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Remember the Adam Wharton quote, that nobody could have seen how good of a player he was. My take on that is that we have employees that cannot see how bad some of our players are.

Can't agree with any of that. If the selling Club dont want to sell a particular player they can put whatever price tag they want on his head. It's not really up to you or me to decide if a price is unreasonable and if the interested Club dont want to pay it they dont get, unless they can reach a compromise. Now our scouts may not know exactly how much a Club wants for a player but I refuse to believe they haven't got a fairly good idea otherwise all the work they do would be completely pointless. And how long does it take us to ring up and find out what the asking price is anyway? Unearthing a player available for £5m when we only have £1m to spend isn't good scouting and having found out the asking price, we shouldn't have pursued it further by putting in a derisory offer, it just makes us look a joke. As for the more recent link - if any Club are willing to meet Barnsley's asking price they'll get him. I highly doubt it will be us so if it's not, that will be another dead end and waste of everyone's time.

Doris Troy - Just One Look

Nothing to see here i'd wager. The one and only chance anyone, billionaire Arab or local pie shop millionaire, have of getting past first base is to make direct contact with the head of the ownership. I'd suggest that is nigh on impossible unless you move in the same circles, due to the amount of buffers in place and people who'll deflect it in their own interests. Or of course maybe offer the middleman a nice fat juicy introduction fee.....

So where does this leave us? If some sad souls don’t even know about the proposed boycott, we have just over a week to get it out there? None of the mates I used to go with go anymore. Empty stadium and one brave person to smuggle in a banner. 20,000+, to nothing, that’s what you’ve done, be proud, because none of us are?

Eels - That Look You Give That Guy

It hardly needs to be looked for. Alebiosu is a very good bit of recruitment for example. But we actually signed him because he was a realistic target within budget. No use finding players well out of our budget.

Scouts will know exactly the ball park figures in regards to the cost of the players they are required to scout. If a club, agent or player makes bigger demands once the ball is rolling that's on them.

Wasnt there a post made by J*b recently that he had been in contact with and indeed had a meeting with a group that were interested in taking over Rovers?

On the market he likely is in reach, Cleary in every single market value I can find is under 1mill. Can scouts possibly have addition contacts with their ears to the ground yes maybe but again back to the main point which was whoever scouted this fella seems on initial viewings of him made a good call but valuations lye with the clubs not the market in which most scouts use

Scouts aren't only supposed to look at players. They're supposed to have contacts, put out feelers. Have a general understanding of whether a player might be realistically in reach. Like you said 'that could possibly fall within their budget'. They don't really have a great sense of that if they've recommended someone who will cost 5 times what we can offer. I think the 28 year old striker one is fair enough to be surprised by, that's an outrageous fee to demand. But the young, promising Cleary was likely always out of reach.

Going back to the chance missed by Doherty yesterday, I remember Leonard missing several of those in a fairly short space of time, either got caught or dragged his shot wide.

Can't recall a post ever creating this much response so quickly

How would scouts know a players final valuation that between the clubs in negotiations they identify players strengths weaknesses and profile the club might be looking for that could possibly fall within their budget th selling club slapping in unrealistic price tag on to a player isn’t the scouts issue or fault let’s take the Barnsley striker coming 29 this year never played above league one 18 months left on contract and he’s valued by his club at 5million? Not realistic nor matches what his real valuation on the open market would be

Who’s the offer from?

The scouts are there to identify players we can potentially afford. We are nowhere near affording this one. Like Ricky said, we can all identify good players the club can't afford. That Adam Wharton looks alright. Messi, Haaland, Gyokeres, they should be able to fix our attacking woes.

I have, but when it's constantly looking for and pointing out negatives, then putting anything remotely positive down to luck, then it all becomes a bit pointless having a discussion.

If this is the case and, as expected, Venkys don't even respond to the offer, the interested buyers need to get hold of the coalition and go public.

Scouts are gone player profiles that the club/manager want all the finances come after so if we have had a scout recommend this fella then fair play

The only way I'd have less trust in a mysterious new bid coming in this week is if Clinton Baptiste was channeling it, and even then I'd be hopeful it's uncle jack from beyond the spiritual plane

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Surely though it’s only relevant if we can actually sign him? If the valuation is £5m and we’re offering 20% of that then surely identifying him is pointless? I could identify loads of players we couldn’t afford.

Haha. No...but last year, I did meet a bloke, who claimed the act.

I'm not sure you've noticed the weather the last 15 years.

Pointless even trying to make anything like a positive comment. Every silver lining has to have a cloud.