Unless something dramatic happens with lots of new signings, we are fucked.
You honestly think that things aren't lined up... its part of a transfer merry go round
I reckon we need at least 6 additional players, how many do you think we have lined up and agreed?
Slade clearly stated when he joined there will be wheeling and dealing. The club are getting the big hitters off of the wage bill before they can go in for others simple economics.
History suggests otherwise but I admire your optimism.
What history suggests different ??
Last season. The season before. The Stevens give away. The cheap sell off of kermogant to a team who won promotion to the Prem with him. The insertion of a clown as goalkeeper. Should I go on?
It's at centre back that I'm really concerned. Tex we are told will probably depart. Leaving an injured Bauer who won't have had a pre season. Roger Johnson and An injured Lennon. Seems to me we need two to come in.
Bauer told us last night that he'll be training again next week. Lennon said he's out for three to four weeks.
Hamer was slagged off for going to Leicester knowing he wouldn't play, Pope is just as bad, if not worse seeing as he does have genuine potential.
It's not worse. Hamer is sitting behind a top class keeper of similar age to himself. Pope is behind a keeper in the final years of his career and will be brought through as his successor.
Heaton will likely be playing for another 4-5 years minimum. That'll take Pope up to 28-29 and while that's arguably him prime I wouldn't think that 5 seasons playing 10 games a season will do him much good.
5 years ago he was playing for Bury Town and living with his parents.
5 years from now he'll probably have millions in the bank and be about to play regular premiership football.
I always hear people say "It's such a short career" and "But footballer just want to play football" but he will only need to work until he's 35 and he'll be made for life. Forgive me if I don't lose sleep over it
I can't believe this many people are naive. Potentially play in a L1 team for a club that is largely in disarray or move to a PL club as a back up for an England squad keeper and hugely increase your earnings. Tough choice that.
Unless something dramatic happens with lots of new signings, we are fucked.
You honestly think that things aren't lined up... its part of a transfer merry go round
I reckon we need at least 6 additional players, how many do you think we have lined up and agreed?
Slade clearly stated when he joined there will be wheeling and dealing. The club are getting the big hitters off of the wage bill before they can go in for others simple economics.
History suggests otherwise but I admire your optimism.
What history suggests different ??
Ha ha. Have you been in a coma for the last 2 seasons ?
2 years is hardly history, 2 years would be classed as over the last couple of seasons.
I'm going to take away your spade, that hole is quite deep enough.
Unless something dramatic happens with lots of new signings, we are fucked.
You honestly think that things aren't lined up... its part of a transfer merry go round
I reckon we need at least 6 additional players, how many do you think we have lined up and agreed?
Slade clearly stated when he joined there will be wheeling and dealing. The club are getting the big hitters off of the wage bill before they can go in for others simple economics.
History suggests otherwise but I admire your optimism.
What history suggests different ??
Last season. The season before. The Stevens give away. The cheap sell off of kermogant to a team who won promotion to the Prem with him. The insertion of a clown as goalkeeper. Should I go on?
Not history though is it,two years, however we as well as other clubs in the past have given players away cheaply and in the same breath picked up players for peanuts, swings and roundabouts
Unless something dramatic happens with lots of new signings, we are fucked.
You honestly think that things aren't lined up... its part of a transfer merry go round
I reckon we need at least 6 additional players, how many do you think we have lined up and agreed?
Slade clearly stated when he joined there will be wheeling and dealing. The club are getting the big hitters off of the wage bill before they can go in for others simple economics.
History suggests otherwise but I admire your optimism.
What history suggests different ??
Ha ha. Have you been in a coma for the last 2 seasons ?
2 years is hardly history, 2 years would be classed as over the last couple of seasons.
I'm going to take away your spade, that hole is quite deep enough.
And so the cycle continues. Players leave without replacements being lined up. Big difference between being interested in and signing.
We all knew most of those gone or leaving were out the door, its just the pathetic cack-handed response that grates.
They told us they've learned from their mistakes. They haven't and its happening again. Only this time they don't have a loan window safety net.
£20 placed on us to get relegated again.
They just don't know how to arrest the slide. They thought that by bringing in Slade they would appease us and begin planning for a fresh new beginning, except it has happened that way because they don't know where to look for suitable British replacements. The whole transfer policy in the first full summer we had with them at the helm was to use the network. That ultimately failed so the second summer was to buy foreign because it is cheaper. That definitely didn't work as not one of the signings they made featured toward the end apart from Makienok.
This summer they started on the back foot because we were such a mess and they probably realised they'd be going about it the wrong way, but turning it round is like the old oil tanker analogy. It's going to take time. Time they don't have if they want to hit the ground running. For what its worth, I believe Slade can make us organised and hard to beat, and I think we will achieve mid to lower table. However anything more than that will require an injection of 5/6 good players and more money to be spent. Something I don't think RD is prepared to do given the losses he's already accrued and how the fans perceive him. I have no doubt that in his belligerence, he truly believes he's succumbed to what the fans want by appointing a British manager and buying a few British players. In his head he will tell KM who will tell Slade that you have enough to do the job, get on with it.
