THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

Please see my above post. Reinvesting doesn't just mean spending on transfer fees when we sell somebody. The investment may have been directed to wages, bonuses, backroom staff, recruitment set ups, scouting networks, training facilities, sports science and so much more.

Beat me to it.. we lost the likes of healey, Gilbey, Brittain, Keogh and recruited Fraser, O’Riley, Darling, Jules , Jerome among others and the Grigg and Laird loans. And we’ve already got twine in place and he always looked like he’d been signed as Frasers successor. So there is reinvestment . Doesn’t have to be a million pound signing to prove it.

Yeap Conerdon did an excellent job summarising the reinvestment.

Even when looking at Brentford, they spent around£ 9million on Toney, which was considerably less than the £34 million they sold Watkins for. It’s the nature of the game for most clubs.

I’ll leave it there though as I realising I’m derailing the thread.

Don't worry about that, this thread has been on and off the rails more times than Network Rail's maintenance teams

Fucking right. We should have the ambition of Bury at least.

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.

Gonna throw a hat in the ring ... Joe Powell.

Scored 9 and assisted 7 from attacking midfield last season. 22 years old and only 12 months left to run on his Burton contract.

Won league one player of the month in April.

Who knows. Clutching at straws.

Last summer I struggled - seeing the likes of Walsh, Nombe, Brittain, Gilbey and Healey leaving and I was really worried and frustrated.

This summer I don't feel anything like that. Yes we've lost some players but they don't feel like such losses - Jerome and Fraser both dropped off after January anyway and Sorinola is far from irreplaceable. McEachran is perhaps the one I think we'll miss most.

Perhaps it would feel like more of a loss if I'd been in the ground all season and connected with these players more.

But this recruitment and management set-up has done enough over the past 12-18 months to earn some patience and faith in my opinion. No need to panic. Yes, the squad is far from complete but it will come good. Any gaps we think we can see - Martin will see them too, I have no doubt. And we'll reinvest what we have to as well. Winkie will know that failing to do that will risk losing Martin too.

Some people seem to have short memories - its not been long since we were scrapping against relegation, being managed by complete plums, and signing some utter crap (Bowery, Ngombo, Banks-Landell...). Its much more positive now and I am excited to see who we get in next.

Final post from me on this.

He, Fraser, stated that he went to Ipswich as they have ambitions of Championship football. What does that say about us!

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I agree. This season ia seems more about consolidation. It's the sign of times that the club is having to cut it's cloth accordingly, as well as being smarter in it's dealings and wage structure.

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

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