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Post by Minormorris64 on Aug 10, 2024 11:19:33 GMT 1
Will Evans from Llanfyllin who played for Bala in the LOW has moved from Newport County to Mansfield Town for a fee believed to be £200,000 after scoring 21 goals in League Two last season for 18th placed County. It is the first fee County have received for a player since 2018 apparently.
Do Town ever bother watching any LOW games ?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2024 11:31:02 GMT 1
He was part of our youth system....guess what??...we released him🙄🙄
Watching LOW games?..well someone may watch Sgorio occasionally
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Post by wookeywombat on Aug 10, 2024 11:36:39 GMT 1
I heard that we actually put in a cheeky £175k bid for him.
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Post by chirkshrew on Aug 10, 2024 11:52:19 GMT 1
Where did we get Tom Bradshaw from??... Aberystwyth town....so we were watching back in the day.....don't know about now🤷
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Aug 10, 2024 12:42:40 GMT 1
Was he playing for Bala at the same time as Dave Edwards?
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Post by Pilch on Aug 10, 2024 12:51:43 GMT 1
this is why we were hunting in the Irish league last season
since Brexit the big boys eg all of the premier league and most of the championship cannot throw their money around Europe anymore and sign up and endless supply of young kids on the off chanceone of them becomes a star, instead they are concentrating on the UK , and of course that means the likes of shrewsbury are having to look lower down the leagues and pay OTT for any players that haven't already been snapped up for whatever reason
the gap continues to get wider
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2024 13:30:13 GMT 1
See that Swindon have signed Billy Kirkman from TNS to be part of their development squad
Do you think that we looked at him?
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Post by zenfootball2 on Aug 10, 2024 13:34:57 GMT 1
Will Evans from Llanfyllin who played for Bala in the LOW has moved from Newport County to Mansfield Town for a fee believed to be £200,000 after scoring 21 goals in League Two last season for 18th placed County. It is the first fee County have received for a player since 2018 apparently. Do Town ever bother watching any LOW games ? Congratulations to that young man |
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Post by zenfootball2 on Aug 10, 2024 13:40:17 GMT 1
Just looked him up when he was with Bala he scored 24 goals in 55 games
For Newport he scored 23 goals in 91 games were he played wing back and due to his goal scoring ability was then playing as a forward.
I would have thought that this would be exactly the kind of player would have been looking for.
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Aug 10, 2024 14:26:32 GMT 1
Just looked him up when he was with Bala he scored 24 goals in 55 games For Newport he scored 23 goals in 91 games were he played wing back and due to his goal scoring ability was then playing as a forward. I would have thought that this would be exactly the kind of player would have been looking for. Only be looking if he had Cheltenham connections 🙂 |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2024 14:43:09 GMT 1
You know the League of Wales isn't that good a standard. Good luck to the kid from Llanfyllin all the same.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2024 15:21:04 GMT 1
You know the League of Wales isn't that good a standard. Good luck to the kid from Llanfyllin all the same. Hard to judge what standard an average Cymru Premier team would be in the English pyramid. I would view TNS as outside of any discussion as they are full time and are a much higher standard than the other 11 teams. However players do move up from the Cymru into League 2 on a regular basis, EG during this summer as well as the lad going from TNS to Swindon there are 2 who have joined Newport and 1 has joined Tranmere |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2024 15:42:43 GMT 1
There's the odd hidden gem in every league and every country but the huge mistake by Moore to buy 3 from Ireland has made me cynical of these leagues.
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Post by wookeywombat on Aug 10, 2024 16:08:30 GMT 1
According to the Sky Sports commentator, Newport signed Oliver Greaves from Welsh non League Club Mickleover !!! The Welsh club that escaped to Derby
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Post by Rusholme Ruffian on Aug 10, 2024 16:33:06 GMT 1
I'm sure they do. Bare in mind he's had 2 years at league two to get this move into league one, and in his first season only scored 2 league goals in 45 games.
The step up from LOW to league 1 is huge. We saw that with the guys from LOI last season, with all 3 of them now not at the club
Just like Orsi who's gone to Burton, he's had 1 good season in professional league football. Will they have another? Who knows.
A lot of money is spent on forwards, but very few have consistent regular goals scored at the level they are playing at because if they did they would probably move to a higher level.
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Post by northwestman on Aug 10, 2024 17:26:34 GMT 1
Where on earth have Mansfield got £200k from?
What with Burton also splashing the cash and Wycombe and MK Dons both bankrolled by billionaire consortiums the going is getting ever tougher.
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Post by camdenshrew on Aug 10, 2024 17:42:36 GMT 1
It makes you think how much money we potentially lost by the number of young strikers we dumped who went on to greater things: Gray, Bradshaw, McAtee, this guy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2024 17:47:41 GMT 1
Where on earth have Mansfield got £200k from? What with Burton also splashing the cash and Wycombe and MK Dons both bankrolled by billionaire consortiums the going is getting ever tougher. With no pennies to rub together we are getting left behind... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2024 18:02:37 GMT 1
For Every Tom Bradshaw there is a Max Mata.
Admittedly I think what Dave Edwards said in his MM podcast about Ryan Barnett and Charlie Caton rings truer.
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Post by ProudSalopian on Aug 11, 2024 9:12:51 GMT 1
The headline should really be "L2 striker in £200k move" and then some of our fans need to realise that in 2024, in the footballing world, £200k is not a lot of money.
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Post by Minormorris64 on Aug 11, 2024 11:15:31 GMT 1
The headline should really be "L2 striker in £200k move" and then some of our fans need to realise that in 2024, in the footballing world, £200k is not a lot of money. I think Town might be a tad grateful for the odd £200k at the moment |
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Post by zenfootball2 on Aug 11, 2024 11:22:42 GMT 1
The headline should really be "L2 striker in £200k move" and then some of our fans need to realise that in 2024, in the footballing world, £200k is not a lot of money. It is not it is beyond what town can afford, the club spotted his potential and it has paid off |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2024 12:53:14 GMT 1
The headline should really be "L2 striker in £200k move" and then some of our fans need to realise that in 2024, in the footballing world, £200k is not a lot of money. In fairness in the lower leagues we don't know if it is or not as fees are always undisclosed What's our record fee paid? Some still say John Dungworth/ Mark Blake £100k ,so how much did we pay for Grant Holt?..it was never revealed |
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Post by ProudSalopian on Aug 11, 2024 13:37:52 GMT 1
The headline should really be "L2 striker in £200k move" and then some of our fans need to realise that in 2024, in the footballing world, £200k is not a lot of money. In fairness in the lower leagues we don't know if it is or not as fees are always undisclosed What's our record fee paid? Some still say John Dungworth/ Mark Blake £100k ,so how much did we pay for Grant Holt?..it was never revealed I think our record signing was Norburn which was rumoured to be £250k Interesting you mention Dungworth, something that many of our fans do when talking transfer fees we've paid. But I always think if our first thoughts are a player we signed 45 years ago, it's perhaps a sign that the club haven't kept pace with the rest of the footballing world. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2024 13:51:49 GMT 1
In fairness in the lower leagues we don't know if it is or not as fees are always undisclosed What's our record fee paid? Some still say John Dungworth/ Mark Blake £100k ,so how much did we pay for Grant Holt?..it was never revealed I think our record signing was Norburn which was rumoured to be £250k Interesting you mention Dungworth, something that many of our fans do when talking transfer fees we've paid. But I always think if our first thoughts are a player we signed 45 years ago, it's perhaps a sign that the club haven't kept pace with the rest of the lfootballing world. Can't argue with your last comment |
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