Summer Window 2026 - Rumours and Discussion

MarcusH26

£3m ish feels completely a type of number that's achievable for us though. Would have thought Estoril would have wanted more like £5-8m. 

DamoNorthStand

SouthLincsAddick said:

DamoNorthStand said:

Charlton43 said:

Think we’ll get that CM in next week

We need two equally as good 

I’ll pass that onto NJ, what if he says he can’t afford it?

Not his fault. In fact it’s not anyone’s fault if the owners won’t put the money in. With the current rules there is scope there to put the kind of money in to sort our midfield. 

jams

God please let the football start soon 

Crispywood

AberystwythAddick said:

It’s obviously not going to be Holsgrove, let’s hope that options 2 and 3 are more willing and available 

Honestly I’ll settle for option 10 at this point wherever it takes to do something to that midfield 

HamSollins

@stjohnshill was Alli the “central position of need” you alluded to earlier in the week? 

P.s Appreciate all your updates this summer so, thank you for them 

Uboat

jams said:

God please let the football start soon 

Yep. No one talks shit once the season starts. 

jose

I wouldn't mind hearing some positive news about our injured players.

wolfgang

gilbertfilbert said:

I was thinking Kirk, Ben Reeves, McGrandles… And so on.

I think it was mainly Karl Robinson who was bigging up Ben Reeves. 

Charlie Kirk was indeed eagerly anticipated. Was he the biggest let-down in our club's history?

McGrandles has largely fulfilled expectations, just not with us.

ElfsborgAddick

jams said:

God please let the football start soon 

You'll regret those words after the opening game mate.

ct_addick

sam3110 said:

I doubt Dobson would come back if offered the chance anyway

Nah him and Alfie May didn’t fancy playing under NJ….wouldn’t fancy him back either 

thai malaysia addick

wolfgang said:

gilbertfilbert said:

I was thinking Kirk, Ben Reeves, McGrandles… And so on.

I think it was mainly Karl Robinson who was bigging up Ben Reeves. 

Charlie Kirk was indeed eagerly anticipated. Was he the biggest let-down in our club's history?

McGrandles has largely fulfilled expectations, just not with us.

Barry Endean will take some beating.

rememberbillybonds

Dobson is not what we need. He was not a creative midfield player.

AddicksAddict

Swisdom said:

My thoughts  on Ramsay are we’ve got six months to get him signed a contract or he’s off for free next summer and will start talking to clubs after Christmas 

If he doesn’t sign before the start of the season, sell him now. His agent has very possibly been touting him around so his head may not be in the right place between now and Christmas. 

Redhenry

bertpalmer said:

imo cody will come in on a season long loan late on so only expect 1 more perm 

I hope not

Crispywood

rememberbillybonds said:

Dobson is not what we need. He was not a creative midfield player.

He isn’t but he would absolutely walk into this side though. 

NabySarr

rememberbillybonds said:

Dobson is not what we need. He was not a creative midfield player.

I still think it’s unlikely that we sign a creative midfielder. We just need midfielders that are better on the ball so that our attacking players get it more often to create and score. Dobson would fit that and crucially is good without the ball 

We just aren’t going to find a creative midfielder that is also good enough out of possession on our budget I don’t think 

MarcusH26

NabySarr said:

rememberbillybonds said:

Dobson is not what we need. He was not a creative midfield player.

I still think it’s unlikely that we sign a creative midfielder. We just need midfielders that are better on the ball so that our attacking players get it more often to create and score. Dobson would fit that and crucially is good without the ball 

We just aren’t going to find a creative midfielder that is also good enough out of possession on our budget I don’t think 

This is a key point , there's plenty of creative midfielders out there but a good chunk of them will be a complete luxury out of possession and we won't even consider one that won't do the off the ball work too.

Far more likely it's a Cov upgrade with more physicality and the ability to play forward and then a Doc replacement with a similar workrate but a lot more quality on the ball. 

thenewbie

NabySarr said:

rememberbillybonds said:

Dobson is not what we need. He was not a creative midfield player.

I still think it’s unlikely that we sign a creative midfielder. We just need midfielders that are better on the ball so that our attacking players get it more often to create and score. Dobson would fit that and crucially is good without the ball 

We just aren’t going to find a creative midfielder that is also good enough out of possession on our budget I don’t think 

I don't think we'll be seeing a creative midfielder in the sense of someone who puts their foot on the ball and pings passes around - that wouldn't fit with Jonesball, even the 'improved' version.

If we got someone who can sit like Coventry but actually be a bit progressive with passing forwards I actually think we could away with Docherty as a water carrier/midfield nuisance type if we absolutely had to. But ideally both need upgrading.

NabySarr

MarcusH26 said:

NabySarr said:

rememberbillybonds said:

Dobson is not what we need. He was not a creative midfield player.

