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Winter-January 2026 Transfer Window Rumours ...(Final Day p213)
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Don’t think he plays football any moreEugenesAxe said:
Where is he now?AberystwythAddick said:
Gives me Marcus Madison vibes. Talented player that’s got too much going on behind the scenesCAFCsayer said:Brandon Williams contract cancelled at Hull, could Jones whip him into shape? Position we could do with cover0 -
Last time I saw him was in my local spoons...EugenesAxe said:
Where is he now?AberystwythAddick said:
Gives me Marcus Madison vibes. Talented player that’s got too much going on behind the scenesCAFCsayer said:Brandon Williams contract cancelled at Hull, could Jones whip him into shape? Position we could do with cover0 -
Don't think Williams is worth the off the field hassle. NJ wouldn't go near him with how highly he values character.1
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Outside the Eltham Grill......EugenesAxe said:
Where is he now?AberystwythAddick said:
Gives me Marcus Madison vibes. Talented player that’s got too much going on behind the scenesCAFCsayer said:Brandon Williams contract cancelled at Hull, could Jones whip him into shape? Position we could do with cover6 -
Uh oh, hope the 60 year old women of Eltham are keeping alert as he's got form for clocking then in the facegolfaddick said:
Outside the Eltham Grill......EugenesAxe said:
Where is he now?AberystwythAddick said:
Gives me Marcus Madison vibes. Talented player that’s got too much going on behind the scenesCAFCsayer said:Brandon Williams contract cancelled at Hull, could Jones whip him into shape? Position we could do with cover2 -
Helpful to have cover for the players with an injury history.Charlton and on said:Fairly happy with the window. At least we've signed a LWB but would have liked cover for Bell too.
Guess the issue is that if you have multiple injuries in a squad of 25 it's not possible to have cover for every position.0 -
I can only see Jones, Ramsay, Bell, Collins, Coventry, TC, and maybe Kelman and Carey here by the start of next season, if we stay up, and the youth teamers. A few of the oldies may be kept around for the experience but that will be a massive rebuild along the lines of the Chris Powell one, but that was in L1, this would cost a fortune.golfaddick said:
And that is the big problem with loans....95% of the time they go back to their parent club and we have to look again in the summer. Which leads to the usual churn of players that we have been accustomed to over the past 10 years.Lincsaddick said:I was sorry to see Apter go but all in all our Winter Window has been a success, with the caveat that the signings of Clarke, Chambers and Coady (the 3Cs) are all loans, as is Fevrier. Chambers is obviously here for a work out before possibly graduating to the Liverpool first team squad, Clarke and Coady unfortunately could well be recalled by Ipswich and Wrexham if they are consistently good for us
In the meantime, let's hope that the 3Cs have a great few months with us, and help to drive us up the table
So in the summer, just for the basics, we need a RWB, a LWB (maybe just for cover but you never know how Edwards will get over his injury) and a couple of Midfielders. Then there will be the inevitable sale / release of a few strikers (Ahadme, Tanto and a replacement for Dykes) as well as the sale of Gillesphey & Alex Mitchell
Thats roughly half a dozen before you start on upgrading the players we already have that have played the majority of matches this season.0 -
Was the Poveda thing ever confirmed as actual interest or was it just plucked from thin air and everyone just went with it?2
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I did say if needed Canters, perhaps I should have said if injuries in the midfield positions forced us to use what we have, and those who were best suited to cover.cantersaddick said:
If Clarke and Ramsay were both fit why would we swap them? Clarke is better at wing back and Ramsay is better at RCB.Bailey said:We could play Clarke in the middle three if needed, with Collins or Burke in the back three with Ramsay going to wing back, not ideal but Clarke has played there before and he has not let us down yet.0 -
I get all of that, but Apter and Olafae have both gone and Knibbs would most likely have gone too had he not been injured. After Kelman, they cost us most and to be brutally honest, they did not look championship quality, based on what i saw.NabySarr said:
We literally built a promotion winning squad? Can’t see how that isn’t viewed as anything but a huge successBigDiddy said:
I think we will need massive changes whether we stay in this division or not. For me the real question is whether NJ will stay the course and how the owners might react to the inevitable fallout that will happen if we do get relegated.thenewbie said:
I think the trap is believing that what they did this time will be what they always intend to do, which is not necessarily the case. By all accounts, their aim for this season was survival, no more and no less. We can quibble about the way they've gone about it but SO FAR its working - we've not actually been in the relegation spots once. Its not entertaining or much fun but they've spent enough and got the results they wanted until this point.Braziliance said:
What a load of bollocks 😂sam3110 said:Braziliance said:
Who said that?NabySarr said:
I think that’s a big overreaction. The club’s policy seems to be spend in the summer and then just look at temporary fixes in January. That is a good policyBraziliance said:Personally quite disappointed, feel like we still didn’t address our left side and midfield fragility, but at the end of the day, I won't give two hoots if we stay up.
