(That long since we've had any, couldn't find the thread)

Alan Nixon: "Top Liverpool starlet Cameron Branagan will Ben allowed out on loan in Jan.

Bolton lead the race for the 20 year old midfielder"

Edited December 11, 20169 yr by Ratwhite

Couple of dodgy Links on Twitter today

Ciaron Brown Emerging as Transfer Target for Millwall and Bolton - Oxford United left sided Central defender

Harry Gray - Leeds 17yr old (18 in October) forward who was out on loan at Rotherham last season (3 goals in 20) back out on loan.

1 hour ago, Whitesince63 said:

So much for the 4 or 5 deals ready to go then. We’ve had two I suppose both of which would probably have been made if we’d stayed in L1 so what’s happening with the Championship plan Fergie supposedly had? With our players not back until next week following our play off delay we’re already behind so hopefully things will pick up before the weekend. It’s all getting a little tedious at the moment so I’m hoping ducks are lining up in a row behind the scenes.

The only thing getting tedious is those moaning about it! 😂

Has anyone made more than a couple of signings yet?

16 minutes ago, desperado said:

Has anyone made more than a couple of signings yet?

32 signings in the Championship so far apparently. That's just over an average of 1 per club.

Appreciate a few have bigger squads than us, but its slow everywhere at the moment..

1 hour ago, Whitesince63 said:

So much for the 4 or 5 deals ready to go then

Probably still is there probably free agents if there lined up . even if a player is out of contract he will be getting paid till June from is former club then we take over the contract from July I would expect

Or alternatively there playing in the World Cup and will be tied up till France and Brazil get knocked out

Edited 11 hours ago11 hr by Farnywhite

35 minutes ago, TrickyTrotter said:

32 signings in the Championship so far apparently. That's just over an average of 1 per club.

Appreciate a few have bigger squads than us, but its slow everywhere at the moment..

Yeah, the problem at the moment is, with the exception of Cardiff and Lincoln, the rest have better squads than us I'd argue.

But this was always going to be the case when we finally got up.

The way some are going on, we may as well not have bothered.

Said before this will be very tough but let's see if we can spring a few surprises.

6 minutes ago, Greg_BWFC said:

Yeah, the problem at the moment is, with the exception of Cardiff and Lincoln, the rest have better squads than us I'd argue.

But this was always going to be the case when we finally got up.

The way some are going on, we may as well not have bothered.

Said before this will be very tough but let's see if we can spring a few surprises.

I also feel that it will be very much a situation where our starting lineup v Preston may be quite different to our starting lineup come the close of the transfer window.

As it will be for a lot of teams.

That said, I still would like us to be competitive in those opening games!

37 minutes ago, Greg_BWFC said:

Yeah, the problem at the moment is, with the exception of Cardiff and Lincoln, the rest have better squads than us I'd argue.

But this was always going to be the case when we finally got up.

The way some are going on, we may as well not have bothered.

Said before this will be very tough but let's see if we can spring a few surprises.

38 minutes ago, Greg_BWFC said:

Yeah, the problem at the moment is, with the exception of Cardiff and Lincoln, the rest have better squads than us I'd argue.

But this was always going to be the case when we finally got up.

The way some are going on, we may as well not have bothered.

Said before this will be very tough but let's see if we can spring a few surprises.

We have by a country mile the worst squad currently in the Championship......You cannot seriously think Cardiff and Lincoln are behind us....wow

10 minutes ago, masi 51 said:

We have by a country mile the worst squad currently in the Championship......You cannot seriously think Cardiff and Lincoln are behind us....wow

No, I don't mate. Maybe I should've clarified this by saying all the other clubs are championship standard already. I think its fair to say the 3 promoted teams aren't- yet.

54 minutes ago, Marc505 said:

I also feel that it will be very much a situation where our starting lineup v Preston may be quite different to our starting lineup come the close of the transfer window.

As it will be for a lot of teams.

That said, I still would like us to be competitive in those opening games!

Think Fergal said early on that he expects most signings to be late in the window and for us fans to be patient.

We're not going to be though are we 😄

1 hour ago, Marc505 said:

I also feel that it will be very much a situation where our starting lineup v Preston may be quite different to our starting lineup come the close of the transfer window.

As it will be for a lot of teams.

That said, I still would like us to be competitive in those opening games!

The way the fixtures have fallen, we've been given 3 "winnable" games in August followed by 3 nasty one's.

We really can't afford to cough up more points from those 3 than necessary, but SS will be fully aware of that, he won't want to start the season with 6 defeats and will do everything he can to make us competitive from day one.

But it does feel strange currently to think we had a squad that struggled to beat the Port Vales and Doncasters and we've lost 7 or 8 regular first team starters. If we started in L1 tomorrow with our current squad we'd struggle, never mind the championship, that's the size of the task in the next 6 weeks.

21 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:

But it does feel strange currently to think we had a squad that struggled to beat the Port Vales and Doncasters and we've lost 7 or 8 regular first team starters. If we started in L1 tomorrow with our current squad we'd struggle, never mind the championship, that's the size of the task in the next 6 weeks.

aye

though I'm sort of encouraged that we chose to release the likes of GJ and Tutu, I'm sure they'd have been "ok" in the Championship if the aim was to finish 21st, but we're after and confident we can get better

The World cups about 10 days longer than normal, which will have a massive impact on the market. Not necessarily because we’re in the market for players there, but nobody will trade players out until they’ve got them in. We’ve got 3 weeks until we see proper activity I reckon

Iles indicated on Twitter that Fergal / SS looking at 3 being in by this time next week

10 minutes ago, ianofcleveleys said:

Iles indicated on Twitter that Fergal / SS looking at 3 being in by this time next week

Father, Son and the Holy Ghost

Never understand the panic in June. Never will.