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January 2021 Transfer Targets (last minute swoop for Jaiyesimi p184 - NOW it's all over.)
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Swisdom said:Cafc43v3r said:ElliotCAFC said:
Since the takeover we had 10 days etc etc fine but since then we have signed 7 players, 6 of them have multiple year, or options to extend, contracts. We are up to the salary cap.
Unless something drastic happens, either we get promoted or the salary cap gets abolished our squad for next season is
Gunter
Innis
Purrington
Morgan
Watson
Maddison
Gilbey
Schwartz
Bogle
Davison
Washington
Plus the league 1 average that would be freed up by Aneke, Williams, Amos, JFC, Pearce, Oshilaja and Pratley to spend. Add in what ever Matthews is on and it still doesn't give you much to work with.
I don't see how you have a massive rebuild next season, as things currently stand?
But as it's so obvious can someone explain it to me?
The chap at Exeter fits the bill because he would be in the correct level for wages. We can't underestimate the appeal we, as a club, still have. Many people want to live in and around London and we are still very much a big fish in this pond. We CAN still attract the better players from L1 and L2 so we have to use that to our advantage.
Lincoln have had a fantastic season thus far. I would hope they run out of steam but their recruitment has been very astute. They have concentrated on younger players and have forged a great togetherness and that's critical to getting out of this division. We could do a lot worse than looking at their model.
If we don't go up we need to act immediately at the end of the season. For so many years we are chasing the leftovers and clearly we don't get best value with them. We need to clear the decks of the unwanted players and we need to make signings straight away so that when we start pre season we have a full squad from day one that is young and bristling with potential with a few older, wiser heads thrown in.
There is also the consideration of the 3 relegated teams and the fact it looks unlikely that more than 1 of Sunderland, Ipswich and Pompy will go up (we keep getting told that they got all there business done before the cap came in) so they will have considerably more head room.
The fact we don't seem to have any 18-20 year olds looking likely to make the step up.
Add in the fact that due to the fixture congestion we are unlikely to know what divison we will be in until at least late April, maybe even late May. That doesn't give you much time to get 20 odd (ins and outs) pieces of business done.
I honestly think that if we don't go up, or the wage cap gets abolished, it's going to take 3 or 4 transfer windows to rebuild.1 -
Barker, Maynard-Brewer, Morgan will be regulars for years to come (before we sell them).
Couple of other youngsters will come through and play next season too.
We will buy 5 or so under 21 year olds. Loan 2 or 3 more. We CAN and WILL pay more than our rivals in transfer fees to acquire them / loan them.
If we don't go up this year, I think we will next year. Or the year after.
For the first time in 10 years I have total faith in our ownership structure to approach this with football and business ideals harmonised.4 -
Not that we had been linked with him, but Ashley Williams has announced his retirement0
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Swisdom said:Cafc43v3r said:ElliotCAFC said:
Since the takeover we had 10 days etc etc fine but since then we have signed 7 players, 6 of them have multiple year, or options to extend, contracts. We are up to the salary cap.
Unless something drastic happens, either we get promoted or the salary cap gets abolished our squad for next season is
Gunter
Innis
Purrington
Morgan
Watson
Maddison
Gilbey
Schwartz
Bogle
Davison
Washington
Plus the league 1 average that would be freed up by Aneke, Williams, Amos, JFC, Pearce, Oshilaja and Pratley to spend. Add in what ever Matthews is on and it still doesn't give you much to work with.
I don't see how you have a massive rebuild next season, as things currently stand?
But as it's so obvious can someone explain it to me?
The chap at Exeter fits the bill because he would be in the correct level for wages. We can't underestimate the appeal we, as a club, still have. Many people want to live in and around London and we are still very much a big fish in this pond. We CAN still attract the better players from L1 and L2 so we have to use that to our advantage.
Lincoln have had a fantastic season thus far. I would hope they run out of steam but their recruitment has been very astute. They have concentrated on younger players and have forged a great togetherness and that's critical to getting out of this division. We could do a lot worse than looking at their model.
