Transfer Rumours Summer Transfer window

I'd probably hold off on the youngsters and just pick up a more seasoned option. We've got to keep one eye on Matty Young. Managing him through to first team will be tough if we can stick about in the PL. We got lucky when Pickford turned up as there was no way that Moyes was giving him the shirt without the injury to Mannone. Another young keeper in the mix probably just muddies the waters

 

Patto 100% deserves to be our number 1 to start next season and see how he adapts to the premier league. I'd absolutely hate for us to replace him. His form improved drastically towards the end of the season once he'd shifted some weight. And even if it hadn't, the save from Keiffer Moore in the 2nd minute of the playoff final was enough for me to see him as a legend. Its up with Monty in my eyes (I'm too young to have experienced that live).

Being a premier league club with your own academy keeper is a special privilege. And we have a fairly unique opportunity to grow as a premier league club with "one of our own" in goal. And maybe even as backup and successor in Young.

But as debated yesterday I do want a better back up to him for the immediate, someone who is ready to take over should Patto get injured or have a poor run of form. A young goalkeeper who has had first team experience but will relish the opportunity to be in the premier league and with no prospect of a world cup call up so will settle for a place on the bench training with a PL club and the "best GK coach in the UK" (hanging a lot on Nixon for that one )

 

100% this

 

WHERE’S THE SIGNINGS? KYRIL & SPEAKMAN OUT!

But seriously, hoping for a busy couple of weeks from us!

 

I'm more keen to see contract extensions than signings right now. We know signings will come. There's no guarantee that long deals for Neil, Rigg, Cirkin etc will

 

Rigg 3 year extension on his birthday will do me just fine

 

So the Youtube the lad had was 'The Exiled Mackem', the channel has been deleted but he was on an SAFC Fan TV video

Now if you look at his Rangers YouTube, Glasgow Rangers Nation, you can see that it's the same bloke

Absolute grifter.

 

Rigg being a lefty and Enzo a right is nice.

Not sure we can quite compare them to Vitinha and Neves like

 

5* year extension
Joking but if we are waiting until his 18th birthday there’s no chance we’re only giving him 3 years if it was 3 years we could do it now no need to wait

 

At the least we need genuine competition. He can do it, look at Wembley, but he also has a lack of focus at times. It’s a high quality league and you get punished for lapses.

 

Ha’way where are the links to players I need more

 

We already have a young potential upcoming keeper in Young

 

He;s not ready to be back up yet though. He's best served with another loan IMO

 

I wouldn't be against us picking up a free agent older experienced keeper to compete with Moore for the bench spot, this is the Premiership so it would be worth a reasonable outlay on wages to bring in a Richard Wright/Scott Carson type to give us extra cover just incase something goes wrong. I think Blondy is here for the training pool and Matty Young is still a little bit away from first team ready and should be loaned out. Patto should be our number one unless we're somehow able to sign a world class keeper.

 

aye, I called him out earlier on twitter, he's also now pandering to mags and calling us ****e and smaller than the mags etc, strange weird bloke

 

42 players featured in a matchday squad last season. Some of them have already moved on but that's still a huge number.

Really need to be moving some on fairly soon. Rusyn, Hemir, Poveda, Ba, Aouchiche, Ekwah, Matete, Pembele and Anderson need to be moved on, hopefully that gives us a little bit of cash to play with also.

Then I look at players like Browne and Roberts. Some may disagree but they aren't young talents developing, they are older players who in my opinion aren't good enough for the PL. If Moore is fine with being 3rd choice i'd keep him around, seems good in the dressing room.

Then you have players who need minutes but probably aren't up to the level at the moment. Aleksic, H.Jones, Triantis, Hjelde, Young and a lot of other u21s. Seelt and Abdullahi are interesting cases, clearly talented but in my opinion they'd be better off playing 2000+ minutes in a decent league than they would be staying here, unless they impress in pre season of course.

That's 19 players i've named there, plus losing Jobe and Watson and the loans of Mepham and Samed ending which takes it to 23. 5 incomings won't be enough, even if they are all elite. You get a matchday squad of 20, there's room for at least 8 signings.

 

Totally agree mate, and really think our fans need to look at the previous transfer windows, especially the ones where panic set in. We have consistently moved on one or two higher profile players and then brought in 2 or 3 replacements. We have also recruited players who have been given time to settle into the country and the team and we have also developed young players extremely well.
Players are phased in well and I am expecting to see players like Abdullahi and Harrison Jones play a bit more this season and I am really looking forward to seeing if Jenson Seelt and Aleksic step up.
A lot of people in the media talk about the potential in our squad which is true but I think you hit the nail on the head when you said we are a team and all in it together. That is what we need (all you need to do is look at teams like Man Utd to see how damaging it can be when you do not have this) all together no matter what club, players and fans TIL THE END.

 

Seen your tweet 5 minutes after I posted that

 

I've started wondering when things go quiet as to whether things are actually quiet or if Cam's just doing something in the "real" world.

But he's back!