Later today it will be announced that JCH has been sold to Peterborough. The fee is around £1.25 million plus future add ons. JCH only had 1 year left on his contract and the Posh offered a lot more than us, apparently he will be their highest ever paid player! Although the club no longer to have to sell players to survive, due to our new financial position, the club does not want another Tom Lockyer situation to happen where we lose a player for free.
My opinion, the season is now over before it has even started. Doubt we will find a top striker to replace his goals before the season starts. Hopefully I am wrong but I can't see it. Thank you JCH for your services. Top player that we will miss for years to come.
We shall surely miss his goals but the guy never once looked fit to me and he didn't have get petulent if things were not going his way, I wonder if Posh have done the full medical ? Oh well, players come and go and all that, onward we go UTG.
What the actual ****? How can we sell our best and only striker to a direct competitor? It’s madness. Unless we get a fantastic replacement and break the £350k record transfer fee we paid for Andy Tillson decades ago, then this season will be yet another of struggle and mediocrity. All the positive vibes I had about the coming season have evaporated. I also hate the Posh. Little club with few fans who for some reason think they’re a big club with a god-given right to be in the Championship. Ridiculous.
Obviously we do otherwise you wouldn’t have re-signed JCH from us. McAnthony is forever going on about how Peterborough should be in the Championship, yet you often struggle to get 6k inside London Rd. Hence little club.
Well come you get good supporters but cant buy good players only our cast offs like Nicols We do well because the club is good in the transfer market This time we brought a older player to try to get us in the championship (jch) use to be on poshes books Im sure if the virus hadt happened we would have got a shot of the championship last time But having a weak EFL we didt but we get over it How come 350k only been the most you payed dont your team have any ambition
The positives.... In his last year of his contract. Would have already been on good wages with us, which now makes more wage budget available to go and get at least 2 good replacements. We got over a million for him (not £300k like the Taylor transfer). If he succeeds at the Posh, we will get more add ons. We have learnt from past mistakes by selling and not letting players walk for free (Lockyer). He is quite injury prone. The negatives.... Did we need to sale? If his goals got us to the Championship, the money from promotion is far more than his sale today! Other clubs are struggling financially but we were building a strong team and it looked very promising for a top 6. All of a sudden, it don't! Optimism is now gone for a positive season for us, instead we may have just made a league rival stronger. His goals will be extremely hard to replace. Season starts in 9 days. Not much time to find a like for like replacement or even a half decent replacement! Any replacement will need time to gel. Rare for a transfer to make an instant impact (Although JCH did for us). Only 2 strikers in the 1st team: Daly (played only a few mins in the EFL) and Ayunga (never played in the EFL). No experience! Since when does a Rovers manager get the full funds available from a sell of a player to use? I don't blame him for leaving as reports are the Posh offered him far more than our contract offer and he is now their highest paid player! I don't really blame the club to sell him as they've made a huge profit. But this decision to let him go has in effect killed our season, when the squad looked strong, the players looked confident and fans were all optimist for a good season. Now we look forward to a difficult season. If we can't score, we can't win. That simple. Who will score the goals for us now on a regular basis? I am expecting good things from Daly but to put the pressure on him this early is a massive gamble and he could end up being another Tom Nichols as a result. We don't know if Ayunga will mean business yet since his arrival from non league. Our season now rests on JCH's replacement. Get it right and it's back on. Get it wrong and we could be in trouble. He needs to be experienced though in this position, to take the pressure off the youngsters and preferably someone who knows how to score in big games knowing league 1 well or championship level. This signing needs to show us fans we do actually mean business this season. Not sure at all who is available for free or within the small budget BG will be given to be a suitable replacement for JCH. The Sunderland and 2 Ipswich games looked to be a great test for the team to show where we are but now all of a sudden, they look very daunting to me.
Clearly not Our level, you can get very good players for nothing. We got JCH from Coventry for peanuts. You don't need to spend lots to show ambition. We've signed some very good players this summer for nothing or next to nothing. We looked good to be competitive at the right end. But to have ambition, you do need to keep your better players. We just let our best striker go. Not only has that made us weaker but he has remained in L1 making his new club (your club) stronger. Its a double whammy for us! If he was going to leave, it should have only been allowed if it was to a championship club. Not a league rival. As we are in the best position financially (than we have ever been in), we don't actually need to sale. We could have kept him and gambled on challenging for promotion and let him go for free in the summer. If we had achieved promotion, the money from that would be far better than the money you just paid for him. If we had failed and he went for free, at least we showed some balls and went for it. No real negative with that as we as a club are not in any debt anyway. Those would have been my preferred choices. Certainly not letting him go to a league rival with just 9 days before the season starts.
I agree does stink him coming to us we wouldt been happy if over way around we going to miss Toney next year hes to good for division one dont think hes Premiership but who ever gets him will have a good player
Same thing happened to us with Rickie Lambert. He banged them in regularly for us but no one in higher divisions gambled on him. Southampton then got relegated to League 1 and decided to snap him up. He then pretty much single handedly got them to the Prem and made the England squad and got a move to Liverpool. I hate selling our best players to teams in the same division.
You were replying to a Posh fan. “Rovers” should start with a capital letter. You are most welcome. Quarter-wit C*ty fans. Despite years away from this board some things never change!
Yep. Agree with all that CJS. We’ve got the money but still no ambition. A healthy bank balance doesn’t win games on the pitch.
12 months? It was 4 years since I last posted! But the lure of “special” people like Massive Attwat has brought me back!
I'm glad he's gone before the season started because it's a big distraction if they move later. I think we've got a decent squad, and hopefully we'll have lots of people chipping in with goals. I wish JCH all the best, but I honestly think we saw the best of him when he arrived, and then the following season I reckon he was carrying an injury, or not really 100%. Well done to Coghlan for one of the best bits of business in years.As always I'm quite optimistic for this season. Non league marksmen usually do pretty well when they step up, and I'm sure we'll be just fine without JCH. UTG!