Same old Charlton loanees , been told sanogo ain't all that , as for fanni don't know to much about him but this is the championship and we are battling relegation hope he is up for it , Time will tell if these 2 are good signings ,personally I'd like to see some up and coming championship players In our side that in time could play at the highest level but that's football today .
For some reason I'm in an optimistic mood. Maybe sending Watt to Blackburn could be Riga's slyest move yet - disrupt the competition. It worked for that Surrey team when they sent us Dowie, after all.
I was always a fan of Watt, loved to watch him, but some mates from Glasgow predicted what would happen. Decisive and not a team player - or, in Glaswegian, a 'f**ckin lunatic'. I suspect it was our players that forced him out, like they got rid of Fraeye.
If Riga was involved in the decision making to bring in both loanees, then, I am more relaxed. How many out against how many in? Have we saved money on the wages bill to spend on more loanees shortly?
2 players out, 2 players in. pretty straight forward with not too much extra cash spent. do I think the signings are any good? well I laughed when I heard about them and where they came from.
a bloke called fannie who was once good but is now playing in a Qatar side, also he happens to be Diarra mate a bit like vaz te. so great scouting once again.
then their is sanogo. a striker who hasn't scored for two years. wenger rings up club says I got a player who needs game time can you help me out like you've done before? sure wenger. again great scouting.
where is this championship experience player they said they were bringing in?
I hope both players are good but I just doubt it. glass half empty.
I'm quite pleased with both signings to be honest. Sanogo will bring pace and strength to the front line and will score at least as many goals as anyone else we have. Fanni is a bit out of left field but he has pedigree in abundance and if he can help stiffen our leaky back four then his short term fix will have been worth it.
Where my concerns are is about our recruitment policy in general. We are in a perilous situation and a betting man would still see us as good for relegation. Yet again the meagre budget has overridden all our efforts. We have actually yet again bought no one. We played the brinkmanship game and although the two we loaned are in my opinion decent it could just have easily all gone wrong.
Duchatelet is even in our current relegation danger unable to see past an investment now to save money in the longer term.
This regime has again proven that we are an experiment with no ambition other than to cut corners and go cheap.
If you consider our squad today, compared to three weeks ago, it does IMO look better. Moving on Pigott, Watt, Moussa, Vaz Te, and bringing in Sanogo and Fanni gives us depth in the right places. With Lookman and Vetokele both back from injury too, the attack, midfield and defence all have robust options, and with Diarra and Bauer hopefully both back soon, even more so then. If we can add Gnabry next week that would be even better, but even without him, picking our best starting XI is not as simple as it used to be, and with a full in-form squad to chose from, quite difficult!
Seen some matches over thenyears that fannihas played in and he is tireless, always very physical, can score and create goals and has pace even at the age he is now. He also has a knack of last ditch perfect tackles/clearances as evident on his youtube videos. Hopefully good things from him and i expect hivto play more as a cb with us!
First off, I do hope that the current squad (and any further additions) can keep us up, but...
For me, it's a continuation of the previous summer's wing and a prayer strategy, with limited numbers of decent players (more out than in appears to be our policy). We may have an OK first 11, and a few to cover, but we really are relying on none of our key players getting injured - which, being Charlton would mean we won't see them again (part of me thinks that we should have signed up Eva Carneiro as Director of Medicine/Crocks).
Deadline day/Transfer Window was about where I was expecting us to be, except I thought Lookman was gonna be on his toes, and just because we have kept him Im more confident that we can stay up, especially now that Igor looks to have shed the timber, Mak is looking aggressive, Cousins and JBG are playing again, just need a more consistent defence and Riga will get us out of it and become a Charlton legend (again). Its down to us to stay up and not because of the tits that are running our club but in spite of them.
Looking at the video, he offers something that we have seriously lacked this season, that being the instinct to arrive in front of goal at the right time. I sit in the North Upper and watch the six yard box for any sign of a red shirt in vain. We all need to trust Riga at this time.
