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  • RonnieMoore
    RonnieMoore Posts: 5,201
    This will allow us to loan out Gough this season to get some decent playing time 
  • jose
    jose Posts: 1,469
    Good point about the next step for Gough.
    Would like to think any loan would be league one minimum.
    Burton Albion?
  • NabySarr
    NabySarr Posts: 5,750
    jose said:
    Good point about the next step for Gough.
    Would like to think any loan would be league one minimum.
    Burton Albion?
    They are league 2 but the Cowleys said they really like him so Colchester will be interested. Ideally we can find him a league 1 team but it's important not to pitch him too high for a first loan so I think league 2 would be fine. Be interesting if we send him somewhere to play at centre back or if it's central midfield
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 7,659
    jose said:
    Good point about the next step for Gough.
    Would like to think any loan would be league one minimum.
    Burton Albion?
    Or Wimbledon with Jacko perhaps? Good experience to play week in week out for a side that will under the cosh.
  • YannTheMann
    YannTheMann Posts: 1,433
    I wonder if we'll be looking to offload Zach Mitchell this summer, not really developed like many of us had hoped, through a couple of not so good loan spells 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,697
    NabySarr said:
    jose said:
    Good point about the next step for Gough.
    Would like to think any loan would be league one minimum.
    Burton Albion?
    They are league 2 but the Cowleys said they really like him so Colchester will be interested. Ideally we can find him a league 1 team but it's important not to pitch him too high for a first loan so I think league 2 would be fine. Be interesting if we send him somewhere to play at centre back or if it's central midfield
    That was Mwamba not Gough
  • NabySarr
    NabySarr Posts: 5,750
    YannTheMann said:
    I wonder if we'll be looking to offload Zach Mitchell this summer, not really developed like many of us had hoped, through a couple of not so good loan spells 
    He will definitely leave, just whether that’s permanent or if we still hold out hope for him then a loan 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,353
    We now have 4 left sided defenders, all solid, so it does look like we'll have that unbalanced wingback system again, with the right wingback being much more attacking than the left wingback.

    I wonder if that leaves the door open for Apter to get another chance there?
  • WrightCharlie
    WrightCharlie Posts: 837
    OK Messrs. Curbishley & Garland, I know in your AI capacity you'll pick up this message even before I've hit the enter button, so..... I'm off to Go Outdoors now to pick up my camping order...... while I'm gone can you crank up your massive bank of Arizona servers and scrape all the data about incomers and outgoers and post the result on here for when I get back. If you also search Google maps you'll know what time I'll be getting back. I thank you.

    And if any of you other lot can beat them to it....... wow!!
  • AberystwythAddick
    AberystwythAddick Posts: 1,622
    killerandflash said:
    We now have 4 left sided defenders, all solid, so it does look like we'll have that unbalanced wingback system again, with the right wingback being much more attacking than the left wingback.

    I wonder if that leaves the door open for Apter to get another chance there?
    We don’t have any right wingbacks though , not actual defenders just wingers being shoehorned in. 

    To me the defence still looks unbalanced. 

