I hear people when they say that our league position and manager situation don't matter because players will just accept the highest salary offer. But firstly, we're not going to have the highest salary offer. And secondly, that's only going to attract the kind of player who's happy to pick up a wage at a struggling team rather than one showing ambition at the top.
I hear people when they say that our league position and manager situation don't matter because players will just accept the highest salary offer. But firstly, we're not going to have the highest salary offer. And secondly, that's only going to attract the kind of player who's happy to pick up a wage at a struggling team rather than one showing ambition at the top.
We're stuck in a circle of shite.
100% agree with the first paragraph , but I don't agree with the last sentence, but i do think that this window will plug a few gaps and move us up the table with short term contracts.
Can't be easy to attract players in our current situation. Short term manager , just above the relegation zone and real uncertainty over the ownership. Will take a really good salesman job to sign an ambitious player who has other options.
Think once we get macG wages of books we will be able to make some signings think it’ll be 2 frees and 2 loans.probably not be very good standard unless we get lucky with a young loan player. But hopefully squad will be more balanced sriker and LB
If we sign only the quality of players we’ve seen in the last few windows, frees, cheap options and league two players then what’s the point. All we’ll do is plug gaps and won’t move forward and progress. We don’t need Andy Scott to do that for us. We’ve shown we’re perfectly capable of making our own wrong decisions. Yes look at loans but the two or three permanent signings are what we’re going to be building next season around. They need to be better than we’ve got or letting go. When we do our business I’ll be looking at what the player knowledgeable posters on here have to say. Anything less than suitably impressed and I’ll assume there is no money and until we get proper owners, whenever that might be then we’re stuffed.
I hear people when they say that our league position and manager situation don't matter because players will just accept the highest salary offer. But firstly, we're not going to have the highest salary offer. And secondly, that's only going to attract the kind of player who's happy to pick up a wage at a struggling team rather than one showing ambition at the top.
We're stuck in a circle of shite.
I think we just need to get players in, short term, to make sure we get out the shit as quickly as possible. I would actually be pleased if we don't sign anyone on a long term contract.
Get them in, hopefully go on a bit of a run, and start to climb the table a bit.
Hopefully by March we will be "safe" and can make a decision on the long term future of Holden and any players that are out of contract in the summer, not leave it until June.
I don't think attracting the calibre of players will be a problem.
I hear people when they say that our league position and manager situation don't matter because players will just accept the highest salary offer. But firstly, we're not going to have the highest salary offer. And secondly, that's only going to attract the kind of player who's happy to pick up a wage at a struggling team rather than one showing ambition at the top.
We're stuck in a circle of shite.
I think we just need to get players in, short term, to make sure we get out the shit as quickly as possible. I would actually be pleased if we don't sign anyone on a long term contract.
Get them in, hopefully go on a bit of a run, and start to climb the table a bit.
Hopefully by March we will be "safe" and can make a decision on the long term future of Holden and any players that are out of contract in the summer, not leave it until June.
I don't think attracting the calibre of players will be a problem.
Why do you think it won't be a problem? We can't offer top salaries in this league unless we believe TS that we have a top four budget. We can't offer promotion-pushing football. What do we have to offer to attract the best talent in this league? They're just not coming here anymore.
Look on the plus side... As another Lifer has said to me already
If Bonne was definitely signing for us, why wasn't it announced at exactly the same time as when QPR released him? - Why did they need to announce his release at all, when they could have waited and said: "Macca has joined Charlton on a permanent deal, we wish him all the best"
The net is very wide. We're now looking at players who used to play for us up to 6 years ago instead of the usual 2-3. Incidentally, Dean would like to know if anyone still has Fredrik Ulvestad's number
I hear people when they say that our league position and manager situation don't matter because players will just accept the highest salary offer. But firstly, we're not going to have the highest salary offer. And secondly, that's only going to attract the kind of player who's happy to pick up a wage at a struggling team rather than one showing ambition at the top.
We're stuck in a circle of shite.
I think we just need to get players in, short term, to make sure we get out the shit as quickly as possible. I would actually be pleased if we don't sign anyone on a long term contract.
Get them in, hopefully go on a bit of a run, and start to climb the table a bit.
Hopefully by March we will be "safe" and can make a decision on the long term future of Holden and any players that are out of contract in the summer, not leave it until June.
I don't think attracting the calibre of players will be a problem.
Why do you think it won't be a problem? We can't offer top salaries in this league unless we believe TS that we have a top four budget. We can't offer promotion-pushing football. What do we have to offer to attract the best talent in this league? They're just not coming here anymore.
We don't need the best talent in the league right now. We need decent, experienced players that fit perfectly into the obvious gaps. A proper left footed left back for example. A striker that is more mobile than Stockley and more durable than Aneke. That shouldn't be that difficult.
A couple of well chosen young loans to add depth where its lacking and we should be good for midtable.
We have no idea what the budget will be in the summer. More of the same and we will continue to struggle, half decent and with someone half decent spending it we will be OK.
Obviously not proving to be an easy window. I thought the aim was to bring a couple in early?
Didn't Scott or Holden mention getting our signings done early before letting the fringe players move on. JFC gone, McGill rumoured to have gone for a Burton, are we going to be stripped to the bare bones ? I know it's still early-ish but with all the cost cutting mentioned nothing would surprise me. Obviously it doesn't make sense to weaken the squad as I'm sure they don't want us relegated but what does make sense with the current shenanigans.
I agree with a lot of the more positive comments on here in that getting the right players for our current predicament isn’t hard.
Football is a job for the players so they will be mostly motivated by the offer. The first litmus test of all the cloak and dagger stuff going on is whether we do actually have the funds for a war chest for the new Gang of Four.
The player that is foremost looking at the league position, promotion prospects and playing style of a club is either a rising talent with great belief in themselves or already attached to a Premier League club and only available through a loan. The former will be tricky to get but probably not the best for the fight we’re in. Gaining the latter is mostly out of our control. All we can do is promise minutes (and plenty of them) for any young talent we are blessed with.
None of the above stops me from checking on here every few minutes despite heeding the exhortation of @Henry Irving for the moment WIOTOS.
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We're stuck in a circle of shite.
Can't be easy to attract players in our current situation. Short term manager , just above the relegation zone and real uncertainty over the ownership. Will take a really good salesman job to sign an ambitious player who has other options.
Squad is currently worse than when we began the window and we have a game tomorrow.
Get them in, hopefully go on a bit of a run, and start to climb the table a bit.
Hopefully by March we will be "safe" and can make a decision on the long term future of Holden and any players that are out of contract in the summer, not leave it until June.
I don't think attracting the calibre of players will be a problem.
The window may well be 20% of the way to being closed, but in reality it is 100% open.
Appreciate that windows are unpredictable but the longer it goes on the more it will feel we are just being fed more BS.
If Bonne was definitely signing for us, why wasn't it announced at exactly the same time as when QPR released him? - Why did they need to announce his release at all, when they could have waited and said: "Macca has joined Charlton on a permanent deal, we wish him all the best"
A couple of well chosen young loans to add depth where its lacking and we should be good for midtable.
We have no idea what the budget will be in the summer. More of the same and we will continue to struggle, half decent and with someone half decent spending it we will be OK.
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