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

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  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,668
    Chunes said:
    What an absolute twat.
    Bit harsh on ForeverAddickted 
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Tbf Wigan have probably spent less on transfer fees than us this summer.

    The have almost certainly increased their wage bill by significantly more than us but their wage bill last season would have been significantly smaller than ours. 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,989
    edited August 2021
    Charltonparklane said:
    Dobson best midfielder this season do me a fucking favour.

    Let hope Albie goes on loan now we got Lee
    LOL

    You've changed :-)
  • EricBanterna
    EricBanterna Posts: 1,740
    We didn't buy Watson, we gave him a opportunity to age gracefully with us and see out his career. 
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    edited August 2021
    Those Wigan tweets will look particularly stupid if they hit any kind of run of bad form later in the season and fall away from the top of the table. Very often the case that this setting the pace at the start of the season are not the ones setting it at the end of the season. 
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited August 2021
    Cafc43v3r said:
    It's a fair point about Pearce but playing style doesn't necessarily transfer to coaching.

    George Graham the manager would never have picked George Graham the player, for example.

    John Beck is one of the FAs lead coaches of the UEFA coaching badges and I haven't seen a team play like his in over 25 years. 

    Charlton v Cambridge at Upton park is still one of the strangest games of football I have witnessed in my life for tactics.

    When Cambridge kicked off, they went for touch. Young Dion Dublin was the small man up front at 6ft 2'' and senior George Reilly was 6ft 5" alongside.  John Beck got two Promotions for Cambridge and nearly took them all the way to the newly formed Elitist League called the Premier.

    Didn't realized he was teaching Uefa B coaching since 2013. That would have been an interesting Job interview when they asked what is your Philosophy on how the game should be played ?
  • alburyaddick
    alburyaddick Posts: 574
    soapboxsam said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    It's a fair point about Pearce but playing style doesn't necessarily transfer to coaching.

    George Graham the manager would never have picked George Graham the player, for example.

    John Beck is one of the FAs lead coaches of the UEFA coaching badges and I haven't seen a team play like his in over 25 years. 

    Charlton v Cambridge at Upton park is still one of the strangest games of football I have witnessed in my life for tactics.

    When Cambridge kicked off, they went for touch. Young Dion Dublin was the small man up front at 6ft 2'' and senior George Reilly was 6ft 5" alongside.  John Beck got two Promotions for Cambridge and nearly took them all the way to the newly formed Elitist League called the Premier.

    Didn't realized he was teaching Uefa B coaching since 2013. That would have been an interesting Job interview when they asked what is your Philosophy on how the game should be played ?
    I remember that game well - I was there too - they beat us easily - strangest football tactics I ever saw 
    it didn’t matter where their defenders or midfielders were they immediately kicked it long to the wings - it was all about getting the ball back into the box from throw ins corners etc - worked like a dream !! 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    Too young to have seen Beck’s Cambridge team live but have read a few articles. Dion Dublin claimed all the stories about them were true.

    https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/sport/every-single-thing-youve-heard-13975380

    There was, of course, method in the madness, and Dublin confirmed that everything that you heard from that period was true.

    “Every single thing you’ve heard from that time was true,” he said.

    “We were a horrible team to play against. Playing at the Abbey Stadium was so uncomfortable for other teams.

    “We used to put loads of sugar in the tea and give them no hot water at all. We put the warm-up balls in the bath so they would be soaking wet. This all got around the other clubs so it was very much a case of ‘oh no, it’s Cambridge United this weekend'.

    “They did not like us because we were horrible.”

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  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Scoham said:
    Too young to have seen Beck’s Cambridge team live but have read a few articles. Dion Dublin claimed all the stories about them were true.

    https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/sport/every-single-thing-youve-heard-13975380

    There was, of course, method in the madness, and Dublin confirmed that everything that you heard from that period was true.

    “Every single thing you’ve heard from that time was true,” he said.

    “We were a horrible team to play against. Playing at the Abbey Stadium was so uncomfortable for other teams.

    “We used to put loads of sugar in the tea and give them no hot water at all. We put the warm-up balls in the bath so they would be soaking wet. This all got around the other clubs so it was very much a case of ‘oh no, it’s Cambridge United this weekend'.

    “They did not like us because we were horrible.”

    If anyone has seen John Beck's Cambridge they certainly wouldn't accuse anyone today of playing hoof ball.

    Our game at Upton Park gets a mention here

    https://thesefootballtimes.co/2019/05/08/how-john-becks-derided-cambridge-came-within-90-minutes-of-gate-crashing-the-premier-league-in-1992/


  • FAVADDICK
    FAVADDICK Posts: 584
    addick1956 said:
    FAVADDICK said:
    In the sun today both Tucker and Dempsey wanted by us let's hope we push the boat out and get them 
    The same Sun that was tha News of the World and hacked peoples phones. And you believe them ? Not to mention  the lies The Sun printed on the Hillsborough tragedy. 

