Transfer Rumours January Transfer Thread

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Mckechnie Orange said:
Yet there's been more criticism and scrutiny since by a long way...

It's pretty much true that a few loud voices on social media can create a 'certain' narrative.

It's ****ing mental.

1.9 PPG in the last 10.

Forward line known each-other 2 months.

Not good enough Rosenior.

<steam>
Click to expand...

it’s largely the 4 draws recently combo’d with a an upturn in form for Norwich which has caused some dissent. I knows it’s all ifs and buts but we get a result out of Preston or Birmingham or both then I don’t think there’s quite the sharpening of pitchforks that is happening.

The expectations shifted dramatically after January. We have improved and I would say the home games have been better bar the Swansea game. Personally I think people are preparing themselves for failure rather than just enjoying the ride. It’s going to be a fun end that I suspect will come down to the last minutes of the Plymouth game at the very least
 
  • Like
Reactions: Real ale tiger, SW3 Chelsea Tiger, originallambrettaman and 1 other person
HCAFCHangout said:
it’s largely the 4 draws recently combo’d with a an upturn in form for Norwich which has caused some dissent. I knows it’s all ifs and buts but we get a result out of Preston or Birmingham or both then I don’t think there’s quite the sharpening of pitchforks that is happening.

The expectations shifted dramatically after January. We have improved and I would say the home games have been better bar the Swansea game. Personally I think people are preparing themselves for failure rather than just enjoying the ride. It’s going to be a fun end that I suspect will come down to the last minutes of the Plymouth game at the very least
Click to expand...

Only one of those draws really was a disappointing result though. Everyone else was above or around us.
 
  • Like
Reactions: HCAFCHangout
Tigerboy98 said:
It would be great if we could be as successful as Brighton and Brentford but our analytics and scouting is absolutely light years from there’s.
Click to expand...

It is now, it wasn't when they were Championship clubs. There's no reason we can't emulate that with the owner that we have, an owner who is looking to adopt a multi-club model just like Brighton and Brentford do.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Mckechnie Orange, Real ale tiger and Large Elephant
Just listened to the 1904 podcast with Baz talking to Stuart White. He said quite clearly Billy was brought in to help develop Delap. How's your luck!

I think whatever happens this season it has been a better one than I anticipated, and on balance I have enjoyed it to date. Yes I have been frustrated as most have but in the bigger picture we are moving in the right direction.

I doubt we will see much of Connolly as the assault by Gunn has really taken it out of him, We might see Delap, maybe, just a bit. But can he hit the ground running. Personally I doubt it. So we have Ohio (young and inexperienced) and the established players like Tufan and Carvalhio.

Let's hope we can get the rub of the green in the last 9 games. Get behind whatever 11 are out on the pitch and see where we get to.

UTT
 
  • Like
Reactions: amberman8, Mckechnie Orange, DarbyDays and 9 others
Steven Toast said:
And Brentford, who sold Ollie Watkins and Said Benrahma for a combined £50m plus add ons, still got promoted and signed Yoane Wissa, Kristoffer Ajer and Christian Eriksen.

The season before that they sold Maupay (£15m), Konsa (£12m+) and Dan Bentley (£2.8m). The season before that they sold Ryan Woods (LOL £6m), Chris Mepham (£12m), John Egan (£4m) Nico Yennaris (£3m), Florian Jozefzoon (£3m), Konstantin Kerschbaumer (£1m) and Alan Judge (£1m).

The season before that they sold Harlee Dean (£2m), Jota (£6m), Maxime Colin (£3m) and Lasse Vibe (£2m).

The reason they kept doing so well was because they invested super heavily in their scouting network and took advantage of the network their club was a part of (the link up with Danish clubs has proved very successful over the years). I read an interview with their chief scout and he said that when a player started doing well, they immediately began identifying his replacement in a like for like role. It's being proactive like that which has allowed a club like Brentford to do so well (and sticking by their manager).

Our fans are very possessive of talent, but we often fail to see the big picture that actually, selling these lads not only keeps us in the black at a very volatile time in football but also gives us money to invest back into the club at both on and off field levels.

Selling Greaves, for example, hurts more because he's an academy player, but I can't recall the last time an academy player came through and spent their entire career with us. As much as this will probably annoy people, it's something we actually need to see more of. We've had Bowen, KLP and probably Greaves, be great if somebody like Smith followed that path. Slater came in for £50k, he'd easily go for six or seven times that now. Maximising profit on players is really important, but having a scouting set up that can have replacement players identified and ready to go for is equally important. It would appear as though our recruitment team has had a boost and there seems to be a few from the Turkish set up involved.
Click to expand...
I really like your work ethic ! If only you had sat next to me in exams .
 
I would be ****ed off if he went to Man Utd, I suppose in this day and age though it’s probably the bigger job. At least as far as finances are concerned anyway.
 
Steven Toast said:
It is now, it wasn't when they were Championship clubs. There's no reason we can't emulate that with the owner that we have, an owner who is looking to adopt a multi-club model just like Brighton and Brentford do.
Click to expand...
I just think it’s going to be very hard, these two clubs are outliers due to both of their owners being literal geniuses in the field of statistics and betting.
 
Tigerboy98 said:
I just think it’s going to be very hard, these two clubs are outliers due to both of their owners being literal geniuses in the field of statistics and betting.
Click to expand...

Setting up a multi-club network isn't the difficult bit, it didn't take long for us to establish a link with AS Roma. The issue is the quality of player we look to bring in as a result of those link ups and whether we get value for money.
 
Benjo said:
Mine wasn't, but all sorts of voices and various media outlets were claiming we'd 'won January', but so far not much has really changed in terms of clear cut chances or goals. It can't all just be down to Delap missing can it?.. Or can it?
Click to expand...

We won January before, remember?
 
Steven Toast said:
Setting up a multi-club network isn't the difficult bit, it didn't take long for us to establish a link with AS Roma. The issue is the quality of player we look to bring in as a result of those link ups and whether we get value for money.
Click to expand...
Yeah that’s what I mean, they’re not successful due to the multi club model (just look at Watford), they’re successful because Tony Bloom and Matthew Benham are geniuses in statistics and betting.

I think we’re being naive thinking if we just copy these clubs we’ll have the same success. I guess there’s nothing we can do but just wait and see regarding our transfers going forward.
 
Tigerboy98 said:
Yeah that’s what I mean, they’re not successful due to the multi club model (just look at Watford), they’re successful because Tony Bloom and Matthew Benham are geniuses in statistics and betting.

I think we’re being naive thinking if we just copy these clubs we’ll have the same success. I guess there’s nothing we can do but just wait and see regarding our transfers going forward.
Click to expand...

I think Acun has a few odds stacked in our favour.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Tigerboy98
Mckechnie Orange said:
What's the Roma link brought us?
Click to expand...

At the minute, it's brought us shared scouting and marketing knowledge. And it stopped there. But my point was that it took no time at all to set up because our owners are well connected.

I was looking at the Slovenian clubs, there's a couple of them that are fairly big and get into European groups on the reg. Olijmpia Ljubljana, Maribor and Celje (beautiful city by the way). Wonder if Robert Koren has anything to do with the potential link up?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back