Feel free to show me where fans how been asking how the hell we've landed players? And bar allsop, who's got a proven record in this division? Delaps record in the division is poor, twines played 14 games in this league before coming to us. Vinagre played has played 9 I think in this league, Connolly approx 18 games, lokilo 0 games, none of those records bar the GK are proven records in this division and so far they are who we have signed. They all have potential to be good players at this level but none are proven
I would have kept him here and would much rather see him play out wide over the likes of Tufan, Traore or Slater. Specially if the full backs are Coyle and Greaves. But he needs to play.
There’s been loads of comments from rival fans after the Twine/Philogene deals. Also saw some after we signed Vinagre. One of the big championship pages did a poll on which club had the best window and we finished 3rd after Stoke and Birmingham
Where are we with just over 10 hours left in the window... * City working hard to get Philogene deal ratified * A deal to sign James Furlong from Brighton is close * Tyler Morton deal progressing well * There could be a late surprise as the day wears on * Departures expected including Oscar, Fleming and maybe one or two more...
Good advice. If it shut with just those three players, I’d be fine with it. But I think there’ll be a forward that comes in late on that nobody was expecting.
Fair play, I don't really look at other fan pages etc so honestly didn't know. I just go on people I talk to in the industry at other clubs etc and nobody is really mentioning us as doing anything spectacular in the market
The disappointment comes from the promise that we will be getting five new players through the door (on top of Delap, Twine etc) that would give us a chance at pushing us from a team pushing top 10 to a team capable of pushing top 6. LR has encouraged/fuelled that expectation. With 9 hours to go and what we know at the moment, I don’t see the incomings/outgoings resulting in that top 6 push
Did Blackburn even want him back? Most of our business this summer has been players nobody else wanted that Rosenior has previously worked with or loans for players who didn't get much game time or had a unremarkable season last year. None of the loans have options to my knowledge so it's probably more a case of them going somewhere they'll get the most game time and use us a stepping stone. Barring potentially Philogene, we haven't actually signed anyone new who has committed their future to us for the foreseeable that would actually improve us.
As ST said there's often things quickly changing. The club could have kept things a bit more quiet but the issue is that people keep asking so they're damned if they do and damned if they dont.
Out of interest how many loans to championship clubs have options? I dont get this fascination against Loans. Yes it would be nice to own every player on our books especially high performers but it just doesn't work like that anymore
Rosie said he was excited by what was happening and everything would fall into place come the end of the window. If them 3 signings excite Rosie then I can only imagine the disappointment of his mrs on their wedding night
It must just be me but I am pretty happy with the business we have done so far this summer. Clearly players will be leaving and I don’t see it as a good idea to let Oscar go if there are no replacements in place. Overall the players we are linked with sound good options and I think the club is being well run at present. We have to be realistic though and without the parachute payments we are shopping in a whole different market to the top teams in this division I do feel though that when the window shuts we will be stronger.