If we don't go up we need to act immediately at the end of the season. For so many years we are chasing the leftovers and clearly we don't get best value with them. We need to clear the decks of the unwanted players and we need to make signings straight away so that when we start pre season we have a full squad from day one that is young and bristling with potential with a few older, wiser heads thrown in.
If there's a decent young player in league 2, and we can afford him, then a championship side can also afford to buy him as a 'project', offer him a bit above the league one salary cap and then loan him out.
Same as Huddersfield did with Sorba Thomas.
Given the choice, is that player going to sign for us on 2-2.5k a week or the championship side for 4k a week? He gets an extra 250k over a 3 year deal and possibly ends up in the same league as us on loan anyway.4 -
Chris_from_Sidcup said:Swisdom said:Cafc43v3r said:ElliotCAFC said:
Since the takeover we had 10 days etc etc fine but since then we have signed 7 players, 6 of them have multiple year, or options to extend, contracts. We are up to the salary cap.
Unless something drastic happens, either we get promoted or the salary cap gets abolished our squad for next season is
Gunter
Innis
Purrington
Morgan
Watson
Maddison
Gilbey
Schwartz
Bogle
Davison
Washington
Plus the league 1 average that would be freed up by Aneke, Williams, Amos, JFC, Pearce, Oshilaja and Pratley to spend. Add in what ever Matthews is on and it still doesn't give you much to work with.
I don't see how you have a massive rebuild next season, as things currently stand?
But as it's so obvious can someone explain it to me?
The chap at Exeter fits the bill because he would be in the correct level for wages. We can't underestimate the appeal we, as a club, still have. Many people want to live in and around London and we are still very much a big fish in this pond. We CAN still attract the better players from L1 and L2 so we have to use that to our advantage.
Lincoln have had a fantastic season thus far. I would hope they run out of steam but their recruitment has been very astute. They have concentrated on younger players and have forged a great togetherness and that's critical to getting out of this division. We could do a lot worse than looking at their model.
If we don't go up we need to act immediately at the end of the season. For so many years we are chasing the leftovers and clearly we don't get best value with them. We need to clear the decks of the unwanted players and we need to make signings straight away so that when we start pre season we have a full squad from day one that is young and bristling with potential with a few older, wiser heads thrown in.
If there's a decent young player in league 2, and we can afford him, then a championship side can also afford to buy him as a 'project', offer him a bit above the league one salary cap and then loan him out.
Same as Huddersfield did with Sorba Thomas.
Given the choice, is that player going to sign for us on 2-2.5k a week or the championship side for 4k a week? He gets an extra 250k over a 3 year deal and possibly ends up in the same league as us on loan anyway.1 -
Going back to this transfer window or how much is left to spend on wages of new signings under the wage cap ....... we can take into account that there's only half a season left and therefore may be able to pay more per week/month on a short contract or loan?
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Oggy Red said:Going back to this transfer window or how much is left to spend on wages of new signings under the wage cap ....... we can take into account that there's only half a season left and therefore may be able to pay more per week/month on a short contract or loan?
He said Lapslie didn't count, Doughty didn't and Smyth hadn't gone back.
It would be a big gamble going over it hopping you can then off load someone wouldn't it?0 -
Cafc43v3r said:Oggy Red said:Going back to this transfer window or how much is left to spend on wages of new signings under the wage cap ....... we can take into account that there's only half a season left and therefore may be able to pay more per week/month on a short contract or loan?
He said Lapslie didn't count, Doughty didn't and Smyth hadn't gone back.
It would be a big gamble going over it hopping you can then off load someone wouldn't it?
But to me, something appears to be cooking behind the scenes with another signing at least to come.
The cards are being shuffled. I wouldn't be surprised if a couple of the squad leave before the window shuts.
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addick1956 said:Swisdom said:Cafc43v3r said:ElliotCAFC said:
Since the takeover we had 10 days etc etc fine but since then we have signed 7 players, 6 of them have multiple year, or options to extend, contracts. We are up to the salary cap.
