Recent content by TruckerJack

Fulton was excellent I thought, as was Burgess and Melker. Their striker was not easy to deal with but both CB’s handled him so well. Vipotnik of course with his usual clinical finish. Walta also looked excellent when he came on, we are cooking at the moment in fairness. We are a few players...

Badly worded on my part. I’m sure they will already be having conversations regarding how to tackle the summer together. But I don’t think he will have any sort of power over who we sign specifically as the club need to try and think beyond Matos, he may not be here in 6 months, who knows. I’d...

But I mean specific players. I don’t think he will be signing players for us, those days have long gone because management is so short term. There may be the odd one of course but when managers do get that sort of wholesale power it doesn’t tend to end well for incoming players long term. But I...

No input I hope. Managers shouldn’t be selecting players, that’s when the trouble starts further down the line. I don’t think that will happen here either judging by the set up.

Will be a shame to see the end of the Gulf partnership but guess that has to happen for us to progress. I love it though, makes it feel very “Swansea”.

The good thing with Lissah is he plays LB and RB for Falkirk, he may have played on the left even more than the right actually looking at his games.

We need a CB to challenge the starters but think we are alright in defence then. Galbraith, Key, Lissah, Parker and Tymon to cover the fullback spots is plenty. Hope Parker goes out on loan and gains some experience like Lissah did. Midfielders we are fine at the 6 and AMC spot, but we may...

Our recruitment is excellent compared to most other clubs, it’s been a huge upturn in the last few windows. Every club in the world is hit and miss in that department due to the nature of it. Even Brighton are around 40-50% hit and miss rate, and they are considered the best around. There will...

Glad you know the intentions and inner workings of our recruitment team. What would we do without you… someone should tell Vitor and his previous team 😂

He would shout abuse at the air for blowing in a direction he didn’t agree with…

But I did read it, and responded to it. Again - a major signing on bonus for an out of contract player only exists if that player has genuine intrinsic value (ie in lieu of a transfer fee). Jay wouldn’t attract a transfer fee, so this scenario doesn’t really exist. It will be in the same...

But that’s only if the player would usually command a fee. If we put Jay on sale tomorrow, who do you think would be interested and for how much? I would suggest no club would pay any sort of fee and it would be a case of just taking on his salary + the normal loyalty fees. You really...

Defini Definitely, but not the type Smurph has alluded to. Just a normal contract renewal one I would have thought. Signing on fees don’t actually exist, I think they are called loyalty payments these days and every player has one according to Ben Foster. So you get a fee for signing a...

I’m delighted he’s signed a new contract. The discussion then went to whether he could have demanded a massive signing on fee elsewhere as a free transfer. That answer is entirely linked to his transfer value as a player, which unfortunately as a near 32 year old squad player is minimal to...

But that only happens when the player has high intrinsic value. Because they are getting a high value player for free. That doesn’t happen when the player is largely valueless.