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January 2024 Transfer Rumours (D/day starts pg.263)
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Neither have scored many goals in their career. It’s probably more of an issue for the summer, but goals from elsewhere in the team needs to be addressedfenaddick said:
Think the lack of the ball sticking is part of why we don’t have many midfield goals. If the ball can stick at his feet it should encourage forward runs. The new midfield signings seemed more likely to make those runs on SaturdayRC_CAFC said:People are getting really obsessed by strike rates. Our biggest problem currently is that when it’s going to our strikers it’s not staying there. We have a goal scorer, we need someone to complement him and get us playing higher up the pitch.I thought Ikpeazu was the stand out player from that game and as a squad option would be an excellent addition.1 -
If you remove CBT then we’d be struggling a lot more to find the netChunes said:
I think he'd definitely be a stopgap but tbf we have only scored 2 less goals than Pompey who are top of the table.NabySarr said:
May alone won’t score nearly enough to get us promoted. Our midfield doesn’t have enough goals in, if we are moving to wing backs then neither do they, and our centre backs have zero goals this season.Chunes said:
Have to disagree, thought he looked very mobile for his size. Remember him using his pace to burn past Hector & Jones at one point.Ben18 said:Ikpeazu had a good game at their place, but not very mobile and didn't press.
He was very good at disrupting/battling our defenders, and winning free kicks on the halfway line just by being big and awkward.
He gave them both a torrid time and has a decent pedigree having played in the Scottish Prem and Championship. Obviously not a goalscorer but apparently we need someone primarily for May to play off.Leaburn staying fit would be a 20+ goal player in my opinion, but we can’t rely on that and he might not be here anyway. Hopefully Ikpeazu is just a stop-gap and we bring in a proper goalscoring big man in the summer1 -
I like @Swisdom 's posts.Swisdom said:But we hope to announce a signing today. A london boy who has been looking to get back down here for a little while. Can't say I know much about him.
Centre back but has played holding midfield too
Not quite the transfer fix I need but the next best thing, like methadone
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was just going from Saturdays performance really, Bakinson in particular got forward more than most we’ve seen and could’ve scored Alfie’s goal. Coventry looks the kind to ping one in from distance every now and then and I’ve no idea about Fiorini.NabySarr said:
Neither have scored many goals in their career. It’s probably more of an issue for the summer, but goals from elsewhere in the team needs to be addressedfenaddick said:
Think the lack of the ball sticking is part of why we don’t have many midfield goals. If the ball can stick at his feet it should encourage forward runs. The new midfield signings seemed more likely to make those runs on SaturdayRC_CAFC said:People are getting really obsessed by strike rates. Our biggest problem currently is that when it’s going to our strikers it’s not staying there. We have a goal scorer, we need someone to complement him and get us playing higher up the pitch.I thought Ikpeazu was the stand out player from that game and as a squad option would be an excellent addition.1 -
Charlie?Henry Irving said:
I like @s@Swisdom 's posts.Swisdom said:But we hope to announce a signing today. A london boy who has been looking to get back down here for a little while. Can't say I know much about him.
Centre back but has played holding midfield too
Not quite the transfer fix I need but the next best thing, like methadone
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Presume Ward is not coming in as new No1:
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Bonne is Gills top scorer this season with 3.ken_shabby said:
Macaulay Bonne?Leuth said:We need to sign players locally, who won't get homesick. Local League Two teams seem like a good place to look. Who's Gillingham's striker?
O dear, Whatever happened to the new chairman splashing the cash to fire them out of the division.? Bonne as your main striker 😂2 -
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He did start with them Saturday though, we played a 3421 with two wing backs in the first halfsupaclive said:3 -
Can't argue with that, he would be a 2024 version of Parker!!DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
the problem is, when do you give up
on other targets and go for the short term gap fill option.
🎵 if Uche scorers, we're on the pitch 🎵2 -
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.4 -
He’s Chuks-lite which I’m ok with.Only six months left on his contract that he just signed three months ago so will be cheap too.
We need a bloke to fill the gap until the summer if JCH and Goodwin aren’t happening.
Give him a cheap ish 18 month deal and if he’s out of favour by this time next year I’m sure Port Vale, Wycombe etc would take him on loan.15 -
The implication from that Sky paragraph is he’d be free. I’d imagine cheap wages tooBraziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.0 -
I can't be getting into another argument that goals are the problem. If we improve all over the pitch as we look to be doing, we'll have a better season.NabySarr said:
If you remove CBT then we’d be struggling a lot more to find the netChunes said:
I think he'd definitely be a stopgap but tbf we have only scored 2 less goals than Pompey who are top of the table.NabySarr said:
May alone won’t score nearly enough to get us promoted. Our midfield doesn’t have enough goals in, if we are moving to wing backs then neither do they, and our centre backs have zero goals this season.Chunes said:
Have to disagree, thought he looked very mobile for his size. Remember him using his pace to burn past Hector & Jones at one point.Ben18 said:Ikpeazu had a good game at their place, but not very mobile and didn't press.
He was very good at disrupting/battling our defenders, and winning free kicks on the halfway line just by being big and awkward.