This window and season will be seen as a success if we stay up, a disaster if we go down, as it looks like a very avoidable relegation season on paper to me. It really is that simple.
One thing that is absolutely clear to me, these owners aren't the one to take us to the next level or be ambitious, they're just sensible, which is fine, but long term in this league, we will find ourselves relegated. No team on the lowest budgets and minimal spend can fight relegation consistently. Only have to look at Wigan, Barnsley, Rotherham, Peterborough, Wycombe, likely Oxford, Plymouth etc to know that.
Just have to back the team and manager now, that is all we can do as fans.
They spent more than nearly all of us expected in the summer, no reason to suggest they won’t be backing us properly as we head into this summer. Don’t know the exact number but they must have spent around £12m on players this season now, really think it’s a bit mad to be wanting them out for not spending enough in our first season back at this level. We literally can’t spend much more than that, even if we had different owners
"One thing that is absolutely clear to me, these owners aren't the one to take us to the next level or be ambitious, they're just sensible, which is fine, but long term in this league, we will find ourselves relegated. No team on the lowest budgets and minimal spend can fight relegation consistently."
This very much insinuates that you want new owners, who are willing to spend loads of money to "take us to the next level"
Putting words in my message. I am putting my thoughts out there. I am not demanding they spend, I am not asking for them out. I am just pointing out the obvious that when you compare them to the likes of Ipswich, Wrexham, Birmingham, etc, it's clearly about sustainability, rather than ambition. Which is fine, but at some point you will drop below the line, the data backs it up.
Some of you on here could walk into an empty room and start an argument, I swear to Christ 😂
Final thoughts, very mediocre window, but that doesn't surprise me, let's hope it's enough 👍🏻
Now the question then becomes if/when we do stay up what do they do next. If we assume that they are happy to just tread water indefinitely then you're right that history suggests that isn't sustainable forever. But it's also possible that once they've secured survival the next step is starting to build and spend accordingly to become an established Championship team long term.
The Wrexham and Birmingham model is throwing obscene money around to chase Premier League payouts as soon as possible - and if it works then they do very well out of it. But if they don't, it could go badly wrong pretty quickly.
I think last summer’s transfer window was not that great, so how will the owners look at more investment given a few of our expensive signings have not worked out yet. Buying old timers from Luton has not entirely worked out either.
This window was OK, but as i have said all along, the midfield is weak with no real creativity or pace.
Will they trust NJ with another £10m + in the summer ?
I have no interest in the stupidity of other clubs, but can we stay and thrive in the Championship with NJ in charge?
I am 50:50 on that question, but it would be good to hear what others think.
Jones has had huge influence on recruitment, which has got us to where we are now. Can obviously see with Sichenje that Chapple is starting to have more influence now which will only improve things and widen our scope. It’s not been perfect and we’ve made mistakes, but if our recruitment was really bad we wouldn’t have gone from 18th in the league 1 to 18th in the championship
The only 7 figure fee that’s been a total disaster is Ahadme. For the rest it’s way too early to judge properly. The club see these players as assets, yes Apter and Olaofe haven’t worked out for us this season, but if they do well between now and the summer then we will probably recoup a good amount of that investment, particularly if Bolton and/or Stockport get promoted and want to keep them.Kelman and Knibbs I still think can become good players for us, and then you have Carey. Carey is now on 7 goals for the season, if you can get him scoring 10+ consistently at this level the he will probably be worth enough to pay for nearly all of our outlay on the others. We took a gamble on a few league 1 players in the hope that maybe 2 or 3 of them would come off
As fans we view the signings as a success if they do well for us. For the owners it will be about the balance sheet, from the Apter, Olaofe, Knibbs, Kelman and Carey league 1 gambles I still think there’s a good chance we end up in profit from that spending or at least breaking even
NJ and the club did an incredible job to get us up last season - my points are about the future and how we stay in this league, or what happens if we do go down. NJ has done amazing for us - my question is if he can sustain it next season too?