Unless something drastic happens, either we get promoted or the salary cap gets abolished our squad for next season is
Gunter
Innis
Purrington
Morgan
Watson
Maddison
Gilbey
Schwartz
Bogle
Davison
Washington
Plus the league 1 average that would be freed up by Aneke, Williams, Amos, JFC, Pearce, Oshilaja and Pratley to spend. Add in what ever Matthews is on and it still doesn't give you much to work with.
I don't see how you have a massive rebuild next season, as things currently stand?
But as it's so obvious can someone explain it to me?
The chap at Exeter fits the bill because he would be in the correct level for wages. We can't underestimate the appeal we, as a club, still have. Many people want to live in and around London and we are still very much a big fish in this pond. We CAN still attract the better players from L1 and L2 so we have to use that to our advantage.
Lincoln have had a fantastic season thus far. I would hope they run out of steam but their recruitment has been very astute. They have concentrated on younger players and have forged a great togetherness and that's critical to getting out of this division. We could do a lot worse than looking at their model.
If we don't go up we need to act immediately at the end of the season. For so many years we are chasing the leftovers and clearly we don't get best value with them. We need to clear the decks of the unwanted players and we need to make signings straight away so that when we start pre season we have a full squad from day one that is young and bristling with potential with a few older, wiser heads thrown in.
But you have to look at the squad they have at Lincoln - most of them are unknown but that's the beauty of them flying under the radar and their togetherness. That cannot be underestimated0 -
Suspect that we are now in deadline day territory and are waiting to see who becomes available .1
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Swisdom said:addick1956 said:Swisdom said:Cafc43v3r said:ElliotCAFC said:
Since the takeover we had 10 days etc etc fine but since then we have signed 7 players, 6 of them have multiple year, or options to extend, contracts. We are up to the salary cap.
Unless something drastic happens, either we get promoted or the salary cap gets abolished our squad for next season is
Gunter
Innis
Purrington
Morgan
Watson
Maddison
Gilbey
Schwartz
Bogle
Davison
Washington
Plus the league 1 average that would be freed up by Aneke, Williams, Amos, JFC, Pearce, Oshilaja and Pratley to spend. Add in what ever Matthews is on and it still doesn't give you much to work with.
I don't see how you have a massive rebuild next season, as things currently stand?
But as it's so obvious can someone explain it to me?
The chap at Exeter fits the bill because he would be in the correct level for wages. We can't underestimate the appeal we, as a club, still have. Many people want to live in and around London and we are still very much a big fish in this pond. We CAN still attract the better players from L1 and L2 so we have to use that to our advantage.
Lincoln have had a fantastic season thus far. I would hope they run out of steam but their recruitment has been very astute. They have concentrated on younger players and have forged a great togetherness and that's critical to getting out of this division. We could do a lot worse than looking at their model.
If we don't go up we need to act immediately at the end of the season. For so many years we are chasing the leftovers and clearly we don't get best value with them. We need to clear the decks of the unwanted players and we need to make signings straight away so that when we start pre season we have a full squad from day one that is young and bristling with potential with a few older, wiser heads thrown in.
But you have to look at the squad they have at Lincoln - most of them are unknown but that's the beauty of them flying under the radar and their togetherness. That cannot be underestimatedI predicted them top six at the start of the season, although I did get a couple of LOL’s.0 -
Swisdom said:addick1956 said:Swisdom said:Cafc43v3r said:ElliotCAFC said:
Since the takeover we had 10 days etc etc fine but since then we have signed 7 players, 6 of them have multiple year, or options to extend, contracts. We are up to the salary cap.
Unless something drastic happens, either we get promoted or the salary cap gets abolished our squad for next season is
Gunter
Innis
Purrington
Morgan
Watson
Maddison
Gilbey
Schwartz
Bogle
Davison
Washington
Plus the league 1 average that would be freed up by Aneke, Williams, Amos, JFC, Pearce, Oshilaja and Pratley to spend. Add in what ever Matthews is on and it still doesn't give you much to work with.
I don't see how you have a massive rebuild next season, as things currently stand?
