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Winter-January 2026 Transfer Window Rumours ...
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we need a left sided cb, a couple in midfield and a striker. If its only the expected two in we will struggle the rest of the season2
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Baggott is a young leftie with decent experience. May be worth a punt.
Although 6'5" he is not slow.0 -
What we need:
RWB or Bree
LWB
What we could do with upgrading:
LCB
CM
Forward
I think we will get the 2 wing backs we need plus 1 more signing. We’ve got plenty of centre backs, centre mids and forwards so I can’t see us upgrading all 3 of those positions. The others can wait till the summer when the market is a lot easier
Just adding the 2 wing backs will be enough to keep us up in my opinion. Means Bell can return to LCB where he is best, and then we will look a different team. Any signings on top of that are a bonus3 -
As well as the obvious issues at wing back, which need to be addressed in the immediate future, I can’t get away from believing we desperately need a striker.
The hopes of Godden coming back fit and firing is not fair. A 34 year old who hasn’t played since the end of May, and it’s been a knee injury, it screams of desperation and a team pinning survival hopes on someone who we don’t know will cope with the relentlessness of the league now they’ve had this injury and time out, despite their previous experience and nous.
Kelman is a great finisher but needs a proper partner. Leaburn is so hot and cold and yet has only scored the 1 goal in the league. Tanto has great attributes but can’t score either. Campbell for all the great things he brings to us, he is not a striker.
If we want to ensure we survive and have a decent second half to the season, we need a striker to come in. Someone who can get amongst defenders, be physical, and score a handful of goals.
Only 2 teams have scored fewer than us. One is 100% going down, the other is occupying another of the relegation spots and we face them next.
We can say about the balance of the team and the wing backs, that’s true, and we can say about the gaps in midfield or lack of creativity or quality of someone really getting hold of the ball, that’s also true. But if you can’t put the ball in the net, you aren’t going to get the points you need. A proper striker is a must.24 -
2 wingbacks and a striker would be a good start , if I'm getting greedy then LCB and a box to box CM on top of that would round things off.
Realise with having Carey, Knibbs,Fullah and Berry we aren't signing another creator.0 -
I honestly don’t think we need a striker, I think we come up short because our creativity is so poor. We rarely carve out chances from our own play, we tend to score from pouncing on mistakes rather than having a good spell of possession and then scoring.
If our current strikers weren’t feeding off scraps then they’d probably score more.8 -
Let’s look at like this and it might change your opinion.
Godden, not played for 7 months.
Leaburn and Tanto, not played at this level before this season, has 2 goals between them.
Kelman, despite being out for 8 weeks due to injury, was the last the striker to score for us before he came back and scored on his return.
If we have someone better, stronger, able to hold the ball more effectively, the rest of the team can push up and we don’t need to rely on pressing so high and exerting so much energy on when we don’t have the ball.
Our most creative, attacking and threatening players have been playing at wing back or asked to run at high intensity for much of the game. By the time they’ve got the ball, they’re either too deep or too shattered to do anything meaningful with it, hence why TC looks better off the bench.
If we have a better striker, we shift up the pitch a good 10-20 yards and suddenly everyone looks better, we have less gaps in midfield as we don’t need to press so hard, we have more energy to do something creative, and we have the better players in the areas we want.19 -
You are 100% correct, but signing a good striker in January is not an easy task. It’s the most in demand position in this window, and we are at the bottom of the championship food chain. I’m hoping we can get a wing back sorted early as that’s what we desperately need, and then maybe add another wing back and a striker later in the windowSage said:Let’s look at like this and it might change your opinion.
Godden, not played for 7 months.
Leaburn and Tanto, not played at this level before this season, has 2 goals between them.
Kelman, despite being out for 8 weeks due to injury, was the last the striker to score for us before he came back and scored on his return.
If we have someone better, stronger, able to hold the ball more effectively, the rest of the team can push up and we don’t need to rely on pressing so high and exerting so much energy on when we don’t have the ball.
Our most creative, attacking and threatening players have been playing at wing back or asked to run at high intensity for much of the game. By the time they’ve got the ball, they’re either too deep or too shattered to do anything meaningful with it, hence why TC looks better off the bench.
If we have a better striker, we shift up the pitch a good 10-20 yards and suddenly everyone looks better, we have less gaps in midfield as we don’t need to press so hard, we have more energy to do something creative, and we have the better players in the areas we want.