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I don’t think Knibbs was earmarked to be loaned out at all.BigDiddy said:
I get all of that, but Apter and Olafae have both gone and Knibbs would most likely have gone too had he not been injured. After Kelman, they cost us most and to be brutally honest, they did not look championship quality, based on what i saw.NabySarr said:
We literally built a promotion winning squad? Can’t see how that isn’t viewed as anything but a huge successBigDiddy said:
I think we will need massive changes whether we stay in this division or not. For me the real question is whether NJ will stay the course and how the owners might react to the inevitable fallout that will happen if we do get relegated.thenewbie said:
I think the trap is believing that what they did this time will be what they always intend to do, which is not necessarily the case. By all accounts, their aim for this season was survival, no more and no less. We can quibble about the way they've gone about it but SO FAR its working - we've not actually been in the relegation spots once. Its not entertaining or much fun but they've spent enough and got the results they wanted until this point.Braziliance said:
What a load of bollocks 😂sam3110 said:Braziliance said:
Who said that?NabySarr said:
I think that’s a big overreaction. The club’s policy seems to be spend in the summer and then just look at temporary fixes in January. That is a good policyBraziliance said:Personally quite disappointed, feel like we still didn’t address our left side and midfield fragility, but at the end of the day, I won't give two hoots if we stay up.
This window and season will be seen as a success if we stay up, a disaster if we go down, as it looks like a very avoidable relegation season on paper to me. It really is that simple.
One thing that is absolutely clear to me, these owners aren't the one to take us to the next level or be ambitious, they're just sensible, which is fine, but long term in this league, we will find ourselves relegated. No team on the lowest budgets and minimal spend can fight relegation consistently. Only have to look at Wigan, Barnsley, Rotherham, Peterborough, Wycombe, likely Oxford, Plymouth etc to know that.
Just have to back the team and manager now, that is all we can do as fans.
They spent more than nearly all of us expected in the summer, no reason to suggest they won’t be backing us properly as we head into this summer. Don’t know the exact number but they must have spent around £12m on players this season now, really think it’s a bit mad to be wanting them out for not spending enough in our first season back at this level. We literally can’t spend much more than that, even if we had different owners
"One thing that is absolutely clear to me, these owners aren't the one to take us to the next level or be ambitious, they're just sensible, which is fine, but long term in this league, we will find ourselves relegated. No team on the lowest budgets and minimal spend can fight relegation consistently."
This very much insinuates that you want new owners, who are willing to spend loads of money to "take us to the next level"
Putting words in my message. I am putting my thoughts out there. I am not demanding they spend, I am not asking for them out. I am just pointing out the obvious that when you compare them to the likes of Ipswich, Wrexham, Birmingham, etc, it's clearly about sustainability, rather than ambition. Which is fine, but at some point you will drop below the line, the data backs it up.
Some of you on here could walk into an empty room and start an argument, I swear to Christ 😂
Final thoughts, very mediocre window, but that doesn't surprise me, let's hope it's enough 👍🏻
Now the question then becomes if/when we do stay up what do they do next. If we assume that they are happy to just tread water indefinitely then you're right that history suggests that isn't sustainable forever. But it's also possible that once they've secured survival the next step is starting to build and spend accordingly to become an established Championship team long term.
The Wrexham and Birmingham model is throwing obscene money around to chase Premier League payouts as soon as possible - and if it works then they do very well out of it. But if they don't, it could go badly wrong pretty quickly.
I think last summer’s transfer window was not that great, so how will the owners look at more investment given a few of our expensive signings have not worked out yet. Buying old timers from Luton has not entirely worked out either.
This window was OK, but as i have said all along, the midfield is weak with no real creativity or pace.
Will they trust NJ with another £10m + in the summer ?
I have no interest in the stupidity of other clubs, but can we stay and thrive in the Championship with NJ in charge?
I am 50:50 on that question, but it would be good to hear what others think.
