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Rumours Rumours - Summer 2021 edition (Deadline Day from p814)

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  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,446
    Very vague and very non-committal. 

    Doesn't sound good to me. 
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    Sounds like NA is fed up with being asked.
  • MattF
    MattF Posts: 3,797
    cfgs said:
    Sounds like NA is fed up with being asked.
    Can't blame him, he's probably fed up asking the same question himself 
  • cfgs said:
    Sounds like NA is fed up with being asked.
    He should come on here for a day
  • We need three points now. Another blow out and those points dropped will already be impacting our playoff chances. I don’t fancy our chances at Oxford if I’m honest. No goals in us. 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    cafc4life said:
    Just spoke to my sauce again, he said the 3 Defos from today have been delayed til tomorrow as there is now a fourth and they’ll all be announced early doors, 5pm ish.
    Why are they trying to fill a mini-bus?
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 11,983
    Doesn’t feel right this. We’re miles off. Weaker than a squad that finished 7th in an arguably weaker league last season. And all this bobbins about waiting for bargains at the end of the window. We need a fair few experienced, quality, permanent signings to supplement any potential loans.
    It’s probably the last few years of utter shithousery on the ownership front, but are there any rumblings that all is not what it should be from TS? 
  • RedRobin
    RedRobin Posts: 1,377
    Jesus, we just need some positive news and clearly none to say. Even Bowyer would say yeah we’ve had one in today or potentially one in by Saturday, working on it, but we get zilch from Adkins. 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    I would say with confidence it isn't anything to do with Adkins as who thinks he doesn't want them in? He will be frustrated and hoping that whatever the blockage is, it clears up. He will probably be more aware than we are, how likely it is to happen.
  • what’s he supposed to say. We nearly had one in but his dad died?

    he said there would be more players coming in, we just need to trust him 
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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    Even ignoring Ipswich, Pompey have brought 2 in this week, Wednesday and Wigan 1 each

    Yes the market is difficult, but the lack of activity can't just be blamed on that
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    edited August 2021
    For the first time I’m actually worried . Other rival clubs are making signings and we haven’t signed anyone for over two weeks. 
    That can’t be right . 

    This squad is painfully thin . Worse than I can remember under some terrible owners and managers . Certainly worse than under Duchatulet 


    Either we don’t have a budget to get players in and if so why ? or Gallan has lost his powers of persuasion. 
    Either way it definitely feels like something is seriously wrong . 

    Blimey I’m beginning to sound like Golfie 

  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    edited August 2021
    For so long anyone that dared suggest something is not up was told to zip it and stop being negative.......

    Well we still need 6-7 quality players and it just doesn’t seem like it’s gonna happen.

    Im not looking forward to post 1st Sept when the quality hasn’t arrived in the numbers we need - because we then need to switch our attention to what’s going wrong behind the scenes and they are never nice discussions on here.

    But as loads of us are saying now - Roland / Driesen windows were ten times stronger than this. And that ownership was lambasted for it.

    Something really doesn’t seem right here.
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,210
    Let’s take a breather, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t getting a bit anxious.  But the fact remains that despite the thin looking squad we had available for Saturday, we did have 4 first team players injured.  And we still have 3 weeks to get players in, of which NA has clearly stated, despite the lack of specifics, we will be getting some in.

    We’re not at panic stages yet, I’d say more of a few concerned eyebrows raised, that’s it.  
  • Billyboy
    Billyboy Posts: 518
    I think ged roddy is pulling the strings in recruitment, and that frightens me, and can see gallen and adkins being right pissed off about it,, even his son shouldn't be anywhere near the team either... just my opinion
  • Southbank
    Southbank Posts: 5,252
    Of the 4 missing Watson is past it and Schwarz looks very dodgy. Even more of a problem is that neither our midfield or forward line looks up to it. So we don't just need more bodies, we need better quality bodies in 4 or 5 positions than the ones we have.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    What we don't know about the recruitment team, is what money they have at their disposal. Might be unfair to focus on Roddy or Gallen if they have peanuts.
  • RonnieMoore
    RonnieMoore Posts: 4,496
    Having potentially a worse transfer window than one under Roland takes some doing. 

    We need a lot of players, and only have 3 weeks to get them in. 
    When did Roland spend 800,000 ?
  • RonnieMoore
    RonnieMoore Posts: 4,496
    what’s he supposed to say. We nearly had one in but his dad died?

    he said there would be more players coming in, we just need to trust him 
    And he already learnt not to say yes we will have two this week because he knows his the fans react 
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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,824
    edited August 2021
    Who is this fella?
    Ged Roddy's other son - Errol Roddy.
    Had me proper belly laughing that @MickeyBennett , brilliant 
  • Having potentially a worse transfer window than one under Roland takes some doing. 

    We need a lot of players, and only have 3 weeks to get them in. 
    When did Roland spend 800,000 ?
    We spent a comparative fortune on players under Roland, particularly in the early period.

    His original problem was not lack of funds it was what happened to them.
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    edited August 2021
    Having potentially a worse transfer window than one under Roland takes some doing. 

    We need a lot of players, and only have 3 weeks to get them in. 
    When did Roland spend 800,000 ?
    Bauer, Sarr, JBG, Vetokele.... big loan signings that we would have had to cover significant wages such as Bielik and Cullen.

    Anyway enough on Roland - all I care now is we get 7 top league one players in between now and Sept 1st.

    And I still maintain that these players need to be more Cullen level than Clare.
  • PowellsHeadedGoal
    PowellsHeadedGoal Posts: 54
    edited August 2021
    Having potentially a worse transfer window than one under Roland takes some doing. 

    We need a lot of players, and only have 3 weeks to get them in. 
    When did Roland spend 800,000 ?
    Didn't he spend that (or close to it) on Piotr Parzyszek? I can recall hearing it was a far old whack.   

    Nicky Ajose was a fair amount too if memory serves. 

    Also Naby Sarr, Patrick Bauer, Vetokele, Tucudean, Teixeira.. 
  • RonnieMoore
    RonnieMoore Posts: 4,496
    Billyboy said:
    I think ged roddy is pulling the strings in recruitment, and that frightens me, and can see gallen and adkins being right pissed off about it,, even his son shouldn't be anywhere near the team either... just my opinion
    That is not the case SG is head man in the recruitment set up … and SG has said many times his recruitment team are working hard behind the scenes….

  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    What about Gudmundsson?
  • What about Gudmundsson?
    Free transfer from AZ I believe
  • NA " we had a few players in the directors box this evening" 

    Would they not be better off on the pitch 
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,521
    Sounds to me like Nigel is telling us all to be patient. Trouble is, that didn’t work out too well with Slade.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    Having potentially a worse transfer window than one under Roland takes some doing. 

    We need a lot of players, and only have 3 weeks to get them in. 
    When did Roland spend 800,000 ?
    He spent shit loads more than that . 
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