The Adam Clayton saga - now officially signed for Middlesbrough

[Man of Harveys]

Andy Naylor getting rinsed on twitter!

I'd like to see anyone doing this "rinsing" do his job for five minutes.

 

[saafend_seagull]

How so? Because a player doesn't want to relocate X hundred miles and instead would rather move just 25? He's a human being and maybe hauling his life down south wasn't something he was willing to do. What exactly do you propose our recruitment team do to try and change his mind? Just throw more money at him? Maybe his family is more important than the £££...

Of course I have no idea. I could be wrong. But I don't presume to know the facts

If our recruitment process was average they would know after one day the player has no interest in relocating.

 

[Trigger]

Andy Naylor getting rinsed on twitter!

And quite right too, ****ing useless.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

We want players but only on the cheap. Simple.

Simple....but not effective.

 

[Albion Dan]

The club/TB just need to be honest and admit we are not really competing in the transfer market with promotion in mind. You have to speculate to accumulate to an extent and we are getting outbid continuously. If we are uncompetitive on transfers fine but the club have to set expectations! I see crowds dropping dramatically after this season with our current recruitment policy.

 

[Jam The Man]

I suspect he may have asked for a whopping relocation fee (£500k? )... and maybe the club told him to do one.

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

If our recruitment process was average they would know after one day the player has no interest in relocating.

Maybe we were more attractive than Huddersfield but maybe Middlesbrough were more attractive than us because of its location.

 

[HantsSeagull]

I'd like to see anyone doing this "rinsing" do his job for five minutes.

as jobs go, i cant say that I think it would be one of the hardest

 

[Greavsey]

How so? Because a player doesn't want to relocate X hundred miles and instead would rather move just 25? He's a human being and maybe hauling his life down south wasn't something he was willing to do. What exactly do you propose our recruitment team do to try and change his mind? Just throw more money at him? Maybe his family is more important than the £££...

Of course I have no idea. I could be wrong. But I don't presume to know the facts

Just to bring fact to this thread - Middlebrough is 119 miles from Manchester as opposed to Brighton which is 257 miles. He chose the lesser of two evils for a professional northerner I assume.

 

[jamie the seagull]

Charlton are able to beat Premiership Clubs to signings....

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/495868/Charlton-set-to-beat-Leicester-Leeds-and-Southampton-to-2-4m-French-striker-Andy-Delort

 

[Albion Dan]

I suggest that everyone saying it's a northern thing is barking up the wrong tree. Money talks and I bet Boro have gazumped us on personals!

 

[Greavsey]

If our recruitment process was average they would know after one day the player has no interest in relocating.

Not true. That would rely on him being completely open with us from day one. He may have been interested, until someone closer to home came in for him.

 

[Clive Walker]

not really Naylors fault, he only reported what we had also heard from various sources.

A player that has always played up north was unlikely to sign for us if Boro were at the table.

Interesting to hear the boards opinion leter today though.

 

[Bladders]

Maybe we were more attractive than Huddersfield but maybe Middlesbrough were more attractive than us because of its location.

Beirut is more attractive than Middlesbrough

Though less pressure at Boro playing in front of 14 people

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

Just to bring fact to this thread - Middlebrough is 119 miles from Manchester as opposed to Brighton which is 257 miles. He chose the lesser of two evils for a professional northerner I assume.

Thanks for the miles As you say, lesser of two evils. Could have absolutely nothing to do with money.

 

[lawros left foot]

not really Naylors fault, he only reported what we had also heard from various sources.

A player that has always played up north was unlikely to sign for us if Boro were at the table.

Interesting to hear the boards opinion leter today though.

Just heard from my sauces, his flat cap and whippet didn't want to move

 

[Bladders]

Just to bring fact to this thread - Middlebrough is 119 miles from Manchester as opposed to Brighton which is 257 miles. He chose the lesser of two evils for a professional northerner I assume.

Shows lack of career ambition it every move is chosen by how close he is to his mummy and daddy's house.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Andy Naylor getting rinsed on twitter!

The Albion recruitment team doesn't close a deal that was also described as almost done by reliable NSC sauces - and Andy Naylor is getting criticised? The world is upside-down.

 

[jamie the seagull]

Is the announcement of the free Wifi at the ground actually to help Burke find out where the transfer targets have gone during the game.....

 

[El Presidente]

The Albion recruitment team doesn't close a deal that was also described as almost done by reliable NSC sauces - and Andy Naylor is getting criticised? The world is upside-down.

Andy Naylor has done nothing wrong. The lynch mob would find another reason to have a go at him if he had kept quiet about our interest in him.