Transfer Rumours Summer 2024 transfer thread

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Deano's Volley said:
Not irrelevant at all, a bunch of kids who are terrified to pass forward and getting outmuscled and play the system compared to when our senior players played against Fenerbache in the first 40 mins.
Nearly every system wouldn't work against full time pro's when using 17 year olds with it.
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It was a young side for sure .... but there was only one 17 year old (who imo should not have been playing without experience around him as he was out of his depth, as good a prospect as he is), one 19 year old. The rest were over 20. Average age was close to 22.
 
Tiger15 said:
Starting to worry a tad but hopefully next two weeks we get numbers and quality in. Striker, centre half, midfield beast and winger needed as minimum and that’s without having any options coming off the bench - Oscar may well score goals for us this season but to go from Delap to Oscar worries me too, given that with his back to goal, he’s pretty dreadful. Lots to be done in a short space of time.
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Oscar scored more than delap.
 
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Deano's Volley said:
Not irrelevant at all, a bunch of kids who are terrified to pass forward and getting outmuscled and play the system compared to when our senior players played against Fenerbache in the first 40 mins.
Nearly every system wouldn't work against full time pro's when using 17 year olds with it.
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Worked for Liverpool kids in the cup
 
Shark Sports said:
That's a bit of a joke though when we've had the full pre-season.

Tim could be under an awful lot of pressure by that point. It's a complex style to learn and not something that can be done overnight. He needs 4/5 decent players in before Bristol City so he's got a fighting chance.

With these pre season games, he could be starting the season under pressure from the fans. We desperately need a left sided centre half, a holding midfielder, a box to box midfielder and at least one winger to make it competitive. There's no time for patience, they've had months to prep this.
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It's the same circus every preseason/window. Especially on here.

The same folk losing their minds has become the norm but every year it's a shambles and you'd have planned better yadda yadda.

I've said before you have no idea how competitive talent markets work in practice and you just constantly reinforce that view.
 
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Tiger15 said:
Not my point, who’s the better player?
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Delap more consistent, more rounded player. Oscar more of a specialist goalscorer albeit a streaky one.

Delap is the better player but we couldn't sign him as a permanent once the prem came calling. He was always a loan, never ours so I don't see the relevance of your comparison.

It's not like we've even replaced Delap with Oscar, as we know we're in for another pair of strikers, so judge it when it happens.
 
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Mckechnie Orange said:
Delap more consistent, more rounded player. Oscar more of a specialist goalscorer albeit a streaky one.

Delap is the better player but we couldn't sign him as a permanent once the prem came calling. He was always a loan, never ours so I don't see the relevance of your comparison.

It's not like we've even replaced Delap with Oscar, as we know we're in for another pair of strikers, so judge it when it happens.
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the goals per game difference is minimal and regarding the comparison, not sure how it’s irrelevant to say our current best striker option is inferior to the one we started last season with. I’ve already said we need a striker and will judge after the next few weeks, just that there’s lots to do in a short time frame.
 
Tiger15 said:
the goals per game difference is minimal and regarding the comparison, not sure how it’s irrelevant to say our current best striker option is inferior to the one we started last season with. I’ve already said we need a striker and will judge after the next few weeks, just that there’s lots to do in a short time frame.
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Because we won't be finishing the window with 1 striker, so whether we're stronger or weaker in that position is yet to be seen. The club are actively recruiting in that area, it's.been confirmed. It's not opinion.

But yes, there is a lot to do in a few short weeks. Let's see how they get on.
 
Mckechnie Orange said:
Because we won't be finishing the window with 1 striker, so whether we're stronger or weaker in that position is yet to be seen.
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Almost like that’s exactly what I said in my first post. It shows the amount of work still left to do. Surely discussions on the current state of the squad and transfers needed are allowed on a fans forum about transfers.
 
Tiger15 said:
Almost like that’s exactly what I said in my first post. It shows the amount of work still left to do. Surely discussions on the current state of the squad and transfers needed are allowed on a fans forum about transfers.
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Discussion on what we need, discussion on players linked all fair enough, but a pretty big proportion of this board are behaving as though this is gonna be our squad, which clearly won't be the case.
 
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Mckechnie Orange said:
Discussion on what we need, discussion on players linked all fair enough, but a pretty big proportion of this board are behaving as though this is gonna be our squad, which clearly won't be the case.
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I said I was getting a tad worried with the amount of work still left to do with not long until the season and identified a few areas I think we need as a priority to be competitive. Nothing more than that. A lot to do in a short time but unfair to judge before that time has passed.
 
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Tiger15 said:
I said I was getting a tad worried with the amount of work still left to do with not long until the season and identified a few areas I think we need as a priority to be competitive. Nothing more than that. A lot to do in a short time but unfair to judge before that time has passed.
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Suspect we'll be waiting until August to see what the shape of the squad is really going to look like. Though we need some in the next couple of weeks or well be playing catch-up. Middlesboro went through something similar last season and ended up in contention despite a slow start and I'd back them to be stronger this season, so it may take time.
 
Ric Glasgow said:
Nothing much doing on the Transfer Thread...Thought I'd pop over to the Bedwetters v Strawclutchers thread.

Nothing much doing on here either!!
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We should just call this thread that every window because it's inevitably the same every year.

You'd have thought some would have learned, especially as last year we'd have been lucky to finish 14th based on this forum exactly12 months ago.
 
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Ric Glasgow said:
Nothing much doing on the Transfer Thread...Thought I'd pop over to the Bedwetters v Strawclutchers thread.

Nothing much doing on here either!!
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Ryan Giles not doing much either, just seen him shopping on Kingswood, some git shouted 'it's smoggy around here', sometimes I can't help myself. :emoticon-0125-mmm:


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