But as it's so obvious can someone explain it to me?
The chap at Exeter fits the bill because he would be in the correct level for wages. We can't underestimate the appeal we, as a club, still have. Many people want to live in and around London and we are still very much a big fish in this pond. We CAN still attract the better players from L1 and L2 so we have to use that to our advantage.
Lincoln have had a fantastic season thus far. I would hope they run out of steam but their recruitment has been very astute. They have concentrated on younger players and have forged a great togetherness and that's critical to getting out of this division. We could do a lot worse than looking at their model.
If we don't go up we need to act immediately at the end of the season. For so many years we are chasing the leftovers and clearly we don't get best value with them. We need to clear the decks of the unwanted players and we need to make signings straight away so that when we start pre season we have a full squad from day one that is young and bristling with potential with a few older, wiser heads thrown in.
But you have to look at the squad they have at Lincoln - most of them are unknown but that's the beauty of them flying under the radar and their togetherness. That cannot be underestimated
It's usually the difference between a squad achieving - or underachieving, if it's missing.
Just look at Charlton in recent years, Chris Powell built a whole squad built on this ethos - players who would run through brick walls for him and each other.
They also found themselves forming good friendships and socialising together.
That team won the title by a street.
Even Bowyer himself built a togetherness in the squad that won him promotion 2 years ago.
It's the essential ingredient of success.5 -
Covered End said:MuttleyCAFC said:MartinCAFC said:SELR_addicks said:
Looks like signing that 6th striker was much more important than proper defensive cover.
Season is over.
I disagree, we might have numbers at CB but they're not good enough to get us promoted. We need to be able to replace Innis and Famewo with similar quality and we can't.
How many good centre halves are going to want to join Charlton with the notion that they may only play half a dozen games and then sit on our bench for a couple of months?0 -
Oggy Red said:Swisdom said:addick1956 said:Swisdom said:Cafc43v3r said:ElliotCAFC said:
Since the takeover we had 10 days etc etc fine but since then we have signed 7 players, 6 of them have multiple year, or options to extend, contracts. We are up to the salary cap.
Unless something drastic happens, either we get promoted or the salary cap gets abolished our squad for next season is
Gunter
Innis
Purrington
Morgan
Watson
Maddison
Gilbey
Schwartz
Bogle
Davison
Washington
Plus the league 1 average that would be freed up by Aneke, Williams, Amos, JFC, Pearce, Oshilaja and Pratley to spend. Add in what ever Matthews is on and it still doesn't give you much to work with.
I don't see how you have a massive rebuild next season, as things currently stand?
But as it's so obvious can someone explain it to me?
The chap at Exeter fits the bill because he would be in the correct level for wages. We can't underestimate the appeal we, as a club, still have. Many people want to live in and around London and we are still very much a big fish in this pond. We CAN still attract the better players from L1 and L2 so we have to use that to our advantage.
Lincoln have had a fantastic season thus far. I would hope they run out of steam but their recruitment has been very astute. They have concentrated on younger players and have forged a great togetherness and that's critical to getting out of this division. We could do a lot worse than looking at their model.
If we don't go up we need to act immediately at the end of the season. For so many years we are chasing the leftovers and clearly we don't get best value with them. We need to clear the decks of the unwanted players and we need to make signings straight away so that when we start pre season we have a full squad from day one that is young and bristling with potential with a few older, wiser heads thrown in.
But you have to look at the squad they have at Lincoln - most of them are unknown but that's the beauty of them flying under the radar and their togetherness. That cannot be underestimated
It's usually the difference between a squad achieving - or underachieving, if it's missing.
Just look at Charlton in recent years, Chris Powell built a whole squad built on this ethos - players who would run through brick walls for him and each other.
They also found themselves forming good friendships and socialising together.
That team won the title by a street.
Even Bowyer himself built a togetherness in the squad that won him promotion 2 years ago.
It's the essential ingredient of success.
This is the formation we play, this is the style we play, this is plan B. If you don't perform x takes your place and you have to earn it back.
