Buckley? What a transformation over the summer!!! I wrote this after the Luton match where we spewed a 2 goal lead.
"Buckley.... 8 My personal MoM. Was everywhere, getting a foot in to break up many Luton midfield moves and creating play with well executed passing. Last season's boy is quickly turning into a man and showing why Mowbray has such faith in him. If Armstrong still lives up here see if he can pop down to Brockhall and give Buckley a bit of one on one shooting practice and we could have a very valuable player on our hands"
As far as a prem club taking him for big money then that means that he's been brilliant for us. Tbh If I was his agent then no way would I let him sign a 10 year deal. I think tying him up for 3 or 4 years with a release figure built in would be as much as we could hope for.
It seems our board has wisely decided that we should be a 'posh crewe' of the past by taking kids with talent who have dropped off the pace in big clubs academies, shaking them up, dusting them down and putting them back on the road to the top. Looking at the success of recent academy 'graduates' I think top agents will be on the phone to us the minute their charges are binned off at the big club academies.
As for JB ..... An extra 30 min session after each days training with a shooting coach learning how using 80% power and concentrating on a punch' technique keeping the ball down and on target instead of blazing going at full power will yield better results. Who knows with his distribution skills he could even become our go to free kick taker. As far as I can see from the point of view of a creative midfielder it is his main weakness and to cure that would add millions to the millions that I believe he is already worth.
