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I know that there are a few on here who keep check on these things but does anyone know of which realistic decent players are still to sign for a club??
I genuinely don't think there are that many available right now. I've seen a few compilations of retained lists from L1 and Championship and most of the ones I think are decent have since been signed up.

I'd say if we're doing deals it will likely be loans or players that other clubs are happy to pay their contracts off to make space in the squad.
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15 hours ago, andy jones said:

Perhaps a few of us have become too accustomed to 4th division football and we base potential good 'signings' on 4th division 'quality'

The only player that we have apparently missed out on who I think fits the 'matrix' of investing into improving the club and then being sold on at a profit, to be invested in someone else who will develop at the Vale and then get sold on etc etc is .... None .... as I have seen.

Now if Tyler Walker was to sign then that would definitely fit the 'matrix'.

 

 

 

Does Tyler fit ‘the matrix’?  Wouldn’t his salary demands exclude him?

After 244 pages I’ve come to the conclusion our abilities to pick out players that fans would like to sign are good, but our skills of identifying players that subsequently sign for the club, are pants.  

‘The computer says no’ standard response to our long, ever growing list of potential, aspirational new signings, is taking the fun out of what you might expect from usual rumours thread, where you’d hope that at least one rumour would turn into an actual signing.

Perhaps we should consider changing the name of the thread to ‘Which players fit ‘the matrix?’ ?

Call me Neo, but pitting our wits against an inanimate object, we may even be able to identify players (free agents or under contract eg as were Connor Hall, Chris Hussey etc) more likely to sign for us and then the rumour mill would be based on which of those players our ‘networks’ had seen having a cappuccino in the Vale cafe, buying a sausage and cheese oatcake from High Lane oatcakes, Tweeting on a bench in Burslem Park or checking the tyre pressures of their Mercedes at the garage on Smallthorne roundabouts etc.

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9 minutes ago, valeinspain said:

Could be something in the walker story, Coventry have just signed Doyle from man city which pushes walker further down the pecking order....

Last year of his contract, poor performance at Pompey on loan, not sure he fits the Matrix.

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1 minute ago, Fosse69 said:

Last year of his contract, poor performance at Pompey on loan, not sure he fits the Matrix.

Indeed.  From wiki:

On 18 January 2022, Walker joined League One side Portsmouth on loan until the end of the 2021–22 season after being signed by former Lincoln manager Danny Cowley. The loan spell was largely disappointing as he scored just one goal in nine starts and six substitute appearances for "Pompey" and was an unused substitute in the final six matches of the campaign despite being the highest paid player at Fratton Park. Jordan Cross of the Portsmouth News wrote that "Walker will go down as one of the worst and most expensive loan mistakes seen at Pompey in recent years"

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2 hours ago, WilliamBriscoe said:

I got really excited thinking that we were looking to sign Tyler Walker but he is just too far out of reach for us. Scored against Forest at the weekend and will attract interest from higher up if he is even allowed to leave.

Never mind 😞

If you had told me in 2017 we would have James Wilson playing for us, I would have laughed that off too. Tyler Walker playing in league 1 for Vale on maybe 4K per week, doesn’t sound too unrealistic. 

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