Bowyer had all of that in 18/19, in fact Bowyer had it until November 2019. Powell had it in spades. Klopp has it, Pepe has, Jose currently has it. Lampard had it then had to shuffle it to fit all the expensive summer signings in.
Everyone has injuries, suspensions and loss of form to deal with. But if you don't have belief in what your being asked to do that's when the effort drops, the silly red cards creep in, the arguing starts, people get more niggles because they don't want to play.
IMO Robinson lost it the minute the players stopped believing than 1 up top was the best way for us to win football matches.
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Cafc43v3r said:Scoham said:It’s a big rebuild because we’ll want somewhere around 18-22 or so first team players. I wouldn’t assume those with options to extend will be kept on or that no one under contract won’t be sold/loaned out either.
Now we might have made a mistake and given some of those players big contracts, I don’t know what they’re on. There’s no doubt though that we’ll have around 20 first team players even if some of them are cheap unknowns on very low wages.
I’d consider needing to sign around 10 players (or more) a big rebuild as that’s at least half a squad.
Having to sign 10+ players every summer is a big job and something we’ll hopefully move away from over the next few years by signing more players for the longer term.3 -
Oggy Red said:Swisdom said:addick1956 said:Swisdom said:Cafc43v3r said:ElliotCAFC said:
Since the takeover we had 10 days etc etc fine but since then we have signed 7 players, 6 of them have multiple year, or options to extend, contracts. We are up to the salary cap.
Unless something drastic happens, either we get promoted or the salary cap gets abolished our squad for next season is
Gunter
Innis
Purrington
Morgan
Watson
Maddison
Gilbey
Schwartz
Bogle
Davison
Washington
Plus the league 1 average that would be freed up by Aneke, Williams, Amos, JFC, Pearce, Oshilaja and Pratley to spend. Add in what ever Matthews is on and it still doesn't give you much to work with.
I don't see how you have a massive rebuild next season, as things currently stand?
But as it's so obvious can someone explain it to me?
The chap at Exeter fits the bill because he would be in the correct level for wages. We can't underestimate the appeal we, as a club, still have. Many people want to live in and around London and we are still very much a big fish in this pond. We CAN still attract the better players from L1 and L2 so we have to use that to our advantage.
Lincoln have had a fantastic season thus far. I would hope they run out of steam but their recruitment has been very astute. They have concentrated on younger players and have forged a great togetherness and that's critical to getting out of this division. We could do a lot worse than looking at their model.
If we don't go up we need to act immediately at the end of the season. For so many years we are chasing the leftovers and clearly we don't get best value with them. We need to clear the decks of the unwanted players and we need to make signings straight away so that when we start pre season we have a full squad from day one that is young and bristling with potential with a few older, wiser heads thrown in.
But you have to look at the squad they have at Lincoln - most of them are unknown but that's the beauty of them flying under the radar and their togetherness. That cannot be underestimated
It's usually the difference between a squad achieving - or underachieving, if it's missing.
Just look at Charlton in recent years, Chris Powell built a whole squad built on this ethos - players who would run through brick walls for him and each other.
They also found themselves forming good friendships and socialising together.
That team won the title by a street.
Even Bowyer himself built a togetherness in the squad that won him promotion 2 years ago.
It's the essential ingredient of success.
We do seem to have reclaimed some of that fight in recent games, hopefully that continues1 -
Scoham said:Cafc43v3r said:Scoham said:It’s a big rebuild because we’ll want somewhere around 18-22 or so first team players. I wouldn’t assume those with options to extend will be kept on or that no one under contract won’t be sold/loaned out either.
Now we might have made a mistake and given some of those players big contracts, I don’t know what they’re on. There’s no doubt though that we’ll have around 20 first team players even if some of them are cheap unknowns on very low wages.
I’d consider needing to sign around 10 players (or more) a big rebuild as that’s at least half a squad.
Having to sign 10+ players every summer is a big job and something we’ll hopefully move away from over the next few years by signing more players for the longer term.
