[Albion] Colunga leaves

[GT49er]

Surely a damning indictment - if one were needed - of our late unlamented recruitment policy that we're finding it so difficult to move some of those signings on - in some cases, it would seem, we can't even give them away!

 

[Stat Brother]

Surely a damning indictment - if one were needed - of our late unlamented recruitment policy that we're finding it so difficult to move some of those signings on - in some cases, it would seem, we can't even give them away!

The late unlamented recruitment policy that put the club in a position to turn down £2m profit for Stephens.

 

[8ace]

Because he would have had to have been a free agent before the closure of the last transfer window .... as now free agent he will have to wait for the next transfer window to open in January

Cheers, that would make sense.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I could be the ticket man at Fulham Railway Station
....

Fulham Broadway Station.

But I take your point.

 

[GT49er]

The late unlamented recruitment policy that put the club in a position to turn down £2m profit for Stephens.

Where did I say they never got anything right? That's right, I didn't. How does that saying go? - give a thousand monkeys a thousand typewriters and in a thousand years they'll have written the complete works of Shakespeare - or something like that.
Baldock came in at the same time, and he seems to be doing alright at the moment. Don't think anyone - apart from you maybe! - would disagree with the opinion that our recruitment was cr a p. Even TB seemed to think so, and sacked Burke. What's the often used expression on NSC about last summer's transfer window? - oh yes, I remember - 'Panic buys'.

 

[Stat Brother]

Where did I say they never got anything right? That's right, I didn't. How does that saying go? - give a thousand monkeys a thousand typewriters and in a thousand years they'll have written the complete works of Shakespeare - or something like that.
Baldock came in at the same time, and he seems to be doing alright at the moment. Don't think anyone - apart from you maybe! - would disagree with the opinion that our recruitment was cr a p. Even TB seemed to think so, and sacked Burke. What's the often used expression on NSC about last summer's transfer window? - oh yes, I remember - 'Panic buys'.

I agree the recruitment on the whole would seem to be crap, Burke paid for that with his job, fair enough.

Nobody said during Derby's interest in Stephens 'blimey that was a cracking bit of business by Burke'.
But it takes no time at all for the failures to be landed solely at his door.

I have no interest in defending DB, but damning indictments ought to balanced out.

 

[severnside gull]

To be honest if you want to find an example of poor recruitment I think there are plenty in the queue ahead of Colunga. A technically gifted player with the only doubts for me being temperament (that sending off!) which he shares with many successful signings, and application. If the style of play had been right then it could so easily have worked for him. If he had shown the level of commitment we need in English football he might have been another Spanish Dave or an Andrea Orlandi.
Just because it didn't quite click doesn't mean it couldn't have worked. Fine margins/happens all the time and all that.
He came (relatively) cheap and I think the earlier suggestion he was due a bumper bonus after 20 games makes total sense. It's the only reason I can see that explains his total exclusion from match day squads.
Didn't work out but no hard feelings and good luck to him finding a decent club in January. I have no doubt at all that he will.

 

[Triggaaar]

Interesting. Probably cost us a fair old wedge to pay him off or at least come to some arrangement.

I expect we've paid him up to January.

 

[Triggaaar]

How does that saying go? - give a thousand monkeys a thousand typewriters and in a thousand years they'll have written the complete works of Shakespeare - or something like that.

Infinite monkeys, infinite typewriters, infinite time (with the condition that paper is auto loaded).

 

[Ernest]

Just imagine if we were singing foreign nobodies like Colunga 40 years ago we would never have singed Peter Ward, why give a lower league striker a chance when you can sing rubbish like Colunga. Vardy has proved you can still step up from Non League to the Prem

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

 

[Blues Rock DJ]

Just imagine if we were singing foreign nobodies like Colunga 40 years ago we would never have singed Peter Ward, why give a lower league striker a chance when you can sing rubbish like Colunga. Vardy has proved you can still step up from Non League to the Prem

and England, even !!

 

[dazzer6666]

To be honest if you want to find an example of poor recruitment I think there are plenty in the queue ahead of Colunga. A technically gifted player with the only doubts for me being temperament (that sending off!) which he shares with many successful signings, and application. If the style of play had been right then it could so easily have worked for him. If he had shown the level of commitment we need in English football he might have been another Spanish Dave or an Andrea Orlandi.
Just because it didn't quite click doesn't mean it couldn't have worked. Fine margins/happens all the time and all that.
He came (relatively) cheap and I think the earlier suggestion he was due a bumper bonus after 20 games makes total sense. It's the only reason I can see that explains his total exclusion from match day squads.
Didn't work out but no hard feelings and good luck to him finding a decent club in January. I have no doubt at all that he will.

Sensible post. Good luck to the fella, hope he finds a decent club and is a success.

 

[RM-Taylor]

Good luck to him. Best for all parties. Is there anyone else who falls into this category?
Do we need four goalkeepers at our club?

Holla will be next, was loan interest from one L1 club but that seems to have ended for now

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Good luck to him, best for all concerned, but anyone who strolls off after being sent when we're losing is no great loss.

 

[Megazone]

At least he said Brighton was the best place in the Country to live.

 

[GT49er]

Infinite monkeys, infinite typewriters, infinite time (with the condition that paper is auto loaded).

Damn - I forgot that bit about loading the paper.............

 

[AZ Gull]

It was never clear at the time of Colunga's signing whether he had actually cost the Albion a fee or not. Confirmation from the horse's mouth in the Argus today. They have quotes from the player and Chris Hughton, and Colunga is quoted thus:-

I feel phenomenally good physically. It's strange. It is the first time I have ever been a free agent in my career. Clubs have paid big fees for me three times. I've been transferred for three million euros twice and 1.5million euros last summer.

It also means that Colunga should have been included amongst the top 5 of [MENTION=31]El Presidente[/MENTION]'s article here - The ELEVEN most expensive players in Albion history

 

[nwgull]

I agree the recruitment on the whole would seem to be crap, Burke paid for that with his job, fair enough.

Nobody said during Derby's interest in Stephens 'blimey that was a cracking bit of business by Burke'.
But it takes no time at all for the failures to be landed solely at his door.

I have no interest in defending DB, but damning indictments ought to balanced out.

I've pointed out a couple of times, albeit slightly toungue in cheek, that Stephens was a Burke signing - Oscar certainly didn't scout him! If he continues the form he's in this year, it may even offset the **** ups on Kemy and Colunga!

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Why can't he sign for a new club right way if he's a free agent

I think it's because he was already registered as our player at the start of the season, so some rule or other stops him becoming someone else's player until January.

I don't really understand it, but I thought exactly the same thing when Adebayor left the Spuds.