Slade being the professional that he is will do what he can, but when I see Jackson starting these friendlies at left wing, a position he could just about manage last time we were in league one back in 2011, that says all you need to know about how clueless this regime is and the utter panic/resignation to their plight
Don't like the idea of a keeper on loan. Plus surely we've got a few quid now to sign one permanently. What the hell is the strategy this summer? It looked like there was a plan when Slade and then Novak, Holmes and Ajose arrived. That's since gone out the window. And no information on Ajose's injury. Is he a long term absentee or is it just a knock as barely reported?
Unless Lionel Messi or Neymar are prepared to swap Barcelona for Nottingham Forest, the Championship club will stay patient in the transfer market, says boss Philippe Montanier.
Tom Heaton just signed a new 4 year deal at Burnley. Not sure when Pope expects to get a look in, what a waste.
I can see Burnley looking to sell Heaton (possibly next Summer), with the fee being increased by the new deal...
He could well be England's no 1 sooner rather than later.
I doubt that. Currently he's 4th choice behind Hart, Forster and Butland. If Ben Foster had been fit enough to go to the Euros, he might have been ahead of Heaton as well
Trouble is... Pope up until this season wasnt getting game time in the Championship so had to drop to League Two (twice) to play any matches, finally this season he managed to play in the Championship far more often than I bet even he expected
Now despite relegation (to a League which is still higher than anything he's ever regularly played at before) he's decided to jump up above the Championship into a League he wont play at for another good couple of years,
I am disappointed to an extent as I thought he was a Footballer who'd want to play rather than sit on the bench
Really don't understand players of that age going to a club to sit on the bench just for the money
Don't like the idea of a keeper on loan. Plus surely we've got a few quid now to sign one permanently. What the hell is the strategy this summer? It looked like there was a plan when Slade and then Novak, Holmes and Ajose arrived. That's since gone out the window. And no information on Ajose's injury. Is he a long term absentee or is it just a knock as barely reported?
I agree, although Scott Carson won player of the year while on loan.
Don't like the idea of a keeper on loan. Plus surely we've got a few quid now to sign one permanently. What the hell is the strategy this summer? It looked like there was a plan when Slade and then Novak, Holmes and Ajose arrived. That's since gone out the window. And no information on Ajose's injury. Is he a long term absentee or is it just a knock as barely reported?
I agree, although Scott Carson won player of the year while on loan.
Don't like the idea of a keeper on loan. Plus surely we've got a few quid now to sign one permanently. What the hell is the strategy this summer? It looked like there was a plan when Slade and then Novak, Holmes and Ajose arrived. That's since gone out the window. And no information on Ajose's injury. Is he a long term absentee or is it just a knock as barely reported?
Don't like the idea of a keeper on loan. Plus surely we've got a few quid now to sign one permanently. What the hell is the strategy this summer? It looked like there was a plan when Slade and then Novak, Holmes and Ajose arrived. That's since gone out the window. And no information on Ajose's injury. Is he a long term absentee or is it just a knock as barely reported?
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He also doesn't have a silly hipster beard
5 years from now he'll probably have millions in the bank and be about to play regular premiership football.
I always hear people say "It's such a short career" and "But footballer just want to play football" but he will only need to work until he's 35 and he'll be made for life. Forgive me if I don't lose sleep over it
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This summer they started on the back foot because we were such a mess and they probably realised they'd be going about it the wrong way, but turning it round is like the old oil tanker analogy. It's going to take time. Time they don't have if they want to hit the ground running. For what its worth, I believe Slade can make us organised and hard to beat, and I think we will achieve mid to lower table. However anything more than that will require an injection of 5/6 good players and more money to be spent. Something I don't think RD is prepared to do given the losses he's already accrued and how the fans perceive him. I have no doubt that in his belligerence, he truly believes he's succumbed to what the fans want by appointing a British manager and buying a few British players. In his head he will tell KM who will tell Slade that you have enough to do the job, get on with it.
Slade being the professional that he is will do what he can, but when I see Jackson starting these friendlies at left wing, a position he could just about manage last time we were in league one back in 2011, that says all you need to know about how clueless this regime is and the utter panic/resignation to their plight
Plus surely we've got a few quid now to sign one permanently.
What the hell is the strategy this summer? It looked like there was a plan when Slade and then Novak, Holmes and Ajose arrived.
That's since gone out the window.
And no information on Ajose's injury. Is he a long term absentee or is it just a knock as barely reported?
He could well be England's no 1 sooner rather than later.
Unless Lionel Messi or Neymar are prepared to swap Barcelona for Nottingham Forest, the Championship club will stay patient in the transfer market, says boss Philippe Montanier. I doubt that. Currently he's 4th choice behind Hart, Forster and Butland. If Ben Foster had been fit enough to go to the Euros, he might have been ahead of Heaton as well
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