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The vast majority of players we sign won't be ones who played for us/well against us last season or were on loan 4 years ago. Fans need to be a little more imaginative.

40 minutes ago, Tombwfc said:

I think people - mostly on Twitter - writing him off as a shit signing are being harsh. He'll have a role to play and might do it well. But equally there's no point making out we've signed a proven commodity based on games he played when Theresa May was Prime Minister.

He'll be strong and stable backup at the very least.

14 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

The vast majority of players we sign won't be ones who played for us/well against us last season or were on loan 4 years ago. Fans need to be a little more imaginative.

If people actually listened to what was being said by Fergal and the club, that would help as well.

This phase of our transfer activity is about picking up the out of contract players that are on the market e.g. Davies and Wilson. Then we move on to negotiating for players who command a fee and then signing loan platyers. That's not to say all that happens in a linear fashion/sequentially, but that's the broad timing. On fee transfers most managers, etc are on holiday including ours presumably. Hundreds of players are also at the World cup and probably every agent, the rest are on holiday. Most teams want to keep players available for loan through pre season just in case they don't get their main targets. We all need to be patient, even though it's frustrating.

But let's keep gossiping about it otherwise we will all get bored 😄.

Edited 17 hours ago17 hr by TrickyTrotter

47 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:

Liverpool had Nat Phillips in their team for a while (not good enough for the Prem and just an OK championship defender probably).

To be fair Nat was the only centre back they had with functioning legs at the point he got in the side.

Rob Holding was a roaring success compared to most players big clubs have signed from lower league teams. He at least played 100+ games for Arsenal.

Liverpool paid over £4m for Calvin Ramsay and all he's had since is a couple of failed loans in L1.

Andy Kellett going on loan to United is still probably the weirdest one.

2 minutes ago, Tombwfc said:

Andy Kellett going on loan to United is still probably the weirdest one.

Iirc they had no left back for their U21s so took him on loan to see if he was up to snuff.

3 hours ago, Zog1 said:

The price to buy a leading Championship centre back starts at £10-15 million, even an average one will set you back £5 million, if we don’t take risks we won't stay up.

The difference between Simons, Burstow and Ben is, Simons and Burstow were bit part Championship players. Ben was so good at Preston, he was signed by Liverpool, and then signed again by Rangers to play in the Champions league. It didn't work out the difference is Ben HAS been someone, Simons and Burstow are still young and are yet to be anyone.

I haven't followed the championship but who are the players going for £15m?

40 minutes ago, Tombwfc said:

Rob Holding was a roaring success compared to most players big clubs have signed from lower league teams. He at least played 100+ games for Arsenal.

Liverpool paid over £4m for Calvin Ramsay and all he's had since is a couple of failed loans in L1.

Andy Kellett going on loan to United is still probably the weirdest one.

Yes, Ramsay was a strange one. We got him on loan and there was nothing to suggest why Liverpool had made (another) odd signing.

Fair play to Holding, he played more than I realised at Arsenal, but he's 30 and he's only made over 15 league appearances in a season twice in his entire career, one here and one at Arsenal.

30 minutes ago, DirtySanchez said:

I haven't followed the championship but who are the players going for £15m?

Adam Webster, Harry Souttar, Djed Spence, Joe Rodon

Theyre all defenders.

They’re all in that range and didn't come from teams that were in the PL the season before.

This is the level now at the top, now many of those went into the PL but they were leading Championship defenders before they did.

There is now a gulf between us and the top Championship teams and we won't ever get near it unless we either take risks or spend sums we both know we don’t have and shouldn’t spend if we did.

I trust FH to help us bridge that gap with quality recruitment.

Edited 18 hours ago18 hr by Zog1

4 hours ago, jmjhb said:

The vast majority of players we sign won't be ones who played for us/well against us last season or were on loan 4 years ago. Fans need to be a little more imaginative.

I agree, I've already seen 'rumours' of people linking us to the likes of Fossey, Dapo etc. like the only players who exist are the ones who've come into our orbit. Sidibeh is another one who wouldn't be getting mentioned if he hadn't scored 1.5 times against us at Wembley.

