Cedric Baseya

[Wycombe Royal]

I don't actually think FiNeRaIn is being serious here. He can't be, surely?

One would hope not.

[ZacNaloen]

I can't remember the last time he made a post that was him being serious on here tbh

[FiNeRaIn]

Whats not to be serious about? Club in spending money they don't have and going bust shocker. This is how it starts...small 50k a year signings and it escalates from there like a gambling addiction. Ask benito carbone what happened at bradford and he'll giggle into his starbucks coffee while eating a scone.

We need 3/4 strikers around the first team, the rest should be moved on bar the 17/18 year old youth academy one's. Lawson d'ath for example is a prospect.

[Terminal Boardom]

I can't see this as the sort of signing that will increase attendence at the next home game - unless he plays against Cov and has an absolute blinder. Neither of which will happen.

I don't think that I have been so under-whelmed by a signing ever made by the club. Sure, there have been some that raised an eyebrow - eg Paul Bodin but Baseya? Leaves me with a massive

[winchester_royal]

Poor logic. We take chances on several academy players and cheap, basement signings. Some will come good, offer something to the team and be sold on at a good value. Some won't. You just assume that the success stories will more than cancel out the failures. Up front, we now have Williams and this guy in development. We also have Bignall in the academy and other kids in the development team; Ugwu and Murphy. If 1 or 2 out of all these guys come good and offer something to the team, that will probably cancel out the expense of all the others.

We can't afford this. What do you guys not understand? We need to cut the cloth to make ourselves more sustainable. This is a completely pointless signing when we have 7 other options up front. Needless expenses. We weren't struggling when we bought people like doyle and long, even they however were more proven than this guy.

Assuming he's on 1k a week this gamble will cost a whopping 9k.

You really just cannot resist any opportunity to slag off the club huh?

[JimmytheJim]

Poor logic. We take chances on several academy players and cheap, basement signings. Some will come good, offer something to the team and be sold on at a good value. Some won't. You just assume that the success stories will more than cancel out the failures. Up front, we now have Williams and this guy in development. We also have Bignall in the academy and other kids in the development team; Ugwu and Murphy. If 1 or 2 out of all these guys come good and offer something to the team, that will probably cancel out the expense of all the others.

We can't afford this. What do you guys not understand? We need to cut the cloth to make ourselves more sustainable. This is a completely pointless signing when we have 7 other options up front. Needless expenses. We weren't struggling when we bought people like doyle and long, even they however were more proven than this guy.

Assuming he's on 1k a week this gamble will cost a whopping 9k.

You really just cannot resist any opportunity to slag off the club huh?

...?

[roadrunner]

I don't expect we'll see this lad in the first team until at least the new year, injuries permitting.

Le Fondre, Hunt, Church, Manset are the favoured front four.

Robson-Kanu, Williams, Bignall, Baseya are the backup.

It really is an odd signing. I can only think that Williams and Bignall are looking bleak, and HRK is prefered as a winger. Even so, still an odd one this.

[M-U-R-T-Y]

There must be something they've seen in him shirley. Otherwise I'm a bit baffled.

[Svlad Cjelli]

We've not really got a great big brute we can throw on for knock-downs at corners for the last 10 minutes when we're a goal behind. Manset's not that player, this guy might be.

[Tredder]

Just missing a board and his name.

[roadrunner]

Just missing a board and his name.

R8pe eyes.

[Royal Rother]

We can't afford this. What do you guys not understand? We need to cut the cloth to make ourselves more sustainable. This is a completely pointless signing when we have 7 other options up front. Needless expenses. We weren't struggling when we bought people like doyle and long, even they however were more proven than this guy.

Assuming he's on 1k a week this gamble will cost a whopping 9k.

You really just cannot resist any opportunity to slag off the club huh?

...?

He's a qualified accountant donchaknow?

[FiNeRaIn]

Assuming he's on 1k a week this gamble will cost a whopping 9k.

My apologies, I didn't realise he had only signed a 9 week contract. This is much less of a risk.

[Royal Lady]

It does seem a bit WTF this signing. I hope McD isn't losing it. He signed Khumalo played him for one (or was it 2) games and he didn't appear up to it, so he then he signed Gorkss. He signed ALF, he played his home debut and then he was dropped. He was only a sub on Saturday remember.

Now, I don't know what's going on his mind, but to be honest, anyone who thinks signing a (nearly) 24 year old who has yet to score in his football career is a great move (irrespective of how much he is going to take in wages) is going a bit la-la in my book.

He might become another Doyle/Senior or whatever - but they were, at least, proven in lower leagues and had scored hatfuls of goals. So, I'm not holding my breath on this one, but I'll be interested to see what McD and the scouts see in him.

[Hoop Blah]

PS - I'm not pro-club on this, I'm anti-people who are prepared to rubbish a player they've not seen and didn't know existed an hour ago on the basis of a single line of statistics.

To be fair, I think most of the criticism* is not that he's a bad player but that we've got plenty of options upfront already and it just seems that we're collecting cheap forwards as gambles. I'm not sure the scatter-gun approach is working that well for us but I'm not rubbishing the player himself.

* if you can really call it that, I'd say it's more comment and surprise

[winchester_royal]

...?

He's a qualified accountant donchaknow?

[PieEater]

I wonder what they see in him too, I was hoping Mansett would be the target man we needed to play with Alf.

Maybe he's just a cheap backup for Mansett in case of injuries.

[Gordons Cumming]

No goals?

It can only get better.....................

[Svlad Cjelli]

But the point is that none of us knows anything until they see him - he may create chances for other strikers to put away. But the scouts & BMc will have spoken to other managers about him, and also seen video etc. Also, he was at Crewe with Simon Church so he maybe recommended him.

He might be crap - but nothing ventured nothing gained.....

[Hoop Blah]

I wonder what they see in him too, I was hoping Mansett would be the target man we needed to play with Alf.

Maybe he's just a cheap backup for Mansett in case of injuries.

Have you seen Manset play? He's big yes, a target man for someone like Le Fondre to play off of he isn't though.