Transfer Rumours Summer '23 Transfer Thread

Fair enough, felt like a fair amount of time was sunk into it even while he was here when more realistic targets could have been drawn up.

 

Every coach thinks they can change a player, it is in their DNA. When I was at Doncaster RL we even went to jail to get a player called Ian Bell out of prison and sign him. I then signed him again at Featherstone. He had the potential to be a world beater, he would have won everything in the game if he was not the person he is mentally.
A quick google search now will show you where he ended up in life if you are not already familiar with his work.

I imagine LR thought he could take Malcolm from London and away from his mates, put his arm round him and make him happy by taking him to the Deep and Minerva on their days off etc etc. As we all saw he didnt want to be here from day one. He got it completely wrong, like we did with Belly. 4 tries on his debut for Fev against Leigh, asked the owner for his win pay after the game to buy his daughter a new bike then never came to training again cos he went on a huge bender!!!

I would wager Malcolm will be gone from professional football within a couple of years and playing for Dulwich Hamlet or some other type of club.

 

that's why they have a recruitment team

 

I think it maybe came across that way due to the fact it was talked about from before the end of last season, so seems to have been a long time.

 

If we'd have sold a couple of players we might have had a chance of signing him or at least coming a bit closer to his terms but as it stands no-one has left yet.

 

Highly doubt it!
If (when) he's offered a longer term contract on better money I'd wager he'd bite our hands off. A player can't "wait a few years", he'll want better security and money as soon as, for various reasons, and he'd be daft to take such a risk of not wanting a longer contract on higher money (risk as in the risk of getting a bad injury). If he continues to develop as we expect, things will look after themselves for him, no problem (injury permitting).

 

I can't even think of many names for a GK that we might get.

 

And surely the fact we’ve not signed a Keeper points to we were hoping for darlow?

 

I think it'll be a prem loan once the snowball effects starts later in the window

 

Ah OK so we've signed another keeper?

 

he's just signed a new contract 3 years + 1 year club option

 

no. we are looking to get somebody cheaper than the cheapest

 

£1200 a week plus whatever other contractual bonuses there are is not bad going for an 18 year old who broke through last season.

 

Heaton still on the agenda?

 

I dont know whether that is his old contract or his newly signed contract or whether there are yearly increases

 

I don't think so, but things as always can change

 

Shame we weren’t looking at Rushworth from Brighton

 

Darlow is a dead parrot - please no more it’s been done to death !!!

 

He probably doesn’t want to fit kitchens.
He’s currently got a decent potential, we have him under contract, if he does good again, we can offer him better terms.
The ball’s currently very much in our court, so if he goes, it’ll be because someone’s paying us a decent wedge to get him.

 

Big Tim keeps putting his hand up at the back of the class but Liam ignores him.