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Winter-January 2026 Transfer Window Rumours ...
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5 signings
1 LWB
1 LCB
1 RWB
1 DM
1 ST
Bree back to Southampton, Hernandez and Roussillon thanked and shown the door, Berry, Gillesphey and AMB sold or loaned out to help balance the books a bit.
Signings all need to be proven championship players or prem loan signings that are significant upgrades on our current contingent (think Gallagher, Cullen and Carson levels, not Juan Castillo, Nile John and Eggert Jonsson)5 -
Good suggestions @wolfgang. I liked Famewo when he was with us too.wolfgang said:Two players who would be cheap but could fill gaps are:
Joe Powell (Burton) played in West Ham youth with Coventry. Best position is LWB. Burton keep moving him around to plug gaps in their small squad.
Akin Famewo (Hull) Lewisham born. LCB. Played for Jones at Luton. Played 59 times for Charlton five years ago. Only 28 now and a better player. Cannot break into Hull side now because they are on a roll.
If our owners are willing to splash the cash we could do better, but are they willing? If not, we need to improve our squad for a relegation battle and these two would give us options where we are weak.
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sam3110 said:5 signings
1 LWB
1 LCB
1 RWB
1 DM
1 ST
Bree back to Southampton, Hernandez and Roussillon thanked and shown the door, Berry, Gillesphey and AMB sold or loaned out to help balance the books a bit.
Signings all need to be proven championship players or prem loan signings that are significant upgrades on our current contingent (think Gallagher, Cullen and Carson levels, not Juan Castillo, Nile John and Eggert Jonsson)
Totally agree with the 5 positions we need to fill. I don't agree that we can "sell" Berry, Gillesphey and AMB to gain money. It will cost us money to get them off the books. No-one will pay money for them. They could still be useful for struggling League Two clubs, but those clubs have no money. And that goes for Docherty, Rankin-Costello and Ahadme too.3 -
Why? Have you found 1.5 million down the back of your sofa? What makes you think our owners are willing to splash out 1.5 million? Or anything at all, really. I wouldn't, having seen the money wasted already on Ahadme, Knibbs, Apter, Kelman and Olaofe. Some of our bargain buys and freebies have turned out well, but we haven't got a clue when we have real money to spend.CB1 said:Joe Aribo anyone for 1.5 million? Could be a good option. Would love to see him return.0 -
Imo if we don't spend in excess of £3m then we are down. In fact I'd say we need to spend £5m plus.wolfgang said:
Why? Have you found 1.5 million down the back of your sofa? What makes you think our owners are willing to splash out 1.5 million? Or anything at all, really. I wouldn't, having seen the money wasted already on Ahadme, Knibbs, Apter, Kelman and Olaofe. Some of our bargain buys and freebies have turned out well, but we haven't got a clue when we have real money to spend.CB1 said:Joe Aribo anyone for 1.5 million? Could be a good option. Would love to see him return.
A decent striker will cost money, unless you go abroad (scandi or asia). If you decide to go Prem loan kid (usually under 20 with no league experience) then you might as well recall Kanu. Survival will not come cheap. We tried doing it on the cheap on the summer & look where that has got us. Strikers in - Tanto & Kelman - 2 goals between them. Spent money on Knibbs......average at best. Defenders signed were Jones' mates and injury prone - Burke & Bell injured & missed 6 / 7 games already with no return date imminent.
Should never have fine into the season relying on Leaburn as being one of the first choice strikers. Was out injured for 6 months & wasn't really up to speed by the start of the season. And Kelman.......never played at this level & only 1 good season in League 1. Going by those figures Alfie May would have been a better bet. Godden we knew was going to miss the first 3 months of the season.....now likely to be 6 months.
For me a striker is the main priority. We have seen that once fit our defence is pretty good & can compete with most teams. But (sounding like a stuck record) up front is our Achilles heel. The games we've won this season have mainly been down to us scoring a
late winner(and not generally by a striker) ....not being ahead after 20 or 30 minutes & then adding to the score. Exceptions being Ipswich & Blackburn.
Yes, we need a LWB & a tough tackling midfielder. But you can be as defensively tight as you like but if your strikers are no good you will be looking down not up.
And PS.
I am hoping / assuming that targets have already been lined up & agents/ clubs talked to. New players need to be in the building the first week of January. No point getting to the last week of the window & still scrabbling around in the bargain basement bins.
