Northampton_wolf
Just doesn't shut up
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Well they didnt in one way they had yuri all but sorted on Tuesday with Wednesday agent changing the goalpostsMany of us said this in January that sometimes you need an alternative option that may not necessarily be a guaranteed starter and quite a few on here shot us down. Not every signing has to be a progressive signing that 'improves you' - you can also sign a player on a short-term deal that doesn't necessarily walk into your first team, but in the event of injuries doesn't leave you completely exposed. You can take a chance on a player coming back from injury to help out another club or a journeyman that hits purple patches occasionally but isn't consistent - there seems to be a total aversion to this despite that plenty of clubs do it.
We've done it before with the likes of Iwelumo and Dean Sturridge to good effect, we've also done it and it's failed (Bassong, for example) - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but it doesn't leave you in the position where if your injury prone attackers do pick up a knock, you aren't potentially destroying the confidence of a teenager who is carrying a knock and expected to lead the line in important games where every additional place in the league can bring extra much needed revenue.
I think it was as much the optics of bringing in a player potentially weaker than Fabio on paper that dissuaded the hierarchy from bringing anyone in. Once again, Wolves under Shi get their risk assessments completely wrong.
but we should have learnt they did this with west ham, so chose another target so i guess that risk wasnt asssessed