But equally, only absolute headcases watch a significant number of full football matches that a) don't involve us and b) aren't in the Premier League/Champions League. Given we can't afford players in the latter, it's inevitable that the same names do the rounds.

I reckon I could name fewer than 25 Championship players (minus those who've recently been relegated).

7 minutes ago, Tombwfc said:

I agree, I've already seen 'rumours' of people linking us to the likes of Fossey, Dapo etc. like the only players who exist are the ones who've come into our orbit. Sidibeh is another one who wouldn't be getting mentioned if he hadn't scored 1.5 times against us at Wembley.

But equally, only absolute headcases watch a significant number of full football matches that a) don't involve us and b) aren't in the Premier League/Champions League. Given we can't afford players in the latter, it's inevitable that the same names do the rounds.

I reckon I could name fewer than 25 Championship players (minus those who've recently been relegated).

Ok we're in for Michał Karbownik at left back, already played in England, speaks English and he's played at a good level, and James Bree at right back from Southampton. Both on a free.

I love ITK 😀

26 minutes ago, Tombwfc said:

I agree, I've already seen 'rumours' of people linking us to the likes of Fossey, Dapo etc. like the only players who exist are the ones who've come into our orbit. Sidibeh is another one who wouldn't be getting mentioned if he hadn't scored 1.5 times against us at Wembley.

But equally, only absolute headcases watch a significant number of full football matches that a) don't involve us and b) aren't in the Premier League/Champions League. Given we can't afford players in the latter, it's inevitable that the same names do the rounds.

I reckon I could name fewer than 25 Championship players (minus those who've recently been relegated).

So true.

I actually don’t mind the gossiping, chatter and suggestions.

And you explain very well why the same limited names get regurgitated.

There’s two things that get me head shaking.

1/ He’s a shit signing/he’s a brilliant signing when 99.9% of us really know fuck all.

2/ Then even worse.. when our new striker misses his first one on one. He’s shit, I told everyone he was going to be shit. Why Fergal never went in for Sidibeh after his performance at Wembley I’ll never know

29 minutes ago, desperado said:

So true.

I actually don’t mind the gossiping, chatter and suggestions.

And you explain very well why the same limited names get regurgitated.

There’s two things that get me head shaking.

1/ He’s a shit signing/he’s a brilliant signing when 99.9% of us really know fuck all.

2/ Then even worse.. when our new striker misses his first one on one. He’s shit, I told everyone he was going to be shit. Why Fergal never went in for Sidibeh after his performance at Wembley I’ll never know

Usually the same people who say "he's out of his depth" about managers because they think it makes them sound clever! 😁

2 hours ago, desperado said:

1/ He’s a shit signing/he’s a brilliant signing when 99.9% of us really know fuck all.

We all know fuck all.

Not all of us know we know fuck all.

23 minutes ago, wakey said:

We all know fuck all.

Not all of us know we know fuck all.

I rethink to all the excitement over signing Jardel..

Bolton fans cant possibly be the only ones that routinely slag off/hound/berate their players and wonder why their heads go..

think pretty much the whole squad this past season went from outstanding to shit a few times. ACD (pretty much all good) and Apter (pretty much all shit) aside

9 hours ago, Zog1 said:

Ok we're in for Michał Karbownik at left back, already played in England, speaks English and he's played at a good level, and James Bree at right back from Southampton. Both on a free.

I love ITK 😀

9 hours ago, Zog1 said:

Ok we're in for Michał Karbownik at left back, already played in England, speaks English and he's played at a good level, and James Bree at right back from Southampton. Both on a free.

I love ITK 😀

Had to google Karbonik up Right Footed left back who plays in The German Second division. Got three caps for Poland. Was at Brighton who paid 3m for him but never played a game before being loaned out. James Bree is as good as a right back that we could attract. He has plenty Premier and Championship experience. Think most of the Championship would be after him on a free

One of our lot currently away and Sheehan and Christie are there with their families. Christie doing some football camp each morning

Said the club are keen and ACD willing to get a return done but waiting to see what Brighton decide…