Summer 2022 transfer rumours (Gilbey loan confirmed p513, a signing falls through last minute p541)

redbuttle said:

Where are the rumours then?

Rak-Sakyi is signing AAAAAANYDAY now

Exiled_Addick said:

JFC at his best was clearly one of the better midfielders we’ve had in this division and he had some decent matches at Championship level, albeit in a team that was relegated. Standing out in our mediocre teams doesn’t necessarily make you a great player overall and I don’t think he would’ve got into Bowyer’s play off winning team, even if fit. However, I think it’s a bit disrespectful, unless injuries have really taken their toll (and how would most fans know having not seen him play much since fit again), to suggest he is league 2 level when he had lots of good matches in the two divisions above, especially league 1 level. 

Pratley for example has played at much higher levels but is currently League two level. Not disrespectful to feel JFC is the same.

LargeAddick said:

Exiled_Addick said:

JFC at his best was clearly one of the better midfielders we’ve had in this division and he had some decent matches at Championship level, albeit in a team that was relegated. Standing out in our mediocre teams doesn’t necessarily make you a great player overall and I don’t think he would’ve got into Bowyer’s play off winning team, even if fit. However, I think it’s a bit disrespectful, unless injuries have really taken their toll (and how would most fans know having not seen him play much since fit again), to suggest he is league 2 level when he had lots of good matches in the two divisions above, especially league 1 level. 

Pratley for example has played at much higher levels but is currently League two level. Not disrespectful to feel JFC is the same.

Apart from the fact JFC is 10 years younger......

Cafc43v3r said:

LargeAddick said:

Exiled_Addick said:

JFC at his best was clearly one of the better midfielders we’ve had in this division and he had some decent matches at Championship level, albeit in a team that was relegated. Standing out in our mediocre teams doesn’t necessarily make you a great player overall and I don’t think he would’ve got into Bowyer’s play off winning team, even if fit. However, I think it’s a bit disrespectful, unless injuries have really taken their toll (and how would most fans know having not seen him play much since fit again), to suggest he is league 2 level when he had lots of good matches in the two divisions above, especially league 1 level. 

Pratley for example has played at much higher levels but is currently League two level. Not disrespectful to feel JFC is the same.

Apart from the fact JFC is 10 years younger......

But had two serious injuries

He can serve his suspension during the QPR game I assume 

If JRS is one of the two deals nearly done, is there any real idea of who the other player is? Simpson/McKirdy/both of them would be ideal but that’s only because they played well under BG previously. 

killerandflash said:

Cafc43v3r said:

Chunes said:

cafcfan1990 said:

Chunes said:

killerandflash said:

Henry Irving said:

https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/1555554219591172097?s=20&t=gCwjpaqhELXxjqMe2PmsZw

Ring any bells?

A great video, but not that relevant to us really

I don't know... Seems like some of our fanbase have forgotten about trying to enjoy the football or the start of a new season and instead spend all day moaning about the owner/transfers. I thought it was just us but I guess it's happening at every club.

Little bit easier to enjoy the football when you’re one of the best teams in the world. Whilst just down the road Charlton are conceding a 96th min equaliser at Accrington Stanley…

"All I want is an owner who cares so I can just go back to watching the football."

I think the response would have been completely different if the narrative had been:

"The whole club is fucked, from top to bottom, it's going to take 2 maybe 3 years to fix.  We won't always get it right but it won't be through lack of trying.  It wont be easy but we will get there".

I genuinely think last season was a massive kick in the bollocks for everyone, including TS.  I honestly believe he thought we had a "title winning" squad.  

It doesn't take 3 seasons to turn around a football club, especially when the club is below it's natural level. Wigan rebuilt their side in one summer and got promotion straight away, whereas we made a horlicks of it and went backwards from what had been a decent team at the end of 20/21. Bolton rebuilt in L2, got promotion straight away, had a decent season in L1 and now look better equipped to challenge for promotion than we do.

What is our "natural level" though? Bolton and Wigan were in the Premier League more recently than we were. We've spent seven of the last eight years (double check my maths there) in League One. We have a Cat 2 academy, albeit a very good one. We have a League One budget and we're running at a loss (as almost every club, if not every club, at this level is). 

Look, I think TS has serious issues if he fully believes some of the things he's said, especially at this point. And it's particularly hard to get things right when you make yourself the CEO despite no football, or even UK business, experience. And also hard when you make your son the head of analytics despite no football AND no analytics experience. But hey, rich guy is gonna rich guy. 

I don't think any teams deserves to be at a particular level unless they're actually at that level. There is a reason we're at this level, there's a reason Derby and Portsmouth and Sheff Wed and Bolton are at this level despite having been in the Premier League at at least one point. In many cases, it's financial mismanagement, which is shit, but it's a very strong and common reason to fail and fall down the leagues. 

