Fan forum 25th Jan

[robf]

I thought it was worth a dedicated thread for tonight's fan forum...

[MBE]

Live blog available via the club website.

[MBE]

Categorically no offers to buy the club. Someone’s going to be disappointed…

[Guppys left peg]

25 minutes ago, MBE said:

Categorically no offers to buy the club. Someone’s going to be disappointed…

That whole thing about Ian Donaldson offering to buy the club never really seemed to stack up to me. Good of him to give an interest free loan for the scoreboard though.

Haven’t been there but reading the updates they are very much going to stay the course with Andy Crosby and this new philosophy on possession based football and developing young talent.

[philmpv]

That whole thing about Ian Donaldson offering to buy the club never really seemed to stack up to me. Good of him to give an interest free loan for the scoreboard though.
Haven’t been there but reading the updates they are very much going to stay the course with Andy Crosby and this new philosophy on possession based football and developing young talent.

Good

[Rory]

We've got super Andy Crosby!

[Mellor!]

Going off the answers of 6 month loan deals and us consolidating and looking for a striker in the summer again (for the second season running). I wonder if the club will start to do an August to December season ticket to match their own expectations?

[mr.hobblesworth]

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DF: Club has spoken with Chelsea and loan manager Carlo Cudicini about loans. 

Two players of interest to us at the moment at Stamford Bridge, but deals will only be done if right for Port Vale.

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After two more players, most likely loans. Permanent signings too expensive.

PV waiting on other clubs to get players in before releasing players on loan, so business is expected to be done next week.

Presume both quotes are referring to the same couple of players? So putting 2 and 2 together, we're looking at a LWB and forward from Chelsea? 

[Playa Amodores]

What a great GK Carlo was saw him loads of times. Could have played for England due to residency qualification. However said he was an Italian and would only consider playing for Italy 🇮🇹. 

[JRC]

4 hours ago, mr.hobblesworth said:

Presume both quotes are referring to the same couple of players? So putting 2 and 2 together, we're looking at a LWB and forward from Chelsea? 

Zak Sturge would be the LWB. Ronnie Stutter is probably someone they want out on loan.

[Brian Johnson]

Thank you to @Mellor! for getting me in last night.

I thought it was an interesting night & I have taken everything they have said with a pinch of salt.

With the way Flickers talks, in the forum & on Radio Stoke before, you can he's had many years experience of talking to the press & fans.

One thing I will say is, I'm glad that Carol's deleted her social media account. 

 

[smithie]

The Reading situation seemed to be skimmed over somewhat. Either no-one asked if Carol had challenged the decision or that was deemed off-limits. 

I don't know if she's still on the EFL Trust board but that could compromise her position on the decision if so. 

[rob1983]

Definitely skint then.

[maccapvfc]

9 minutes ago, rob1983 said:

Definitely skint then.

How do you work that one out? Just because they've stated that the market is too expensive? I'd agree with them, when you consider that Will Goodwin left Cheltenham to go to Oxford for a reported £400K fee. We're trying to become sustainable and we've only just started this model of investing in our youth, which then allows us to be sell and reinvest - we've got to allow it time to develop before we start to see that coming to fruition. 

Do we really want our owner having to pump in millions each year just to keep us afloat. There was a recent article about Lincoln are due to post losses of circa £3m for this season....is that the model you really want!

[Vale1995]

It made me a bit sad hearing some of the answers to the questions last night. I think as fans not being happy about things and wanting to know answers or being generally unhappy about some people within the structure of vale park. But theres a fine line between questioning things and going over the top and being abusive. I think everyone would agree that we all want the best for vale and that we want to see vale play as high as we possibly can. But to hear carol being upset about abuse to her flitcroft and some of the playing squad really hit home. I think we all need to take a step back and look how far the club has come from when they took over. We are in a miles better position than we were and that is down to the consistent effort of everyone involved. Have they done everything perfectly no. Should that lead to abuse no. Can we question things that arent done well? Absolutely.

i think we all need to become aware now at this moment in time we cannot compete financially to sign decent strikers at this level. But are we putting building blocks so we potentially can in the future. I believe so. 
for us to be able to compete we need to be selling players for substantial amounts so that can be reinvested. This cannot be done overnight you might get lucky with the odd player but to do this consistently takes a complete overhaul in our whole academy infrastructure. I believe the club are making strides in the right direction but this could be a 3-5 years before we reep the benefits. If players like sharrock can break into the team at a regular basis before making it to 20 year old its more than likely a bigger team will throw some serious cash to get him. That is how we will then be able to go and get the better calibre of players. 
 

we may just all need to accept mediocrity in terms of football until we reach that point. Some decent performances some not so. We all need to get behind what they are trying to do now myself included. Its not going to happen overnight like i said.