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Need to forget about Aribo unless the Saints are prepared to pay most of his wages.1
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Docherty? Have a laugh you clownwolfgang said:sam3110 said:5 signings
1 LWB
1 LCB
1 RWB
1 DM
1 ST
Bree back to Southampton, Hernandez and Roussillon thanked and shown the door, Berry, Gillesphey and AMB sold or loaned out to help balance the books a bit.
Signings all need to be proven championship players or prem loan signings that are significant upgrades on our current contingent (think Gallagher, Cullen and Carson levels, not Juan Castillo, Nile John and Eggert Jonsson)
Totally agree with the 5 positions we need to fill. I don't agree that we can "sell" Berry, Gillesphey and AMB to gain money. It will cost us money to get them off the books. No-one will pay money for them. They could still be useful for struggling League Two clubs, but those clubs have no money. And that goes for Docherty, Rankin-Costello and Ahadme too.1 -
If you think any club is going to pay more than a token fee for Docherty, you are the clown.sam3110 said:
Docherty? Have a laugh you clownwolfgang said:sam3110 said:5 signings
1 LWB
1 LCB
1 RWB
1 DM
1 ST
Bree back to Southampton, Hernandez and Roussillon thanked and shown the door, Berry, Gillesphey and AMB sold or loaned out to help balance the books a bit.
Signings all need to be proven championship players or prem loan signings that are significant upgrades on our current contingent (think Gallagher, Cullen and Carson levels, not Juan Castillo, Nile John and Eggert Jonsson)
Totally agree with the 5 positions we need to fill. I don't agree that we can "sell" Berry, Gillesphey and AMB to gain money. It will cost us money to get them off the books. No-one will pay money for them. They could still be useful for struggling League Two clubs, but those clubs have no money. And that goes for Docherty, Rankin-Costello and Ahadme too.1 -
What makes you think they don’t want to spend s anything? Or are you just assuming. If you don’t think we need to spend money in this window then I don’t know what to tell you.wolfgang said:
Why? Have you found 1.5 million down the back of your sofa? What makes you think our owners are willing to splash out 1.5 million? Or anything at all, really. I wouldn't, having seen the money wasted already on Ahadme, Knibbs, Apter, Kelman and Olaofe. Some of our bargain buys and freebies have turned out well, but we haven't got a clue when we have real money to spend.CB1 said:Joe Aribo anyone for 1.5 million? Could be a good option. Would love to see him return.2 -
I get your point with the strikers, also agree we should get one if there is a decent one available....golfaddick said:
Imo if we don't spend in excess of £3m then we are down. In fact I'd say we need to spend £5m plus.wolfgang said:
Why? Have you found 1.5 million down the back of your sofa? What makes you think our owners are willing to splash out 1.5 million? Or anything at all, really. I wouldn't, having seen the money wasted already on Ahadme, Knibbs, Apter, Kelman and Olaofe. Some of our bargain buys and freebies have turned out well, but we haven't got a clue when we have real money to spend.CB1 said:Joe Aribo anyone for 1.5 million? Could be a good option. Would love to see him return.
A decent striker will cost money, unless you go abroad (scandi or asia). If you decide to go Prem loan kid (usually under 20 with no league experience) then you might as well recall Kanu. Survival will not come cheap. We tried doing it on the cheap on the summer & look where that has got us. Strikers in - Tanto & Kelman - 2 goals between them. Spent money on Knibbs......average at best. Defenders signed were Jones' mates and injury prone - Burke & Bell injured & missed 6 / 7 games already with no return date imminent.
Should never have fine into the season relying on Leaburn as being one of the first choice strikers. Was out injured for 6 months & wasn't really up to speed by the start of the season. And Kelman.......never played at this level & only 1 good season in League 1. Going by those figures Alfie May would have been a better bet. Godden we knew was going to miss the first 3 months of the season.....now likely to be 6 months.
For me a striker is the main priority. We have seen that once fit our defence is pretty good & can compete with most teams. But (sounding like a stuck record) up front is our Achilles heel. The games we've won this season have mainly been down to us scoring a
late winner(and not generally by a striker) ....not being ahead after 20 or 30 minutes & then adding to the score. Exceptions being Ipswich & Blackburn.
Yes, we need a LWB & a tough tackling midfielder. But you can be as defensively tight as you like but if your strikers are no good you will be looking down not up.
