(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

Just now, Big E said:

Get behind them. get the ground. that is what they need

50 pints and I’m back 

7 minutes ago, tomski said:

50 pints and I’m back 

Cost us less than £400 to get back into it

43 minutes ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

Is that a stutter you have ?

😀😀

1 hour ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

Is that a stutter you have ?

Im telling thee 

For me last season is over let’s move on and see what the new season brings new players new start .

3 hours ago, Blondi said:

I was thinking maybe loaning him out to say Atherton Collieries then😉

Not get in the starting 11!

4 hours ago, deeane Koontz said:

Big Vic will score 22 goals this season

Have Birmingham signed him?

17 hours ago, tomski said:

think everyone needs to get behind the players. I’m as angry as the next man about Wembley but this group will be the one that delivers or won’t in the next season and encouragement will be better than any negativity. COYFWM 

They’ll be backed as they always are but I do think people’s patience will be thinner this season. It’s shit or bust time for Evatt and there’s 33,000 Wembley receipts that have been kept… 

if the start isn’t great it will come on top pretty quickly. 

6 minutes ago, barrycowdrill said:

They’ll be backed as they always are but I do think people’s patience will be thinner this season. It’s shit or bust time for Evatt and there’s 33,000 Wembley receipts that have been kept… 

if the start isn’t great it will come on top pretty quickly. 

Completely agree. Feel that way about Evatt myself and there is only 1 scenario he wins me round and I just can’t see it. Players will be here long after.

Being linked with Southampton forward Dom Ballard 19 who spent a few weeks on loan scoring 5 in 12 before snapping his Patella Tendon which ruled him out from November until the end of the season.

 

This last part makes me feel there may be some truth in it

Dele Alli…

30 minutes ago, Lancaster18 said:

Dele Alli…

Yeah......and?

30 minutes ago, DomRepWanderer said:

Yeah......and?

Ali Dia 

Just now, gonzo said:

Ali Dia 

Could do a job , I hear George Weah rates him very highly. 

8 hours ago, masi 51 said:

Being linked with Southampton forward Dom Ballard 19 who spent a few weeks on loan scoring 5 in 12 before snapping his Patella Tendon which ruled him out from November until the end of the season.

 

This last part makes me feel there may be some truth in it

Apparently we're in the mix with Huddersfield and ....erm... Wycombe.

Interesting one though. He's a real fresh-faced kid but I've seen him play for England youth and he's a proper "fox in the box" type - scores all his goals from 2yds - but he has a real instinct for goal and makes excellent runs to get there.

Where I'm struggling is that in an Evatt team he would be a luxury because he would be useless pressing 30 yds away from goal - but put the lad in the box and he's a finisher. I dunno - maybe the "new" playing style demands a wannabe Gary Lineker type player?

10 minutes ago, Wanderlust said:

Apparently we're in the mix with Huddersfield and ....erm... Wycombe.

Interesting one though. He's a real fresh-faced kid but I've seen him play for England youth and he's a proper "fox in the box" type - scores all his goals from 2yds - but he has a real instinct for goal and makes excellent runs to get there.

Where I'm struggling is that in an Evatt team he would be a luxury because he would be useless pressing 30 yds away from goal - but put the lad in the box and he's a finisher. I dunno - maybe the "new" playing style demands a wannabe Gary Lineker type player?

One to chuck on as a sub in the box along with 5 other forwards when chasing a goal

17 minutes ago, Wanderlust said:

Apparently we're in the mix with Huddersfield and ....erm... Wycombe.

Interesting one though. He's a real fresh-faced kid but I've seen him play for England youth and he's a proper "fox in the box" type - scores all his goals from 2yds - but he has a real instinct for goal and makes excellent runs to get there.

Where I'm struggling is that in an Evatt team he would be a luxury because he would be useless pressing 30 yds away from goal - but put the lad in the box and he's a finisher. I dunno - maybe the "new" playing style demands a wannabe Gary Lineker type player?

Another player not for the system. Belting

52 minutes ago, Big E said:

Another player not for the system. Belting

When we signed Dion, I thought he was a "fox in the box" who would get a ton of goals and he turned out to be an excellent runner who chased down everything and totally fitted into the system we were playing although a lot of the time I was thinking "he shouldn't be there" - he should be lurking around the penalty spot looking for a chance - but we simply weren't set up that way and Dion does a job. Question is whether or not the "new" system would accommodate an out and out finisher? Or even if there is a role in the modern game for such a type of player? Maybe Dom has other aspects to his game that I haven't seen - but from what I've seen he's a goalhanger - or "tittyliner" as we used to call them.

13 hours ago, DomRepWanderer said:

Yeah......and?

Only tenuous link I can see is Chris Markham follows him.

Anything Nixon writes ignore I am sure he makes it up also Jack  Taylor available on loan could be better than McAtee?

7 minutes ago, Rizlar said:

Anything Nixon writes ignore I am sure he makes it up also Jack  Taylor available on loan could be better than McAtee?

i've broken more transfer news on here than Nixon

Barely any of our recent signing were a thing to me before we got them. Whether going on to be successful or otherwise.

So many out there won't fit the Evatt system, whether that has altered a bit, a lot (it won't) or not at all.

So every name brings up a Google search. It seems to be slow progress to date ... for a man who stresses the importance of 'a full pre-season' that must be a concern.

God help him if we're 3-0 down after 60 minutes v Orient. 

 

Iles saying that the Randall deal is dead - which we sorta knew - but announced we offered over a million for him. Really?

There's a lot of talk about us not paying over our valuation for players and holding out for the right players at the right price, but I'm struggling to see where that valuation came from unless Randall's skills are deemed ideal for the new system.

We have bids in for Armstrong, Dembele and McAtee - and maybe others - and maybe we're just after any one of them rather than all of them?

1 hour ago, Wanderlust said:

Iles saying that the Randall deal is dead - which we sorta knew - but announced we offered over a million for him. Really?

There's a lot of talk about us not paying over our valuation for players and holding out for the right players at the right price, but I'm struggling to see where that valuation came from unless Randall's skills are deemed ideal for the new system.

We have bids in for Armstrong, Dembele and McAtee - and maybe others - and maybe we're just after any one of them rather than all of them?

And maybe you've not got a clue like the rest of us

1 hour ago, Wanderlust said:

Iles saying that the Randall deal is dead - which we sorta knew - but announced we offered over a million for him. Really?

There's a lot of talk about us not paying over our valuation for players and holding out for the right players at the right price, but I'm struggling to see where that valuation came from unless Randall's skills are deemed ideal for the new system.

We have bids in for Armstrong, Dembele and McAtee - and maybe others - and maybe we're just after any one of them rather than all of them?

Randall deal not completely dead (despite the info the club feed Iles).

They want him to sign a new contract, and prefer to sell him to someone other than a promotion rival. They are also keen to avoid a Clarke Harris situation where they lose him for nothing. 

It's unlikely to happen, since we won't wait around until the end of the window to find out in this case, but not dead!

Fully expect Armstrong and McAtee to happen next week.