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  • jondon76
    jondon76 Posts: 328
    Amount of moaning about our signings on here  Nkeng was being chased by many club, I think we're lucky to have him. No use crying about JRS it was dead in the water so we move on. Although I do realise some will never be happy that's forums for you. 
  • cafc_harry
    cafc_harry Posts: 3,401
    Devenney from Palace having a medical now at Leicester according to SSN. Imagine that paves the way for the Skipp move to happen. 
    No he’s not. Hes having a medical at Stoke 
    Yep my fault for paying half attention to the telly. 
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 13,370
    Devenney from Palace having a medical now at Leicester according to SSN. Imagine that paves the way for the Skipp move to happen. 

    Thats a bloody good loan at league 1 level. Wont come cheap.

    In fact, the only way thats happening is if Skipp comes to us.

    Personally I'm actually looking forward to seeing Skipp in a Charlton shirt, presuming it happens. It takes the pressure of having to play Chalobah every week, and getting a 25 yr old with 100 prem appearances including 25-30 for a team that came 5th is pretty damn good in my eyes.
  • Sword65pf
    Sword65pf Posts: 2,683
    SteveACS said:
    Sword65pf said:
    Sword65pf said:
    cafc4life said:
    Whilst I’m not against us signing a relatively unknown talent for cheap, I’m really not convinced we were ever in for JRS seriously, with money to spend. 

    This window we have spent considerably less than last summer, and whilst that didn’t exactly work out, talk of us keeping our powder dry etc seems to be a bit laughable when you look at what has and is coming through the door by COP tonight. 

    Whilst we’ve made some great decisions in getting players signed up to better contracts, the fact we have spent just over £1million on Alli as our priciest signing shows the pond we really are still fishing in despite noises that come out of various people at the club.
    Yeah we just agreed a fee and did a medical for shits and giggles 
    I wonder if it wasn’t for as much as reported though? None of our business spells out powder dry big money, for us anyway.
    It shouldn't matter how much we spend as long as the players we have bought are decent and improving us. 

    If we can do that by being clever and frugal then brilliant! 
    Mostly agree, however you can only be clever and frugal to a point, eventually you will have to spend in this division. Clever and frugal didn’t work out last season as far as successful signings did it?, some might say you get what you pay for🤷🏻‍♂️
    So, by that metric, as they were cheap as chips, both Big Billy and Mesik are pants?
    Yes I think they are both shit!!🙄
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 10,938
    Admittedly at the start of the window I did expect a " marquee" £4-5m fee type signing because it felt like the logical progression, instead we've used a good chunk of the budget on new deals and increased wages for free agent signings like Grant and Danny Mac. 
  • cafc4life
    cafc4life Posts: 4,884
    sam3110 said:
    cafc4life said:
    cafc4life said:
    cafc4life said:
    Whilst I’m not against us signing a relatively unknown talent for cheap, I’m really not convinced we were ever in for JRS seriously, with money to spend. 

    This window we have spent considerably less than last summer, and whilst that didn’t exactly work out, talk of us keeping our powder dry etc seems to be a bit laughable when you look at what has and is coming through the door by COP tonight. 

    Whilst we’ve made some great decisions in getting players signed up to better contracts, the fact we have spent just over £1million on Alli as our priciest signing shows the pond we really are still fishing in despite noises that come out of various people at the club.
    Yeah we just agreed a fee and did a medical for shits and giggles 
    No proof that it was permanent though was it?
    i.e actually spending the sort of figure people were talking about. 
    Why wouldn’t it have been permanent, given that Rak-Sakyi's deal with Palace expires next summer?
    Again zero proof either way. I’m not saying I’m correct, I’m just sceptical.
    Global warming isn't real, the Earth is flat, the moon landings were faked and pigeons are actually government spies
    You really are a doughnut Sam. 
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 28,039
    edited 5:59PM
    Really impressed with the way we have dealt with this window, and welcome the latest addition Junior Nkeng into the fold, i'm unsure if we are finished or not, but it's nice to be going into the last four hours till it is slammed shut in a relaxed and settled mood, rather than panicking and praying for a last minute freebie to arrive...👌
  • AberystwythAddick
    AberystwythAddick Posts: 2,324
    edited 5:59PM
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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 52,426
    Never heard of the new lad, but then I rarely pay attention outside of our own club. No complaints this window. 

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  • AberystwythAddick
    AberystwythAddick Posts: 2,324
    Really impressed with the way we have dealt with this window, and welcome the latest addition Junior Nkeng into the fold, i'm unsure if we are finished or not, but it's nice to be going into the last four hours till it is slammed shut in a relaxed and settled mood...👌
    Mostly agree, although I think us not getting that starting right winger with championship experience may come to bite us in the arse
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,676
    I think that’s it for the window personally. 

