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Lack of signings is worrying me

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  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,261
    Crusty54 said:

    Contracts usually run until the end of June. Players can't sign for another club until they are out of contract.

    Milner? Ings?
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,897
    edited June 2015

    If we have it bad, imagine how they feel at Rotherham and Sheffield Wednesday with just 13 players on the books?!

    What matters is the calibre of the signings we make in the next six weeks.

    Easy for you to say but Wednesday have a gazzilionaire owner who can buy whoever he wants whenever he wants and Rotherham .... Actually you're right about Rotherham.

    This time last year we had about ten players on the books and there was panic amongst the faithful! Then Vetokele showed up 24th June followed by the rest of the crew. Right now we have around 20 players on the books with doubts about the quality of three or four. And rumours that Buyens won't return and Bulot needs a bigger contract to stay. And rumours about Gomez being sold of course.

    Posters on here squabble over the number of additional quality players we require but they essentially fall into two camps - panic about our fate and Que cera cera!

    Two things we know is that M.Duchatelet can afford players but he probably won't pay many millions. My point is that there are many Championship clubs in the same boat as us - the question is whether RD is prepared to pay the going rate and go the extra mile to complete what looks a fairly decent squad rebuild to date. What we don't yet know is whether they aim to finish 12th again or try for the top eight?
    You forgot the JBG rumour as well @seriously_red (+ basically anyone decent in the squad).

    Why do people have to fall into one camp or another ? Surely people mostly are a mixture of opinion.
  • cabbles said:

    Crusty54 said:

    Contracts usually run until the end of June. Players can't sign for another club until they are out of contract.

    Milner? Ings?
    You're right. Why didn't we sign either of them.
  • jakecafc
    jakecafc Posts: 2,071
    Geezer must be on a wind up
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,633
    Crusty54 said:

    Contracts usually run until the end of June. Players can't sign for another club until they are out of contract.

    They can, they just sign a contract dated from 1st July. Liverpool have already signed Ings, Milner and Bogdan. I wonder how?
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    edited June 2015
    You can get a coach over on the ferry from Belgium in a few hours, just fill it with a few surplus hangers on at the Standard Liege training ground and were sorted. So theres really no need for concern.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,261

    cabbles said:

    Crusty54 said:

    Contracts usually run until the end of June. Players can't sign for another club until they are out of contract.

    Milner? Ings?
    You're right. Why didn't we sign either of them.
    I'm too busy commenting on threads about lack of signings to worry about who we've missed out on
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,710

    Crusty54 said:

    Contracts usually run until the end of June. Players can't sign for another club until they are out of contract.

    They can, they just sign a contract dated from 1st July. Liverpool have already signed Ings, Milner and Bogdan. I wonder how?
    They're pre-contracts because their old contract at their previous club has ran down.

    Charlton can do the same but if we're not going for high profile players the newspapers arent going to be interested reporting on it, that means we may have signed someone on a free but it can only be announced come 1st July when the contract has expired.

    Hence why as well you've not see a Milner / Ings press conference or generic pictures of them in their club shirts holding a scarf
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,236
    Breaking news..........
    Two new signings for CAFC ?
    Robin and the Red Knight.
    I hope their a good partnership,
    and not just a pair of fly by knights ?
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,432

    Crusty54 said:

    Contracts usually run until the end of June. Players can't sign for another club until they are out of contract.

    They can, they just sign a contract dated from 1st July. Liverpool have already signed Ings, Milner and Bogdan. I wonder how?
    They're pre-contracts because their old contract at their previous club has ran down.

    Charlton can do the same but if we're not going for high profile players the newspapers arent going to be interested reporting on it, that means we may have signed someone on a free but it can only be announced come 1st July when the contract has expired.

    Hence why as well you've not see a Milner / Ings press conference or generic pictures of them in their club shirts holding a scarf
    Once it's agreed the club can announce it, e.g. when we signed Zak Ansah in early June last year.

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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,633
    Exactly Scoham, as Derby have done with Bent, Carson etc etc.
  • Chill out and worry about the real world
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,897
    Current squad: lots of squad numbers up for grabs.

