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

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Edited December 11, 20169 yr by Ratwhite

7 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Folk have commented very favourably about Ritchie, and maybe a squad place beckons.

At his age a squad place wouldn't count to our numbers either. So a loannonly if he gains really good experience.

How many signings before next weekend then?

I will go for two.

I think a few out first, Randell & Simons and a few young loaning out.

3 hours ago, bolton va va said:

I tried to follow Warren's progress at Aldershot last season & though he had a purple patch of goalscoring ,he then seemed to go off the boil & finished the season as a sub for a bottom half National league team.

It's hard to see him jumping up to Championship level from there but i'd be very happy to be proved wrong.

Inwood on the other hand, was consistently highly rated there all season.

Yes, I remember someone saying he'd slowed down.

I suppose you could also level a touch of criticism at inwood too- if he was consistent but they were still lower table.

All that doesn't concern me too much though- Beckham was at Preston for a while and turned out fairly decent.

I also remember the stick Dalby got earlier last season. Came good later and became wanking tackle.

I'm sure SS will do what's best in the end- would be good to see one or two more youngsters coming through though.

Player signing tomorrow, half 1, club shop.

10 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

Player signing tomorrow, half 1, club shop.

Announce stadium roof

14 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

Player signing tomorrow, half 1, club shop.

Be a good move for the lads career ?

55 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

Player signing tomorrow, half 1, club shop.

I think you're supposed to post a flag

1 hour ago, jmjhb said:

Player signing tomorrow, half 1, club shop.

Who's he scrapping with?

Tried to get the graphic a bit bigger.

If you click on a make a bit bigger, it’s a good one to visualise where our need is in the transfer market - wingers and forwards!

The right back spot you have three names yet we only need max two in each position.

SS post match interview he says Larrazabel has been brought in for the position despite only playing as a winger and rwb. We know Stephenson was more a Harkin signing. Going to watch this very carefully the next few games.

7 minutes ago, masi 51 said:

The right back spot you have three names yet we only need max two in each position.

SS post match interview he says Larrazabel has been brought in for the position despite only playing as a winger and rwb. We know Stephenson was more a Harkin signing. Going to watch this very carefully the next few games.

Yeh me too.

Don’t know if it’s just an innocent descriptor of Lorrazabel being titled as a defender.

Or whether SS is really driving this.

I suspect the 2nd one, so that it keeps his bargaining power to get more needed wingers in being a priority.

Just guessing, nothing more, but I’d be amazed if we don’t see at some point Lorrazabel playing in front of Stephenson and I suspect SS knows this too, he just doesn’t want to give his hand away yet.

35 minutes ago, desperado said:

Tried to get the graphic a bit bigger.

If you click on a make a bit bigger, it’s a good one to visualise where our need is in the transfer market - wingers and forwards!

Does highlight that we need 4 more up front. None of Randall, McAtee, Warren and Ritchie are starting. At least 2 don’t make the match day squad.

Been willing Warren to work since he arrived but it’s not happening at this level. Was he a winger when he was a prolific goal scorer? L1 loan at best but more likely L2.

Ritchie has great energy and promise again L1 loan if he’s lucky this season. Randall and McAtee likely departures.

So 1 more winger assuming Larra can play there. 2 strikers and at least 1 more CAM, 2 if McAtee goes.

Certainly see the first sign of SS/Harkin not on the same page

13 minutes ago, masi 51 said:

Certainly see the first sign of SS/Harkin not on the same page

We’ll see

I personally don’t think it’s a case of that.

1 minute ago, desperado said:

We’ll see

I personally don’t think it’s a case of that.

Me neither.

Both Stephenson and Larra can play in multiple positions. I do suspect Stephenson was one in the bank in case Larra didn’t sign for us, and SS may have suggested biding our time earlier in the window. But comes a point if we don’t sign them somebody else will.

Stephenson has played well pre-season.

2 minutes ago, TrickyTrotter said:

Me neither.

Both Stephenson and Larra can play in multiple positions. I do suspect Stephenson was one in the bank in case Larra didn’t sign for us, and SS may have suggested biding our time earlier in the window. But comes a point if we don’t sign them somebody else will.

Stephenson has played well pre-season.

I’m on the same lines.

A bit of internal negotiating to get the best outcome.

If that’s what @masi 51 is suggesting then I agree.

But I think there’s a difference between that and the insinuations that were cast a week or two ago about there being unrest between them.

I suspect they are both strong individuals both used to getting their own way. Nothing wrong with a difference of opinion. If SS never had made the comment of Larrazabal being brought in to play right back it would have stayed in house. Think it is no more than SS saying he wants true wingers and not wing/backs but at the end of the day neither are true full backs and only one can play in that position.

54 minutes ago, masi 51 said:

Certainly see the first sign of SS/Harkin not on the same page

It seems like a helluva stretch to extrapolate that conclusion from the information given mate. Where is the evidence of a rift?

Some rubbish talked on here at times. We need two quality players for each position and we have it on the left with Akin and Max and now we have it on the right with Luca and Gazza. Christie’s obviously back up if needed. Schuey has said he wants wingers and strikers so why can’t you just accept that instead of inventing conspiracy theories about unrest between Schuey and Fergal. Schuey has clearly stated that Larrazabal is a full back so where is the need to question it?

I do get the impression there's a bit of tension/frustration, to be honest, especially in the interviews SS is giving

It doesn't have to mean relationships have broken down or anything so drastic, but it does seems things haven't gone as well as we were hoping so far

4 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Some rubbish talked on here at times. We need two quality players for each position and we have it on the left with Akin and Max and now we have it on the right with Luca and Gazza. Christie’s obviously back up if needed. Schuey has said he wants wingers and strikers so why can’t you just accept that instead of inventing conspiracy theories about unrest between Schuey and Fergal. Schuey has clearly stated that Larrazabal is a full back so where is the need to question it?

Christie is on x thousand pounds a week. He will be included in the first team squad.

No Conspiracy theory but we cannot carry three right backs....Money and squad numbers dictate that. Though i am not sure who this Gazza is we have signed

1 minute ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

I do get the impression there's a bit of tension/frustration, to be honest, especially in the interviews SS is giving

It doesn't have to mean relationships have broken down or anything so drastic, but it does seems things haven't gone as well as we were hoping so far

Exactly this.....Just a difference of opinion

19 minutes ago, Wanderlust said:

It seems like a helluva stretch to extrapolate that conclusion from the information given mate. Where is the evidence of a rift?

SS post match interview. A rift maybe too strong but SS believes he has 3 right backs and no right wingers in his squad

1 hour ago, desperado said:

We’ll see

I personally don’t think it’s a case of that.

Me neither.

If FH was opposed to the signing of the Spaniard, it wouldn't have happened.