I wish we could stop this obsession with young players being hungry. I want to see our players eating properly. Lots of veg and good blood sugar levels to see them through the day.
I see Joe Randall has signed for the Posh this evening.
It’s Joel but to be honest it’s the sort of business I expected us to be doing this summer. Young, hungry players with the potential to improve and either take us on to the next level or be sold on for a massive fee. Peterborough have got this down to a tee. And a four year deal too.
Being in the Championship helps. A lot.
They’re in the Championship because they’ve had that policy for a number of years. It’s worked and they’re carrying on with it. Sounds sensible to me. As Large said. That’s what a lot of us thought would be Charltons strategy.
How did it work? They were competitive every season, never went up and sold their best players? It's a sensible policy for sustainability but it didn't bring results.
I know we don't necessarily believe MacAnthony after the stuff with Southall but he's said they were working on signing Randall since the last week of May. Perhaps more evidence of how slow the market is.
I wish we could stop this obsession with young players being hungry. I want to see our players eating properly. Lots of veg and good blood sugar levels to see them through the day.
Sounds like there were other clubs in for Randall and with the past links we had to him, you'd have to guess we were one of them. Sounds as though the PBoro chairman shelled out to get it done. ‘The chairman has pushed this through...’
A shame mainly because it puts us back to square one but you’d have to think Gallen moves down to the next on the list.
I see Joe Randall has signed for the Posh this evening.
It’s Joel but to be honest it’s the sort of business I expected us to be doing this summer. Young, hungry players with the potential to improve and either take us on to the next level or be sold on for a massive fee. Peterborough have got this down to a tee. And a four year deal too.
Being in the Championship helps. A lot.
I thought we were told that it didnt matter if we didnt get promoted last season. I'm sure many posters were saying that. All said that it wasn't a problem when Bows was playing players out of position & we were losing game after game because he had a free hit & we could always get promoted this season instead. Yep.....sure we were told that.
I see Joe Randall has signed for the Posh this evening.
It’s Joel but to be honest it’s the sort of business I expected us to be doing this summer. Young, hungry players with the potential to improve and either take us on to the next level or be sold on for a massive fee. Peterborough have got this down to a tee. And a four year deal too.
Being in the Championship helps. A lot.
They’re in the Championship because they’ve had that policy for a number of years. It’s worked and they’re carrying on with it. Sounds sensible to me. As Large said. That’s what a lot of us thought would be Charltons strategy.
No. Our strategy seems to play our youngsters & sell them on later. Just like we've always done.
Joel Randall is a young winger whom has pace as a key strength. He has had two hamstring injuries in quick succession. I am not sure he is worth the risk at £1.25M if that really was the price paid. At least not if you are a L1 club.
Guessing that would mark the end for Madger Gomes. Or are they different sorts of players? Can’t say I know too much about Joe Powell.
But we've trialled Gomes so we should give him a 1 year contract
It shouldn't be necessary to try to break this down for you but I'll give it a go. You give a player a trial because you want to see how they might fit in with your plans and they are between clubs. You don't do it for a laugh and to mess the player about. You already know what sort of player he is but you are taking the opportunity to have a closer look how he might fit in in terms of what you need.
Said player doesn't impress or display anything you don't already have. The trial is a failure. Said player does really well as some have observed, but more importantly the manager has commented on. Absolutely you sit down with him and talk terms/a contract. Ultimately the driver is the budget or something better presents itself, but we will be looking at the possibility of signing him as why have him on trial in the first place.
I see Joe Randall has signed for the Posh this evening.
It’s Joel but to be honest it’s the sort of business I expected us to be doing this summer. Young, hungry players with the potential to improve and either take us on to the next level or be sold on for a massive fee. Peterborough have got this down to a tee. And a four year deal too.
Being in the Championship helps. A lot.
I thought we were told that it didnt matter if we didnt get promoted last season. I'm sure many posters were saying that. All said that it wasn't a problem when Bows was playing players out of position & we were losing game after game because he had a free hit & we could always get promoted this season instead. Yep.....sure we were told that.
That was nothing more than people trying to put a positive spin on not going up last season. You’ve always got to go for promotion when there’s a chance and the team did that with only one defeat under NA.
With 46 games left and nearly a month of the transfer window remaining we can still get promoted this season.
the last good attacking full back we had was Jay da Silva. Must admit i was slightly disappointed signing Matthews again, thought we may have had better lined up.
Have to disagree.
Dijksteel was a quality attacking full back IMO, and I think you’ll do well to name more than 3 better right backs then Matthews in league one.
I know Dijksteel very well, his physical attributes were good, not really an attacking full back though. Matthews average.
Lee Bowyer when he was rated by Cafc fans turned both Dijksteel and Purrington into decent attacking full backs which was highlighted by the equalising goal at Wembley when Dijksteel was in an advanced position and exchanged passes with Taylor and Aribo before the ball was put across the area and Purrington who is "no good attacking" scored the vital goal to put us on level terms.
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Said player doesn't impress or display anything you don't already have. The trial is a failure. Said player does really well as some have observed, but more importantly the manager has commented on. Absolutely you sit down with him and talk terms/a contract. Ultimately the driver is the budget or something better presents itself, but we will be looking at the possibility of signing him as why have him on trial in the first place.
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With 46 games left and nearly a month of the transfer window remaining we can still get promoted this season.
Lee Bowyer when he was rated by Cafc fans turned both Dijksteel and Purrington into decent attacking full backs which was highlighted by the equalising goal at Wembley when Dijksteel was in an advanced position and exchanged passes with Taylor and Aribo before the ball was put across the area and Purrington who is "no good attacking" scored the vital goal to put us on level terms.