Transfer Rumours January '22 Transfer Thread

Hear a Rumour one of our loan players is off to Cardiff, most likely Longman

 

Surely Matt Smith is the logical one..?

 

Baz is also suggesting interest in Danilo.

 

I think we would need to be lucky for that to happen. First criteria will be they have to pay us to play.

 

Whatever you think of McCann, and he did a fantastic job last year, he was dealt a s**t hand in the January transfer window when we sold Bowen and Grosiski. He is currently in that exact same boat, being asked to deliver championship performances with a predominantly L1 squad, you have got to have some sympathy for him.

 

On the flip side, when he has been allowed to bring people in, they just haven't been good enough... Wasted loan deals Matty Smith, signings Andy Cannon, George Moncur, Randell Williams.... in fact come to think of it we likely haven't taken up our quote of loan options (correct me if im wrong) and whats the common denominator in the failures!!?

 

If I liked your post some would interpret that as a weakening in my stance. I'll grant you his job is not being made any easier by all this shenanigans or by having Allam as a boss.

 

Not sure you can say Williams isn't good enough when he was one of the best when he finally came on against Stoke?
I think he's done a reasonable job when asked to tbh

 

Some of the players he’s brought in might not be good enough but when it’s a choice between them and nothing what else can he do. He’s hamstrung by the budget.

 

Who was the trialist who scored twice for the reserves?

 

I think Williams has a good deal of potential to be a starter. Not sure why McCann persisted with Wilks in front of him for the first half of this season

 

Oh I agree fully Den.... but the chances to play him have been numerous... and seemingly not in the managers plans...

 

I agree on this because how many of the signings have got in the first team but the only thing I will say is that because of the budget he wasn’t going to get many established championship players so gambled on lower league players hoping they would become good. In hindsight he would have been better bringing in less players but more proven players at this level but then you have a smaller squad. It’s difficult with a low budget.

 

U18s - 2 goals from A Trialist.

Sign him up!

 

Ah, understood

 

I think it's difficult to question the signings personally, they were pretty good considering the budget.

The budget is the problem, not the signings. I think the transfer market is without a doubt one of Grant's biggest strengths, I actually feel it's the only thing keeping us competitive. When you look at what we spent this summer and where the lads had come from I think it's gone pretty well.

Baxter, and Longman have been fantastic, Bernard has done okay as have Tyler and Randell, Moncur and Cannon. It's sort of what it is on the current budget, we've not been helped by injuries either but still have a nice little cushion above the bottom 3

 

I see the signings as very different to you.

Baxter has been a very good signing and unlike others, have been impressed by Bernard, although his form is patchy.

Everyone else has been in and out of the team so much, its difficult to get a handle on them. As it stands, I don't feel as though any of them were better than what we already had.

 

I would add we don' have much of a cushion above the bottom three.

 

Can I ask what you expected?

The signings were mainly about adding more depth and that was done successful and the hope was that our key players would step up to the Championship.

I don't think we signed anyone that another Championship side was interested in. Maybe Longman, I think he was linked with Forest. But apart from that we were proper scraping the barrel. Most the signings had to step up a least 1 level and the couple we signed from championship clubs had been released by lesser sides