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Rumours Rumours - Summer 2021 edition (Deadline Day from p814)
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Cut Napa some slack he’s probably still hung over from American Independence Day celebrations 🍔🍗🍻🍻🍻🎉😉.1
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So we’re certain that we paid a fee for Stockley then 😉.0
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John Wilkes Booth, cousin of Andy BoothCrispy said:
Who’s next? Lee Harvey Oswald?charltonbob said:
JFK has signed as welladdick1956 said:I think we will sign Ryan Viggars from Sheffield United.0 -
I’ve heard we took a financial gamble on the Stockley market5
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Just a rumour at this stageRedChaser said:So we’re certain that we paid a fee for Stockley then 😉.1 -
Sheffield Wednesday fans seem to think they are getting Kwado Baah on loan from Watford, defo a player we should be looking at getting in on loan.5
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We spent 450,000 on Stockley recently.. plus around 700,000 for Schwartz and DJ in JanNapaAddick said:CAFC net transfer spend since TS' arrival..... -£1.833MDays since last incoming where £1 (or more) was spent on a player..... 3192 -
Think this is a example of signing someone based on one game. Looks a prospect but how well did he do all season? He would be a huge risk.RedRobin said:Sheffield Wednesday fans seem to think they are getting Kwado Baah on loan from Watford, defo a player we should be looking at getting in on loan.1 -
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That’s true but you have to factor in he was playing in an awful team so he was targeted every game. In a better team he’ll have a lot more joy - he’s certainly talented.cafcfan1990 said:
Think this is a example of signing someone based on one game. Looks a prospect but how well did he do all season? He would be a huge risk.RedRobin said:Sheffield Wednesday fans seem to think they are getting Kwado Baah on loan from Watford, defo a player we should be looking at getting in on loan.1 -
To be honest I’m not bothered what other teams have or have not done. I am though concerned at what we have done so far. Maybe naively I was expecting more. I wasn’t expecting us to go around throwing money at it here, there and everywhere and spending millions but I was expecting us to assemble a more than capable squad, a squad that I could look at and say ‘yes, we can definitely finish top two’. I know it’s early days and I know they are working hard to achieve this but by this stage I expected more. My expectations have been fuelled by comments such as ‘that will be us next year’, ‘I want the majority of the squad assembled by pre season training’ and ‘we are going to blow through this league’. I don’t think it’s bedwetting to be concerned and neither do I think we will start the season with the current squad but I can’t believe there are many out there that are not disappointed with where we stand at the moment.16
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Possibly, I dont know as I didnt see enough of him. I do believe his best game was gainst us at the Valley so is misleading. Definitely agree he is talented and would love to have signed him permanently, but not sure hes the right signing on loan. A gamble either way and you couldnt have confidence he would be a success.ElliotCAFC said:
That’s true but you have to factor in he was playing in an awful team so he was targeted every game. In a better team he’ll have a lot more joy - he’s certainly talented.cafcfan1990 said:
Think this is a example of signing someone based on one game. Looks a prospect but how well did he do all season? He would be a huge risk.RedRobin said:Sheffield Wednesday fans seem to think they are getting Kwado Baah on loan from Watford, defo a player we should be looking at getting in on loan.
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We've done this before, Golfie.golfaddick said:
I'm not talking about loans. I know 3 or 4 will come in towards the end of August. But that is 6 weeks away & 4 games into the new season.Oggy Red said:
Golfie, do you live under a rock?golfaddick said:
You're right it doesn't. But if you are wanting to get out of this division a good start is preferable. That means having the bulk of the squad fit & ready by Aug 6th as well as having them all knowing how they are supposed to set up & how the manager wants them to play.RonnieMoore said:
On the other hand, if you are happy to just jog along as you are & bring players in on deadline day then crack on.
I know which camp I'd rather be in.
It's not the way it works. You've been around long enough to know that clubs like ours have to wait until the big boys name their squads and players are made available for loan. And we will wait, hoping that we can pick up quality young loan players before the window shuts .
It's what we and other clubs like us have done for several years now.
This season no doubt won't be any different.
We lost around a dozen players in June. As at the start of pre-season training we had just 12 first team players.
TWELVE.
I don't really care if you think the current situation is just peachy. I don't. And unless something seriously changes & we unveil 3 or 4 top signings in the next 2 weeks then I say here & now that we will be just like last season - huff & puff to stay in touch with the top 6 & fall at the last hurdle.
You say, "We lost a dozen players in June", but yet again you don't account for the fact that 5 of them were loans - and each and every club in the division lost all their loanees also. And have yet to replace them.