He gave them both a torrid time and has a decent pedigree having played in the Scottish Prem and Championship. Obviously not a goalscorer but apparently we need someone primarily for May to play off.Leaburn staying fit would be a 20+ goal player in my opinion, but we can’t rely on that and he might not be here anyway. Hopefully Ikpeazu is just a stop-gap and we bring in a proper goalscoring big man in the summer2 -
You really want to try and find any angle you can to fit your own view point. It was the same the moment Carlisle signed a few players (the day before us) and you straight away wanted to use that as a point of them having an ownership team who 'cares' and has a 'plan in place'.Braziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
There is clearly a plan in place, and the fact we have signed players early, and now moved down the list to what I assume would be our 5th/6th choice striker, who all have the same sort of physical attributes, actually shows that. Not the other way around.
Whether the plan will work is a whole different story.20 -
MarcusH26 said:Forest were the other club doing the rounds but I don't know if their impending FFP sanction will affect any January business.
Think Olympiacos will sign him and loan him to Forest to get around this as same owners.
As for Ikpeazu, whilst he scored against us I thought he was one of the most limited players I have seen. Just a big agricultural lump, most defences in this league will deal with him very easily. He definitely isn't an elite 8 signing and only just about would be a L1 bob average 8 signing.5 -
I don’t get the way of thinking (the last bit) - if we don’t get him what makes you think we’d get better? The longer we wait the more risk we end up with someone further down the list or worse, no new striker at all.Braziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
This could also be one of those situations where we have a few possibilities, but we have to keep some moving along to ensure we get the type of player we need, even if we have to go with a short term option.
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This.Braziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
At least with JCH you get goals to add to his presence & physicality.1 -
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Goodwin still not announced by Oxford, just saying.3
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Athletico Charlton said:MarcusH26 said:Forest were the other club doing the rounds but I don't know if their impending FFP sanction will affect any January business.
Think Olympiacos will sign him and loan him to Forest to get around this as same owners.
As for Ikpeazu, whilst he scored against us I thought he was one of the most limited players I have seen. Just a big agricultural lump, most defences in this league will deal with him very easily. He definitely isn't an elite 8 signing and only just about would be a L1 bob average 8 signing.
Oh the Olympiakos workaround would make a lot of sense. I think they did similar the other year with Josh Bowler where Forest signed him but loaned him straight to Olympiakos0 -
His goalscoring record is atrocious, but if he helps to keep us up then that works for me.Scoham said:
I don’t get the way of thinking (the last bit) - if we don’t get him what makes you think we’d get better? The longer we wait the more risk we end up with someone further down the list or worse, no new striker at all.Braziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
This could also be one of those situations where we have a few possibilities, but we have to keep some moving along to ensure we get the type of player we need, even if we have to go with a short term option.
As mentioned by an earlier poster, we're in a relegation struggle and players might be put off coming to us, unless the financial package suits.2 -
We'll be on to Bogle or Dodoo again if we can't get someone slightly better.2
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Nooooooooo!!!!SCovered End said:We'll be on to Bogle or Dodoo again if we can't get someone slightly better.0 -
If it was free it would be for next season, I can't imagine why Port Vale would be willing to lose one of their only strikers for free tbh.fenaddick said:
The implication from that Sky paragraph is he’d be free. I’d imagine cheap wages tooBraziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
Cheap wages but still wages, could potentially be another one we have sitting their wasting wages and blocking other transfer activity.
Because we have been heavily linked with one of the best strikers in the league, it's quite underwhelming to go from that to a player who's probably not even top20 material.Scoham said:
I don’t get the way of thinking (the last bit) - if we don’t get him what makes you think we’d get better? The longer we wait the more risk we end up with someone further down the list or worse, no new striker at all.Braziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
This could also be one of those situations where we have a few possibilities, but we have to keep some moving along to ensure we get the type of player we need, even if we have to go with a short term option.
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It’s good your not in charge then, because if your list is just the top player and they all want to go somewhere else we’re screwed, so we have to look at options.He looked very good against us and put a shift in.1
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I think you're just overthinking my posts a tad. I've seen we are linked with a player, it's the transfer discussion thread, I've said I think he'd be a poor signing. Whatever I say will not dictate if the club decide to sign him, unless they've changed their recruitment tactics? Whatever I say should not impact you, so what do you mean by my 'view point'. What's the implication there?FishCostaFortune said:
You really want to try and find any angle you can to fit your own view point. It was the same the moment Carlisle signed a few players (the day before us) and you straight away wanted to use that as a point of them having an ownership team who 'cares' and has a 'plan in place'.Braziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
There is clearly a plan in place, and the fact we have signed players early, and now moved down the list to what I assume would be our 5th/6th choice striker, who all have the same sort of physical attributes, actually shows that. Not the other way around.
Whether the plan will work is a whole different story.
I highlighted Carlisle previously as they had made movement to increase their chances of survival, we hadn't done at the time. Since then there has been some movement so I've not used them as a comparison. There are still question marks over the quality and longevity of these signings we have made, but that's like any signing, they're all risks until proven otherwise.
So to clarify no, I don't post to suit my 'view point' as I've been fairly positive about some of these signings, if I think a player is going to be a bad signing, I'll say it as that's the purpose of this thread..
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The problem here is that if he stinks up the place anybody thinking it helps our situation will forget they said that.
We should, could and must do better. Especially in our shit sandwich of a season!
We have a very difficult fixture list in February. I don't think this guy will be the difference.
Sadly.
Prepared to be shot down / proven wrong.7 -
Probably worth waiting for a Cawley Confirmation before we panic/get excited by the Ikpeazu link. So far it's literally one mention on a Sky blog, no idea if it's actually got any basis in reality.1
