Gus Poyet Said We Have Spent 70% of our Transfer Budget Already

[Joe Gatting's Dad]

The starting eleven are fine - but there is no one of quality on the bench until the missing three return.

We are 3 or 4 players short and need them signed as soon as possible.

Do not forget that the loan window re-opens shortly after 6 pm Tuesday, when the Premier and Championship sides will have chosed their 20-24 squad players and some good prospects will be available to us.

 

[Steve Foster]

You take your some of your season's expectations from pre-season results?

Blimey.

Not just results, but performances & new signings too.
Last season our pre season results were very poor and this reflected in the first 5 months in the league.
Pre season results this time around have been poor, but at least the squad has improved - however, from day one it was evident that we would not be in the top 2 or top 6 (if we lost any players to injury/suspensions).
And this was my view even after 90 minutes at Swindon - having gone to the game.

Whilst we all like the winning, sometimes its just about taking part?

 

[B.W.]

The starting eleven are fine - but there is no one of quality on the bench until the missing three return.

We are 3 or 4 players short and need them signed as soon as possible.

Do not forget that the loan window re-opens shortly after 6 pm Tuesday, when the Premier and Championship sides will have chosed their 20-24 squad players and some good prospects will be available to us.

Agreed, looks like we are looking at more loans than Gus would like now, barring the charge of the last-minute permanent signings cavalry...

 

[The Large One]

Not just results, but performances & new signings too.
Last season our pre season results were very poor and this reflected in the first 5 months in the league.
Pre season results this time around have been poor, but at least the squad has improved - however, from day one it was evident that we would not be in the top 2 or top 6 (if we lost any players to injury/suspensions).
And this was my view even after 90 minutes at Swindon - having gone to the game.

Whilst we all like the winning, sometimes its just about taking part?

Like I said.

Blimey.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

***binfest***

I've never been called a licker before. Pretty sure I'm just a moderate fan who supports the team an appreciates someone putting £100m of their own dosh into it.

Bloody LICKER.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

When we signed Barnes, loads on here were creaming themselves.

I said at the time, with Murray/Barnes/Holroyd (+Hart) as our forwards we had ZERO chance of going up.

First priority is a striker and I'm sure Gus and Tony are doing their best to bring one in.

Having got Virgo, Kuipers, Dickinson, Forster and Crofts off the wage bill, I am sure there's more than a bit left to spend, but why letthe world know that?

We lost 1-0 at Wednesday with no Greer or Sparrow. Put them back in, get in the Striker and add Lua Lua and we look pretty good IMO

(BTW is Lua Lua in the Newcastle squad for the Carling Cup game?)

 

[fire&skill]

(BTW is Lua Lua in the Newcastle squad for the Carling Cup game?)

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[Gav1901]

Surely if Lua Lua doesn't get the chance tonight that should make it much more likely for him to be leaving on loan.

 

[Superseagull]

Maybe letting Virgo leave was not such a wise move by Gus. He seemed to be playing well at the end of last season. He was cover for centre half and right back, had played in midfield, and of course up front at Championship level and did not disgrace himself. If nothing else he was a great man to have on the bench due to his versatility.

Onwards and upwards...

 

[bhaexpress]

Three games in and we are shit

 

[Forster's Armband]

Three games in and we are shit

Are you saying we are shit or bemoaning the cretins on this board that think we are shit after 3 games?

 

[Icy Gull]

I think it's disgusting. We should be spending more than anyone else and we should be top of the league. Refs hate us, other fans hate us, we have a shit ground and we don't get the rub of the green very often. I am starting to despair. If Gus and Tony don't sort it out by this weekend I may have to start booing. Really really upset.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Maybe letting Virgo leave was not such a wise move by Gus. He seemed to be playing well at the end of last season. He was cover for centre half and right back, had played in midfield, and of course up front at Championship level and did not disgrace himself. If nothing else he was a great man to have on the bench due to his versatility.

Onwards and upwards...

Not good ENOUGH though, at right back, or up front, and is shocking in midfield.

Only worth considering at CB, and no better than the three we have.

 

[Mellotron]

Not good ENOUGH though, at right back, or up front, and is shocking in midfield.

Only worth considering at CB, and no better than the three we have.

And sounds like he was on a MEGA whack of wages.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

And sounds like he was on a MEGA whack of wages.

Yes - that too.

 

[Forster's Armband]

Not good ENOUGH though, at right back, or up front, and is shocking in midfield.

Only worth considering at CB, and no better than the three we have.

I would actually say he is some way off Elph and El-Abd and miles off Greer.

 

[Napper]

Fine line

Win saturday and Good start

Draw or lose and shit start

 

[algie]

Albion boss Gus Poyet has 30 per cent of his budget left – but he cannot spend it all on a goalscorer.

The Seagulls want him to use the money to strengthen other areas of the squad as well.

Poyet has been hunting all summer for a striker to boost Albion’s promotion prospects.

Many of the targets have been out of the club’s price range and, with the close of the transfer window less than a week away, Albion are also still short of a left winger and midfield and defensive cover.

Poyet revealed to The Argus: “Sometimes you need to realise, me in particular, where we are and what we pay and what we can get. I know I have got a budget and I’ve still got 30 per cent of the budget to use.

“Then you need to work with the club, the chief executive, the chief scout and the chairman, to know how you use that 30 per cent.

“Everybody knows we maybe need extra cover at the back. That is why Tanno (assistant Mauricio Taricco) is training, because if it is Tanno then we don’t need to bring anyone.

“Everybody knows with the situation with Alan Navarro that we need a midfielder now which we didn’t before.

“We need a left-sided midfielder and everyone is thinking it’s LuaLua but until it’s done it’s not done. And everyone knows we need a striker.

“If you ask me how I would use the 30 per cent I would get a striker but that is not the way we work at the club, so we need to use the 30 per cent for the four players. Let’s see what we get.”

Poyet is unsure whether a striker will be signed before Monday’s deadline for permanent deals.

“It’s been hard for different reasons,” he said. “Maybe I am trying to get players who are too good and we cannot afford them. Do I want average players? I’m not sure, so it is very difficult.

“In the front line alone we have looked at more than 20 players but got no-one, that is the problem. Now we are looking at five or ten more.

“Are we going to get one of them? I don’t know, I cannot answer that question.”

 

[Rookie]

Blown out all proportion.

 

[Digweeds Trousers]

Personally the fact that we are debating a 'budget' represents progress in comarison to recent years.

The fact that we are moaning about a chairman who has personally funded a 22,000 all seater stadium represents progress.

The fact we have a bright young, exciting manager represents progress.

MInd you - I suppose we could simply say nothing is ever good enough and we snipe and whine at any attempt made to take the club forward.

but then I think back to a fireworks night many years ago and watching us lose at Gillingham to a shitty Barnet side in front of less than 1,000 people and think well.....perahps we ahvent got a £1million striker......

but a ground, some hope and a future is pretty much a good place to start.