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LonelyNorthernAddick said:Oggy Red said:Swisdom said:addick1956 said:Swisdom said:Cafc43v3r said:ElliotCAFC said:
Since the takeover we had 10 days etc etc fine but since then we have signed 7 players, 6 of them have multiple year, or options to extend, contracts. We are up to the salary cap.
Unless something drastic happens, either we get promoted or the salary cap gets abolished our squad for next season is
Gunter
Innis
Purrington
Morgan
Watson
Maddison
Gilbey
Schwartz
Bogle
Davison
Washington
Plus the league 1 average that would be freed up by Aneke, Williams, Amos, JFC, Pearce, Oshilaja and Pratley to spend. Add in what ever Matthews is on and it still doesn't give you much to work with.
I don't see how you have a massive rebuild next season, as things currently stand?
But as it's so obvious can someone explain it to me?
The chap at Exeter fits the bill because he would be in the correct level for wages. We can't underestimate the appeal we, as a club, still have. Many people want to live in and around London and we are still very much a big fish in this pond. We CAN still attract the better players from L1 and L2 so we have to use that to our advantage.
Lincoln have had a fantastic season thus far. I would hope they run out of steam but their recruitment has been very astute. They have concentrated on younger players and have forged a great togetherness and that's critical to getting out of this division. We could do a lot worse than looking at their model.
If we don't go up we need to act immediately at the end of the season. For so many years we are chasing the leftovers and clearly we don't get best value with them. We need to clear the decks of the unwanted players and we need to make signings straight away so that when we start pre season we have a full squad from day one that is young and bristling with potential with a few older, wiser heads thrown in.
But you have to look at the squad they have at Lincoln - most of them are unknown but that's the beauty of them flying under the radar and their togetherness. That cannot be underestimated
It's usually the difference between a squad achieving - or underachieving, if it's missing.
Just look at Charlton in recent years, Chris Powell built a whole squad built on this ethos - players who would run through brick walls for him and each other.
They also found themselves forming good friendships and socialising together.
That team won the title by a street.
Even Bowyer himself built a togetherness in the squad that won him promotion 2 years ago.
It's the essential ingredient of success.
We do seem to have reclaimed some of that fight in recent games, hopefully that continues1 -
LonelyNorthernAddick said:Oggy Red said:Swisdom said:addick1956 said:Swisdom said:Cafc43v3r said:ElliotCAFC said:
Since the takeover we had 10 days etc etc fine but since then we have signed 7 players, 6 of them have multiple year, or options to extend, contracts. We are up to the salary cap.
Unless something drastic happens, either we get promoted or the salary cap gets abolished our squad for next season is
Gunter
Innis
Purrington
Morgan
Watson
Maddison
Gilbey
Schwartz
Bogle
Davison
Washington
Plus the league 1 average that would be freed up by Aneke, Williams, Amos, JFC, Pearce, Oshilaja and Pratley to spend. Add in what ever Matthews is on and it still doesn't give you much to work with.
I don't see how you have a massive rebuild next season, as things currently stand?
But as it's so obvious can someone explain it to me?
The chap at Exeter fits the bill because he would be in the correct level for wages. We can't underestimate the appeal we, as a club, still have. Many people want to live in and around London and we are still very much a big fish in this pond. We CAN still attract the better players from L1 and L2 so we have to use that to our advantage.
Lincoln have had a fantastic season thus far. I would hope they run out of steam but their recruitment has been very astute. They have concentrated on younger players and have forged a great togetherness and that's critical to getting out of this division. We could do a lot worse than looking at their model.
If we don't go up we need to act immediately at the end of the season. For so many years we are chasing the leftovers and clearly we don't get best value with them. We need to clear the decks of the unwanted players and we need to make signings straight away so that when we start pre season we have a full squad from day one that is young and bristling with potential with a few older, wiser heads thrown in.
But you have to look at the squad they have at Lincoln - most of them are unknown but that's the beauty of them flying under the radar and their togetherness. That cannot be underestimated
It's usually the difference between a squad achieving - or underachieving, if it's missing.