    Waiting for Leicester to get someone in so Skipp can go out it’ll be a “we tried to get one over the line but didn’t have the time” 
    I'd rather keep the rest of our powder dry for the January window than bring in Skipp.
  • FinlandMatt
    FinlandMatt Posts: 77
    I think Otto Tiitinen deal will still go ahead.

    Though Ilves have litrately sold their best two midfielders this week, (Kanga to Motherwell and Joona Veteli to HJK) the club have left themselves in a bit of a pickle (9th in the league as well, absolutely disastrous season in contexts of it for the club)
  • Ferryman
    Ferryman Posts: 3,002
    So Skipp might replace our skipper!
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 13,370
    edited 6:06PM
    More concerning is that none of Doc and Apter seem to be generating any interest if the lack of rumours is anything to go by.

    Clearly both out of favour so taking up a squad space and wage budget for no contribution. Thats hurting us.

    Biggest reason if nobody else comes in.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 24,745
    mart77 said:
    The way some posters talk to each other on forums sometimes makes me wish the internet wasn’t invented. 
    The best part is, we all share a common goal and support the same team. You'd think we would just try and get along without all the digs and personal insults.

    Don't mind a disagreement, but as you say, the way some of our fans talk to eachother on here and social media in general is a shambles.
    You should have been a member when the political threads were allowed. 
    I think I got about 15 promotes for supporting Brexit. 
    They were all removed when the Mods closed it down 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 22,182
    edited 6:07PM
    More concerning is that none of Doc and Apter seem to be generating any interest if the lack of rumours is anything to go by.

    Clearly both out of favour so taking up a squad space and wage budget for no contribution. Thats hurting us.
    No rumour about Asiimwe either, don’t panic 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,676
    NabySarr said:
    clive said:
    lol.........

    As I said about a dozen pages ago......been tracking him for some time. Yeah, about 6 days since JRS deal fell over. Just need a quote from NJ about Luton & we'd have the transfer bingo card completed.

    My view is, the owners don't want to keep having to fund transfers and/or want there to be a bigger transfer kitty in 2/3 years time. So we are buying young players with potential so that we can sell on for £5m/£10m/£15m in the future. Azeez at Millwall being the latest example of that. 

    Will it work....who knows. Is it a gamble.....most definitely. It didn't work with Kahim Dixon and to a lesser extent Tanto & Apter. 

    I liked the look of him on the YouTube clip posted earlier, but he himself says he is a left winger who likes to cut inside. In the YouTube video he is shown playing on the right and it does look like he is predominantly right footed. Will he be the answer to our right wing woes ?  Probabky not as a starter, which is a shame because neither TC nor Grant work playing on the right. 

    It might work out but it is far from what is needed and what we've been led to believe we've been keeping our powder dry for. 
    Obviously we track more than 1 player in each position, how is that a comment you can moan at? 

    As for your second point, yes that is obviously the strategy. It’s also basically the only way non-parachute championship teams can work their way up the league to get promoted. Look at Coventry, look at Brentford, look at Middlesbrough who are nearly there. So it is a very good strategy that we should be happy with. After pretty much a decade of chaos, we finally have some smart people making decisions and yet you still moan 
    Not a moan, more an observation.

    We've all been crying out for a RW, even NJ says so.  If after 3 months of the transfer window the best we can do is a "hopeful" from League 1 then I don't think Chapple has been doing his job properly. 

    As I said last night, I hoped we hadn't put all our dry powder in JRS's basket. Seemed like we had. 

    But you & @TheHerminator carry on with your digs. Water off a ducks back to me.
     
    Every time you write a post telling people your ‘facts’  rather than offering your opinion, I’ll continue to comment on them. 

    Expect I’ll be busy 
    What are you on about. ?  Of course what I post are my opinions -  not facts. As my old man would say......you have a screw loose.


  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 28,039
    Really impressed with the way we have dealt with this window, and welcome the latest addition Junior Nkeng into the fold, i'm unsure if we are finished or not, but it's nice to be going into the last four hours till it is slammed shut in a relaxed and settled mood...👌
    Mostly agree, although I think us not getting that starting right winger with championship experience may come to bite us in the arse
    Fair enough, but as I said, unsure if we are finished or not, so there is time, but unlike past windows when we were usually praying for someone...anyone to come in only to end up with nothing, we are in a much better situation overall regarding additions we have made.

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  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 33,245
    edited 6:07PM
    jondon76 said:
    Amount of moaning about our signings on here  Nkeng was being chased by many club, I think we're lucky to have him. No use crying about JRS it was dead in the water so we move on. Although I do realise some will never be happy that's forums for you. 
    I’m not sure it’s moaning for moanings sake. Expectations were clearly raised through the near miss with JRS so it feels like a long way from that to counting ourselves “lucky” because we’ve only signed a player from the third tier I doubt most of our fans had ever heard of when they woke up this morning. 
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 13,370
    fenaddick said:
    More concerning is that none of Doc and Apter seem to be generating any interest if the lack of rumours is anything to go by.