    1 Republic of Ireland GK Stephen Henderson (3rd captain)
    3 England DF Joe Gomez
    4 England MF Johnnie Jackson (captain)
    6 Cameroon DF André Bikey
    7 Iceland MF Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson
    10 Belgium MF Franck Moussa
    11 England MF Callum Harriott
    12 France MF Alou Diarra
    14 Angola FW Igor Vetokele
    16 Wales DF Rhoys Wiggins
    20 England DF Chris Solly (vice-captain)
    21 Wales DF Morgan Fox
    23 England FW Joe Pigott
    24 England MF Jordan Cousins
    30 England GK Nick Pope
    31 England DF Harry Lennon
    32 Scotland FW Tony Watt
    36 Serbia GK Marko Dmitrović
    40 Belgium MF Christophe Lepoint
    43 England FW Karlan Ahearne-Grant
    -- France DF Loïc Nego
    -- Iran FW Reza Ghoochannejhad
    -- Poland FW Piotr Parzyszek
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    edited June 2015
    I'm more worried about the potential leavers and the lack of an established core, meaning it seems to be a near complete rebuilding job each time, surely you can't help build a winning team, can't hit the ground running etc, altho sometimes with strikers not always a bad thing to be a bit unknown. I guess we'll see who we manage to retain.

    Edit: well worried is a bit strong to be honest, if I hd to express a concern that would be it
  • drewman
    drewman Posts: 1,104
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Lack of wins so far this season is worrying. Never mind we don't play our first competitive fixture until August, we should have some points in the bank by now surely?

    Roly/Luzon/Powell out.
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    mrbligh said:

    I find it ridiculous when people say they worry about things like this. Worry? Really?

    I worry about things like my kids health, the government cutting the fees involved in my job so much that I might get the can, my family

    I'm dissapointed when we have no signings and our best players get sold, but worried?

    Naaaa. Get a grip man

    I'm worried that you're having a go at a man who may have used the wrong word. Maybe he is concerned about the lack of signings.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,827
    Fiiish said:

    Lack of wins so far this season is worrying. Never mind we don't play our first competitive fixture until August, we should have some points in the bank by now surely?

    Roly/Luzon/Powell out.

    I blame Parky.
  • mrbligh
    mrbligh Posts: 3,056
    edited June 2015
    dizzee said:

    mrbligh said:

    I find it ridiculous when people say they worry about things like this. Worry? Really?

    I worry about things like my kids health, the government cutting the fees involved in my job so much that I might get the can, my family

    I'm dissapointed when we have no signings and our best players get sold, but worried?

    Naaaa. Get a grip man

    I'm worried that you're having a go at a man who may have used the wrong word. Maybe he is concerned about the lack of signings.
    Bob's got this

    https://youtu.be/EYi5aW1GdUU
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,670
    Curbs left us with a crap squad.

    It's his fault.

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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,652
    drewman said:

    This

  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,236
    When my main worry is CAFC, this is a good thing ?

    It's means that the Ebb and flow of everyday problems have abated for a day or two and i can focus on my true love.

    You can change your socks and pants,
    you can change your wife or partner,(or they change you)
    you should never change your football club.

    Let's wait to the end of August before we panic.
  • Its_Hamer_Time
    Its_Hamer_Time Posts: 1,565
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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,432
    lets buy loads of players without testing their ability and get in loads of loans so we're not threadbare next season. Doesn't matter if they're all shite, at least we will have a squad.

    Then we can buy one good player for the quality factor and loan him to Standard.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,432

    Breaking news..........
    Two new signings for CAFC ?
    Robin and the Red Knight.
    I hope they're a good partnership,
    and not just a pair of fly by knights ?

  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,236
    edited June 2015
    Thanks dazzler.
    You must understand i left school at 13,
    and worked up a chimney.
    I can concur; there's no smoke without fire.
  • MartTheTaxi
    MartTheTaxi Posts: 173
    we.re doomed i tell thee DOOMED
  • Doesn't this kind of thread normally occur at this time of the year?

    Whatever will be will be.
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,750

    Doesn't this kind of thread normally occur at this time of the year?

    Whatever will be will be.

    Nice one, MIA.

    Wonder if others recognised your insider information that we're going to Wemberlee this season....