Bradford interested in Ryan Taylor - update: bid rejected

[Clarke B]

Sanchez please.

 

[Frazer Lloyd-Davies]

This is a difficult one for the club, made only more difficult by the poor business already this window. We shouldn’t have allowed Fletcher, Blissett and Cfitci to all leave without replacements.

Taylor has been hugely influential in our turn of form. He’s an integral player, made even more so by the beforementioned lack of business. However, I will say this, he isn’t irreplaceable.

In League One, money is important and you don’t receive very many transfer fees. Selling a player, that can leave for free in the summer, is sound business. In ordinary circumstances whereby we had a selection of other strikers and time to find a replacement I’d reluctantly let Taylor leave for a fee.

Nonetheless that isn’t the case and given the need for at least two strikers as it is and a limited time in which to find them, I think we should do all we can to keep hold of Taylor.

 

[HC Green]

This is a difficult one for the club, made only more difficult by the poor business already this window. We shouldn’t have allowed Fletcher, Blissett and Cfitci to all leave without replacements.

Taylor has been hugely influential in our turn of form. He’s an integral player, made even more so by the beforementioned lack of business. However, I will say this, he isn’t irreplaceable.

In League One, money is important and you don’t receive very many transfer fees. Selling a player, that can leave for free in the summer, is sound business. In ordinary circumstances whereby we had a selection of other strikers and time to find a replacement I’d reluctantly let Taylor leave for a fee.

Nonetheless that isn’t the case and given the need for at least two strikers as it is and a limited time in which to find them, I think we should do all we can to keep hold of Taylor.

The decision for the loan moves and Ciftci to leave was made by Adams, don’t you just think he had reasons to want the players to get the moves and is quite aware of the implications?

 

[Tugboat]

This is a difficult one for the club, made only more difficult by the poor business already this window. We shouldn’t have allowed Fletcher, Blissett and Cfitci to all leave without replacements.

Taylor has been hugely influential in our turn of form. He’s an integral player, made even more so by the beforementioned lack of business. However, I will say this, he isn’t irreplaceable.

In League One, money is important and you don’t receive very many transfer fees. Selling a player, that can leave for free in the summer, is sound business. In ordinary circumstances whereby we had a selection of other strikers and time to find a replacement I’d reluctantly let Taylor leave for a fee.

Nonetheless that isn’t the case and given the need for at least two strikers as it is and a limited time in which to find them, I think we should do all we can to keep hold of Taylor.

The decision for the loan moves and Ciftci to leave was made by Adams, don’t you just think he had reasons to want the players to get the moves and is quite aware of the implications?

Yeah don’t dare question it :thumbs:

Funny how we can’t move players in because of being in this magical chain of movements yet we move 3 out without drama.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see us miss out on targets with it being seemingly complicated. All it takes is one move elsewhere to breakdown to effect out target.

For that reason I agree with not letting players leave until we’re in a position of strength.

 

[Emu]

If we let Taylor go now (for the sake of £50k for example), we are jeopardising our league one status. He in an extremely important player for our set up.

If we get relegated at the end of the season, it will far more than £50k we're losing.

 

[Frazer Lloyd-Davies]

This is a difficult one for the club, made only more difficult by the poor business already this window. We shouldn’t have allowed Fletcher, Blissett and Cfitci to all leave without replacements.

Taylor has been hugely influential in our turn of form. He’s an integral player, made even more so by the beforementioned lack of business. However, I will say this, he isn’t irreplaceable.

In League One, money is important and you don’t receive very many transfer fees. Selling a player, that can leave for free in the summer, is sound business. In ordinary circumstances whereby we had a selection of other strikers and time to find a replacement I’d reluctantly let Taylor leave for a fee.

Nonetheless that isn’t the case and given the need for at least two strikers as it is and a limited time in which to find them, I think we should do all we can to keep hold of Taylor.

The decision for the loan moves and Ciftci to leave was made by Adams, don’t you just think he had reasons to want the players to get the moves and is quite aware of the implications?

Of course he would have had his reasons. Nonetheless, it is a risk, and one I would have preferred he hadn't taken.

 

[Abbotts Ann Green]

Of course, we don’t know the full details of the loans we have made and if there are recall conditions attached.

We don’t know if Taylor has been offered a new contract.

We don’t know if we have made offers for other players.

We don’t know if other players are already lined up.

We don’t know if other players have been offered contract extensions.

We don’t know if contracts for players have an added year clause that can be activated by the club.

Still, with all the wonderful free advice Adams is being offered here from football experts like SAM I’m sure it will be sorted soon...

 

[Tugboat]

And with not knowing through lack of information speculations will fill the voids.

 

[Mark Pedlar]

And with not knowing through lack of information speculations will fill the voids.

As long as everyone recognises that it is speculation then there isn't an issue. It's when speculation becomes accepted "FACT" through constant repetition that there is a problem.

 

[Stuart House]

Of course, we don’t know the full details of the loans we have made and if there are recall conditions attached.

We don’t know if Taylor has been offered a new contract.

We don’t know if we have made offers for other players.

We don’t know if other players are already lined up.

We don’t know if other players have been offered contract extensions.

We don’t know if contracts for players have an added year clause that can be activated by the club.

Still, with all the wonderful free advice Adams is being offered here from football experts like SAM I’m sure it will be sorted soon...

Lets look at what we do know.

We had four strikers now we have one.

We have received a bid for that one striker.

Without that one striker we achieved 5 points from first 12 games.

With that said striker we achieved 18 points from last 8 games.

It's the 17th January and we have no new outfield signings.

We have just lost our most influential player to Fleetwood Town.

All of the above are indisputable facts. Add in a bit of speculation (We don't compete financially with most of the division, people don't what to uproot family and move south, interest in Carey and Bradley) then I think its fair that people are getting a little anxious around this transfer window. More so given our track record.

 

[jimsing]

Another FACT - We are only just passed half way in the window.

Chill out!!

 

[Stuart House]

Another FACT - We are only just passed half way in the window.

Chill out!!

Sort of irrelevant if Taylor picks up an injury in training this week. Yes there is still time, but we are short on players NOW!

 

[oldage]

I think the anxiety level has increased due to our poor start and our proven reliance on certain players. You cannot argue with the facts and with over half of the transfer window gone supporters are bound to be concerned at the lack of activity in the transfer window. All well being patient but do we really need to wait until the 11th hour to secure players?

 

[HC Green]

I think the anxiety level has increased due to our poor start and our proven reliance on certain players. You cannot argue with the facts and with over half of the transfer window gone supporters are bound to be concerned at the lack of activity in the transfer window. All well being patient but do we really need to wait until the 11th hour to secure players?

There is a thread entitled ‘Quality not quantity this time’ and perhaps you have forgotten when in last January’s window Taylor and Sarcevic arrived and of course Kennedy arrived late on the 31st.

 

[Stuart House]

They did, but didn't go quite so to plan in the August transfer window did it.