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Why Devine was a substitute today is beyond me. He is so much more effective than the other midfielders on display
Confirmed Alfie Devine joins on a Season Long Loan (Option to Buy included).
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I don't know this for sure but I think he was ill. Unless anyone can correct me, I didn't notice him go out to warm up once.
I actually wouldn't mind trying Lang at #9, with Dobbin and Devine behind him. Having said that, I thought we looked more threatening in the second half when we changed to a front two.
He was out at half time but I never noticed him at any other time. Storey wasn’t warning up at half time at all, which led us to assume he was coming on - unless we mistakenly thought the missing player was Devine and not Storey!
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this just about sums up your complete and utter lack of football knowledge, their keeper will never have an easier game away from home.
ah sorry forgot, you never ever sit facing the pitch
All the loan players, including Devine, have now moved on.
A big part of the reason the next 2 months are going to be awful for supporters.
A big part of the reason the next 2 months are going to be awful for supporters.
Watching our record Transfer Lang yesterday was encouraging but depressing to think thats why we wont sign Devine
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They should be signing him asap if the deal’s verbally done then sign him before he gets better offer.
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My understanding is that the only thing which is certain is that if we want to buy him we can offer the pre-agreed fee and Spurs are contractually bound to accept it.
After that it’s up to Devine and us to agree terms. Does he want to join us, are we prepared to give him the wages he want? (I suspect negative in both cases).
Quite apart from this is the consideration that the pre agreed fee (£4.5m ish from memory) is way above anything we have paid before and, to my mind, overvalues the player anyway.
Next to no chance it happens under this ownership.
After that it’s up to Devine and us to agree terms. Does he want to join us, are we prepared to give him the wages he want? (I suspect negative in both cases).
Quite apart from this is the consideration that the pre agreed fee (£4.5m ish from memory) is way above anything we have paid before and, to my mind, overvalues the player anyway.
Next to no chance it happens under this ownership.
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Unless there's serious movement regarding a takeover by the summer, there's no way Devine will wanna stay at this shithole.
He has been one of our better players this season so I could see another Championship side coming in for him ….
Burnley maybe , if he wants to stay up North…
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I think we’ve become so used to mediocrity that we massively over-hype some players.
Is he that good, really? Not worth the supposed fee in my eyes, nowhere near.
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Spurs may well be a Championship side themselves next season - in which case they may decide to keep him!
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More like we have become so used to paying peanuts that the fee quoted for Devine seems expensive; when in reality it is the going rate for a decent, young, English midfielder on the back of a positive season in the second tier
I think that is the reality, while our owners big up the signing of Lang as a record transfer. The reality is that £2 million is nothing in football today or the past 15 years or so we are just so behind the times with everything
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Can anybody realistically see ridsdale out of his limited budget from IOM fork out 4.5 million for Alfie Devine even though we supposedly have an option to buy clause.It will be another case in pre season of a talksport exclusive " listen I only have x amount of cash to play with and this summer we wanted to spend on the pitch but we tried" but the agents moved the goalposts .However ive got a new player coming for a trial at Euxton what one of my contacts recomended and he is a cross between Pele,Messi and a modern day neil trebble. If this deal falls through we may even see ridsdale in his shorts on pitch in Benidorm again before the kick off of another meaningless friendly we gain nothing from though this time he might insist of being picked in the starting line up
Hopefully there will have been a regime change before the next transfer window...
Where so starved by this ownership that we think that's a big fee. Look at what others spend.
Probably right but we've been brainwashed into trying to squeeze every last but of quality out of nominal fee players that if we signed someone for £4.5 million I'd expect them to play like Zidane every week or score upwards of 50 goals
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