Transfer Gossip

[tomski]

6 minutes ago, Ros Coe said:

Or even Lira 🤣

Haha weird thing is I’d put lira before the edit. 😂

[Ratwhite]

9 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

I've said what a good player he is a few times, but aside from the Lincoln game he's shown no appetite for shooting.  Maybe he'll step up now and take a few more pot shots.

Hopefully Randall's got it in his locker too.

My mate @Grasshopper reckons his heads too big for his body, working on the old kids game "striker" principle, if his head weight / pressure affects his shot, it should in theory be like a thunder-twat cannon!

[Johnnyrotten]

3 hours ago, gonzo said:

Said it before but all our best runs and patches of good form over the last year or so are when Vic and Dion play together.

On paper I would have Vic 4th choice in the 4 forwards we have but we just seem to win when he plays.

He just seems to be a better foil for Charles. 

Not disagreeing with that statistically, but for context:

1.  we know IE loves his 65th min subs of strikers - so if Vic starts and we win, does it count if he's had a bad game, got subbed, then we've gone onto win?  eg 1-0 v Blackpool, his replacement sets up Tomo for the winner but it goes down as "Vic started, we won".

 2.  he can't have played many of our infamous "tough" games if we win most of the games he starts - because we haven't won any of those in the league since beating (10 men) Derby.  So either IE doesn't pick him for the tougher games, or he has no more impact on them than anyone.  He started our bad home defeats v Wigan & Carlisle last year; when he wasn't playing we didn't lose any home games after Christmas.

3. Coming on as sub counts too, if he doesn't start (so we lose), he usually gets half an hour to make an impact and its hard to recall this happening, unlike say Charles or Collins who have come on a few times and changed the tempo of our attacks.

[worthy10]

Emotions are raw after yet another unfavourable result but I can't see us signing anyone now that will make much difference. They are all evatts choices and we are worse because of that. Randall is prime example of that. Wasting yet more money is hurting our club.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Going for the 5-0-5 system. That will confuse them.

[Dr. Feelgood]

9 minutes ago, worthy10 said:

Wasting yet more money is hurting our club.

"Spaffing'" Worthy. Spaffing is appropriate here

 

[worthy10]

2 minutes ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

"Spaffing'" Worthy. Spaffing is appropriate here

 

We are being choked on our own spaff?  

[Tonge moor green jacket]

1 minute ago, worthy10 said:

We are being choked on our own spaff?  

Not ours, but his maybe.

[meanderson93]

Speaking of receipts, have we still got the one for Randall?

I'm sure he's a fine player, but Evatt should have never been allowed to buy him. A million pounds could have gone an awful long way for our next (hopefully competent) manager.

[only1swanny]

1 hour ago, meanderson93 said:

Speaking of receipts, have we still got the one for Randall?

I'm sure he's a fine player, but Evatt should have never been allowed to buy him. A million pounds could have gone an awful long way for our next (hopefully competent) manager.

It's a sure sign that he's going nowhere, at one point he had 4 players on the pitch who he's signed for about that price each. McAtee, Collins, Randall and Schon, he's just panic buying when in truth we need a proper defensive midfielder (or a box to box) and a solid centre half. 

[Blondi]

1 hour ago, meanderson93 said:

Speaking of receipts, have we still got the one for Randall?

I'm sure he's a fine player, but Evatt should have never been allowed to buy him. A million pounds could have gone an awful long way for our next (hopefully competent) manager.

The board should immediately pull the plug now if there are any other incoming players with a fee involved, Evatt should be allowed just loan players until the end of the season is IF he's still here.

[RONNIE PHILLIPS]

1 minute ago, Blondi said:

The board should immediately pull the plug now if there are any other incoming players with a fee involved, Evatt should be allowed just loan players until the end of the season is IF he's still here.

Would be cheaper and a more positive outcome if we could just loan a manager. 

[only1swanny]

7 minutes ago, Blondi said:

The board should immediately pull the plug now if there are any other incoming players with a fee involved, Evatt should be allowed just loan players until the end of the season is IF he's still here.

I'm genuinely shocked they allowed him to sign anyone with a fee. 

 

[RONNIE PHILLIPS]

2 hours ago, only1swanny said:

I'm genuinely shocked they allowed him to sign anyone with a fee. 

 

I'm genuinely shocked he's not signing on. 

[Ani]

On 10/01/2025 at 20:26, Ani said:

I think as well Reading away 1up first half dominating , Big Vic misses a very good chance (not quite a sitter but more on those later 😉). Let’s them back in the game end up losing , Exeter dominating but only 1 up at half time , end up needing a late goal to get a point .

In the last few months we have also missed real sitters at key points in games, most obvious was Dion at 0-0 at Pompey, he missed a similarly easy chance with a header at Orient, again at 0-0, JDB hit the post from 5 yards at Barnsley away. Last few games Schon missed the ball at 1-0 v Wigan, Collins even worse v Barnsley. Dion again at Mansfield from 3 yards, Lolos miss at Exeter not quite as bad as the others. 
 