And PS.
I am hoping / assuming that targets have already been lined up & agents/ clubs talked to. New players need to be in the building the first week of January. No point getting to the last week of the window & still scrabbling around in the bargain basement bins.
However, we could have Haaland and he wouldn't be scoring (extreme, i know he would find a way). But given the amount of chances we create we would need a real top tier striker to negate that.
Personally i feel creativity / pace is what we need, or even based on the injuries to key positions LWB/ CB. if we can get that sorted if they are not returning and we need someone in the middle with a touch of quality but also can do the dirty work (cullen-like).
I am not writing Kelman off yet, but we do need that balance where we need to get him/ or whoever further up the pitch in the scoring positions or play someone up top with him and change the system.
Either way we need to recruit but i am not sure it's as simple as buy a £5 million striker and we stay up as there are a lot of gaps at the moment.7 -
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We're 23rd in the league for big chances created. How often are our strikers between the posts when we do create a chance? They're usually in the channel having chased a long ball down there. I agree that you could put whatever striker you wanted in the team and they'd still be struggling for goals at present. We need more quality and pace throughout the team and especially in central midfield.7
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N Jones needs to change his game plan or go !31
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And which game plan is that? The one we used in the first half on Tuesday or the second? Or maybe the one we used against Wrexham? Or the one against Southampton? He doesn’t need to change it, he needs to settle on oneecclesaddick said:N Jones needs to change his game plan or go !11 -
Sacking him would be one of the dumbest things we can possibly do right now.ecclesaddick said:N Jones needs to change his game plan or go !
We're struggling because of injuries and a lack of squad depth, not because of his managerial ability.
We're coming into a round of games that are far more winnable, we need to pick up some points and make sure we don't lose to our direct rivals.
Once we have injured players back and a few additions in January we'll be fine.32 -
Agree with this to an extent. The 'Nathan Method' consists in the main on all action, all the time, pressing, harassing running hard and giving the opposition no time nor respiteecclesaddick said:N Jones needs to change his game plan or go !
The problem of course is that while successful in the short term, the method is very very wearing on the players who are expected to do this twice a week
All very well if there are (say) two elevens of similar ability, we don't have that.
Nathan's most successful players are already suffering from 'overwork' or have succumbed to injury and their replacements are just nowhere good enough.
So, essentially the issue is a lack of investment to have built a squad that was designed to play to Nathan's tactics
And if Nathan Jones goes, that change will be unlikely to change anything. We don't have the skilled players to match the expensively assembled top Championship teams, nor the cash to pay off the Nathan management team nor to bring in expensive replacements.
The key will be a 'minor overhaul' of the squad this January to out a few and sign a better few. This will not come cheap of course1 -
Golfie in we need a striker shocker!!!😂3
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In my opinion a lot of people are over-estimating what we need to do in January in order to stay up.I think it will be maybe 3 players in, and that’s fine. With everyone fit we are easily good enough to stay up, just need to make some signings that mean we can cover the situations where we have a few injuries better.Maybe 1 permanent if we can find the right player, and then a couple of loans. Talk of signing 5 or 6 new players and spending big money is what clubs that aren’t very smart do in January. The time to do that is the summer windows15
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NJ must go ! thats just ridiculous !!! we have just had a run of fixtures that we would have struggled with even with a full strength team. We have no right at this point to compete at the top level in this league and anyone with any sense knew that at the start of the season. We now need to get ourselves together and take the points we should do against the teams around us which Im sure we will do. We all have opinions but to even start suggesting NJ gets the sack is nonsense imo. Yes he does things which I personally dont agree with in terms of selection ( Leaburn and TC can play all season together and wont get 4 goals between them lol ) but he is the Manager so it is his call. We will be fine this season we wont go down and we build again to be stronger next season, to be a top Championship side takes time to build2
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Other than the injuries cover, we really miss someone that can control the game in the middle, we’ve got lots of battlers but none of them want the ball at their feet for very long. Having that player would allow Coventry, Carey and Doc do they’re jobs better.2
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It will be sheer folly if we don't use this window to finally go all in for Andy Delort, Steve Sidwell and Hayden Mullins.7
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Just echoing what many have said above but really we need 1 x CM who can do it all, real box to box (sadly our budget would never get the quality version of this we need) and a LB.
