PeregrineT
Player Valuation: £35m
Yeah, while I hope he plays well, he would not be a solution, he would just be a band-aid.
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Funny, it was watching him in a televised match play for Fulham that alarm bells rung for me. He looked totally disinterested, just jogging back after he’d lost the ball while the opposition went on the attack. I think that was his first loan after getting his new contract.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
He must be really terrible at it because he's currently behind someone that hasn't stopped a cross in his life.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
It is clear, has not caught Allardyce or Lees eye.
...as mentioned earlier, I was amazed when he signed that contract because his stock was high and he could’ve left on a lucrative Bosman. If i’d been advising him, he’d have been off to a club where he’d have been first choice. That would’ve been at least at Championship level but I remember posting at the time that I wouldn’t be surprised if he was on the radar of a Premiership club because of his set piece delivery quality.
What you say makes sense. I have a term: ‘plays like the game matters’. I don’t know Garbutt but perhaps the game doesn’t matter much to him and he was content to play 2nd fiddle to Baines whilst remaining on a very pleasant contract.
He is not really behind him at this stage Mike, because he ain't eligible for selection thanks to Koeman
He was under 24. It would have ended up in a tribunal and we'd have got a decent fee.
CynicalBlue
Player Valuation: £8m
Agreed but a band-aid is better than a gapping wound.
..and he’d have been getting first team football, a better contract and a signing fee. It sort of lacked ambition given that Baines was possibly the best LB in the country at that time.
Yes but it would not have been a bosman. The fee would have been unknown until potentially 6 months later. Not many clubs going to offer a huge signing on bonus and massive contract for a player who could end up costing them a fortune.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
He is not really behind him at this stage Mike, because he ain't eligible for selection thanks to Koeman
He is available to be registered at this moment in time, so hopefully we register him if only for bench cover and unregister the fella from the crowd who Koeman left us to fill in the past few weeks.
..if I remember rightly we paid Leeds £1m for Garbutt. I don’t think he came through the ranks but you could be right. Regardless, I still think it lacked ambition.
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
You can only register 25 senior players. At 24, Garbutt's well past the point that the threshold for seniors kicks in, so he'll likely only be registered if he either starts to massively impress in training, or we don't sign a left-back.
PeregrineT
Player Valuation: £35m
It is, but its not so great when you put a bandaid on a leg that needs to be amputated and then say "See, taken care of".
I think it certainly doesnt hurt us to register him, might as well, but I think we do a major disservice to ourselves if we think "thats sorted" and move on. A LB of the future should be a priority THIS window.
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