I know teams often miss chances at this level but these have all been horrific at vital stages of games. You could throw in McAtee at 1-0 late on at Brum but that needed ‘scoring’ the others were virtually tap ins. 
 

I do not think we have been ‘unlucky’ as such but we have made some terrible attempts to score when a goal has looked a certainty. 

Another absolute sitter at Rotherham. Joke. 

[Blondi]

These are supposedly approximate fees Evatt has paid for his signings.

Dion Charles £320K

Aaron Morley £100K

Kyle Dempsey £200K

Eoin Toal £50K

Randell Williams £100K

Dan Nlundulu £250K

Victor Adeboyejo £500K

Will Forrester £200K

Carlos Mendes Gomes £300K

Aaron Collins £750K

Szabolcs Schon £800K

Jordi Osei Tutu ??

John Mcatee £1 Million

Joel Randell £1.2 million

[L/H White]

13 minutes ago, Blondi said:

These are supposedly approximate fees Evatt has paid for his signings.

Dion Charles £320K

Aaron Morley £100K

Kyle Dempsey £200K

Eoin Toal £50K

Randell Williams £100K

Dan Nlundulu £250K

Victor Adeboyejo £500K

Will Forrester £200K

Carlos Mendes Gomes £300K

Aaron Collins £750K

Szabolcs Schon £800K

Jordi Osei Tutu ??

John Mcatee £1 Million

Joel Randell £1.2 million

if it's accurate the best player is the cheapest one

[only1swanny]

14 minutes ago, Blondi said:

These are supposedly approximate fees Evatt has paid for his signings.

Dion Charles £320K

Aaron Morley £100K

Kyle Dempsey £200K

Eoin Toal £50K

Randell Williams £100K

Dan Nlundulu £250K

Victor Adeboyejo £500K

Will Forrester £200K

Carlos Mendes Gomes £300K

Aaron Collins £750K

Szabolcs Schon £800K

Jordi Osei Tutu ??

John Mcatee £1 Million

Joel Randell £1.2 million

So roughly £6 million. 

A club that nearly went bust a few years back, getting bonds from fans, spunking 6 million to be mid table League one (as all the above were purchased whilst in league one). 

Getting silly, is it purely that the board are that invested that they don't want to accept they were wrong?

Charles, Morley, Dempsey, and Toal were all good purchases, Collins has done well so far tbf. 

So Seen as they look in order, what happened to the scouting?

PS, Missed Saddlier off the list, 

[Ratwhite]

28 minutes ago, Blondi said:

These are supposedly approximate fees Evatt has paid for his signings.

Dion Charles £320K

Aaron Morley £100K

Kyle Dempsey £200K

Eoin Toal £50K

Randell Williams £100K

Dan Nlundulu £250K

Victor Adeboyejo £500K

Will Forrester £200K

Carlos Mendes Gomes £300K

Aaron Collins £750K

Szabolcs Schon £800K

Jordi Osei Tutu ??

John Mcatee £1 Million

Joel Randell £1.2 million

Barring Collins it went down hill after Williams 

Edited January 12, 2025 by Ratwhite

[Kane57]

1 minute ago, Ratwhite said:

Barring Collins it went down hill after Williams 

With Williams

[Leyther_Matt]

Just now, Ratwhite said:

Barring Collins at went down hill after Williams 

Think you’re being generous to Collins, there. Completely anonymous again yesterday. I know there’s been plenty of mentions on here (me included) about him being picked because he’s capable of probably ‘a moment’, but it’s getting to be a bit of a stretch now when he’s going through runs of games without contributing anything at all. 

[Traf]

3 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Think you’re being generous to Collins, there. Completely anonymous again yesterday. I know there’s been plenty of mentions on here (me included) about him being picked because he’s capable of probably ‘a moment’, but it’s getting to be a bit of a stretch now when he’s going through runs of games without contributing anything at all. 

But Ian says the games are only won or lost via the 'moments'

[CumbrianWhite]

14 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Think you’re being generous to Collins, there. Completely anonymous again yesterday. I know there’s been plenty of mentions on here (me included) about him being picked because he’s capable of probably ‘a moment’, but it’s getting to be a bit of a stretch now when he’s going through runs of games without contributing anything at all. 

Which wouldn’t be too much of an issue if he was the only one. We’ve now got Mcatee and Randall as well. 
 

[Tombwfc]

21 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Think you’re being generous to Collins, there. Completely anonymous again yesterday. I know there’s been plenty of mentions on here (me included) about him being picked because he’s capable of probably ‘a moment’, but it’s getting to be a bit of a stretch now when he’s going through runs of games without contributing anything at all. 

 

Was like playing with 10 men yesterday.

It's him in a nutshell. Scored a couple of goals recently so he must play every minute, but while we wait for these 'moments' we're getting overrun everywhere else. He'd have to be offering Ronaldo-level effectiveness in front of goal to offset him standing around doing toss all for the rest of the game.

Not good enough. And we've got two of them!

[Farrelli]

40 minutes ago, Traf said:

But Ian says the games are only won or lost via the 'moments'

True. The moment he picks the team and sets them up.