If you consider our squad today, compared to three weeks ago, it does IMO look better. Moving on Pigott, Watt, Moussa, Vaz Te, and bringing in Sanogo and Fanni gives us depth in the right places. With Lookman and Vetokele both back from injury too, the attack, midfield and defence all have robust options, and with Diarra and Bauer hopefully both back soon, even more so then. If we can add Gnabry next week that would be even better, but even without him, picking our best starting XI is not as simple as it used to be, and with a full in-form squad to chose from, quite difficult!
There's been a big change in the last couple of weeks;
Vetokele and Bergdich have come in and looked up to standard straight-away.
Gudmonsson, Makienok, Cousins, Jackson and Fox and have just had their best games for quite a while.
Texeira has come in and given us a better shape at the back.
Lookman is back from injury and has already scored another goal.
Our new manager has a clear plan and has been able to add some depth to cope with some injuries.
We still have a chance to stay up if we can just put a run together.
Middlesbrough have Premier League ambitions. Look at the difference in their recruitment to ours. That's a club that hasn't benefited from parachute payments in recent years, just like us.
I'm not asking that we spend £11m on one player, but some long-term recruitment strategy wouldn't go amiss.
Wenger does not usually sign duds; therefore, I am hoping that Sanogo is not the exception that proves the rule. I am ignoring these tiresome gooners and sticking to the fact that there are only two geniuses in english football; that is the professor and Riga. Must have a word with my GP about the medication he has put me on.
Definitely underwhelmed, only reason we're not all in uproar is because of Saturdays win, would've been a lot different had we got spanked.
The difference is though is it appears, and yes i know its only one game, that Riga can get something out of this squad. Many of us thought we already had enough quality to stay safe, we just didn't have the direction or organisation of a good manager to put it into practice.
Definitely underwhelmed, only reason we're not all in uproar is because of Saturdays win, would've been a lot different had we got spanked.
The difference is though is it appears, and yes i know its only one game, that Riga can get something out of this squad. Many of us thought we already had enough quality to stay safe, we just didn't have the direction or organisation of a good manager to put it into practice.
Hope that is the case, whether it's enough or not remains to be seen. I'm not convinced Mak, Cousins, Fox and Bergdich have become good Championship players all of a sudden.
Definitely underwhelmed, only reason we're not all in uproar is because of Saturdays win, would've been a lot different had we got spanked.
The difference is though is it appears, and yes i know its only one game, that Riga can get something out of this squad. Many of us thought we already had enough quality to stay safe, we just didn't have the direction or organisation of a good manager to put it into practice.
Hope that is the case, whether it's enough or not remains to be seen. I'm not convinced Mak, Cousins, Fox and Bergdich have become good Championship players all of a sudden.
I think Mak and Bergdich have the ability to be decent Champ players. Cousins is already a good Champ Player. Fox.....not so much.
Always thought our squad was good enough, just too small and hopelessly managed and set up by Managers without a clue. This arguably makes us stronger as we have two committed players and got rid of two less committed.
Trouble is with RD that sides have gone up on tiny budgets due to shrewd management and everyone pulling in the same direction. We've had neither of those things in the past 2 years.
According to Wikipedia he's at FC Ufa in the Russian Premier League.
Ah. It is a shame that some players do not have it in them to realise there full potential; even though the Russian league is probably of a good standard. Wenger saw something in him along with Wolves and us. He will probably resurface in England at some stage.
Middlesbrough have Premier League ambitions. Look at the difference in their recruitment to ours. That's a club that hasn't benefited from parachute payments in recent years, just like us.
I'm not asking that we spend £11m on one player, but some long-term recruitment strategy wouldn't go amiss.
I agree. Steve Gibson's wealth is put at around £165m so quite a bit less than RD, but as a Boro fan he has invested considerably more of his fortune in his team. I guess their gate receipts etc, and total revenues might be quite a bit more than ours, so buying the kind of players they have, while undoubtedly costing them heavily, is not quite pushing them beyond FFP. However, Rhodes' wages at Blackburn were £33k a week and I don't suppose he has taken a pay cut. The reward of promotion will make it all worthwhile of course.