Our problem is can we attract a good striker that can do what you say? I’m not sure, but if we do it’s going to have to be late in the window when the rest of the league has had first pick1 -
When we had a balanced team and our system we were easily good enough to stay clear of the drop. So for me wing back has to be the first priority, then I’d look at the attack5
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Our tipping point that might help in January is the fact we aren't necessarily looking for a goalscoring striker like a lot of clubs, we're looking for a facilitator
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I know what you mean, strikers that score goals are so overrated nowadays.sam3110 said:Our tipping point that might help in January is the fact we aren't necessarily looking for a goalscoring striker like a lot of clubs, we're looking for a facilitator7 -
I wish I could "like" a post more than once.Sage said:As well as the obvious issues at wing back, which need to be addressed in the immediate future, I can’t get away from believing we desperately need a striker.
The hopes of Godden coming back fit and firing is not fair. A 34 year old who hasn’t played since the end of May, and it’s been a knee injury, it screams of desperation and a team pinning survival hopes on someone who we don’t know will cope with the relentlessness of the league now they’ve had this injury and time out, despite their previous experience and nous.
Kelman is a great finisher but needs a proper partner. Leaburn is so hot and cold and yet has only scored the 1 goal in the league. Tanto has great attributes but can’t score either. Campbell for all the great things he brings to us, he is not a striker.
If we want to ensure we survive and have a decent second half to the season, we need a striker to come in. Someone who can get amongst defenders, be physical, and score a handful of goals.
Only 2 teams have scored fewer than us. One is 100% going down, the other is occupying another of the relegation spots and we face them next.
We can say about the balance of the team and the wing backs, that’s true, and we can say about the gaps in midfield or lack of creativity or quality of someone really getting hold of the ball, that’s also true. But if you can’t put the ball in the net, you aren’t going to get the points you need. A proper striker is a must.2 -
Any chance Rak Sakyi can get homesick and finish his season long loan early and come back and help turn us from this anti football no skill outfit to one with some actualy attacking threat
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Rarity often determines value. One "like" from you is worth ten from any other poster. You do not hand them out like M & Ms. You don't like anything much, except the past and roast dinner.golfaddick said:
I wish I could "like" a post more than once.10 -
We badly need a striker and a midfielder of quality. Finding either will be difficult .MarcusH26 said:2 wingbacks and a striker would be a good start , if I'm getting greedy then LCB and a box to box CM on top of that would round things off.
Realise with having Carey, Knibbs,Fullah and Berry we aren't signing another creator.Not sure Berry, Knibbs or Carey are creative .2 -
I think Hernandez and Rousillon need to be moved on. Sage makes a good point. Such a tall order to find the right partner for Kelman though. Would we gamble on another good league one player and hope that they can make the step up, or do we have to find someone like a Smozdics who is proven at this level, out of favour but realistically available to us?I don’t know enough about players outside our club to know who fits either. It’s interesting that the Norwich player who scored against us got referenced by Rich Cawley as the sort of player we could benefit from, signed from Lincoln for 1.2m. He looked a bit of a lump to me and surely Norwich would be a lot higher up the table if he was that good. It has happened for him, but who’s to say Tanto couldn’t have turned out to be an effective player for us. Every signing for us is a big gamble.Fingers crossed it’s 3 through the door and one of them is a forward with a proven reputation at this level or above.1
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Nah I wouldn't count them as creative but I could see it being spun that way that we have enough " options" that it's not something NJ and Chapple would look at.wmcf123 said:
We badly need a striker and a midfielder of quality. Finding either will be difficult .MarcusH26 said:2 wingbacks and a striker would be a good start , if I'm getting greedy then LCB and a box to box CM on top of that would round things off.
Realise with having Carey, Knibbs,Fullah and Berry we aren't signing another creator.Not sure Berry, Knibbs or Carey are creative .0 -
Makama did not look like a 'lump' against us. Must have been watching a different game. Very mobile and seemed to have an excellent all round game. Agree that he would have been a risky punt when signing from Lincoln though.cabbles said:I think Hernandez and Rousillon need to be moved on. Sage makes a good point. Such a tall order to find the right partner for Kelman though. Would we gamble on another good league one player and hope that they can make the step up, or do we have to find someone like a Smozdics who is proven at this level, out of favour but realistically available to us?I don’t know enough about players outside our club to know who fits either. It’s interesting that the Norwich player who scored against us got referenced by Rich Cawley as the sort of player we could benefit from, signed from Lincoln for 1.2m. He looked a bit of a lump to me and surely Norwich would be a lot higher up the table if he was that good. It has happened for him, but who’s to say Tanto couldn’t have turned out to be an effective player for us. Every signing for us is a big gamble.Fingers crossed it’s 3 through the door and one of them is a forward with a proven reputation at this level or above.