Sorry, this isn't a dig at you specifically, I see this mindset both implicitly and explicitly on here all the time because a lot of us grew up with Charlton in the Prem. But that was almost 15 years ago. That was the exception, not the rule. If you go off of those last 15 years, I believe we've spent more time in League One than the Championship now (again, double check my maths). We were on the brink of not existing anymore at at least one point and quite possibly more. The club's current owner doesn't own the stadium. I would argue we're at our level. 

SDAddick said:

killerandflash said:

Cafc43v3r said:

Chunes said:

cafcfan1990 said:

Chunes said:

killerandflash said:

Henry Irving said:

https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/1555554219591172097?s=20&t=gCwjpaqhELXxjqMe2PmsZw

Ring any bells?

A great video, but not that relevant to us really

I don't know... Seems like some of our fanbase have forgotten about trying to enjoy the football or the start of a new season and instead spend all day moaning about the owner/transfers. I thought it was just us but I guess it's happening at every club.

Little bit easier to enjoy the football when you’re one of the best teams in the world. Whilst just down the road Charlton are conceding a 96th min equaliser at Accrington Stanley…

"All I want is an owner who cares so I can just go back to watching the football."

I think the response would have been completely different if the narrative had been:

"The whole club is fucked, from top to bottom, it's going to take 2 maybe 3 years to fix.  We won't always get it right but it won't be through lack of trying.  It wont be easy but we will get there".

I genuinely think last season was a massive kick in the bollocks for everyone, including TS.  I honestly believe he thought we had a "title winning" squad.  

It doesn't take 3 seasons to turn around a football club, especially when the club is below it's natural level. Wigan rebuilt their side in one summer and got promotion straight away, whereas we made a horlicks of it and went backwards from what had been a decent team at the end of 20/21. Bolton rebuilt in L2, got promotion straight away, had a decent season in L1 and now look better equipped to challenge for promotion than we do.

What is our "natural level" though? Bolton and Wigan were in the Premier League more recently than we were. We've spent seven of the last eight years (double check my maths there) in League One. We have a Cat 2 academy, albeit a very good one. We have a League One budget and we're running at a loss (as almost every club, if not every club, at this level is). 

Look, I think TS has serious issues if he fully believes some of the things he's said, especially at this point. And it's particularly hard to get things right when you make yourself the CEO despite no football, or even UK business, experience. And also hard when you make your son the head of analytics despite no football AND no analytics experience. But hey, rich guy is gonna rich guy. 

I don't think any teams deserves to be at a particular level unless they're actually at that level. There is a reason we're at this level, there's a reason Derby and Portsmouth and Sheff Wed and Bolton are at this level despite having been in the Premier League at at least one point. In many cases, it's financial mismanagement, which is shit, but it's a very strong and common reason to fail and fall down the leagues. 

Sorry, this isn't a dig at you specifically, I see this mindset both implicitly and explicitly on here all the time because a lot of us grew up with Charlton in the Prem. But that was almost 15 years ago. That was the exception, not the rule. If you go off of those last 15 years, I believe we've spent more time in League One than the Championship now (again, double check my maths). We were on the brink of not existing anymore at at least one point and quite possibly more. The club's current owner doesn't own the stadium. I would argue we're at our level. 

I'd agree natural level would be where you end up in order of financial clout. We're losing money as are most, so I'm not sure what natural level means.

Cafc43v3r said:

Good job no one mentioned that in the match thread, it's come as a total shock!

I did😀

SDAddick said:

killerandflash said:

Cafc43v3r said:

Chunes said:

cafcfan1990 said:

Chunes said:

killerandflash said:

Henry Irving said:

https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/1555554219591172097?s=20&t=gCwjpaqhELXxjqMe2PmsZw

Ring any bells?

A great video, but not that relevant to us really

I don't know... Seems like some of our fanbase have forgotten about trying to enjoy the football or the start of a new season and instead spend all day moaning about the owner/transfers. I thought it was just us but I guess it's happening at every club.

Little bit easier to enjoy the football when you’re one of the best teams in the world. Whilst just down the road Charlton are conceding a 96th min equaliser at Accrington Stanley…

"All I want is an owner who cares so I can just go back to watching the football."

I think the response would have been completely different if the narrative had been:

"The whole club is fucked, from top to bottom, it's going to take 2 maybe 3 years to fix.  We won't always get it right but it won't be through lack of trying.  It wont be easy but we will get there".

I genuinely think last season was a massive kick in the bollocks for everyone, including TS.  I honestly believe he thought we had a "title winning" squad.  

It doesn't take 3 seasons to turn around a football club, especially when the club is below it's natural level. Wigan rebuilt their side in one summer and got promotion straight away, whereas we made a horlicks of it and went backwards from what had been a decent team at the end of 20/21. Bolton rebuilt in L2, got promotion straight away, had a decent season in L1 and now look better equipped to challenge for promotion than we do.

What is our "natural level" though? Bolton and Wigan were in the Premier League more recently than we were. We've spent seven of the last eight years (double check my maths there) in League One. We have a Cat 2 academy, albeit a very good one. We have a League One budget and we're running at a loss (as almost every club, if not every club, at this level is). 

