January transfer window

[PV1973]

1 hour ago, dishydave said:

Jake Taylor will be available to buy this week so hopefully we will put a bid in again. Then it's a striker and a right back on loan if possible. I think the centre half will have to wait until the summer

Doubt we’ll go for a right back. I think we’ll make do there til Gibbo is back. 

[Santa]

1 hour ago, werstayinup said:

I do predict that we will pay a fee for a player this month

I thought all the Macc players were free agents now?

[CAVALIER]

Ricky Miller has signed for Aldershot today so some stuff is happening and good luck to him. 

[sinnott2spinnit]

4 minutes ago, CAVALIER said:

Ricky Miller has signed for Aldershot today so some stuff is happening and good luck to him. 

Good luck to Aldershot you should be saying 🙄

[vale victory]

I do predict that we will pay a fee for a player this month

I don’t think we can pay any fees due to the money received from the premier league bail out

We can still buy free agents loans etc though

[valeparklife]

16 hours ago, LancyTony said:

I was going to say I wouldn't mind Joe Garner coming in...yes, I know, nobody likes him!! But, it seems he

s off to India? Will Griggs could be an outsider - not having a good time since transferring from Wigan to Sunderland. Suggest Sunderland would have to be very generous with the wages, though? Anyone else got ideas for a forward...or midfielder?

Joe Garner and Will Grigg?

Is this a wind up? Where would we find £20,000+ a week for them?!

I see sometimes why Vale fans are constantly unhappy when they think we can attract Garner and Grigg and want Paul Cook or the Cowley brothers in charge!

My expectations are not low, I want to be in L1 and am sick of being a laughing stock, but we need some realism.

[werstayinup]

1 hour ago, Santa said:

I thought all the Macc players were free agents now?

😮 😮  I dont think many will be ex Macc

[werstayinup]

44 minutes ago, vale victory said:

I don’t think we can pay any fees due to the money received from the premier league bail out

We can still buy free agents loans etc though

Didn't they review and said it was no longer classed as a loan...could be wrong though

[dishydave]

The restrictions only come in to play if you take extra money the grant that everyone has had comes with no strings attached.

[valeparklife]

Any signings we make this January have to do two things:

• Improve the 1st team
• Reduce the age of the squad and build for next season

This season is a write off already so I'd like to see us ship a few out that don't want to be here, and look to sign younger permanent transfers.

 

[andy jones]

I would be happy to get the 5 missing first teamers back and return of the results from the first ten games.

[Santa]

43 minutes ago, valeparklife said:

Any signings we make this January have to do two things:

• Improve the 1st team
• Reduce the age of the squad and build for next season

This season is a write off already so I'd like to see us ship a few out that don't want to be here, and look to sign younger permanent transfers.

 

Would be nice but this can be hard and/or expensive to achieve mid season.

[MBE]

50 minutes ago, valeparklife said:

This season is a write off already so I'd like to see us ship a few out that don't want to be here, and look to sign younger permanent transfers.

I still don't think this season is a write off. No team are pulling away and won't due to the nature of the season. We have seen it only takes 2 or 3 injuries and/ or covid protocols to significantly weaken teams at this level.

Ok we have played a game or 2 more than others, however despite how crap we have been we are still only 6 points away from the play offs. A couple of very good additions to strengthen the 1st eleven, some notable absentees returning to our 1st eleven soon and I still think if we can win a game it will snowball and we could still challenge for the playoffs.

This is why I'm a bit frustrated with keeping JA.I still think under a different manager we would have turned around the results but the owners has decided to stick with him for now.

Even under JA I still think we should be challenging for the playoffs.

[Santa]

On 31/12/2020 at 13:43, werstayinup said:

I guess we could bring someone in tomorrow in time to play saturday,we could of been talking to players for days now

The way things tend to work, we'll end up being told something like "we thought we had [player x] lined up, but at the last minute he backed out when a League One club came in for him". 

[valefan79]

6 minutes ago, MBE said:

I still don't think this season is a write off. No team are pulling away and won't due to the nature of the season. We have seen it only takes 2 or 3 injuries and/ or covid protocols to significantly weaken teams at this level.

Ok we have played a game or 2 more than others, however despite how crap we have been we are still only 6 points away from the play offs. A couple of very good additions to strengthen the 1st eleven, some notable absentees returning to our 1st eleven soon and I still think if we can win a game it will snowball and we could still challenge for the playoffs.

This is why I'm a bit frustrated with keeping JA.I still think under a different manager we would have turned around the results but the owners has decided to stick with him for now.

Even under JA I still think we should be challenging for the playoffs.

Your right about the season being far from over, however I am looking more at the teams below than those in the play-offs.  We are 8 points above the bottom 2, having played 2 games more, if Stevenage win one of the games in hand we will be 5 points clear and playing 2 teams below us in the next week, they are vital games. 

What also concerns me is the chance of the season being cut short again like last year, if we have a similar points tally like last year in the next dozen games and the season cut short, we could be gone.  I am just hoping we can get some results quickly.