Saturday 6 December 2008

Phew, Shearer Economy starts to Heat Up

The race has hotted up in Shearer for the £100k + Aq Fee players, it doesn't take long, the first few days you can secure players for their wage demand then the wages start climbing. Timing your move into this market and out of this market can be stressful. There still remains a good few of these players but clearly their going to go fast now. and often they'll be above wage demand.

A couple of days ago I went in for Augusto Fernadez (22 year old AMC / MR) wage demand £2k went for £10k, actually I know he rises sharply and was worth c.£8k a day. I watched a few more games and feel the Fidel Martinez a young 19yo is able to offer something at senior level, despite still having a young squad I have maturity throughout the team apart from up front. So my search switched to a striker, ideal would have been targetman type with a touch of pace high profile / high Aq Fee (so he has ability) and a bit of a handful. There wasn't anyone one the free agent list so I checked auctions, perfect, Meet Grafite!



The League campaign has fizzled rather than exploded we were unbeaten until we went down 3-0 to Inter at Home, mind we had more chances / possession and Nick uses the corner hack so I didn't think it suggested something inherently wrong in the team just one of those results.

1 comment:

Nick Megarity said...

1 goal from a corner & 2 from open play