Summer transfer targets/rumours, retained list etc

[The French Connection]

4 hours ago, leedsvaliant said:

McPhee was a great recent example. Deceptively strong and with a low centre of gravity, he could turn away from defenders before they knew what had happened.

He also had a better leap than players a foot taller than him. Cracking player who made a strange move to some Portuguese side.

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Not forgetting Tony Naylor, of course. 

[MBE]

41 minutes ago, Walka003 said:

Conor Wickham has been mentioned on here a few times, just joined FGR.

It's certainly a dangerous game of chicken we are playing. Hold out for targets, someone else swoops in and were left with the scraps.

Well that’s one less FA striker to think about.

[llcoolj]

Anyone notice the sky sports news banner at the bottom of the page that said we'd signed Ben Davis?

[darren1810]

22 minutes ago, MBE said:

Well that’s one less FA striker to think about.

He's only signed until January. 

Don't think we've missed out by not getting him ,rate lump who is generally unfit. Started 2 games last season. 

[mikey]

12 minutes ago, llcoolj said:

Anyone notice the sky sports news banner at the bottom of the page that said we'd signed Ben Davis?

thats Port FC, a team in the Thai league 

[llcoolj]

8 minutes ago, mikey said:

thats Port FC, a team in the Thai league 

It did say Port Vale someone needs the sack

[MBE]

53 minutes ago, darren1810 said:

He's only signed until January. 

Don't think we've missed out by not getting him ,rate lump who is generally unfit. Started 2 games last season. 

Reading into the managers comments I think it’s a step to get him match fit  for him to move on. Clearly thinks he’s a Champ player.

 

[WV]

the last Ben Davies we had helped us win the 3rd division 

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[Walka003]

The good thing with Massey is he can play in a few positions,so if needed he could go up top BUT we all know that we WILL NOT get to the 1st September and only have Proc/wilson as our strikers

At lot of people said we would not go to Spain without a full squad, loads more said we wouldn't go into the Fleetwood game without a keeper and strikers in place. I get it, patience etc etc.

[werstayinup]

13 minutes ago, Walka003 said:

1 hour ago, werstayinup said:

The good thing with Massey is he can play in a few positions,so if needed he could go up top BUT we all know that we WILL NOT get to the 1st September and only have Proc/wilson as our strikers

At lot of people said we would not go to Spain without a full squad, loads more said we wouldn't go into the Fleetwood game without a keeper and strikers in place. I get it, patience etc etc.

Surely though you cant think we will go from Now until January with only the 2 strikers can you?

[Walka003]

Surely though you cant think we will go from Now until January with only the 2 strikers can you?

No I don't and that wasn't my point. My point is that we might wait for x player, and if x player falls through we end up with what's left.

However, at least two posters since my first post have said if we miss our targets we should just wait till Jan. We cannot afford to do that.

[Guitar Ray]

1 minute ago, Walka003 said:

No I don't and that wasn't my point. My point is that we might wait for x player, and if x player falls through we end up with what's left.

However, at least two posters since my first post have said if we miss our targets we should just wait till Jan.

But we don’t have to sign “what’s left”, we could wait until Jan rather than just throwing a wage away.

I’m not saying this will happen by the way.  My feelings are that we’ll sign players in the positions where we’re short.  If they’re not permanents then loans may be the order of the day.

[Valiiant]

 

I think we're all eagerly waiting for a few more players to be signed up, but personally, I find it refreshing that we're not just bringing in players for the sake of needing to do so. We need players but I don't think we're at the desperate stage just yet, so we don't need to make desperate signings. 

Hopefully we can have a bit of luck at last and stay relatively injury free for the time being, Wilson apart.

[Walka003]

But we don’t have to sign “what’s left”, we could wait until Jan rather than just throwing a wage away.

And this would leave us with 2 recognised strikers. That's what I am trying to say. No way we can risk half a season in the league above with two good strikers who struggled last year to play every week.

I hope and don't think it will come to that. But in that scenario it's either one or the other, you have 2 strikers for half a year or you sign what's left

[Guitar Ray]

1 minute ago, Walka003 said:

 

 

And this would leave us with 2 recognised strikers. That's what I am trying to say. No. Way we can risk half a season in the legaue above with two good strikers who struggled last year to play every week.

I hope and don't think it will come to that. But in that scenario it's either one or the other, you have 2 strikers for half a year or you sign what's left

 

Every man and his duck can see where we need strengthening, the point is that if it boiled down to taking a player purely to fill a gap in the squad or waiting until a genuine target becomes available, I believe we’d take the latter course and wait, rather than waste money on someone who’ll never play.  I don’t think it’ll come to that, certainly with regards to forwards.