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One of the things I've thought about over the weekend. Even if we stay up, looking at promotion places in L2, I don't think we have a prayer next year. Any of Wrexham, Stockport Mansfield, Notts County and MK dons would out strip us in the transfer market. Most of their current squads would beat ours.

She said at the fans forum that she came off social media because of people critising Flitcroft. Poor little Flick, he might be a monumental failure but he doesn't deserve people talking about it!

There's plenty of close by league 2 teams, Stockport, Wrexham, Notts County, Mansfield, Salford, Accrington, Walsall. None of them fancy taking him on?

The why is he playing there? Why didn't a L2 team take him on?

Conlon was no where near L1 level, hence why he's ended up in the conference. He isn't the answer to our problems

If this is the model that the DoF is aiming for, he might need to reevaluate

Cumulative millions rather than individual millions I meant. Ivan Toney was approx 650k according to reports at the time, Sriki dembele 500k (I can't be bothered to google more but there'll be others [emoji16]). It's paid dividends for them obviously, but you have to chuck money at it to make it that system work. The club have said on numerous occasions they can't afford to compete in the UK market basically, what chance have we got of doing an Ivan Toney any time soon.

Hard to say without seeing Gore and Williams play. If they are good, we'll probably have enough. A Wilson long term injury however and I reckon we're in a dog fight.

You have to spend money for that to work. Peterbrough spend millions to make millions.

The bloke is absolutely deluded. Scouring the Scandinavian market for the next Ryan Loft is he? Doesn't fill me with any hope, especially his comments about the rest of this window. Bite the pillow for the second half of the season, we're in for a rough ride.

Blows my mind how many vale fans think these lads signing on loan are guaranteed to be amazing league one players, and how many parent team fans think they are too good for us. We saw it when Williams signed. How anyone on either side of the fence can get any sense of what level these lads are at is beyond me considering they've barely kicked professional ball. Unless you watch the PL2 regularly, how can anyone know how Gore is going to fair? Mipo was a worldbeater at that level and absolutely cack in real life, same with Donnelly, Balmer... The list goes on. 10 games into his vale career is the only time you can really see where any of them are at.

I think we'd struggle to get either too. Young they want too much money, Taylor is playing well in a better team than us. Neither really make any sense

I've not heard Jake Young, but have heard Dale Taylor is the striker we're bring in today, someone's source has got to be wrong!

Now being reported by Pete o'rouke. Usually pretty reliable.

Exactly, you'd think we'd have someone lined up, but look at the Hall/Donnelly situation. Nothings guaranteed in Flitcrofts war room.

And a decimated midfield meaning we'd really struggle to throw chizzy up there given he's one of the only options in the middle.

Any normal well performing team, yeah that would be brilliant. A team who will only have Wilson (a ballhair away from an injury at any point) and Loft (should have taken up bricklaying rather than football) available to play up front, not so good. Still, two weeks left, tick tock.

Finally get him fit and playing OK then try to sell him. Belter.

We've got a long way to go in this window for it to be successful, we currently have three fit options in the middle, 4 if you include Walters who has looked way below par the last few games he's played. On top of that we haven't yet backed up Grant properly, we're still forced to endure Massey at rwb, and still have only one real goalscorer. A lot of these were flagged as priorities by flicks in his interview with baggers. Tick tock. I'm also guessing we'll see Cass leave the club at some point, given Crosby eluded to it in on of his post match interviews.

So where do we find ourselves at the halfway point of the window. For me, we still need a lwb, maybe some rwb cover if plants injury is long term, a CB to cover Williams inevitable injury, two midfielders and at least one striker. We've lost the two best players from a team that already wasn't performing particularly well, do we have enough time left to right the ship?

You've got to be kidding.

The January curse strikes again at vale. Going backwards, needed our Director of Flicks to come up trumps over the next two weeks

I'm not trying to compare Rhys and Ben. I'm just calling out the fact that everyone seems to be jumping through hoops for a player who's barely played a game just because he comes from Liverpool. It would take a lot to be worse than Kofi mind, so just being able to play football and he's an upgrade.

24 games in 4 (four) years. Ben Lomax who you were saying isn't ready has played nearly 13% of that amount just this year, and he hasn't even got a pro contract.

He barely played a match since 2020, how can you say any of that with any confidence? I'll need to see him play 10 games before making any judgement on whether it's a good signing. If a player who's parent club was a championship team came in and he had the same recent track record of bad attitude/injuries and 24 apperences in 4 years everyone would be up in arms. Because he's from Liverpool people are assuming he's going to be brilliant.