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  • MickeyBennett
    MickeyBennett Posts: 812
    cafc_se7 said:
    21cws said:
    mart77 said:
    21cws said:
    @stjohnshill the midfielder you mentioned to being close. Free signing? 
    Is it Sam Morsy?
    mart77 said:
    21cws said:
    @stjohnshill the midfielder you mentioned to being close. Free signing? 
    Is it Sam Morsy?
    Not the name I’ve been told 
    I’m going to guess either Luongo or Smallbone.
    Why not both? 😋

    Add in Jamie Allen and we have a brand new midfield without spending a penny on transfer fees #cheapaschips
  • Sword65pf
    Sword65pf Posts: 2,274
    edited July 25
    Frustrating to hear our last 2 signings are 3 weeks behind and probably doubtful as starters for the season, on top of various injuries to potential starters. Especially after what we saw today. Other clubs know they can play hard ball on us, with our quotes of not being able to compete financially, they know if they hang on we are going to get desperate. I wonder if we wanted kamara , but now we’re onto Alli as plan b. Yet that position I’d suggest isn’t our biggest issue.I know it’s not done in order of needs, but we knew what we needed last season. I’ve advocated patience but that has pissed me off more than it should today and the post match comments didn’t help.
  • 21cws
    21cws Posts: 240
    Nope 👎🏻 
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 11,200
    Mannion moved house during the summer. That wouldn’t suggest that he wants to leave
  • CB1
    CB1 Posts: 384
    Millenic Alli set to sign for a fee of 1.5 million according to efl published exclusive. Tidy little addition that in my personal opinion. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,835
    RedRobin said:
    Listening to Cawley and Louis’ pod, Rich mentions Kamara is likely an end of the window move and Holsgrove might be too expensive for us but hasn’t ruled it out. 
    I don't understand the logic here. 

    If Kamara is a player we actually want, then surely you just go and get him now before Pompey do? Hull clearly want to sell, they've named a price, they're putting him in the shop window in pre-season. 

    I wish the club made a mini series on our summer transfer business. We have known our league status since April, yet our squad quality mostly looks league 1.
    The impression from Cawley is that it's more the player hoping to still be in Hull's Premier League plans.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,951
    Mannion moved house during the summer. That wouldn’t suggest that he wants to leave
    Depends, where did he move to?
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,714
    Talal said:
    Mannion moved house during the summer. That wouldn’t suggest that he wants to leave
    Depends, where did he move to?
    Sheffield

  • MickeyBennett
    MickeyBennett Posts: 812
    Talal said:
    Mannion moved house during the summer. That wouldn’t suggest that he wants to leave
    Depends, where did he move to?
    My estate agent contact says it was a lovely 3 bed terraced house in Penge
  • Braziliance
    Braziliance Posts: 8,947
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  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 14,655
    Mannion moved house during the summer. That wouldn’t suggest that he wants to leave
    Except that he moved to Blackpool
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,831
    mart77 said:
    Really starting to think those unknown messages were Stjohnshill. 

    Getting worried he’s behind a paywall now.
    It was a troll I believe, whom I think many were glad to see the back of.
    Ronnies gone ?  :o:o:o
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 53,091
    Mannion moved house during the summer. That wouldn’t suggest that he wants to leave
    It would if he moved some distance away.
  • Crispywood
    Crispywood Posts: 2,557
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    If this is real relegate us tomorrow 
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,831
    Mannion sold, Kaminski understudy, new number 1… would be alright 
    That is the type of ruthless activity I thought we would see this summer. I.e the likes of Kaminski, Leaburn, Knibbs & Coventry etc replaced with better.

    ….& what we really should do if we want to kick on & progress.
    NJ said he was going to be ruthless this summer, so sorry but goodbye Macaulay, Karoy & Mitch
  • AberystwythAddick
    AberystwythAddick Posts: 1,995
    Allis stats make for poor reading.

    It seems a really odd signing if true 
  • Southbank
    Southbank Posts: 5,807
    J BLOCK said:
    Mannion sold, Kaminski understudy, new number 1… would be alright 
    That is the type of ruthless activity I thought we would see this summer. I.e the likes of Kaminski, Leaburn, Knibbs & Coventry etc replaced with better.

    ….& what we really should do if we want to kick on & progress.
    This with absolute bells on. Alarms bells will be ringing if we sign Coady and Dykes. 
    Not if we sign two decent mids at the same time
  • Southbank
    Southbank Posts: 5,807
    RedRobin said:
    Listening to Cawley and Louis’ pod, Rich mentions Kamara is likely an end of the window move and Holsgrove might be too expensive for us but hasn’t ruled it out. 
    If we have to wait til the end of the window we will be 0 points from 5 with the current squad by then. It is mediocre at best just now.
  • NabySarr
    NabySarr Posts: 6,212
    I think Alli is fine, but I'd still be looking at a Kamara or Rak Sakyi level player to start on that side and then Alli is a bit of a wildcard bench option 

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  • NabySarr
    NabySarr Posts: 6,212
    Southbank said:
    RedRobin said:
    Listening to Cawley and Louis’ pod, Rich mentions Kamara is likely an end of the window move and Holsgrove might be too expensive for us but hasn’t ruled it out. 
    If we have to wait til the end of the window we will be 0 points from 5 with the current squad by then. It is mediocre at best just now.
    We have pretty much the same players that started the season last year, we probably have a better squad now than we did last August against Watford. Don’t think we got 0 points then did we? 
  • Sword65pf
    Sword65pf Posts: 2,274
    NabySarr said:
    Allis stats make for poor reading.

