So we have come through the January window - permanent signings of O'Donnell and Golbourne plus loan deals for Tomlin, Pearce and Gladwyn I think we can have one more loan player in the match day squad (we have 4 including Baker) - after that any new addition means someone drops out How do you think did we did in the Transfer Window?
Its strange how on both the Rotherham and Charlton's forum they are saying that we have recruited well and that they are worried about us pulling away, but its all doom and gloom from our own fans. The window wasn't one day, we actually recruited 8 players in this window, ok three of them were for the development side but the five for the first team have improved the squad. Ok we didn't get that striker we all wanted, that is disappointing, but strikers don't grow on trees, you cant just go and pick one out of a catalogue. There is not one striker who moved yesterday( who would realistically come to us) that I would think would improve our squad. Our squad is better than it was a month ago, we are not adrift at the bottom, we are just in the relegation places on goal difference. Yeah I know that is because we haven't scored enough and we haven't scored in the last three games, but one of those games were against a Premiership Side, one was away at Leeds (where we never get anything) and the other was against a Birmingham side who had won their previous two games 3-0, with one of those wins being at Derby and We should have won the last two games, we didn't, that happens especially when you are at the bottom but I'm more hopeful now of surviving than I was after the Preston game. Hopefully we will get that striker when the loan window opens, and yes it's probably is going to be a stressful few months but I refuse to accept that this window has been a disaster (the summer one was) and I refuse to accept that we are already doomed like many seem to think.
If you took this window in isolation then it would have been good - however the debacle of the summer window has hit us hard I do worry that we don't have enough permanent signings We desperately need to get a goal scorer in on loan
Unless we have someone waiting in the wings to bring in on loan and score the goals to keep us up, then the window will have been a fairly pointless exercise. An outsider looking in might even say we were preparing for life back in L1.
Angelic, that thought has been something I have thought the board were doing from early Dec. The lack of permanent signings coupled with not appointing a new manager very much smacks of a hope we can stay up, but if we don't we won't be financially burdened if we go back down mentality.
I'm pleased with our midfield additions, and our GK, but without a decent striker the best we can hope for is a 0-0 draw. Strikers are expensive, so with a real possibility of being relegated I guess that signing one up now might be seen as a risk that we get burdoned with an expensive player next season in L1. I recon we'll get someone in on loan who will help get us clear of the drop. If we do survive then great - and we must NOT let ourselves repeat the mistakes of this season. If we don't then the striker (whoever he is) will simply return to his parent club and will be off the wages bill.
'Charlton's forum they are saying that we have recruited well and that they are worried about us pulling away' 5pm Saturday and if Sanogo's won it for them, they might think differently. And so might our fu**ing Board.
Sanogo hasn't scored a league goal since 2013, wouldn't have touched him with a barge pole. Much rather stick with what we have
I think it wasn't a bad window, though again, the failure of the summer window made things harder than they needed to be. Though I don't agree with those that lament about not getting Andre Gray (we offered a truckload of money and he chose to move to Burnley, who had a much more realistic chance of getting promoted than us - can't blame the board in my mind), or Dwight Gayle (clearly didn't want to leave the Premiership no matter what); the list should have extended well beyond that. I still think Kodjia was a good signing for £2m and though he's currently experiencing a bit of a barren run, I can see him being a regular enough goalscorer at this level with a bit more experience and confidence; however, it was clear that we needed another striker, and giving up after a couple of setbacks was a significant mistake. Yes, the money now being bandied about at this level is often crazy, but I struggle to believe that on a shortlist of a dozen to 20 potential candidates we couldn't find value, or at worst, only slightly overpay in order to suitably supplement the squad - by not replacing/upgrading on JET and Wade Elliott, this side was/is weaker than the one playing in the tier below last season. Back to this window, I think our chances for survival are 50/50 at best. Hopefully we can get goals from throughout the team, rather than relying on one or two individuals - at least JP has seemingly helped shore up the defence much better than SC ever did. I like the principals that are being taken in identifying targets (highly rated, young players, such as Dack), however, offering more money for them in the winter transfer window when clubs are less likely to be willing to part with them and when we're a less attractive prospect to players given our relegation battle, when we could've gone that little bit further in the summer, seems like poor planning.
Yeah he is bound to score at some point in the future, and chances are it will be against us but like I said in my opening post in this thread, he is one of the players that moved yesterday that I consider would not improve our squad. Also coming from Arsenal I would imagine his wages would be quite hefty even if Arsenal contributed. Also throwing some stats out there for those wanting a striker. Kodjia is the joint 9th scorer in the division, level on 9 goals with Chris Martin and Moussa Dembele, and I guess we wouldn't mind either of those. Out of the teams around us MK, Rotherham, Bolton & Charlton, only Rotherham has a player in the top 25 and he is still 3 goals being our man. Ok Jimmy is going through a lean patch, all strikers do, and yes another proven Championship striker would be a godsend, (and we may still get one next week) but I still think not getting one yesterday is not the total disaster that a lot of people are making it.
Junior's comments on Championship goals last Saturday lead me to believe he will be appointed within the next week. He will change the fluence and we'll stay up. So I won't mind him managing BCFC for now. 'Redprintt has just jinxed it' - Again.
Just think of all those little Lee threads where you can air your views till your little hearts content
But it wasn't about the silly transfer fees we were willing to pay to the selling clubs (Palarse and Brentford) it was about the salaries we weren't prepared to pay to the two players in question. That was the deal breaker.
I didn't see the Championship programme with Lee J this week - I was on the p155 in Plymouth with Mrs R&W celebrating my birthday. I'll dig it out on Demand5 and see what that was about.
I don't know exactly what salaries were offered by either City or Burnley in the case of Gray, but I'd wager that you don't either. If you're him and your club (Brentford) have accepted bids from both clubs, which of the two are you going to want to join? Even assuming City offered more than Burnley, it would have to be significantly more in order for you to favour a move to Bristol and, being realistic, at best secure a mid-table finish with maybe a faint hope of the playoffs - you're more likely to want to join a team that's just been relegated but held onto its players and are made one of the favourites to go back up again. Besides which, thanks to parachute payments, Burnley were probably able to pay more than us anyway. I'm all for criticising the board when I feel they've made errors (i.e. not having a suitable contingency plan), but in the case of Gray, I don't think they could've done much more (shy of SL donating his personal wealth to buy him a yacht). You can't one minute bemoan how footballers todays are just mercenaries, but then cry when they chose to play for another club, particularly if it's actually for less money, because they have greater ambitions.
quite frankly i am amazed we have not brought strikers in,we will not survive if we carry on in the same way.
You can't build a new house with rented bricks, so what the hell are they thinking? Is there a Uber player site where we can call up anytime and bring in someone to get us where we want to be?
