair to expect a better hit rate than that.
Surely folk can understand why I look at that list and fear us selling the likes of Cash or Worral in the Summer, to only throw money on a whole host of misses again?
The decision to sign a clearly unfit Bong who's 32 in just over a month on a 2.5 year deal is baffling. By the time he's fit enough to play a full game he'll be ready to retire lol.