Jones has had huge influence on recruitment, which has got us to where we are now. Can obviously see with Sichenje that Chapple is starting to have more influence now which will only improve things and widen our scope. It’s not been perfect and we’ve made mistakes, but if our recruitment was really bad we wouldn’t have gone from 18th in the league 1 to 18th in the championship
The only 7 figure fee that’s been a total disaster is Ahadme. For the rest it’s way too early to judge properly. The club see these players as assets, yes Apter and Olaofe haven’t worked out for us this season, but if they do well between now and the summer then we will probably recoup a good amount of that investment, particularly if Bolton and/or Stockport get promoted and want to keep them.Kelman and Knibbs I still think can become good players for us, and then you have Carey. Carey is now on 7 goals for the season, if you can get him scoring 10+ consistently at this level the he will probably be worth enough to pay for nearly all of our outlay on the others. We took a gamble on a few league 1 players in the hope that maybe 2 or 3 of them would come off
As fans we view the signings as a success if they do well for us. For the owners it will be about the balance sheet, from the Apter, Olaofe, Knibbs, Kelman and Carey league 1 gambles I still think there’s a good chance we end up in profit from that spending or at least breaking even
NJ and the club did an incredible job to get us up last season - my points are about the future and how we stay in this league, or what happens if we do go down. NJ has done amazing for us - my question is if he can sustain it next season too?8 -
Kinda of what i have been trying to say, though you have been more blunt. Our strikers have had pathetic service all year long and this window may well change that.killerandflash said:
Especially poor that our "flagship" signing is now 4th choice striker. Yes he'll get minutes, but you don't spend 1/3 of your transfer budget on a squad player.Nicholas said:
To be fair to the owners would you let him spend much more money this season. Not exactly spent it wisely. Granted it's not a huge amount of money in todays terms but it's more then we have spent in years.Braziliance said:Personally quite disappointed, feel like we still didn’t address our left side and midfield fragility, but at the end of the day, I won't give two hoots if we stay up.
This window and season will be seen as a success if we stay up, a disaster if we go down, as it looks like a very avoidable relegation season on paper to me. It really is that simple.
One thing that is absolutely clear to me, these owners aren't the one to take us to the next level or be ambitious, they're just sensible, which is fine, but long term in this league, we will find ourselves relegated. No team on the lowest budgets and minimal spend can fight relegation consistently. Only have to look at Wigan, Barnsley, Rotherham, Peterborough, Wycombe, likely Oxford, Plymouth etc to know that.
Just have to back the team and manager now, that is all we can do as fans.
If we stay up and they pump in that sort of money each year (obviously wages will have to go up a bit each year) I think we can build into a pretty decent team as long as the money is spent on players that are actually going to play and improve us.
Apter 2.3m never got a chance
Knibbs 2.1m never got much of a chance
Tanto 1.75 never got a chance
Kelman 3.5 not really proved it yet and now down the pecking order
Costello 870k not been given a chance
Kaminski 1.1 only one who has played all the time.
I never entirely understood why we were so keen on him, as we don't play like Orient did last season. And you can't even blame personal "settling in" issues as it was a cross London move.0 -
What the strikers won't get is many defence splitting through balls from midfield, as we don't play like that.BigDiddy said:
Kinda of what i have been trying to say, though you have been more blunt. Our strikers have had pathetic service all year long and this window may well change that.killerandflash said:
Especially poor that our "flagship" signing is now 4th choice striker. Yes he'll get minutes, but you don't spend 1/3 of your transfer budget on a squad player.Nicholas said:
To be fair to the owners would you let him spend much more money this season. Not exactly spent it wisely. Granted it's not a huge amount of money in todays terms but it's more then we have spent in years.Braziliance said:Personally quite disappointed, feel like we still didn’t address our left side and midfield fragility, but at the end of the day, I won't give two hoots if we stay up.
This window and season will be seen as a success if we stay up, a disaster if we go down, as it looks like a very avoidable relegation season on paper to me. It really is that simple.
One thing that is absolutely clear to me, these owners aren't the one to take us to the next level or be ambitious, they're just sensible, which is fine, but long term in this league, we will find ourselves relegated. No team on the lowest budgets and minimal spend can fight relegation consistently. Only have to look at Wigan, Barnsley, Rotherham, Peterborough, Wycombe, likely Oxford, Plymouth etc to know that.