I still think it’s unlikely that we sign a creative midfielder. We just need midfielders that are better on the ball so that our attacking players get it more often to create and score. Dobson would fit that and crucially is good without the ball 

We just aren’t going to find a creative midfielder that is also good enough out of possession on our budget I don’t think 

This is a key point , there's plenty of creative midfielders out there but a good chunk of them will be a complete luxury out of possession and we won't even consider one that won't do the off the ball work too.

Far more likely it's a Cov upgrade with more physicality and the ability to play forward and then a Doc replacement with a similar workrate but a lot more quality on the ball. 

The De Keersmacker level of player that can do it all is going to be out of our budget. We aren’t good enough to sacrifice the out of possession side of the game so any new midfielder is going to have to be good at that 

We will create chances in the same way we always have under Jones: 

Getting wide players 1v1 - we should be able to do this much better now as we will go back to having one on each flank line we did with Small and TC in league 1. That’s where we need midfielders better on the ball so we can move it quicker from flank to flank to isolate our wingers against their full backs in 1v1s. Cov and Doc move the ball too slowly

High press - winning the ball back and creating chances on the turnover. Again I think we are in a better place to do this with much more pace in the team to take advantage of counter attacks/transitions

Set pieces - always going to be very important, slightly worried we don’t have a good enough taker so hopefully one of the new midfielders has a good dead ball delivery 

cafc4life

Any news on Sichenje, Kelman, Edwards?

i hate the silence on injuries at times.

RonnieMoore

cafc4life said:

Any news on Sichenje, Kelman, Edwards?

i hate the silence on injuries at times.

They said that Sichenje is very close , Kelman if no reaction should be available for Derby .. Edwards your looking at middle Sept/Oct 

jams

Slightly worried that Edwards is going to turn into a kulusevski situation 

cafc4life

RonnieMoore said:

cafc4life said:

Any news on Sichenje, Kelman, Edwards?

i hate the silence on injuries at times.

They said that Sichenje is very close , Kelman if no reaction should be available for Derby .. Edwards your looking at middle Sept/Oct 

Nice one Nathan.

YannTheMann

Surprised Alli hasn't leaked all the rest of our summer transfer business on his Instagram 

DennisBooth

RonnieMoore said:

cafc4life said:

Any news on Sichenje, Kelman, Edwards?

i hate the silence on injuries at times.

They said that Sichenje is very close , Kelman if no reaction should be available for Derby .. Edwards your looking at middle Sept/Oct 

I heard that Kelman had an operation on his shoulder, so could be September time.

MrBurns

YannTheMann said:

Surprised Alli hasn't leaked all the rest of our summer transfer business on his Instagram 

I've heard Alli is @stjohnshill

sam3110

DennisBooth said:

RonnieMoore said:

cafc4life said:

Any news on Sichenje, Kelman, Edwards?

i hate the silence on injuries at times.

They said that Sichenje is very close , Kelman if no reaction should be available for Derby .. Edwards your looking at middle Sept/Oct 

I heard that Kelman had an operation on his shoulder, so could be September time.

That's funny because literally 2 days ago Fleming said they are waiting for the initial pain etc to settle down before they decide what to do 

gilbertfilbert

thai malaysia addick said:

wolfgang said:

gilbertfilbert said:

I was thinking Kirk, Ben Reeves, McGrandles… And so on.

I think it was mainly Karl Robinson who was bigging up Ben Reeves. 

Charlie Kirk was indeed eagerly anticipated. Was he the biggest let-down in our club's history?

McGrandles has largely fulfilled expectations, just not with us.

Barry Endean will take some beating.

That's true!

killerandflash

sam3110 said:

DennisBooth said:

RonnieMoore said:

cafc4life said:

Any news on Sichenje, Kelman, Edwards?

i hate the silence on injuries at times.

They said that Sichenje is very close , Kelman if no reaction should be available for Derby .. Edwards your looking at middle Sept/Oct 

I heard that Kelman had an operation on his shoulder, so could be September time.

That's funny because literally 2 days ago Fleming said they are waiting for the initial pain etc to settle down before they decide what to do 

Which was a surprising comment, as that was a week after the initial injury. Surely you don't wait that long before deciding what to do?

Oggy Red

Gisappointed said:

We have a guaranteed starting winger TC, now have Grant, Alli and Apter; of whom two won't start. Three tend to be on left. Buy starters ffs.

Yet we have a weaker midfield which was already poor, Coadyless, and no money spent in our most vulnerable area. Speechless!!! 

Jones has game starters and game finishers. 

He keeps the back line intact, if he can but upfield players are changed according to the gameplan or tactical changes.

The pre-match  instructions may be for certain starting players to play 60 minutes with intensity, before being replaced with 'fresh legs' game finishers or game changers of equal quality.

It's a squad game and 5 subs will be used most games - and next game some players rotated accordingly.

The concept of always starting with your best players, has gone the way of the Dodo. Keep up