That includes us; like those other clubs we'll have our 5 incoming loanees by the closing of the window.
Every club in the division is trying to get players in. Yet this close season so far has been marked by low numbers of completed deals. Not just us, but our promotion rivals too - they are still needing to add numbers to their squads also.
We could get all nervous and angsty, but what's the point?
Do you really think Steve Gallen and co are sitting on their hands?
Already we've signed 3 highly rated players in this division (4 if you include JFC).
There will be other irons in the fire and more signings shortly to be made. Just because you don't know what's happening, doesn't mean things are not moving behind the scenes.
We could have signed any number of players and that would have quickly boosted squad numbers.
But we'd rightly complain if they weren't as good as we already have. Instead, we've been told, we're seeking highly rated players and there's competition for them. We've raised our standards.
Do I think the current situation is "peachy"? Of course not, but it's no worse than most teams in our division.
Have some faith in our recruitment team. It'll get sorted.
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I cannot fathom why there are people who post on here, who talk total bollocks and all they want to do is make others miserable with their nonsense.More to be pitied than scolded, I suppose.2
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Major said:I cannot fathom why there are people who post on here, who talk total bollocks and all they want to do is make others miserable with their nonsense.More to be pitied than scolded, I suppose.
Good morning Major.3 -
Is today the day for signings??
Who bloody knows!!1 -
It would be an example of signing someone based on we game if "we" signed him. By we I mean fans, who had probably never heard of him before that game.ElliotCAFC said:
That’s true but you have to factor in he was playing in an awful team so he was targeted every game. In a better team he’ll have a lot more joy - he’s certainly talented.cafcfan1990 said:
Think this is a example of signing someone based on one game. Looks a prospect but how well did he do all season? He would be a huge risk.RedRobin said:Sheffield Wednesday fans seem to think they are getting Kwado Baah on loan from Watford, defo a player we should be looking at getting in on loan.
I would like to think our recruitment team might do a little more due diligence?
I see he has been recently capped by England U18s as well?0 -
Portsmouth CEO pinpoints Charlton,Sunderland, Ipswich and Wigan spending 'huge money' in bid for League One promotion
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Charlton dont get a mention in the original article.RonnieMoore said:Portsmouth CEO pinpoints Charlton,Sunderland, Ipswich and Wigan spending 'huge money' in bid for League One promotion
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/portsmouth-ceo-pinpoints-sunderland-ipswich-and-wigan-spending-huge-money-in-bid-for-league-one-promotion-3296219
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@Covered_End_Lad was JFC, Viggers or Gavin one of the ones you said signed last week, or is that still yet to be released? Cheers mate0
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Exactly, we’re being like Portsmouth, and being responsible and grown upCAFCsayer said:
Charlton dont get a mention in the original article.RonnieMoore said:Portsmouth CEO pinpoints Charlton,Sunderland, Ipswich and Wigan spending 'huge money' in bid for League One promotion
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/portsmouth-ceo-pinpoints-sunderland-ipswich-and-wigan-spending-huge-money-in-bid-for-league-one-promotion-32962190 -
Yep we need to show ambition, but also need a sustainable business model.
I hope their can be 1 or 2 youth players during preseason, who can show to Nigel they are good enough to step up to the first team.
The club needs a complete rebuild, it’s been run into the ground.1 -
It isn’t any of those 3AFKABartram said:@Covered_End_Lad was JFC, Viggers or Gavin one of the ones you said signed last week, or is that still yet to be released? Cheers mate13 -
Cheers, didn’t think so.0
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I don't think we'll be reckless on the signings or wages front. There's obviously money there for the right players as evidenced by Stockley but there's also going to be a lot of free agents around judging by the amount of players released from the Championship.3
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I assume that is the same Bradfield college that financially supported Bradfield boys club in Peckham.Callumcafc said:Jacob Roddy has signed with U18s from Bradfield College after being released by Southampton two years ago.No idea if he’s a relation to Ged… I would guess so?0 -
You're green... Addicks59 enters the red for a second time.SurvivaloftheFittest said:Was told last night by a friend of JFC that he had substantial Championship interest before injury.
Also told that the contract offer is 12 months but there is haggling over an option for a further 12 months.
Club not keen to be used to get fit for 12 months and for him to leave, JFC not sure 2 years at same wage is a good deal so looking for the 2nd year option to have an increase in salary if key conditions met.
Seen as a bit of a gamble by both parties but expectation is it will be sorted.
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