We won’t be promoted with Comley playing in midfield every week.
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Whole heartedly agree !
What about as a squad player with our starting midfield being Hall, Jellis and Sloan?
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I wouldn’t get too excited about Sloan, just seen some highlights of Larnes last game, they won 5-0 but the standard of football is Sunday league, but maybe he’s a gem waiting to be polished. There were less than 100 spectators from what I could make out.
I see that Kai Payne has agreed to go out on loan to a league 2 side to get game time as he cant force his way in at Wigan. I wonder 
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Well we know sod all about Sloan and are we talking Jellis at the start of last season or the terrible version that played the majority of the season?
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Probably go to Oldham
Just when we need experience he is probably the sort of inexperienced midfielder we would sign 
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Unlike you to post unless you know something 
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You cannot win anything with kids…
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Kai Payne on loan not for me, sign cheaply to develop possibly
Anyone heard anything about what’s happening with Alfie Chang after he failed the medical at Barnsley. I’d have him back if the injury issue isn’t serious
We also have not signed two of the players in that list 
My spidey sense is telling me we will announce Hall at 4pm on Wednesday that would be peak Walsall.
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Hall at noon, Lowe at 4pm…
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You at the psychiatrist at 5pm.
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I’d like to think it will be new DM-Jellis/Lakin-Hall.
Comley can stay as sub up to January.
Important to get the midfield right. For too long at this level it has been substandard with a chronic lack of creativity.
Last season it was good until a couple ran out of steam and and weren’t left out when they should’ve been to recharge.
The business model of finding young players to develop and sell means that the long contracts are not about stability they are about maximising profits on sale. Which is a good thing except the balance of inexperience has to be right. Squeezing too many youngsters in to get more profits is a dangerous strategy when you are in the trapdoor division. So is our aim to maximise profits or get promoted because I haven’t seen anything about a target season for promotion. I guess our expectations are being managed by telling us the attendance figure needed to compete.
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You may be right but it is also true that longer contracts can mean there is greater allegiance to the Club and also that we potentially get some decent players on the way. Clubs in our position always sell their better players and, given the difficulties in attracting good young players to the Academy, the best route is to bring in late developers, such as Barrett, Jellis, Williams etc. who were not hoovered up at age 11 by the big clubs.
If an action does help Walsall as a club, I think it is slightly unfair to dismiss it as profiteering. If nothing else, they can only sell the club at a profit if it has had some success.
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Lakin too. But we do need the midfield bolstering, I acknowledge.
So do i, only used those two as examples as they’re the two midfielders we’ve been very strongly linked with.
Simply not true. If “the club” pays for its own ground (again) by facilitating the payment of the mortgage repayments from its income, then any future sale of the club would be at a profit equivalent to the value of the accrued equity, irrespective of anything that happens on the pitch. The club has made significant profit on selling the likes of Taylor Allen and Isaac Hutchinson, but we are still in League 2.