Valley Bluenose
RTV? Completed it mate!
Mark Allen talked about knowing the Croatian league. I doubt it was a league Gerrard scowered as an under 18's coach.
We signed three from there; Katić, Grezda and Barišić. Grezda never featured against us, I bet Gerrard had never seen him play in the flesh/live.
There was talk of McGregor and Arfield before Gerrard was appointed.
We were linked with Jones in numerous transfer windows before Gerrard was even a rumour.
I'm not having Lafferty as a Gerrard player. He's barely featured when fit and available.
Kamara was linked in the 2018 January transfer window.
Who was signing players when we had a caretaker manager in charge?
I will give you Jones, since we tried to sign him January 2018. I don’t remember a link to Kamara prior to January. Gerrard May even know him from his time at Arsenal. Lafferty, who knows? Gerrard will have seen a player who scored a high number of goals for a team in our league and may well know him from down South.
Allen’s role at City was Academy Director. I’m not sure what his knowledge would have been of the Croatian League in that capacity.
Both McGregor and Arfield would be well known to Gerrard.
Semantics really, because it is evident that you’ve chosen to believe Allen is making all the signings based on pretty much your own theories with not a lot to support them. My belief is that he will have an input, same as Gerrard, same as Scoulding and a few others. The final decision, as both have always said, rests with Gerrard.