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 86,468
    Pelling1993 said:
    jose said:
    Good point about the next step for Gough.
    Would like to think any loan would be league one minimum.
    Burton Albion?
    Or Wimbledon with Jacko perhaps? Good experience to play week in week out for a side that will under the cosh.
    And with Michael Morrison as coach
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 38,927
    fenaddick said:
    NabySarr said:
    jose said:
    Good point about the next step for Gough.
    Would like to think any loan would be league one minimum.
    Burton Albion?
    They are league 2 but the Cowleys said they really like him so Colchester will be interested. Ideally we can find him a league 1 team but it's important not to pitch him too high for a first loan so I think league 2 would be fine. Be interesting if we send him somewhere to play at centre back or if it's central midfield
    That was Mwamba not Gough
    He mentioned Gough too.
  • NabySarr
    NabySarr Posts: 5,750
    fenaddick said:
    NabySarr said:
    jose said:
    Good point about the next step for Gough.
    Would like to think any loan would be league one minimum.
    Burton Albion?
    They are league 2 but the Cowleys said they really like him so Colchester will be interested. Ideally we can find him a league 1 team but it's important not to pitch him too high for a first loan so I think league 2 would be fine. Be interesting if we send him somewhere to play at centre back or if it's central midfield
    That was Mwamba not Gough
    They had a deal agreed to loan Mwamba, but he got injured. In the same interview Cowley said he really liked Gough, but as he was in our squad he wasn’t available 
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 28,060
    Sounds a good singing, Billy the Kid. Was around that Liverpool said when they had abundance of centre halves and made the bench a few times. 
  • jose
    jose Posts: 1,469
    NabySarr said:
    jose said:
    Good point about the next step for Gough.
    Would like to think any loan would be league one minimum.
    Burton Albion?
    They are league 2 but the Cowleys said they really like him so Colchester will be interested. Ideally we can find him a league 1 team but it's important not to pitch him too high for a first loan so I think league 2 would be fine. Be interesting if we send him somewhere to play at centre back or if it's central midfield
    Yeah. Colchester would be a credible loan.
  • PugRobin99
    PugRobin99 Posts: 6
    I assume with Billy also joining we will be moving to a back 4? I doubt that Mesik/Billy would have joined to be in a three way battle for LCB. 
  • RC_CAFC
    RC_CAFC Posts: 1,938
    I would far rather our youngsters wen't somewhere they were really wanted in a league lower than somewhere they're considered a risk in a league higher. If they are really flying and considered to be playing above the level then they can always be recalled.
  • LittleAddick
    LittleAddick Posts: 758
    PugRobin99 said:
    I assume with Billy also joining we will be moving to a back 4? I doubt that Mesik/Billy would have joined to be in a three way battle for LCB. 
    Or Ramsey being moved to RWB?
  • RonnieMoore
    RonnieMoore Posts: 5,201
    Remember Jackson saying he would love to loan Kanu but can’t afford him 
  • RC_CAFC
    RC_CAFC Posts: 1,938
    PugRobin99 said:
    I assume with Billy also joining we will be moving to a back 4? I doubt that Mesik/Billy would have joined to be in a three way battle for LCB. 
    It will also hopefully mean we are not suddenly terrified every time Lloyd Jones goes down injured

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  • NabySarr
    NabySarr Posts: 5,750
    PugRobin99 said:
    I assume with Billy also joining we will be moving to a back 4? I doubt that Mesik/Billy would have joined to be in a three way battle for LCB. 
    I think it’s unlikely we moved fully to a back 4, I think it’s more likely that Mesik has joined as a wing back option to compete with Edwards and we will return to our 3-5-2/4–2-3-1 hybrid system that worked so well in league 1 and at the start of last season

    Koumetio can probably play the central centre back role as well so can be a Jones backup as well as a LCB 

    I still think 3 at the back will be the way to go. We want to defend aggressively on the front foot and allow defenders to step out and do that so we need the extra defender available to cover that. You can’t have Jones going for every single header or Sichenje charging out to tackle people if you don’t have that 5 at the back defensive set up to cover it 


  • king addick
    king addick Posts: 4,011
    I know it seems like we are signing the lad from Dundee but Famewo just been released from 'Ull 👀
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,693
    king addick said:
    I know it seems like we are signing the lad from Dundee but Famewo just been released from 'Ull 👀
    Signed for Bolton 
  • scruffle
    scruffle Posts: 2,398
    king addick said:
    I know it seems like we are signing the lad from Dundee but Famewo just been released from 'Ull 👀
    and signed for Bolton..
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,693
    Macca leaves!





























  • king addick
    king addick Posts: 4,011
    Fair enough then haha 
  • CAFCBourne
    CAFCBourne Posts: 3,873
    Probably all these centres backs means LJ off to West Ham
  • redbuttle
    redbuttle Posts: 2,094
    CAFCBourne said:
    Probably all these centres backs means LJ off to West Ham
    All two of them and Macca gone. lol 
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,585
    CAFCBourne said:
    Probably all these centres backs means LJ off to West Ham
    All one of them (who might be a fullback anyway) plus one strongly linked but not signed yet (who plays on the left not the right and replaces Gillesphey.)
    Yes, definitely that means LJ is off. Definitely.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 66,549
    Six contracted centre backs for three places seems sensible to me? It’s been back to back seasons now that Lloyd has played a significant period through the pain barrier so we need suitable options there - if he had to take any length of time out last season we would have been in big trouble.

    Sichenje, Ramsay, Jones, Koumetio, Bell, Mesik is a hopefully strong group.

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