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Magnus Okuonghae

CafcWest
CafcWest Posts: 6,165
edited June 2011 in Rumours
At least a few will be happy (!) we are after a defender: http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11684_6970701,00.html

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  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,516
    What is our obsession with Dagenham and Redbridge players past and present??? ;-)
  • ISawLeaburnScore
    ISawLeaburnScore Posts: 9,779
    Struggling to remember him playing against us... though was he the one who literally was completely terrorised when Norwich ran amok there last season?
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    Yet another Dagger with a lot of potential and a nice price on his head. John Still should be sitting in Powell's chair now. He knows what he's doing at this level and has the ability to make silk purses from sow's ears and to polish rough diamonds into valuable gemstones. Excuse the mixing of metaphors  
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    Checked a few sites and it looks like he hasn't played since November?
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,933
    I remember him. He's the Colchester defender who is built like a brick outhouse. Always been impressed with him and is a bit quicker than what we have - would complement Doherty or Dailly well.
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    If John Still is so good - and has so many sought after players, how come they got relegated?

  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,658
    We tried to sign him when he moved to Colchester, if I recall correctly. Think he confirmed that he turned us down for whatever reason.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    If John Still is so good - and has so many sought after players, how come they got relegated?

    you could equally ask: how did they climb out of the conference and into the football league?. And, they were relegated along with a team who beat us in the play offs the previous year, And they ran on reportedly the lowest budget in the division, And, the fact that Still had continually to sell players to make ends meet fatally weakened the daggers survival prospects.
  • EpsomAddick
    EpsomAddick Posts: 2,555
    There's a limit to what he can do Vincenzo, this level was always going to be very tough for a club as small as Dagenham & Redbridge. Getting into it was a major achievement in the first place. 

    He seems to have the whiff of Sam Sodje about him, which may or may not be a good thing.
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051
    If John Still is so good - and has so many sought after players, how come they got relegated?

    you could equally ask: how did they climb out of the conference and into the football league?. And, they were relegated along with a team who beat us in the play offs the previous year, And they ran on reportedly the lowest budget in the division, And, the fact that Still had continually to sell players to make ends meet fatally weakened the daggers survival prospects.
    So does he have the ability to make silk purses out of sow's ears or not?  At best unproven at this level, and certainly with the expectation being at a club like ours will bring.
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  • Marriott110
    Marriott110 Posts: 1,528
    looks like a massive brute i want him.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    looks like a massive brute i want him.
    Oh er!
  • gilbertfilbert
    gilbertfilbert Posts: 2,282
    looks like a massive brute i want him.
    Of course you do, but should Charlton sign him?

    ;-)
  • Marriott110
    Marriott110 Posts: 1,528
    I Didn't cover myself to well there. let me rephrase

    'Looks like a massive brute i want him to represent charlton athletic football club and have no sexual contact with me unless were promoted'
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,612
    I Didn't cover myself to well there. let me rephrase

    'Looks like a massive brute i want him to represent charlton athletic football club and have no sexual contact with me unless were promoted'




    @Marriott

    What about a decent cup run ? ;0)
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,782
    Do you think that when his mum was pregnant with him, her & her husband were sitting playing scrabble whilst also deciding on a name for their future child?
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    If John Still is so good - and has so many sought after players, how come they got relegated?

    you could equally ask: how did they climb out of the conference and into the football league?. And, they were relegated along with a team who beat us in the play offs the previous year, And they ran on reportedly the lowest budget in the division, And, the fact that Still had continually to sell players to make ends meet fatally weakened the daggers survival prospects.
    So does he have the ability to make silk purses out of sow's ears or not?  At best unproven at this level, and certainly with the expectation being at a club like ours will bring.
    what's 'expectation' got to do with it?  A manager selects a team to go out and win football matches. Said manager should expect his team to win be It Manchester United or the Dog and Piddle
  • OhEddieYouds
    OhEddieYouds Posts: 744
    Lets hope any 2nd bid we make for this guy comes off. It would send out a positive message to other potential signings i.e. the likes of Hayes & Wiggins etc if they see us strengthening the squad in other areas.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    I remember him from Colchester - quite liked him at the time I remember. Might be an interesting physical defence with him, Mambo, Francis and Youga although I know many would question the quality.
  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,658

    East Anglian Daily Times reporter Stuart Watson doesn't think there's anything in this story and thinks its probably just talk from his agent.

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  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,796
    I think I've decided, Twitter is making it worse
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345

    Twitter is utter Tosh f f s, bullshit for bird brains

  • ISawLeaburnScore
    ISawLeaburnScore Posts: 9,779
    problem is Lincs it isn't

    There are as many wind-ups/know it all's in their bedrooms as there are on forums and on football rumours, but twitter is now a rolling news channel, a newspaper edition that comes out on the hour and every journalist's (from Henry Winter to the bloke who covers non-league in the local rag) "you heard it here first" platform - there is a lot of rubbish in it, but it's now the first place that news breaks 
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,796
    What I mean by making it worse, is that the types who hang about on FR are now hanging about on Twitter believing everything on there now.

    Leave Twitter alone, it's good fun
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    What I mean by making it worse, is that the types who hang about on FR are now hanging about on Twitter believing everything on there now.


    Leave Twitter alone, it's good fun
    I dont know where you find the time !!. He who runs twitter runs the world, Orwell was right
  • ashford addick
    ashford addick Posts: 599
    From Sky sports...   Addicks bid rejected 
  • oaksaddick
    oaksaddick Posts: 66
    Does anyone know how much we've offered for him?
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    RichCawleySLP twitter confirms we definitely had a bid rejected, and he believes it's likely we will make another bid.
  • DartfordAddick
    DartfordAddick Posts: 1,085

    Like the look of him, certainly fits CP's vision of adding more 'physical presence' to the side.

    Make another bid and sign him I say, unless they want stupid money, in which case. sod off.

  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/colchester_united/9407559.stm

    Was an ankle injury that kept him out since November. We must be confident he will completely recover, doesn't look like he'll be cheap.

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