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Pelling1993 said:

fenaddick said:

One last deal!

https://www.cafc.co.uk/news/otto-tiitinen-joins-addicks-academy

I understand due to the standard of the leagues it's a career progression. But to go from playing in the Europa League to playing for our U21s must be weird for the lad.

Also find this really odd, hopefully there’s an expectation to get him into the first team. Maybe to replace Apter in January. 

WSS said:

I struggle to see how/why he'd join if there wasn't a chance he'd be in and around the first team squad.

I think it avoids another Dixon situation. He wasn't at the level for L1 and once we went up at the end of his first season it was clear he was never going to feature for us. It probably would have been better for all parties if he'd just been able to go back home and look for another move but instead we had to send him out on more loans before finding a buyer for him and we likely lost money overall on that deal. If Otto is nowhere near it he'll go home and not be a teenager stuck in a foreign country trying to find a transfer and if it goes well we'll sign him permanently

fenaddick said:

Train with the first team, get game time with the U21's and adapt to life in England. If it doesn't go well, go back to Scandinavia. I also thought it was weird at first but I kind of like it as it gives all parties a chance to assess things 

Exactly this, i don't think it's weird at all. I'd imagine any 18 year old kid from the Nordic countries would jump at the chance to join an English team, especially one with a good track record of progressing youth players to its first team.

Also the Finnish league season runs from April to November, so in 2 months time he'd have nothing to do.

He's in the shop window to earn himself a contract, and if it doesn't work out he just goes back to Finland. Even if we don't end up taking him on, he might show enough in an U21 game that another English team takes a punt on him. So i don't think he really has much to lose by coming here.

DubaiCAFC said:

thewolfboy said:

No Dobbo in the Wrexham squad. Off to Scotland?

And?? Seriously we need to get over Dobson. Club has moved on. Wrexham are moving on.
Yes he was great for us, but he wouldn’t get in this team. 

He is a top end league one player like Doc.
Admin, if anyone suggests he is better than Cov, can we please put them on a ban.. 

I have instructed my son The Wolfboy to monitor Dobson's career closely, in preparation for his glorious return to Charlton, when he will captain us to promotion to the Premier League. By this point we will have no further use for Coventry and will arrange a free transfer for him to Sligo.

fenaddick said:

Train with the first team, get game time with the U21's and adapt to life in England. If it doesn't go well, go back to Scandinavia. I also thought it was weird at first but I kind of like it as it gives all parties a chance to assess things 

So Finland is in Scandinavia? Where do you place England, in the Balkans?

What position in the midfield? 

Even though it's not a part of Scandinavia, it was under Swedish rule for a while, and shares landmass with the Scandi countries, so it's not that much of a stretch

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