Just have to back the team and manager now, that is all we can do as fans.
If we stay up and they pump in that sort of money each year (obviously wages will have to go up a bit each year) I think we can build into a pretty decent team as long as the money is spent on players that are actually going to play and improve us.
Apter 2.3m never got a chance
Knibbs 2.1m never got much of a chance
Tanto 1.75 never got a chance
Kelman 3.5 not really proved it yet and now down the pecking order
Costello 870k not been given a chance
Kaminski 1.1 only one who has played all the time.
I never entirely understood why we were so keen on him, as we don't play like Orient did last season. And you can't even blame personal "settling in" issues as it was a cross London move.
The ball that got the Leicester player sent off was just a high punt, and without Leaburn's strength and reasonable mobility, the defender would have legally barged the attacker off the ball.
With 2 decent attacking wingbacks, both on the correct side, there should be a lot more crosses coming in, and from more dangerous positions.14 -
Don’t think Goddens movement should be overlooked, we play better football with him playing, he’s clever with his runs, flickons.26
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Not sure we will get any free agents in. Jones will have learnt his lesson with Jerome and Onel4
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And Rousillon. I hope we don’t go there unless absolutely necessary and we have a few injuries. I just don’t see how they add any value, they would’ve been picked up by now.AberystwythAddick said:Not sure we will get any free agents in. Jones will have learnt his lesson with Jerome and Onel1 -
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And Hernandez.cabbles said:
And Rousillon. I hope we don’t go there unless absolutely necessary and we have a few injuries. I just don’t see how they add any value, they would’ve been picked up by now.AberystwythAddick said:Not sure we will get any free agents in. Jones will have learnt his lesson with Jerome and Onel26 -
There will also be free agents released at the end of the January window, to find themselves a new club. That's how we picked up Thierry Small.cabbles said:
And Rousillon. I hope we don’t go there unless absolutely necessary and we have a few injuries. I just don’t see how they add any value, they would’ve been picked up by now.AberystwythAddick said:Not sure we will get any free agents in. Jones will have learnt his lesson with Jerome and Onel
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https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/vertragslosespieler
Free agent list. Not filtered in any way so certainly not implying we should sign Sterling who is top of the list!
Though if it were ever possible, I would look at Alex Oxlade Chamberlain. He is a decent player (Yes I know he has injury issues, so perfect) but on a 6 month deal to provide cover with a touch of class then it could work.0 -
James Rodriguez will do.king addick said:https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/vertragslosespieler
Free agent list. Not filtered in any way so certainly not implying we should sign Sterling who is top of the list!4 -
A bit beyond us I think, saw people talking about Arsenal picking him upking addick said:https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/vertragslosespieler
Free agent list. Not filtered in any way so certainly not implying we should sign Sterling who is top of the list!
Though if it were ever possible, I would look at Alex Oxlade Chamberlain. He is a decent player (Yes I know he has injury issues, so perfect) but on a 6 month deal to provide cover with a touch of class then it could work.0 -
Really? I think he is a bit beyond that now playing wise but the money will be substantially better for him to sit on the bench!AberystwythAddick said:
A bit beyond us I think, saw people talking about Arsenal picking him upking addick said:https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/vertragslosespieler
Free agent list. Not filtered in any way so certainly not implying we should sign Sterling who is top of the list!
Though if it were ever possible, I would look at Alex Oxlade Chamberlain. He is a decent player (Yes I know he has injury issues, so perfect) but on a 6 month deal to provide cover with a touch of class then it could work.0 -
Ryan Kent seems to have dropped off a lot since his popular days at Rangers2
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He’s been training with them for weeks so people are putting 2+2 together and getting 5king addick said:
Really? I think he is a bit beyond that now playing wise but the money will be substantially better for him to sit on the bench!AberystwythAddick said:
A bit beyond us I think, saw people talking about Arsenal picking him upking addick said:https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/vertragslosespieler
Free agent list. Not filtered in any way so certainly not implying we should sign Sterling who is top of the list!
Though if it were ever possible, I would look at Alex Oxlade Chamberlain. He is a decent player (Yes I know he has injury issues, so perfect) but on a 6 month deal to provide cover with a touch of class then it could work.0 -
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Good spot mate...SheikhYurKory said:.9