Definitely underwhelmed, only reason we're not all in uproar is because of Saturdays win, would've been a lot different had we got spanked.
The difference is though is it appears, and yes i know its only one game, that Riga can get something out of this squad. Many of us thought we already had enough quality to stay safe, we just didn't have the direction or organisation of a good manager to put it into practice.
Hope that is the case, whether it's enough or not remains to be seen. I'm not convinced Mak, Cousins, Fox and Bergdich have become good Championship players all of a sudden.
I think Mak and Bergdich have the ability to be decent Champ players. Cousins is already a good Champ Player. Fox.....not so much.
Don't wanna get accused of changing the subject in a thread, my feelings about this have been highlighted on the Jordan Cousins thread.
I am pleased enough with our business yesterday, would I prefer some long term vision, yes but that is why the fight is still for a change of ownership but right now I believe those two signings combined with not losing any more of our first team talent means we are a stronger team as we once again fight relegation.
Lets just hope this regime is gone by this time next year so we are not faced with more short term panic buying/loaning in the January transfer just to get us out of another mess that they will create in the summer, as they will do it again, no matter how much we may wish to believe Riga holds the power now.
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I was always a fan of Watt, loved to watch him, but some mates from Glasgow predicted what would happen. Decisive and not a team player - or, in Glaswegian, a 'f**ckin lunatic'. I suspect it was our players that forced him out, like they got rid of Fraeye.
How many out against how many in? Have we saved money on the wages bill to spend on more loanees shortly?
do I think the signings are any good?
well I laughed when I heard about them and where they came from.
a bloke called fannie who was once good but is now playing in a Qatar side, also he happens to be Diarra mate a bit like vaz te. so great scouting once again.
then their is sanogo. a striker who hasn't scored for two years. wenger rings up club says I got a player who needs game time can you help me out like you've done before? sure wenger. again great scouting.
where is this championship experience player they said they were bringing in?
I hope both players are good but I just doubt it. glass half empty.
Where my concerns are is about our recruitment policy in general. We are in a perilous situation and a betting man would still see us as good for relegation. Yet again the meagre budget has overridden all our efforts. We have actually yet again bought no one. We played the brinkmanship game and although the two we loaned are in my opinion decent it could just have easily all gone wrong.
Duchatelet is even in our current relegation danger unable to see past an investment now to save money in the longer term.
This regime has again proven that we are an experiment with no ambition other than to cut corners and go cheap.
They have to go.
For me, it's a continuation of the previous summer's wing and a prayer strategy, with limited numbers of decent players (more out than in appears to be our policy). We may have an OK first 11, and a few to cover, but we really are relying on none of our key players getting injured - which, being Charlton would mean we won't see them again (part of me thinks that we should have signed up Eva Carneiro as Director of Medicine/Crocks).
Its down to us to stay up and not because of the tits that are running our club but in spite of them.
I just hope the retirement league that Fanni has been playing in is a little more competitive than the one Johnson has spent half the season in.
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You seem not to have noticed 3 assists from Gudmunson on Saturday.
Vetokele and Bergdich have come in and looked up to standard straight-away.
Gudmonsson, Makienok, Cousins, Jackson and Fox and have just had their best games for quite a while.
Texeira has come in and given us a better shape at the back.
Lookman is back from injury and has already scored another goal.
Our new manager has a clear plan and has been able to add some depth to cope with some injuries.
We still have a chance to stay up if we can just put a run together.
I'm not asking that we spend £11m on one player, but some long-term recruitment strategy wouldn't go amiss.
Must have a word with my GP about the medication he has put me on.
Trouble is with RD that sides have gone up on tiny budgets due to shrewd management and everyone pulling in the same direction. We've had neither of those things in the past 2 years.
The Fanni jokes have been great, especially liked the pussy galore one!
Lets just hope this regime is gone by this time next year so we are not faced with more short term panic buying/loaning in the January transfer just to get us out of another mess that they will create in the summer, as they will do it again, no matter how much we may wish to believe Riga holds the power now.