    Clearly both out of favour so taking up a squad space and wage budget for no contribution. Thats hurting us.
    No rumour about Asiimwe either
    Think our captain and Apter who we bought for £2m would be deemed a bit more newsworthy but lets wait and see.
  • AberystwythAddick
    AberystwythAddick Posts: 2,324
    More concerning is that none of Doc and Apter seem to be generating any interest if the lack of rumours is anything to go by.

    Clearly both out of favour so taking up a squad space and wage budget for no contribution. Thats hurting us.

    Biggest reason if nobody else comes in.
    You assume Apter is leaving, but it makes no sense to move him out. 
  • wolfgang
    wolfgang Posts: 1,198
    Surely thats not it for the day..... feels like it’s a VERY cheap alternative wages wise to JRS. Must be another more expensive one lined up.
    The only other one lined up is Skipp. Touch and go whether that will happen.
    I believe the correct expression when speaking of Spurs products is "push and run".
  • TheHerminator
    TheHerminator Posts: 1,503
    NabySarr said:
    clive said:
    lol.........

    As I said about a dozen pages ago......been tracking him for some time. Yeah, about 6 days since JRS deal fell over. Just need a quote from NJ about Luton & we'd have the transfer bingo card completed.

    My view is, the owners don't want to keep having to fund transfers and/or want there to be a bigger transfer kitty in 2/3 years time. So we are buying young players with potential so that we can sell on for £5m/£10m/£15m in the future. Azeez at Millwall being the latest example of that. 

    Will it work....who knows. Is it a gamble.....most definitely. It didn't work with Kahim Dixon and to a lesser extent Tanto & Apter. 

    I liked the look of him on the YouTube clip posted earlier, but he himself says he is a left winger who likes to cut inside. In the YouTube video he is shown playing on the right and it does look like he is predominantly right footed. Will he be the answer to our right wing woes ?  Probabky not as a starter, which is a shame because neither TC nor Grant work playing on the right. 

    It might work out but it is far from what is needed and what we've been led to believe we've been keeping our powder dry for. 
    Obviously we track more than 1 player in each position, how is that a comment you can moan at? 

    As for your second point, yes that is obviously the strategy. It’s also basically the only way non-parachute championship teams can work their way up the league to get promoted. Look at Coventry, look at Brentford, look at Middlesbrough who are nearly there. So it is a very good strategy that we should be happy with. After pretty much a decade of chaos, we finally have some smart people making decisions and yet you still moan 
    Not a moan, more an observation.

    We've all been crying out for a RW, even NJ says so.  If after 3 months of the transfer window the best we can do is a "hopeful" from League 1 then I don't think Chapple has been doing his job properly. 

    As I said last night, I hoped we hadn't put all our dry powder in JRS's basket. Seemed like we had. 

    But you & @TheHerminator carry on with your digs. Water off a ducks back to me.
     
    Every time you write a post telling people your ‘facts’  rather than offering your opinion, I’ll continue to comment on them. 

    Expect I’ll be busy 
    What are you on about. ?  Of course what I post are my opinions -  not facts. As my old man would say......you have a screw loose.


    The fact you don’t know what I’m on about pretty much  sums up your problem 
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 15,104
    edited 6:09PM
    I think we, as a collective, might have a bit of a JRS problem.
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 10,938
    Every chance that the doc move is to a League where the window doesn't close tonight. 
  • YannTheMann
    YannTheMann Posts: 1,704
    You'd think tonight is our last chance to ever sign a player if you didn't know any better, think the squad looks good comparatively to last season and am feeling excited for the season ahead at the moment 
  • crookester
    crookester Posts: 1,654
    More concerning is that none of Doc and Apter seem to be generating any interest if the lack of rumours is anything to go by.

    Clearly both out of favour so taking up a squad space and wage budget for no contribution. Thats hurting us.

    Biggest reason if nobody else comes in.
    You assume Apter is leaving, but it makes no sense to move him out. 
    It does because he won't play and our squad is too big at the moment. He is unfortunately just too slow to operate as a winger at championship level.
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 18,877
    edited 6:10PM
    Leuth said:
    DDOUBLEE said:
    Leuth said:
    What remains? Doc to a nice home, Godden deregistered until Jan, Cov extension. Let's do this 
    Oh no, you've insulted Matty G, they will be after you now...
    What use do we have for a player who's 35, clearly now a permanent injury risk, and not the profile of number 9 we now operate with? Genuinely would rather have Apter in the squad. Would rather have Docherty 
    I feel many of us fans are unwilling to differentiate between sentimentality and ability.