    It seems a really odd signing if true 
    Jones has been saying for months we want to add pace and 1v1 ability in wide areas. So it’s really not that odd 

    Fans expecting us to sign a player with that who is also scoring 10 goals a season or getting loads of assists are deluded unfortunately. That’s just never going to happen. It’s why the stick TC gets is ridiculous because he’s better than most wingers we’d be able to sign and he’s still only young so can get a lot better 
    NJ always says a player has to be categorically better than what we have, is Alli categorically better than Apter? For example, it’s a genuine question as I don’t know, it feels like we are scraping the barrel a bit, I have nothing to substantiate that other than a feeling. At some point we have to spend/pay the going price for the quality we need if we want to be competitive, not every sustainable signing is going to come up trumps, if we keep gambling with this approach we will shoot ourselves in the foot. Rumours of coady and Dykes are not going to calm people down I don’t think.
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,740
    edited July 25
    NabySarr said:
    Southbank said:
    RedRobin said:
    Listening to Cawley and Louis’ pod, Rich mentions Kamara is likely an end of the window move and Holsgrove might be too expensive for us but hasn’t ruled it out. 
    If we have to wait til the end of the window we will be 0 points from 5 with the current squad by then. It is mediocre at best just now.
    We have pretty much the same players that started the season last year, we probably have a better squad now than we did last August against Watford. Don’t think we got 0 points then did we? 
    Last year we got off to a great start and showed form that we never got particularly close to matching at any other point of the season suggesting that statistically/in probability it was something of a fluke.


    0 from 5 is probably catastrophising it somewhat but we still need to improve considerably or it will be a season spent looking over our shoulders.

    I actually don't think right now that we are definitely going down with the current squad but I do think it is quite possible and even probable as it stands.
  • YannTheMann
    YannTheMann Posts: 1,619
    NabySarr said:
    Southbank said:
    RedRobin said:
    Listening to Cawley and Louis’ pod, Rich mentions Kamara is likely an end of the window move and Holsgrove might be too expensive for us but hasn’t ruled it out. 
    If we have to wait til the end of the window we will be 0 points from 5 with the current squad by then. It is mediocre at best just now.
    We have pretty much the same players that started the season last year, we probably have a better squad now than we did last August against Watford. Don’t think we got 0 points then did we? 

    We also had the benefit of being on an amazing run & confidence being sky high from winning the playoffs, pushing the water more uphill this season in that regard 
  • ns9
    ns9 Posts: 113
    edited July 25
    What I don’t understand is that, among the talk of a reduced budget, it looks like on the transfer fee side we actually seem to have very, very little budget based on what we’ve spent so far. Even if Alli comes in for £1.5m that’s hardly significant.

    I fully appreciate our wage budget has probably increased slightly - not massively - but at this rate it doesn’t look like even the £12m TV money will go on transfer fees. Probably well short unless the midfielders we bring in are for decent fees (which sounds unlikely)
  • CB1
    CB1 Posts: 384
    Anyway who is this mystery midfielder then? @stjohnshill
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,590
    edited July 25
    Talal said:
    Mannion moved house during the summer. That wouldn’t suggest that he wants to leave
    Depends, where did he move to?
    My estate agent contact says it was a lovely 3 bed terraced house in Penge
    The Patels are raging . 
  • NabySarr
    NabySarr Posts: 6,212
    NabySarr said:
    Southbank said:
    RedRobin said:
    Listening to Cawley and Louis’ pod, Rich mentions Kamara is likely an end of the window move and Holsgrove might be too expensive for us but hasn’t ruled it out. 
    If we have to wait til the end of the window we will be 0 points from 5 with the current squad by then. It is mediocre at best just now.
    We have pretty much the same players that started the season last year, we probably have a better squad now than we did last August against Watford. Don’t think we got 0 points then did we? 

    We also had the benefit of being on an amazing run & confidence being sky high from winning the playoffs, pushing the water more uphill this season in that regard 
    Yes of course, but it's not like this squad is incapable of getting results in the championship. Some serious doom and gloom about when we have a better squad than we did last season at this stage, and we are obviously still working to bring more in
  • daveydanger
    daveydanger Posts: 1,412
    Surely we’re well below what we spent last summer? Even accounting for higher wages. 


  • YannTheMann
    YannTheMann Posts: 1,619
    NabySarr said:
    NabySarr said:
    Southbank said:
    RedRobin said:
    Listening to Cawley and Louis’ pod, Rich mentions Kamara is likely an end of the window move and Holsgrove might be too expensive for us but hasn’t ruled it out. 
    If we have to wait til the end of the window we will be 0 points from 5 with the current squad by then. It is mediocre at best just now.
    We have pretty much the same players that started the season last year, we probably have a better squad now than we did last August against Watford. Don’t think we got 0 points then did we? 

    We also had the benefit of being on an amazing run & confidence being sky high from winning the playoffs, pushing the water more uphill this season in that regard 
    Yes of course, but it's not like this squad is incapable of getting results in the championship. Some serious doom and gloom about when we have a better squad than we did last season at this stage, and we are obviously still working to bring more in

    I think the doom & gloom is uderstandable as of this moment given this current squad looks quite weak in the centre of the park, but the vibe could change quickly if we get some quality in