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pne4ever

pne4ever

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I didn't attend the fans forum but am I right in saying that when asked a question about brexit, one of the panel said it wouldn't effect us as we don't sign foreign players.
I know we have had a few foreign players in the past but if it's now official policy not to sign them the club are effectively ignoring eighty odd percent of the worlds football talent pool.
Also when AN leaves as he will at some time should we not consider a foreign manager? It's worked well for other teams, Huddersfield and Wolves for a start.
There must be quite a few young players with the potential to develop in the European leagues alone who would fit the PNE mantra of being cheap to sign and not demanding high wages.
 
kingpne said:
We don’t have anything against signing foreign players. We just want players with English football experience.
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If that was the case we wouldn't even sign league of Ireland players or Scottish league players. Most of whom had no English league experience.
Got to think there is a wealth of untapped talent in Europe and South American.
 
pne4ever said:
I didn't attend the fans forum but am I right in saying that when asked a question about brexit, one of the panel said it wouldn't effect us as we don't sign foreign players.
I know we have had a few foreign players in the past but if it's now official policy not to sign them the club are effectively ignoring eighty odd percent of the worlds football talent pool.
Also when AN leaves as he will at some time should we not consider a foreign manager? It's worked well for other teams, Huddersfield and Wolves for a start.
There must be quite a few young players with the potential to develop in the European leagues alone who would fit the PNE mantra of being cheap to sign and not demanding high wages.
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It’s not official policy. In fact we were close to signing the lazy German lad from Huddersfield
 
pne4ever said:
I didn't attend the fans forum but am I right in saying that when asked a question about brexit, one of the panel said it wouldn't effect us as we don't sign foreign players.
I know we have had a few foreign players in the past but if it's now official policy not to sign them the club are effectively ignoring eighty odd percent of the worlds football talent pool.
Also when AN leaves as he will at some time should we not consider a foreign manager? It's worked well for other teams, Huddersfield and Wolves for a start.
There must be quite a few young players with the potential to develop in the European leagues alone who would fit the PNE mantra of being cheap to sign and not demanding high wages.
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Of course we sign "foreign players". Every single one of the Irish contingent are foreign.
 
Ireland seems to be our only overseas venture.

Shame because weve only found 1 first teamer in about 6 signings, and he is injury prone
 
Jack Daniels said:
2 (3)

1 Alan Browne
2 Sean Maguire
3 Daryl Horgan who we made money on.
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Discounted Browne as he was recommendef to the owner as a youth prospect, not scouted as a first teamer.

Discounted Horgan because although we sold him for a profit, we are unlikely to see much of that reinvested. Decent player but made little impact on the team
 
Not prepared to just discount the Irish link because a lot who came over we probably didn't pay a lot for. Maybe you only need one hit out of five to make it worthwhile. You could say something similar about the Manchester clubs link, we've got Pearson out of it so maybe you just have to sift threw them to find the diamonds.
 
They didn’t say we wouldn’t sign foreign players, just they were a greater risk to assimilate them and also judge the standard of football they were playing in. Brexit could make it harder to sign foreigners though.
 
PNEroulette said:
Not prepared to just discount the Irish link because a lot who came over we probably didn't pay a lot for. Maybe you only need one hit out of five to make it worthwhile. You could say something similar about the Manchester clubs link, we've got Pearson out of it so maybe you just have to sift threw them to find the diamonds.
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Which would be fine if it wasn’t our first port of call to ‘strengthen’ the squad. You go 1 for 5 on gambles whilst bringing in decent reliable talent then that’s acceptable. Going 1 for 5 on gambles without adding any other notable first team players is just poor business and this season we are feeling the effects of that
 
Lee Trundle said:
Discounted Browne as he was recommendef to the owner as a youth prospect, not scouted as a first teamer.

Discounted Horgan because although we sold him for a profit, we are unlikely to see much of that reinvested. Decent player but made little impact on the team
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What does that matter? They were worthwhile signings of first team squad standard irrespective of how they were identified or what we do with any profit.
 
simo said:
What does that matter? They were worthwhile signings of first team squad standard irrespective of how they were identified or what we do with any profit.
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Browne arrived about 4 years before the rest of them having no League of Ireland experience at all. The others were all scouted having had decent seasons in the Irish League, that is the type of player we are discussing.

Horgan was a decent squad player but certainly not a first teamer. He and Boyle were our main signings in a January window where we needed to kick on, their signings yielded no upturn in form and he was eventually sold after very little game time. I’d say he wasn’t a miss, but saying he was a hit is a mistruth
 
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