Best bet this window for getting real quality in is the loan market. Only way we can get quality of CF and CM we need to stay up.
Can then work on some permanent signings in these positions for the summer window8 -
oohaahmortimer said:Any chance Rak Sakyi can get homesick and finish his season long loan early and come back and help turn us from this anti football no skill outfit to one with some actualy attacking threat
And then stick him in at LWB 15 minutes a game11 -
Don’t put ideas into Nathans head.CL_Phantom said:oohaahmortimer said:Any chance Rak Sakyi can get homesick and finish his season long loan early and come back and help turn us from this anti football no skill outfit to one with some actualy attacking threat
And then stick him in at LWB 15 minutes a game0 -
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We don’t need a more creative midfield player, we just need to be able to play our normal system. A good system creates more chances than any creative midfielder that we could sign on our budget. When we had a proper team in our usual system, we created enough chances to win games
A proper wing back signing would transform this team more than a new creative midfielder or striker would. As we already know with proper wing backs we were a very good team at this level, so we just need to get back to that and then we will create more and score more like we were before5 -
No point with JRS. He's a winger and we dont play with wingers (for some reason as we are full of them)
Dykes or a similar striker in that mould would be a start for the way we play. I like the strikers we have..Tanto as an example is doing things right and will get more goals. Same as Kelman but Leaburn cant be the only "lump" up top.
CB (1 at least) and an athletic CM is also needed.0 -
I've figured out what we really need is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSm1poMBND4&list=RDWSm1poMBND4&start_radio=1 2 -
Ogbene (currently on loan at Sheffield United) is going to be available again this window. Think he’d be ideal for a bit of pace at RWB for us5
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At that price, it’s possible that we were interested.MickeyBennett said:
Makama did not look like a 'lump' against us. Must have been watching a different game. Very mobile and seemed to have an excellent all round game. Agree that he would have been a risky punt when signing from Lincoln though.cabbles said:I think Hernandez and Rousillon need to be moved on. Sage makes a good point. Such a tall order to find the right partner for Kelman though. Would we gamble on another good league one player and hope that they can make the step up, or do we have to find someone like a Smozdics who is proven at this level, out of favour but realistically available to us?I don’t know enough about players outside our club to know who fits either. It’s interesting that the Norwich player who scored against us got referenced by Rich Cawley as the sort of player we could benefit from, signed from Lincoln for 1.2m. He looked a bit of a lump to me and surely Norwich would be a lot higher up the table if he was that good. It has happened for him, but who’s to say Tanto couldn’t have turned out to be an effective player for us. Every signing for us is a big gamble.Fingers crossed it’s 3 through the door and one of them is a forward with a proven reputation at this level or above.
Best bet this window for getting real quality in is the loan market. Only way we can get quality of CF and CM we need to stay up.
Can then work on some permanent signings in these positions for the summer window
Unfortunately though, if the choice is between Norwich (pre season shout of playoffs) or the team just promoted via playoffs, I know where I’d choose to go.4 -
I assume we are not signing Fukuda, because his season is finished, so we could sign him now and he'd be available for NYD.0
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Fukuda knows🤷♂️Gisappointed said:I assume we are not signing Fukuda, because his season is finished, so we could sign him now and he'd be available for NYD.4 -
Think the rumour is that we wanted him on loan, presuming he would be out of contract in Jan and we’d sign him for free permanently.Gisappointed said:I assume we are not signing Fukuda, because his season is finished, so we could sign him now and he'd be available for NYD.
would be interesting to keep an eye on what happens with him contract wise in Japan- especially as he was making noises he wanted to play at a higher level to get a WC Squad place0 -
If we are relying on a player from the Japanese league that’s never played in England, he needs to be exceptional or we really are in trouble. If he’s exceptional he’s not turning up at charlton.Gisappointed said:I assume we are not signing Fukuda, because his season is finished, so we could sign him now and he'd be available for NYD.0
