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  1. Crusoe
    Had a quick skim. Out of the last seven intakes of scholars (about 60 players, although I couldn't find a list for 2012) we've sold just one - Renshaw to Everton. In that time about a dozen or so earned permanent deals, but most were released the next summer. The only stayers are Stott and Edmundson, although Hamer looks bright.
  2. Crusoe
    Unimpressed with the Oldham Times' Latics coverage. Three articles in the last four weeks. Nothing on Baxter signing or Wellens leaving (other than several days later in the article linked above). The Chron seems to have more coverage but tends to be rehashes of official site articles. The MEN seems to have had more interesting stories on the whole.
  3. Crusoe
    Wow. I knew there were some fools in this place but the last couple of pages take the biscuit.
  4. Crusoe
    Although, to be fair, that's pretty apt for a Latics fan.
  5. Crusoe
    Christ. So many people "know" so much when it's just opinions. I'm starting to miss the days when if it wasn't on Clubcall or in the Chron nobody knew anything.
  6. Crusoe
    Depends if he wants a decent manager or a manager who's biddable.
  7. Crusoe
    Wenger's free.
  8. Crusoe
    Reckon Stevie J & co are already weeping at the thought of next month's bill for this place...
  9. Crusoe
    The club was just waiting for Shez to take another job so we'd be spared endless speculation about him coming back yet again. Phew.
  10. Crusoe
    I feel the steely gaze of the Merge-o-matic already.
  11. Crusoe
    On OS now. "the contract of manager Richie Wellens has been terminated with immediate effect."
  12. Crusoe
    Wow. How long must your lunch breaks be?
  13. Crusoe
    Kind of depends who it is, no?
  14. Crusoe
    But we were in the Premier League 25 years ago! That makes us, er, clearly superior.
  15. Crusoe
    This thought had occurred.
  16. Crusoe
    Except that that assumes someone is willing to pay a decent fee for him, and we’d be paying those wages until it happened.
  17. Crusoe
    I quite like him as a player. But I doubt we can carry such an injury risk when he’s presumably not on trivial money.
  18. Crusoe
    We can offer him reduced terms. He can just tell us to fuck off, and then walk away.
  19. Crusoe
    Every silver lining has a cloud, eh? Great signing for League Two. Squad list updated.
  20. Crusoe
    That website just reposts stories from the official site, unless I'm missing something?
  21. Crusoe
    This exactly. He's a perfectly decent, good even, League Two player. Can tackle, pass, shoot reasonably well, puts effort in, not injury prone. Why would we spend money trying to replace him when we need other positions upgraded far more?
  22. Crusoe
    I'm bored. I know it's only the end of May but I'd really like some news on players joining or leaving. I'll even settle for news on what happened to last year's youth players (the disappearing Uche story aside).
  23. Crusoe
    Don't think the Trust has any power to compel AL to prove his funds, nor his intentions. All they can do, like the rest of us, is ask and decide whether they believe him or not. Any "assurances" are worth exactly zero.
  24. Crusoe
    Sure, of course, I know it's not a guarantee. But equally the fact that that hasn't happened before (or at least in recent years) could also indicate it isn't that easy and clubs may need to adjust to League Two - it's not like every club has an equal chance of promotion so pure randomness dictates who gets promoted. Just trying to add a note of caution to some of the extreme optimism.
  25. Crusoe
    They've lost that Klavan feeling.
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