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Transfer rumours?

Any transfer rumours? Must be some names and whispers about?
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,013
    See loan window expectations.
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  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    From Dr Kish

    Charlton are reportedly watching Sutton winger Roarie Deacon.

    Wandsworth born Deacon is 25-years-old, and was with Arsenal as a youngster, before switching to Sunderland, but he failed to make a first team appearance for either of the Premier League duo.‎

    He dropped down the divisions, and appeared for Stevenage and Crawley‎, before joining Sutton in the summer.

    Deacon played a starring role in Sutton's 6-3 win over Dartford in the First Round of the FA Cup.

    He is pacy, two-footed, and is also attracting interest from Championship clubs.‎
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    Karl reckons RD has premiership expectations, so it's good to see we are after a Sutton Utd winger.
    It will be Stuart Fleetwood next.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,991

    Karl reckons RD has premiership expectations, so it's good to see we are after a Sutton Utd winger.
    It will be Stuart Fleetwood next.

    Reckon we might be able to tempt Dean Sinclair away from Hampton & Richmond as well. Exciting times.
  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,967
    Good to see we can attract some top talent with our top 6 budget
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    edited December 2016
    MrLargo said:

    Karl reckons RD has premiership expectations, so it's good to see we are after a Sutton Utd winger.
    It will be Stuart Fleetwood next.

    Reckon we might be able to tempt Dean Sinclair away from Hampton & Richmond as well. Exciting times.
    dont forget the world class "i was better than anyone else there" Dorian Smith
  • superclive
    superclive Posts: 1,809
    Harry arter. Players who drop down are often excellent.
  • And we have been known to Charltonise a few players in our time too. Andy Gray is one that springs to mind. Having a big name does not equate to a big performer.
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  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    dickplumb said:

    From Dr Kish

    Charlton are reportedly watching Sutton winger Roarie Deacon.

    Wandsworth born Deacon is 25-years-old, and was with Arsenal as a youngster, before switching to Sunderland, but he failed to make a first team appearance for either of the Premier League duo.‎

    He dropped down the divisions, and appeared for Stevenage and Crawley‎, before joining Sutton in the summer.

    Deacon played a starring role in Sutton's 6-3 win over Dartford in the First Round of the FA Cup.

    He is pacy, two-footed, and is also attracting interest from Championship clubs.‎

    Replacement for Lookman
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    shirty5 said:

    dickplumb said:

    From Dr Kish

    Charlton are reportedly watching Sutton winger Roarie Deacon.

    Wandsworth born Deacon is 25-years-old, and was with Arsenal as a youngster, before switching to Sunderland, but he failed to make a first team appearance for either of the Premier League duo.‎

    He dropped down the divisions, and appeared for Stevenage and Crawley‎, before joining Sutton in the summer.

    Deacon played a starring role in Sutton's 6-3 win over Dartford in the First Round of the FA Cup.

    He is pacy, two-footed, and is also attracting interest from Championship clubs.‎

    Replacement for Lookman
    Back up for Holmes more likely.
  • Redrobo said:

    shirty5 said:

    dickplumb said:

    From Dr Kish

    Charlton are reportedly watching Sutton winger Roarie Deacon.

    Wandsworth born Deacon is 25-years-old, and was with Arsenal as a youngster, before switching to Sunderland, but he failed to make a first team appearance for either of the Premier League duo.‎

    He dropped down the divisions, and appeared for Stevenage and Crawley‎, before joining Sutton in the summer.

    Deacon played a starring role in Sutton's 6-3 win over Dartford in the First Round of the FA Cup.

    He is pacy, two-footed, and is also attracting interest from Championship clubs.‎

    Replacement for Lookman
    Back up for Holmes more likely.
    Or simply an educated punt on a young player with a decent pedigree for the development squad.

  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729

    And we have been known to Charltonise a few players in our time too. Andy Gray is one that springs to mind. Having a big name does not equate to a big performer.

    Andy gray was a seasoned pro who had finally found his club in Burnley and Pardew thought he'd bang in the same amount of goals without playing to his strengths.
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,001

    Redrobo said:

    shirty5 said:

    dickplumb said:

    From Dr Kish

    Charlton are reportedly watching Sutton winger Roarie Deacon.

    Wandsworth born Deacon is 25-years-old, and was with Arsenal as a youngster, before switching to Sunderland, but he failed to make a first team appearance for either of the Premier League duo.‎

    He dropped down the divisions, and appeared for Stevenage and Crawley‎, before joining Sutton in the summer.

    Deacon played a starring role in Sutton's 6-3 win over Dartford in the First Round of the FA Cup.

    He is pacy, two-footed, and is also attracting interest from Championship clubs.‎

    Replacement for Lookman
    Back up for Holmes more likely.
    Or simply an educated punt on a young player with a decent pedigree for the development squad.

    At 25? No I don't think that's development squad material.
  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,967

    Christ people give the bloke a chance. Imagine if everyone ever wrote off players signed from non-league. Look at Gregory at Millwall now for one example. Vardy for god sake. Yes I hope that's not the peak of our January signings but I'm not complaining.

    You're right but would you say that signing untested players like this will improve your chances of promotion?