Just look at Charlton in recent years, Chris Powell built a whole squad built on this ethos - players who would run through brick walls for him and each other.
They also found themselves forming good friendships and socialising together.
That team won the title by a street.
Even Bowyer himself built a togetherness in the squad that won him promotion 2 years ago.
It's the essential ingredient of success.
We do seem to have reclaimed some of that fight in recent games, hopefully that continues1 - Sponsored links:
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killerandflash said:LonelyNorthernAddick said:Oggy Red said:Swisdom said:addick1956 said:Swisdom said:Cafc43v3r said:ElliotCAFC said:
Since the takeover we had 10 days etc etc fine but since then we have signed 7 players, 6 of them have multiple year, or options to extend, contracts. We are up to the salary cap.
Unless something drastic happens, either we get promoted or the salary cap gets abolished our squad for next season is
Gunter
Innis
Purrington
Morgan
Watson
Maddison
Gilbey
Schwartz
Bogle
Davison
Washington
Plus the league 1 average that would be freed up by Aneke, Williams, Amos, JFC, Pearce, Oshilaja and Pratley to spend. Add in what ever Matthews is on and it still doesn't give you much to work with.
I don't see how you have a massive rebuild next season, as things currently stand?
But as it's so obvious can someone explain it to me?
The chap at Exeter fits the bill because he would be in the correct level for wages. We can't underestimate the appeal we, as a club, still have. Many people want to live in and around London and we are still very much a big fish in this pond. We CAN still attract the better players from L1 and L2 so we have to use that to our advantage.
Lincoln have had a fantastic season thus far. I would hope they run out of steam but their recruitment has been very astute. They have concentrated on younger players and have forged a great togetherness and that's critical to getting out of this division. We could do a lot worse than looking at their model.
If we don't go up we need to act immediately at the end of the season. For so many years we are chasing the leftovers and clearly we don't get best value with them. We need to clear the decks of the unwanted players and we need to make signings straight away so that when we start pre season we have a full squad from day one that is young and bristling with potential with a few older, wiser heads thrown in.
But you have to look at the squad they have at Lincoln - most of them are unknown but that's the beauty of them flying under the radar and their togetherness. That cannot be underestimated
It's usually the difference between a squad achieving - or underachieving, if it's missing.
Just look at Charlton in recent years, Chris Powell built a whole squad built on this ethos - players who would run through brick walls for him and each other.
They also found themselves forming good friendships and socialising together.
That team won the title by a street.
Even Bowyer himself built a togetherness in the squad that won him promotion 2 years ago.
It's the essential ingredient of success.
We do seem to have reclaimed some of that fight in recent games, hopefully that continues8 -
mart77 said:killerandflash said:LonelyNorthernAddick said:Oggy Red said:Swisdom said:addick1956 said:Swisdom said:Cafc43v3r said:ElliotCAFC said:
Since the takeover we had 10 days etc etc fine but since then we have signed 7 players, 6 of them have multiple year, or options to extend, contracts. We are up to the salary cap.
Unless something drastic happens, either we get promoted or the salary cap gets abolished our squad for next season is
Gunter
Innis
Purrington
Morgan
Watson
Maddison
Gilbey
Schwartz
Bogle
Davison
Washington
Plus the league 1 average that would be freed up by Aneke, Williams, Amos, JFC, Pearce, Oshilaja and Pratley to spend. Add in what ever Matthews is on and it still doesn't give you much to work with.
I don't see how you have a massive rebuild next season, as things currently stand?
But as it's so obvious can someone explain it to me?
The chap at Exeter fits the bill because he would be in the correct level for wages. We can't underestimate the appeal we, as a club, still have. Many people want to live in and around London and we are still very much a big fish in this pond. We CAN still attract the better players from L1 and L2 so we have to use that to our advantage.
Lincoln have had a fantastic season thus far. I would hope they run out of steam but their recruitment has been very astute. They have concentrated on younger players and have forged a great togetherness and that's critical to getting out of this division. We could do a lot worse than looking at their model.
