Excellent bit of business, securing our safety in league 1 for next season with a player who knows how to fight relegation and we can hopefully remain a mid table league 1 side for the third season on the spin.
Innis replacement, check
Innis improvement as he likely wont get sent off 6 times this season.
Geezer has scored less than 10 goals and two of them are vs us!
My cousin who supports Cambridge says “I rate him, but he can be a bit of a liability at times”.
Dont know much about him but my gut reaction is he’ll probably be standard decent to good League 1 centre back fare. Suspect he’s an improvement but may not be a huge leap forwards on Innis, although fitness/disciplinary should certainly improve. Hopefully there’s more to him and he’s an undiscovered gem.
Pinged some nice cross field balls in the above highlights package which should at least keep Leuth happy.
Lovely stuff. Does this mean 3-5-2 though? Do hope not. Unless we have the bombest wing-back signings ever incoming (apologies to CBT and Campbell)
Why would it?
You do need a decent pool of CBs, whether you play two or three at a time.
Start with any two of Hector, Ness or Jones you would think. Need to rotate & have cover for injuries.
Backups would be Mitchell, Thomas, Lavelle, Elerewe, but we’ll probably sell one of those, and possibly loan the latter out.
Plus Mitchell might well end up in midfield (I think he will at least), and TT might well end up as LB cover. So Jones is necessary rather than extra, if you get my drift.
It’s a workmanlike barnet. Composed on the scalp and operates ear to ear. In my opinion, it deserves our respect and I welcome Lloyd Jones’ haircut to the club and more importantly CharltonLife.
Lovely stuff. Does this mean 3-5-2 though? Do hope not. Unless we have the bombest wing-back signings ever incoming (apologies to CBT and Campbell)
Why would it?
You do need a decent pool of CBs, whether you play two or three at a time.
Start with any two of Hector, Ness or Jones you would think. Need to rotate & have cover for injuries.
Backups would be Mitchell, Thomas, Lavelle, Elerewe, but we’ll probably sell one of those, and possibly loan the latter out.
Plus Mitchell might well end up in midfield (I think he will at least), and TT might well end up as LB cover. So Jones is necessary rather than extra, if you get my drift.
Ness performed well last season but he’s not yet ready to be a first choice option for a team chasing promotion IMO. Definitely a good lad to have as first off the bench though.
With Hector, Jones, Ness and Thomas we have our four centre backs sorted.
With all respect. We have to remember these reviews are from fans of a Club who were recently in L2. Remember we are in Premier league and expect more from the likes of JRS et al. Our standards are super high.
With all respect. We have to remember these reviews are from fans of a Club who were recently in L2. Remember we are in Premier league and expect more from the likes of JRS et al. Our standards are super high.
The standards are the standards, but I agree with you in principle. We had Swindon fans raving about Payne and DJ, Rochdale fans raving about O’Connell, Crewe fans raving about Kirk, and this automatically translated into that horrible throw away term on here ‘happy with that’. Happy with what. The truth is, none of us know, and just because some bloke on Twitter says we’ve bagged an exceptional League One centre back, it means sod all.
Proof is all I will give any of the new signings and proof is all I will give any of the current bunch. It’s great to get an addition, but Lavelle came with equally as good a press when arriving from Morecombe, and Bournemouth fans probably thought they’d signed the biggest pile of crap taking Simon Francis off us.
It’s a signing, we need them. Let’s hope it’s a good one
I saw the news & thought we had re-signed Lloyd Sam.
Never heard of the geezer before yesterday but 5000 Cambridge fans cant be wrong.
All we need now are players up the otherend to put the ball in the onion bag because so far we've signed a GK & 3 defenders.
welcome to the madhouse Lloyd.
A lot of Morecambe fans were wrong . Anyway , I’m pleased with the signings in the last two days. Now for a LB, at least one more midfielder and a couple of forwards .
It has been sixteen years since we were last in the premier league.
New signings coming out with "history, fan base, big club, fantastic ground", we have been in the s*** for years, there is as much chance of Exeter getting promoted than us.
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Might be coincidence - But those two sound proper Curbs / Powell type signings, if the proper thought and research has gone into it
My cousin who supports Cambridge says “I rate him, but he can be a bit of a liability at times”.
Pinged some nice cross field balls in the above highlights package which should at least keep Leuth happy.
“What can fans expect?” “I just like winning games”
”What do you hope to achieve here?” “Promotion”
With Hector, Jones, Ness and Thomas we have our four centre backs sorted.
Guess that's us sorted for CBs after Thomas and Hector.
Guess Lavelle will be on his way.
Hector, Thomas, Jones, Ness and Mitchell/Deji should mean we have the CBs we need.
Hopefully more signings to follow in the near future - El Mozouni next on loan? Cawley linked us with both a few days ago.
Proof is all I will give any of the new signings and proof is all I will give any of the current bunch. It’s great to get an addition, but Lavelle came with equally as good a press when arriving from Morecombe, and Bournemouth fans probably thought they’d signed the biggest pile of crap taking Simon Francis off us.