January Transfers and Rumours

[Valiant in Brum]

Taken from X today. Do you think it rings true or wide of the mark?

If we can't even compete with Stevenage financially then thats an embarrasment.

[londonvale]

26 minutes ago, MBE said:

Taken from X today. Do you think it rings true or wide of the mark?

£2m loss for Lincoln City in club's annual accounts despite fans' return to stadium

THELINCOLNITE.CO.UK

lincoln 21/22 first team salaries were over £6 million. Doesn't support the budgets listed either way but where we are on the list is probably about right. Even if out by a few hundred thousand we are going to be bottom 10 in budgets.

 

[valeparklife]

County agree terms for MLS defender - Stockport County

WWW.STOCKPORTCOUNTY.COM

Here's a name from the recent past - Ethan Bristow.

Highly rated at Tranmere and we were linked with a £100,000 move at one point I think.

22yo LWB - could have been a good option but obviously Stockport are another Moneybags FC.

[valeparklife]

3 hours ago, MBE said:

I disagree with the strikers.

In the 1st 2 months of the season we were desperately lacking a physical presence up front in the box. We’ve bought to lads to be that but neither are have produced.

I think there is a physical presence like a Tom Pope, with a good first touch and technically good "for a big man", and then a physical presence like a Mama Sidibe under Pulis-Ball whose main job was just to run and battle and be a battering ram.

You have to play to their strengths with someone like Uche. Asking him to play tika-taka is a bit like asking Lionel Messi to be a target man.

[valeparklife]

4 hours ago, Rockape99 said:

The next window will be a let down just like the last one.

Just hope we target players with a bit of realism. We need to stop chasing Championship players then wondering why they won't come to us.

For me, Chislett and Deborah have been quality perm signings - standout players for their clubs in a lower division than us.

I'd like that to be our model and more of that type of signing please!

[Nippy Naylor]

I just hope a new manager is in place when the transfer window kicks in because if andrew Crosby is still at the helm , I really do fear the worst  if him and flitcroft are let loose on the transfer window . 

[WV]

3 minutes ago, Nippy Naylor said:

I just hope a new manager is in place when the transfer window kicks in because if andrew Crosby is still at the helm , I really do fear the worst  if him and flitcroft are let loose on the transfer window . 

God forbid we have another window where we sign players like Ripley, Debrah,  Arblaster, Devine, Chislett and Iacovetti

[The French Connection]

God forbid we have another window where we sign players like Ripley, Debrah,  Arblaster, Devine, Chislett and Iacovetti

Hell yes, that would be horrendous.

[valiant_593]

2 minutes ago, The French Connection said:

44 minutes ago, WV said:

God forbid we have another window where we sign players like Ripley, Debrah,  Arblaster, Devine, Chislett and Iacovetti

Hell yes, that would be horrendous.

What other good signings did we make? Iacovetti is very poor. Chislett and Deborah great signings. Devine and Arblaster as well but both will probably go back. The rest have been very poor 

[werstayinup]

1 hour ago, valeparklife said:

Just hope we target players with a bit of realism. We need to stop chasing Championship players then wondering why they won't come to us.

For me, Chislett and Deborah have been quality perm signings - standout players for their clubs in a lower division than us.

I'd like that to be our model and more of that type of signing please!

Personally I think we should target decent League 2 and top end national league players as well as the usual mix

[Diego Maradona]

Borussia Dortmund lead Premier League and European giants in race for 16-year-old Port Vale wonderkid Liam Brazier | The Sun

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[werstayinup]

4 minutes ago, Diego Maradona said:

Borussia Dortmund lead Premier League and European giants in race for 16-year-old Port Vale wonderkid Liam Brazier | The Sun

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If true as it is in the sun so I aren't convinced yet,its an odd one because from what I have seen(only glimpses of Brazier i know) I have been more impressed by Lomax and Shorrock and even Dipepa but its nice for our youngsters to be linked to clubs

[Santa]

There seems to be a hell of a lot of hype / PR being fed to the press about some of our academy players. I don’t know where it’s coming from and I’m not sure it will do them much good in the long run. 

[man in the pub]

Crewho were always held up as the model for growing your own players. Their fans complained that they only got to see them play in the first team for 1 or 2 seasons . Our crop of "wonderkids" seem to get sold before they even make the first team.

[Osh]

Rumour I heard today is Conlon is going to 'Nam and Cass is off to Harrogate