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He wouldn't have signed for a club in L2

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I just dug out my copy of Done deal - a book on football finance and it describes calculating professional football compensation as taking into account the following factors...
• the status of buying and selling clubs (not too much to worry about here)
• the age of the player (at 23 at the vey upper end of qualifying as under 24)
• length of time during which the selling club trainer the player (only 2 years which is better for us)
• the terms offered by both selling and buying clubs (no wonder Exeter described it as their biggest ever contract offer!)
• his playing record, including international appearances (ok but not likely to push the fee up too much)
• any interest shown by other clubs (not sure there has been a huge amount of interest)

So all in all I doubt we will be paying too much compensation to Exeter, although the book does show they were a key beneficiary of this in the past getting £1.3 million potentially rising to £2.5 for Ethan Ampadu from Chelsea!

I really don't get this attitude. What is wrong with signing Exeter's best players? Just because Tisdale used to manage them? Surely then that is a positive. He knows he can work with him, he know his attitude, he knows he'll fit into the dressing room, he knows his style of play and he knows how he'll compliment the team.

As for him not being up to League one standard, what a load of rubbish. He is still only 23 years old and was the best player on the pitch every time I watched them play. Very highly rated by Exeter who were desperate to keep him.

We have just been promoted from League one and are probably expected to be around the bottom end of the table next season. Who exactly do you expect us to sign?

Will Grigg & Jayden Stockley as a minimum.

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Disclaimer: All my comments are my opinions unless stated otherwise. I'm just a fan following my club.

Well, you wouldn`t have seen him play that much last season, he spent half of it injured and questions were asked of his fitness when he returned.

If you are happy to sign players for a relegation dogfight then that`s fine, personally i`d like us to sign players to reach for the upper levels of league 1, which is where we should be at a minimum, Boateng is ok but i can`t really get excited about him joining, the more pressing problem is upfront, if Agard and Aneke don`t sign then we have a massive task in replacing them.

And i do find it a bit concerning that Tisdale has an obsession for raiding Exeter, it`s a blinkered way of going about recruitment

He's made The Guardian league two team of the year. Along with someone called Dean Lewington. Whoever he is!

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For those that like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.

Impossible. Far too slow.

Most managers go to the pool they know. Ince IIRC signed players with Wolves connections, Robbo went for Irish and ex Sheffield Wednesday players (no idea what the connection was!) and we were repeatedly linked with Liverpool youngsters and of course RN Signed players he had knowledge of from Scotland. Just be grateful we're not signing players from Team Bath!

He got in for his assists not his pace. Even I was surprised he didn't get in the PFA team of the year and Mal Benning from Mansfield did. Lewie's stats were far better.

Exactly.

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