    Who said I believe them, all I said I hope we push the boat out and get them, I don't care what the papers write I know that there 2 players we should be targeting anyway !!!!
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,347
    addick1956 said:
    FAVADDICK said:
    In the sun today both Tucker and Dempsey wanted by us let's hope we push the boat out and get them 
    The same Sun that was tha News of the World and hacked peoples phones. And you believe them ? Not to mention  the lies The Sun printed on the Hillsborough tragedy. 
    Poster shares rumour from newspaper in Rumours Thread. Shock.  

    Can't wait til the school holidays are over. 
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Sage said:
    Thankfully, it should be an interesting and busy couple of days and we can put this thread to bed once and for all. 
    Amen to that.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,668
    addick1956 said:
    blackpool72 said:
    addick1956 said:
    Chunes said:
    addick1956 said:
    FAVADDICK said:
    In the sun today both Tucker and Dempsey wanted by us let's hope we push the boat out and get them 
    The same Sun that was tha News of the World and hacked peoples phones. And you believe them ? Not to mention  the lies The Sun printed on the Hillsborough tragedy. 
    Poster shares rumour from newspaper in Rumours Thread. Shock.  

    Can't wait til the school holidays are over. 
     I must stop telling the truth . Rumours seem prefered
    Never mind the truth. 
    Just stop talking bollox 
    So the The News of the World didn't  fold in shame over hacking a few the Sun on Sunday was a reincarnation 2 weeks later. The Sun didn't blame the Liverpool supporters for Hillsborough.  So that is bollocks 🤔

    The comment was about the report in The Sun is a loathesome rag IMHO 

    And who asked you anyway ?

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,379
    Sage said:
    Thankfully, it should be an interesting and busy couple of days and we can put this thread to bed once and for all. 
    Mmm nothing like a nice warm wee soaked bed…

  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    Can I be the first to say NA promised us an exciting weekend for signings, we have nothing so far with only the bolted on Bank Holiday Monday left. Fuming.











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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    Sage said:
    Thankfully, it should be an interesting and busy couple of days and we can put this thread to bed once and for all. 
    It'll be back in January
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  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    ForeverAddickted said:
    Sage said:
    Thankfully, it should be an interesting and busy couple of days and we can put this thread to bed once and for all. 
    It'll be back in January
    It will be back on the 2md of September....... 
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,063
    I for one would like to kick off the January transfer rumours early. ANNOUNCE MATT SMITH!
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,031
    I see Tom Eaves might be available. 

    Would he be worth a loan as cover for Jayden? 
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    Richard J said:
    I see Tom Eaves might be available. 

    Would he be worth a loan as cover for Jayden? 
    No. He’s shit.

    almost Churchinho levels of shit
  • Braziliance
    Braziliance Posts: 8,353
    edited August 2021
    Bit confused that we suddenly have too many midfielders if we sign Arter? He would be a loan, we don’t know how Gibey will be with long COVID, JFC could come back completely off the boil, Clare and Dobson we aren’t sure on, Albie still raw, less said about Ben ‘the fridge freezer, Watson the better. If we can get Lowery or Dempsey we should. One or two injuries and we are stuffed. Same goes for Tucker, we are all waiting for Innis to get injured despite him being a good player, Pearce is a solid back up but is a bit of a calamity, Deji young and not on a pro contract, may not be our player next season, ditto Akin. 

    Paper talk but if we get Tucker and Dempsey that’s building for the future, grab a striker and we are good for the season
  • Oh Eddie Youds...
    Oh Eddie Youds... Posts: 1,320
    Honestly think all the press about Dempsey & now Tucker is coming from the Gillingham side.

    Maybe they thought / were banking on Charlton paying good money for them in this window after we enquired about them earlier in the summer....but now we have signed Arter instead they are a bit screwed.

    They are under an embargo & need to pay back the loan they took from the EFL so its not suprising to see them trying to drum up some interest...The problem they have is that everyone knows they need to sell so they're not going to get top dollar for these players.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    Sage said:
    Thankfully, it should be an interesting and busy couple of days and we can put this thread to bed once and for all. 
    Nah, we will then start speculating about free agents  ;)
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,277
    killerandflash said:
    Sage said:
    Thankfully, it should be an interesting and busy couple of days and we can put this thread to bed once and for all. 
    Nah, we will then start speculating about free agents  ;)
    I’ll be the first to bring up Josh Sims if he is still available!
  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,190
    Has Ellis Sims signed for anyone yet?
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,277
    Dizzle said:
    Has Ellis Sims signed for anyone yet?
    Simms, of Everton, is out injured for around another month or so, maybe less.

    He won’t be moving in this window, it’ll be January now and likely to be at Championship level. 
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