Possible Nick Anderton/Jordan Williams bids?

[Toid]

Probably nonsense but a tweet floating around earlier..

#Charlton trying again to sign Jordan Williams from #BarrowAFC. Personal terms agreed just need to settle on fee #[SwearFilter] #cafc

[Moribund]

Probably nonsense but a tweet floating around earlier..

#Charlton trying again to sign Jordan Williams from #BarrowAFC. Personal terms agreed just need to settle on fee #[SwearFilter] #cafc

It's a different Jordan Williams - Twitter's full of kids manning "in the know" accounts.

[Toid]

Ah yes. Young liverpool lad.

[K_BFC]

Probably nonsense but a tweet floating around earlier..

#Charlton trying again to sign Jordan Williams from #BarrowAFC. Personal terms agreed just need to settle on fee #[SwearFilter] #cafc

It's a different Jordan Williams - Twitter's full of kids manning "in the know" accounts.

Liverpool's Jordan Williams?

[Bingo]

People say casson needs to get his hand in his pocket and spend - if it was just about money he could have quite easily have cashed in on some of our players

[PRR]

People say casson needs to get his hand in his pocket and spend - if it was just about money he could have quite easily have cashed in on some of our players

Good point there, we have done well to hold onto our talent. This would not have happened in years gone by and they'd have probably gone for peanuts.

[boyliegladbach]

People say casson needs to get his hand in his pocket and spend - if it was just about money he could have quite easily have cashed in on some of our players

Said this yesterday, people who seem to think they know cassons finances inside out keep saying he's skint.
If he was he'd have accepted any offers.

[russell_anderson]

People say casson needs to get his hand in his pocket and spend - if it was just about money he could have quite easily have cashed in on some of our players

Cashed in for a lot less than has been talked about on here methinks which is probably why none were sold!

[Jim]

My guess is that Paul Casson has wisely considered that we are nowhere near ready for football league status and therefore there is no point splashing silly money on 'marquee' signings at this stage. I think the way he and Paul Cox have gone about signing good players without spending a lot of money should be applauded. I am sure we did intend to bring some more players in during January and we have been beaten by clubs willing to offer more money. I expect that prudent expenditure on players will continue and we will strengthen the squad gradually.

There are probably plans afoot for the ground which mean that only urgent or vital repairs will be done. We need to be patient.

[Moribund]

My guess is that Paul Casson has wisely considered that we are nowhere near ready for football league status and therefore there is no point splashing silly money on 'marquee' signings at this stage. I think the way he and Paul Cox have gone about signing good players without spending a lot of money should be applauded. I am sure we did intend to bring some more players in during January and we have been beaten by clubs willing to offer more money. I expect that prudent expenditure on players will continue and we will strengthen the squad gradually.

There are probably plans afoot for the ground which mean that only urgent or vital repairs will be done. We need to be patient.

I'd certainly rather that approach than splurging cash on league players past their best. Eastleigh, for example, apparently paid £60k for a player 2 months ago (N'Gala), and have since released him. Southport have bought a whole new squad and then booted out the manager. There are many more badly-run clubs than us in this division, and the fact we haven't signed as many players as we'd expected (signed up 3, to be fair), isn't really a major cause for concern like some on here want everyone to believe.

[K_BFC]

It has been repeatedly said we are running to a budget, not a bottomless pit. Keeping to a budget does not mean spend to gain promotion at all costs. That approach has certainly worked well for FGR and Eastleigh in recent years hasn't it

When Mr Casson put the offer in to buy the club he said there would be money to fund the playing side for a couple of years for a promotion push and maybe more beyond that. To me that maybe sounded more like, I'm not spending more unless we are making money by then. Which is reasonable if you originally only planned to put so much in. The promotion push was to get us in the National League and give us the best possible chance of competing for promotion to the league. We achieved promotion unexpectedly at the first attempt, so we were slightly ahead but now face stiffer competition for players in order to push on.

We have been told that we are on a budget and won't spend recklessly. So it figures, he might be a millionaire owner but he is counting his pennies so he doesn't go over the budget he knew he could provide. If our badgering made him do so we would pay for it further down the line somewhere. Also remember we were told that most of the money promised was going to go on the ground. Maybe the success on the field has redirected that money hence slow progress on the ground and reluctance to spend more on the squad? We could do with some answers, although I doubt they will want to come out and say we have no more to spend this season. I think Cox has been trying to get Mr Casson to spend more via comments in his interviews.

Thankfully it was mentioned before the transfer window that we didn't have to sell our players to survive. The question was always going to be could we convince players to stay if bigger clubs came in for them? Well it looks like we have hung on to the players we want to keep, despite clear offers for a few of them.

The only problem on the playing side seems to be getting players in, we are clearly ambitious given the players we've gone after but we keep getting pipped at the post. How disappointing after such a meteoric rise from the ashes that Barrow is still not the dream destination of many players compared to the likes of Lincoln, Tranmere and FGR. We have a small squad and players are leaving, which tells me we are making room in the budget for new players. Apparently we only had 16 fit players available against FGR and one of those has been given permission to leave.

[The Tomahawk Kid]

Hard to find anyone else more motivated than Yates.

Gone on loan to Shrewsbury Yates has

Yeah, a shame about that. Would have loved to have seen Ryan Yates return. Good player and full of passion for our club...

[gez imps]

Oh dear,oh dear.Keep watching that clock.

[paddy71]

Oh dear,oh dear.Keep watching that clock.

Obsessed

[BoltonBlue]

Keeping hold of the likes of Anderton & Williams despite FL bids will for me make just a big of statement than marquee signings.