    To me it looks like a cheap option
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,001
    cafc999 said:

    Christ people give the bloke a chance. Imagine if everyone ever wrote off players signed from non-league. Look at Gregory at Millwall now for one example. Vardy for god sake. Yes I hope that's not the peak of our January signings but I'm not complaining.

    You're right but would you say that signing untested players like this will improve your chances of promotion?

    To me it looks like a cheap option
    That assumes that every possible signing is going to be like this, which is fallacious. If every player we're linked with is a lower league/non-league wunderkind then we can worry about it, but taking a chance on one lower league player with decent pedigree/potential seems worth it to me.
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    It looks like Lookman will go to Everton if they can agree a loan back to us. Everton arent very keen on that. Source Liverpool Echo.
  • dickplumb said:

    It looks like Lookman will go to Everton if they can agree a loan back to us. Everton arent very keen on that. Source Liverpool Echo.

    good move for him, not a top 4 club and may well get a chance under Koeman.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,233
    dickplumb said:

    It looks like Lookman will go to Everton if they can agree a loan back to us. Everton arent very keen on that. Source Liverpool Echo.

    If we can get a loan back then not a terrible outcome. Not good but not terrible.

    Would much rather keep him but that would have been very difficult at this level and the lack of stability.

    I wonder if keeping Lookman, if only on loan, was one of KRs conditions for joining?
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  • SOTF
    SOTF Posts: 1,149
    We've been to watch Jordan Higgs from Bromley twice I believe. Struggling to get game time recently so not sure if we will follow up.

    Has potential but very much in the Andrew Crofts mould so doubt he's high up on the list of priorities.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600

    And we have been known to Charltonise a few players in our time too. Andy Gray is one that springs to mind. Having a big name does not equate to a big performer.

    Andy gray was a seasoned pro who had finally found his club in Burnley and Pardew thought he'd bang in the same amount of goals without playing to his strengths.
    He was also on a run of 1 goal in 17 games before we signed him.
  • Harry arter. Players who drop down are often excellent.

    George Boyd too.
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,570

    And we have been known to Charltonise a few players in our time too. Andy Gray is one that springs to mind. Having a big name does not equate to a big performer.

    Andy gray was a seasoned pro who had finally found his club in Burnley and Pardew thought he'd bang in the same amount of goals without playing to his strengths.
    He was also on a run of 1 goal in 17 games before we signed him.
    IIRC Andy Gray had some major personal issues when he joined us - his wife was very ill.

    He was also a penalty specialist. Hadn't he scored 80% of his goals that season from the spot? We didn't win as many penalties as Burnley so his goal rate suffered.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,360

    And we have been known to Charltonise a few players in our time too. Andy Gray is one that springs to mind. Having a big name does not equate to a big performer.

    Andy gray was a seasoned pro who had finally found his club in Burnley and Pardew thought he'd bang in the same amount of goals without playing to his strengths.
    He was also on a run of 1 goal in 17 games before we signed him.
    IIRC Andy Gray had some major personal issues when he joined us - his wife was very ill.

    He was also a penalty specialist. Hadn't he scored 80% of his goals that season from the spot? We didn't win as many penalties as Burnley so his goal rate suffered.
    He also had a dodgy back with us didn't he?
  • Karl reckons RD has premiership expectations, so it's good to see we are after a Sutton Utd winger.
    It will be Stuart Fleetwood next.

    Lookman came from further down, didn't he?.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,175

    dickplumb said:

    It looks like Lookman will go to Everton if they can agree a loan back to us. Everton arent very keen on that. Source Liverpool Echo.

    good move for him, not a top 4 club and may well get a chance under Koeman.
    Hmm, Koeman was actually widely disliked at Southampton for the way he dealt with the Academy players. He rarely throws young players in, wasn't aware of a number of talented youngsters and apparently took a liking to belittling Matt Targett when he did play in the first team. He's not shown much inclination towards the youngsters at Everton either.
  • dickplumb said:

    It looks like Lookman will go to Everton if they can agree a loan back to us. Everton arent very keen on that. Source Liverpool Echo.

    good move for him, not a top 4 club and may well get a chance under Koeman.
    Hmm, Koeman was actually widely disliked at Southampton for the way he dealt with the Academy players. He rarely throws young players in, wasn't aware of a number of talented youngsters and apparently took a liking to belittling Matt Targett when he did play in the first team. He's not shown much inclination towards the youngsters at Everton either.
    Really, I just assumed being at Soton he played a lot of youngsters but not really looked into to much.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,886
    edited December 2016
    If Koeman doesn't like giving younger payers a chance then Lookman who is rumoured to be of serious interest to Everton, might just want to think very carefully about his immediate future.............. then again everybody has their price :open_mouth: .
  • Christ people give the bloke a chance. Imagine if everyone ever wrote off players signed from non-league. Look at Gregory at Millwall now for one example. Vardy for god sake. Yes I hope that's not the peak of our January signings but I'm not complaining.

    .....don't forget Steve Morison as well.

    We've also got what looks to be like another diamond in the rough, in Harry Smith.

    There are players out there that can make the transition. Finding them and then putting faith in them is the hard part.

    Both Morison and Gregory had their detractors after first signing and going through a barren spell.