Falkirk reject Arfield bid

[Andy74]

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Good to see them reinvesting the cash they got from McCarthy and Easton Take note Petrie

This would be a pretty tiny fraction of any money they have received in, much like Hibs have had to do. Not that it stands a chance of getting accepted even at 3 or 4 times the bid.

[O'Brien[11]]

We should bit 400k start off, and then go as far as 750k, thats nothing compared to what weve made in profit, we paid nowt for fletch and co. and to make that amount of money without putting a percentage of it back in the team is beyond a joke! pay peanuts you get monkeys, instead of buying 3 ***** players can't we buy 1 decent quality, then we can start challenging for cups europe etc, fs why can't the board see this.

[Woody1985]

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Very strange.

Rumour has it that Hamilton are next on the list for HMRC after they have finished spitting out Hearts.

Without the sales to England they could be in adminsitration now.

This came from the poster on kickback who told of the action against Hearts.

I'm pretty confident that HRMC could handle two actions at one time and don't need to wait until they've recovered debt from Hearts.

[Ritchie]

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Good to see them reinvesting the cash they got from McCarthy and Easton Take note Petrie

[Ritchie]

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This would be a pretty tiny fraction of any money they have received in, much like Hibs have had to do. Not that it stands a chance of getting accepted even at 3 or 4 times the bid.

ssshhhh you!

[Andy74]

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We should bit 400k start off, and then go as far as 750k, thats nothing compared to what weve made in profit, we paid nowt for fletch and co. and to make that amount of money without putting a percentage of it back in the team is beyond a joke! pay peanuts you get monkeys, instead of buying 3 ***** players can't we buy 1 decent quality, then we can start challenging for cups europe etc, fs why can't the board see this.

It's because the Board have the actual books in frint of them and they can still see an awful lot of red numbers.

[Caversham Green]

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We should bit 400k start off, and then go as far as 750k, thats nothing compared to what weve made in profit, we paid nowt for fletch and co. and to make that amount of money without putting a percentage of it back in the team is beyond a joke! pay peanuts you get monkeys, instead of buying 3 ***** players can't we buy 1 decent quality, then we can start challenging for cups europe etc, fs why can't the board see this.

[O'Brien[11]]

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Fletch and that came through the youth, so just take fletch, brown, thomson, whittaker, thats about 12m just on they 4 alot of clubs don't have that luxury,so how we are on the wavelength of motherwell and teams of that calibre is beyond me, we should take advantage of this and bring in players of similar quality

[Caversham Green]

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Fletch and that came through the youth, so just take fletch, brown, thomson, whittaker, thats about 12m just on they 4 alot of clubs don't have that luxury,so how we are on the wavelength of motherwell and teams of that calibre is beyond me, we should take advantage of this and bring in players of similar quality

As you rightly say, 'we paid nowt' for them. But then you go on to say 'pay peanuts, you get monkeys'.

Can you see the irony there?

[Dashing Bob S]

Arfield would be the sort of player (like Barr, and Naismith) it's worth taking a punt on because of their potential sell-on value. I feel we have to bring through our own stars though, as from such players point of view they might feel that there's little point in those players moving to another SPL club to further their development, when they can stay put and get another season or two under their belt, then the championship or even Premiership.

[Andy74]

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Arfield would be the sort of player (like Barr, and Naismith) it's worth taking a punt on because of their potential sell-on value. I feel we have to bring through our own stars though, as from such players point of view they might feel that there's little point in those players moving to another SPL club to further their development, when they can stay put and get another season or two under their belt, then the championship or even Premiership.

Interesting quote today from Hughes saying he is unsure whether the young players, in the context of his expectations of where he wants to take Hibs, are good enough to do it.

I think we'll see some moved out on loan and I'd expect the remainder to get maybe a year or two and if they haven't made it they'll be out too.

Maybe one or two will stay to be sold on in 3 to 4 yrs.

I did take it from Hughes comments that to move on as a club we need to be bringing in better players, in the short term at least, and I'd expect some action probably on transfer window day, where we pay cash for a couple of players.

[stubru59]

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Interesting quote today from Hughes saying he is unsure whether the young players, in the context of his expectations of where he wants to take Hibs, are good enough to do it.

I think we'll see some moved out on loan and I'd expect the remainder to get maybe a year or two and if they haven't made it they'll be out too.

Maybe one or two will stay to be sold on in 3 to 4 yrs.

I did take it from Hughes comments that to move on as a club we need to be bringing in better players, in the short term at least, and I'd expect some action probably on transfer window day, where we pay cash for a couple of players.

Agree. Don't think Hughes is going to fall into the trap of having players stuck on the fringes.