Who would you like to see Mick try and loan, realistic targets please, i will start with patrick Bamford, he will score goals!!
How about Alan Lee! He's already on the staff so wouldn't cost us a penny! I'm sure he must have a little left in the tank!
I really thought some activity may have happened by now! Over to you Mick - I guess loans are more likely in 7-10 days so they can stay the full duration. I would still like Ambrose / Collison to join if both even 70% fit they offer a lot more than what we currently have.
We won't be getting any loans in until after the international break because the club can't afford to pay unnecessary wages!
I think at this stage of the game, the only players that will be available, will be journeymen who won't get a game with their parent club, or young kids from prem clubs that are so way off the first team. Either way, thats not what we need. The decent young kids from prem clubs will be loaned out to lower end prem clubs, and anyway, they wouldn't want to be sent to us, as we will not teach them how football should be played. MM and TC are fantastic in coaching how to defend, but thats it. They have no other coaching skills. If we get a good young skillful loanee in, he will only be stifled in our team, and probably burnt out physically. I've said all along, MM was perfect for us at the time, but he is definitely not the man to take us forward to the next level, as he has no new and fresh ideas. We will probably get a couple of loanees in, but they will not add anything different to our team. I would love to see Johnny Williams back, but now palace have a new manager, there's no chance of that. As for Alan Lee, unfortunately he's now finally retired. And Nick Powell, most defenitel a yes please from me!
The thing that is really annoying is that while other clubs are getting loans in, we are worrying more about our cb scoring more goals!! We need to get players in now!!
This reminded me of a quote I once read from Xabi Alonson a couple of years back.. "I don't think tackling is a quality," he says. "It is a recurso, something you have to resort to, not a characteristic of your game. At Liverpool I used to read the matchday programme and you'd read an interview with a lad from the youth team. They'd ask: age, heroes, strong points, etc. He'd reply: 'Shooting and tackling'. I can't get into my head that football development would educate tackling as a quality, something to learn, to teach, a characteristic of your play. How can that be a way of seeing the game? I just don't understand football in those terms. Tackling is a [last] resort, and you will need it, but it isn't a quality to aspire to, a definition. It's hard to change because it's so rooted in the English football culture, but I don't understand it." Mick McCarthy take note....
KoPR,interesting quote from Alonso,but to an extent football has moved on again from "Champagne football" to what I suppose you could call "BMW football".
Bigal I wish we were sleek, reliable and efficent like BMW and most German engineering - I would actually be ok with VW football but currently we really are putting the tractor into tractor boys. Slow, lots of heart, fairly ugly and never going to make anyone go wow.
I was comparing the style of play adopted by Spain versus the more recent German Team.I'd be happy with Ford Focus football!
According to reports on Sky Sports website MM has said he would like to add A loan signing but is more concerned about keeping his current squad together after it was reported that Palace were interested in Tommy Smith
If selling Smith brings money in and we buy an attacking player and restore Chambers to the middle it may not be a bad move. I don't want to see him go obviously but if it means improvement in other areas and is the only way to do it then so be it. Shame if it happens but I don't think it will.