For those 20 min or so we had bell back we suddenly had a balance and players knew their positions and we looked alright. But god knows what happens when Coventry gets injured/sick/suspended. I think most of us assumed Costello would slot in here or alongside him but he doesn't appear to have the quality we need either. Of the summer singings I think he's prob the most disappointing, at least the others were all slight gambles being good League 1 players we all hoped would step up, he has spent all his career in the championship and not as just a bit part player either. No amount of money will fix our strike force, midfield simply don't create anything for them, this has been an ongoing issue for us since the last time we were in the championship, we have no one willing or able to bring the ball out from midfield and create space for the strikers/attacking wingers/players to exploit.
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What about that bloke who scores goals for Barnsley?
Lower division so no good?0 -
The insinuation that we'd sell him, and that only "struggling League 2 sides" would be interested, is absolutely laughablewolfgang said:
If you think any club is going to pay more than a token fee for Docherty, you are the clown.sam3110 said:
Docherty? Have a laugh you clownwolfgang said:sam3110 said:5 signings
1 LWB
1 LCB
1 RWB
1 DM
1 ST
Bree back to Southampton, Hernandez and Roussillon thanked and shown the door, Berry, Gillesphey and AMB sold or loaned out to help balance the books a bit.
Signings all need to be proven championship players or prem loan signings that are significant upgrades on our current contingent (think Gallagher, Cullen and Carson levels, not Juan Castillo, Nile John and Eggert Jonsson)
Totally agree with the 5 positions we need to fill. I don't agree that we can "sell" Berry, Gillesphey and AMB to gain money. It will cost us money to get them off the books. No-one will pay money for them. They could still be useful for struggling League Two clubs, but those clubs have no money. And that goes for Docherty, Rankin-Costello and Ahadme too.11 -
The areas where we are currently struggling and are likely to continue struggling in the foreseeable future, while needing a touch of Championship quality are:LWBCB (preferably LCB)RWB (Bree’s loan expires)CMCFI believe we’ll focus solely on these highlighted positions and may see one forward return on loan. A few months ago, I suggested that a 4‑2‑3‑1 formation could help bring certain players (such as Fullah and Apter) into the picture during an injury crisis, I still stand by that thought/approach/guess/hope.2
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Sadly these winnable games are unlikely to see our injured players coming back by the sound of NJ, so maybe not so winnable. We now look like what we are, a League One side.covered_end_junior said:
Sacking him would be one of the dumbest things we can possibly do right now.ecclesaddick said:N Jones needs to change his game plan or go !
We're struggling because of injuries and a lack of squad depth, not because of his managerial ability.
We're coming into a round of games that are far more winnable, we need to pick up some points and make sure we don't lose to our direct rivals.
Once we have injured players back and a few additions in January we'll be fine.4 -
What, so Golfie is a striker, he kept that one quiet...free transfer😉Sword65pf said:Golfie in we need a striker shocker!!!😂0 -
I really don't understand the cloak and dagger thing over injuries, I am sure most other teams know our situation without Jones having to tell them, Jones said pre Coventry I think that Kelman and Burke were 'very close ' that was 2 weeks ago! So either they have had a setback or Jones was lying, all this does is disappoint supporters leading to wild speculation as to what's going on, apart from the 1 or 2 possibly in the know, just give us some inkling of what's going on, it doesn't affect other teams! rant over but we desperately need some quality in the January window7
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I've raised this precise question before, and been told that it's nothing to do with us fans, and I was being silly thinking or expecting anything different...so gave up!Grovenuts said:I really don't understand the cloak and dagger thing over injuries, I am sure most other teams know our situation without Jones having to tell them, Jones said pre Coventry I think that Kelman and Burke were 'very close ' that was 2 weeks ago! So either they have had a setback or Jones was lying, all this does is disappoint supporters leading to wild speculation as to what's going on, apart from the 1 or 2 possibly in the know, just give us some inkling of what's going on, it doesn't affect other teams! rant over but we desperately need some quality in the January window0 -
NJ needs to use the loan market. It sounds nice having a squad of owned players rather than loanees, so that when you improve them you get the benefit (and financial benefit) but that assumes they actually improve.
Looking at the players in the summer we paid fees for, the likes of Kelman, Knibbs, Tanto, Apter, RC, Kaminski and Burke, who out of them is likely to be worth more money than we paid? If anything, most will have gone down in value.3
