Mr Smart wrote:#Beebot wrote:becbee wrote:Malachi Mars has joined Hanwell Town on loan to 22nd December. They play in the Bostik South Central League against the likes of Ware and Cheshunt. Is he really that poor that he couldn't get any team higher than that and if he is, why on earth did we sign him in the first place?
He's very diminutive which is a turn off to pretty much every non-league manager unless you're very technically gifted, which he isn't.
He was a very strange signing, to me it seemed like Eames trying to make some kind of statement by bringing back a former academy prospect poached by a top team. It was fairly obvious that he would get nowhere near the first team as Chelsea had written him off and were sending him out on loan just to get U18 game time.
Mars wasn’t a “statement signing”. He was literally a young player we knew had some talent who we flogged to Chelsea for good money and was available to get back for free. He was never intended to be an immediate first team player and was brought in as someone who might come good. The fact Chelsea by all accounts paid decent money for suggests he has demonstrated something decent at youth level so to give a chance in our u23s wasn’t a huge risk.
Did we not pay a fee for him? I never understood why we were so keen to get his signing over the line on deadline day when time was tight and we ended up missing out on Sule.