Look, I think TS has serious issues if he fully believes some of the things he's said, especially at this point. And it's particularly hard to get things right when you make yourself the CEO despite no football, or even UK business, experience. And also hard when you make your son the head of analytics despite no football AND no analytics experience. But hey, rich guy is gonna rich guy. 

I don't think any teams deserves to be at a particular level unless they're actually at that level. There is a reason we're at this level, there's a reason Derby and Portsmouth and Sheff Wed and Bolton are at this level despite having been in the Premier League at at least one point. In many cases, it's financial mismanagement, which is shit, but it's a very strong and common reason to fail and fall down the leagues. 

Sorry, this isn't a dig at you specifically, I see this mindset both implicitly and explicitly on here all the time because a lot of us grew up with Charlton in the Prem. But that was almost 15 years ago. That was the exception, not the rule. If you go off of those last 15 years, I believe we've spent more time in League One than the Championship now (again, double check my maths). We were on the brink of not existing anymore at at least one point and quite possibly more. The club's current owner doesn't own the stadium. I would argue we're at our level. 

Our natural level is the Championship, it's where we've easily spent the most seasons, with slightly more top tier seasons than 3rd tier ones.

Between the mid 30s and late 2000s slump we'd only spent 4 seasons in Div 3. It's never taken us more than 3 seasons to return to the 2nd tier from the the 3rd tier. 

Financially, L1 football doesn't work for us, as our infrastructure is so much more expensive than for the likes of Accrington or Cheltenham.

balham red said:

SDAddick said:

killerandflash said:

Cafc43v3r said:

Chunes said:

cafcfan1990 said:

Chunes said:

killerandflash said:

Henry Irving said:

https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/1555554219591172097?s=20&t=gCwjpaqhELXxjqMe2PmsZw

Ring any bells?

A great video, but not that relevant to us really

I don't know... Seems like some of our fanbase have forgotten about trying to enjoy the football or the start of a new season and instead spend all day moaning about the owner/transfers. I thought it was just us but I guess it's happening at every club.

Little bit easier to enjoy the football when you’re one of the best teams in the world. Whilst just down the road Charlton are conceding a 96th min equaliser at Accrington Stanley…

"All I want is an owner who cares so I can just go back to watching the football."

I think the response would have been completely different if the narrative had been:

"The whole club is fucked, from top to bottom, it's going to take 2 maybe 3 years to fix.  We won't always get it right but it won't be through lack of trying.  It wont be easy but we will get there".

I genuinely think last season was a massive kick in the bollocks for everyone, including TS.  I honestly believe he thought we had a "title winning" squad.  

It doesn't take 3 seasons to turn around a football club, especially when the club is below it's natural level. Wigan rebuilt their side in one summer and got promotion straight away, whereas we made a horlicks of it and went backwards from what had been a decent team at the end of 20/21. Bolton rebuilt in L2, got promotion straight away, had a decent season in L1 and now look better equipped to challenge for promotion than we do.

What is our "natural level" though? Bolton and Wigan were in the Premier League more recently than we were. We've spent seven of the last eight years (double check my maths there) in League One. We have a Cat 2 academy, albeit a very good one. We have a League One budget and we're running at a loss (as almost every club, if not every club, at this level is). 

Look, I think TS has serious issues if he fully believes some of the things he's said, especially at this point. And it's particularly hard to get things right when you make yourself the CEO despite no football, or even UK business, experience. And also hard when you make your son the head of analytics despite no football AND no analytics experience. But hey, rich guy is gonna rich guy. 

I don't think any teams deserves to be at a particular level unless they're actually at that level. There is a reason we're at this level, there's a reason Derby and Portsmouth and Sheff Wed and Bolton are at this level despite having been in the Premier League at at least one point. In many cases, it's financial mismanagement, which is shit, but it's a very strong and common reason to fail and fall down the leagues. 

Sorry, this isn't a dig at you specifically, I see this mindset both implicitly and explicitly on here all the time because a lot of us grew up with Charlton in the Prem. But that was almost 15 years ago. That was the exception, not the rule. If you go off of those last 15 years, I believe we've spent more time in League One than the Championship now (again, double check my maths). We were on the brink of not existing anymore at at least one point and quite possibly more. The club's current owner doesn't own the stadium. I would argue we're at our level. 

I'd agree natural level would be where you end up in order of financial clout. We're losing money as are most, so I'm not sure what natural level means.

It's the club's income which is a better indicator of the natural level. Sunderland may have got stuck in L1 for a few seasons, but everyone knew they would eventually get it right as at that level they were a massive club, with gates and income vastly higher than the smaller clubs in the division, and indeed much of the Championship.

Scoham said:

https://twitter.com/reluctantnicko/status/1556169715520765957?s=21&t=b4pjrK-1uNAyh24jB5GY3w

Wonder if we see a free transfer come in after the window to replace MacG.

redbuttle said:

Where are the rumours then?

If only you knew JR Buttle because he was decent with some insider information.

Three weeks to finish our business. Enough time but a pity if it goes to the wire.