I'm hoping that some of you lovely lot would like to indulge in a bit of fantasy squad building for next season. Realistically, who do you think we could sign or make a transfer offer for?

I don't think TAA will be on our shortlist, but what additions would you realistically like to see?

 

 

Edited April 25, 20251 yr by SalCity Biggie
Website link was shite

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/league-one/endendevertraege/wettbewerb/GB3 for some league one free agents 

 

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/championship/endendevertraege/wettbewerb/GB2 for the championship 

23 minutes ago, SalCity Biggie said:

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/league-one/endendevertraege/wettbewerb/GB3 for some league one free agents 

 

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/championship/endendevertraege/wettbewerb/GB2 for the championship 

I mentioned it elsewhere but I think Kyprianou would be a great fit and give us a bit more in midfield. 

Would love Smalls from Charlton at Left Back as well but think he's had offers from Championship clubs already. 

The only other players I know about at our level are players I've noticed against us and the odd Blackpool player I hear about.

So with that in mind I hope we sign Erahon from Lincoln, those  two itchy trickies from Crawley and Ennis from Stoke.

Never heard of any of the rest

Craig Dawson at CB would be most welcome.

All depends what formation we'll end up with but here are some of my picks.

Jordan Thompson - CDM - young enough - Stoke

Sam Bell - left wing - Young, fast, can score

Ryan Hedges - left and right winger - lives locally

Lynden Gooch - right winger  - Stoke

Niall Ennis - Stoke

Emil Riis - target man - lives locally

 

I'd never heard of a single one of our current players before they signed for us, so I've absolutely no idea who we should be looking at for the future. It's been like that since day dot for me. Anelka and Gary Speed are probably the only exceptions. Maybe Diouf. Obviously I learn about a players history after they sign, but I just have no interest in football outside of BWFC, other than important England games. And the occassional relapse into my Champ Manager addiction, where I manage Rushden & Diamonds until I get the sack and immediately retire.

It'd probably be a good idea looking at players due to be released from Plymouth Argyle

We'll probably sign at least one

Will ashley barnes play on?

 

It's maybe a bit early to speculate on a lot of those in that list as they're only coming to end of contract, not necessarily being released. It'll become a lot clearer the week after next when all those not in play offs will publish retained lists

2 hours ago, Zog1 said:

Emil Riis - target man - lives locally

🎵 “He lives down the road, he lives down the road Arthur Gnahoua, he lives down the road” 🎵

1 hour ago, Casino said:

Will ashley barnes play on?

 

Good question and someone I’d love to see here for one year or Michael Smith from Wednesday, Niall Ennis or as long as Orient don’t go up Charlie Kelman on loan if he’s not going back to QPR. Poku is leaving Posh and is Kane Wilson signing another contract at Derby and would we like Barry Bannon back for a year? If we really want to go up this season though we do need to be looking at a few experienced Championship players and above instead of L1 or L2 irrespective of age.

If SS does go in for a couple of players that he knows, I wouldn't be surprised to see Niall Ennis and Jordan Houghton approached .

Edited April 25, 20251 yr by Blondi

5 hours ago, Cheese said:

I'd never heard of a single one of our current players before they signed for us, so I've absolutely no idea who we should be looking at for the future. It's been like that since day dot for me. Anelka and Gary Speed are probably the only exceptions. Maybe Diouf. Obviously I learn about a players history after they sign, but I just have no interest in football outside of BWFC, other than important England games. And the occassional relapse into my Champ Manager addiction, where I manage Rushden & Diamonds until I get the sack and immediately retire.

How the fck do you play the old versions?? You on an old desktop ? 

You can down load the classic championship manager 01/02 version for free, just need to Google it. They even did an updated roster patch too

Be happy with some league one journeyman who just gets on.

IE and CM built a team of "luxury" players that left too many basics missing. 

Can get away with one or two but we've got a team full 

Not sure how accurate this list is. Cogley is on it and he signed another 1 year deal recently. 

I think Ennis is definitely going to be on the list of targets. Schumacher said he wants a striker that runs in behind and Ennis definitely did that against us. 

I really like Jordan Gabriel from Blackpool. I think he could do a job in the championship. If we could tempt him that would be a good signing. 

Kwame Poku will deffo end up in the championship, too good for league 1. 

Josh Koroma would be someone i'd want. We need direct pacy wingers and he is that. Not sure of his injury record but he might also be looking to go to the championship. 

 

It'll all become a lot clearer and more interesting to look at by the middle of this week when all bar those in the play offs will probably have put their retained lists out

Another sign of the horrific management from the board was the timing of the sacking led to us missing out on James Collins in January, who ended up at Lincoln instead, scored a bunch of goals and against us to.

Talking about shooting yourself in the foot.

A free signing similar to that would be most welcomed.

Was just gonna put the bar is low If we are gutted to not sign 35 year old James Collins. Then I realised it really is low😂

Trouble is L1 is such a diverse league with teams who like to play it around and those that are just physical so we need a broad squad to cope with that. At the moment we have nothing to compete with the physical teams so so for sure we need a big physical presence up front who can bring the likes of Collins and Randall into play. There are a few like that available like Danny Ward. Michael Smith, Nakhi Wells, Ashley Barnes and Fletcher and Mullins at Wrexham.. They’re all in their 30’s, probably would be content not starting every week and have bags of experience higher up the leagues, wouldn’t cost a fee nor expect excessive wages. Add similar to the midfield and Central defence and we’re nearly there. 

I suspect everyone on that list would want decent wages

27 minutes ago, tomski said:

I suspect everyone on that list would want decent wages

We’d only want one of them! And £10k per week = £1 million for a two year contract. How much did we waste on transfer fees, last season?

On 25/04/2025 at 20:36, London Wanderer said:

How the fck do you play the old versions?? You on an old desktop ? 

You can buy Champ Man 01/02 , 4 and 03/04 for pennies off ebay . I still play them on windows 7 and 10  ( I have dual systems on my desktop) , just need to alter the compatability settings when they install . 

1 hour ago, Krimzon said:

You can buy Champ Man 01/02 , 4 and 03/04 for pennies off ebay . I still play them on windows 7 and 10  ( I have dual systems on my desktop) , just need to alter the compatability settings when they install . 

Can you get 93/94 and relive the glory days with Joey Beauchamp and Scott Oakes terrorising the opposition?

26 minutes ago, Zico said:

Can you get 93/94 and relive the glory days with Joey Beauchamp and Scott Oakes terrorising the opposition?

Thats the old Amiga game . The update disk had Mark Winstanley as one of the background pics. Its freeware so it can be played via an emulator or downlaoded for free just make sure its from a proper website . Not sure how they got around the security where you had to enter a score from a particular page in the manual .

For the very first Champ Man game which is also freeware you could print off the scores and page numbers from the manual so Im assuming that its the same for 93/94 . My first champ man game . I played over 100 seasons before my discs became corrupted . Sold the original big box Amiga game for a decent amount 12 months ago.