If we don't go up we need to act immediately at the end of the season. For so many years we are chasing the leftovers and clearly we don't get best value with them. We need to clear the decks of the unwanted players and we need to make signings straight away so that when we start pre season we have a full squad from day one that is young and bristling with potential with a few older, wiser heads thrown in.
But you have to look at the squad they have at Lincoln - most of them are unknown but that's the beauty of them flying under the radar and their togetherness. That cannot be underestimated
It's usually the difference between a squad achieving - or underachieving, if it's missing.
Just look at Charlton in recent years, Chris Powell built a whole squad built on this ethos - players who would run through brick walls for him and each other.
They also found themselves forming good friendships and socialising together.
That team won the title by a street.
Even Bowyer himself built a togetherness in the squad that won him promotion 2 years ago.
It's the essential ingredient of success.
We do seem to have reclaimed some of that fight in recent games, hopefully that continues
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mart77 said:killerandflash said:LonelyNorthernAddick said:Oggy Red said:Swisdom said:addick1956 said:Swisdom said:Cafc43v3r said:ElliotCAFC said:
Since the takeover we had 10 days etc etc fine but since then we have signed 7 players, 6 of them have multiple year, or options to extend, contracts. We are up to the salary cap.
Unless something drastic happens, either we get promoted or the salary cap gets abolished our squad for next season is
Gunter
Innis
Purrington
Morgan
Watson
Maddison
Gilbey
Schwartz
Bogle
Davison
Washington
Plus the league 1 average that would be freed up by Aneke, Williams, Amos, JFC, Pearce, Oshilaja and Pratley to spend. Add in what ever Matthews is on and it still doesn't give you much to work with.
I don't see how you have a massive rebuild next season, as things currently stand?
But as it's so obvious can someone explain it to me?
The chap at Exeter fits the bill because he would be in the correct level for wages. We can't underestimate the appeal we, as a club, still have. Many people want to live in and around London and we are still very much a big fish in this pond. We CAN still attract the better players from L1 and L2 so we have to use that to our advantage.
Lincoln have had a fantastic season thus far. I would hope they run out of steam but their recruitment has been very astute. They have concentrated on younger players and have forged a great togetherness and that's critical to getting out of this division. We could do a lot worse than looking at their model.
If we don't go up we need to act immediately at the end of the season. For so many years we are chasing the leftovers and clearly we don't get best value with them. We need to clear the decks of the unwanted players and we need to make signings straight away so that when we start pre season we have a full squad from day one that is young and bristling with potential with a few older, wiser heads thrown in.
But you have to look at the squad they have at Lincoln - most of them are unknown but that's the beauty of them flying under the radar and their togetherness. That cannot be underestimated
It's usually the difference between a squad achieving - or underachieving, if it's missing.
Just look at Charlton in recent years, Chris Powell built a whole squad built on this ethos - players who would run through brick walls for him and each other.
They also found themselves forming good friendships and socialising together.
That team won the title by a street.
Even Bowyer himself built a togetherness in the squad that won him promotion 2 years ago.
It's the essential ingredient of success.
We do seem to have reclaimed some of that fight in recent games, hopefully that continues
Some of the goals we are conceding are blatent errors from the center halves (mainly Pearce) or the full backs. A lot of them they are from people having to much time from the edge of the area to shoot. Which makes Amos look worse as well.
I am not convinced that Innis and Famewo are THAT good that they produce a 2 goal per game swing. They are, however, certainly better than Pearce, Pratley and Gunter.0 -
Since we all love a crytic Instagram post should we be expecting some announcement soon?
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MattF said:Since we all love a crytic Instagram post should we be expecting some announcement soon?1
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MattF said:Since we all love a crytic Instagram post should we be expecting some announcement soon?
Whatever he doesn't appear thrilled1 -
LoneRanger88 said:MattF said:Since we all love a crytic Instagram post should we be expecting some announcement soon?
I do think he'll leave and my guess would be Exeter or Grimsby.0 -
Looks happy!0
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Can anyone identify where this is?
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Heard he is signing for a league 1 rival.0