Transfer Rumours Summer 2024 transfer thread

[NewcastleTiger]

Didn't he say he still thinks we'll have a good season?

I reckon it's because those at boardroom level will be questioning Tim. In the 8/9 games under him, we look really poor and yes the squad is lacking depth, the XI really isn't that bad, there should be enough to get by. There are some decent Championship players in there.

If you take the blind optimism away, we look really bad, defensively we look hopeless and we still struggle to create chances in the final third and the attacking play is quite one-dimensional. A lot of the players we have, simply can't play how he wants to. That was a very poor Plymouth team, we just about scraped a point, we lost to Wednesday's B team and Bristol weren't great either but they should've had a hatful.

I think Travers makes a lot more sense medium/long term (not for £3m though). Stick a ball player next to him and you've got a really good midfield at this level, it would suit Burns.

No. Bristol are a bad team apparently too. Like I say, it’s all to suit a narrative.

Defensively we’ve conceded 1.8 xG this season, last season we conceded 2.7 xG alone to Norwich opening day, but it’s this season, where we have much lesser quality and players who’ve been here long term, who are hopeless defensively

 

[Amin Arrears]

It's the exact same issues as we had last season, we get into decent positions and mess up the final ball/shot. 2 poor teams played, 1 average and just 11 shots on target. We create half chances, but very few clear-cut chances as the xG indicates. It certainly doesn't warrant the kamikaze style, where we need to score 2/3 to win a game when we're struggling to score once.

The narrative on Tim will change within a few weeks just as it has with Oscar. A month ago, Oscar was the return of the King and now he's pony but ironically, this is the best version of Oscar we've seen (he's fitter now than he's ever been with us). He's always been very limited but it was ignored, I've been saying the same for 18 months mind.

I think the result against Milwall is secondary, we're desperate for a good performance as we've not had one. The LC game was a bit better, but it was against their B team, yet we still struggled.

I do think we'll have a decent season though, the players that have come in and will hopefully come in look good for both now and the future.

Im pretty sure you were telling everyone how lucky we were to have Oscar, how he should be at a premier league team, and how he should have been getting wages of £100k a week.

Quite frankly, it’s impossible to judge the manager and the team, he had an absolutely ****e, tiny squad all the way through pre season and into the first competitive game.

You’re just a waffler.

 

[Amin Arrears]

Think the first bit of this is spot on. Last season when people wanted to be mad at Rosenior, they chose not to see all the positions we got into and wasted. Now people want to see a major improvement, they're choosing to see it for the time being at least. If we don't start scoring goals, this understanding that we are getting into good positions and creating chances will fade.

Ultimately the problem is the same as as it has been for a long time, we don't attack like a team that believes it can score goals. We aren't ruthless, we're almost apologetic around the penalty area. We have a system that leads to us getting into good areas, and I'm sure we'll continue to get better at that. But we have to address the long-standing lack of ruthlessness in attack if we're to be successful.

It’s not spot on, last season we got players into dangerous areas from where we should have been creating good chances, we didn’t create a glut of good chances that were getting missed.

 

[Stockholm Tiger]

So the playing style isn't being questioned already then?

Not that I've seen on here or on Twitter for that matter. (There are more people on Twitter still complaining about last seasons playing style...)

I can't judge Walters style until he's got his squad finalised and settled in for a bit.

It it was it is in terms of the speed of recruitment we just have to get on with it.

 

[SydneyTiger14]

We've posted superior xG to both Bristol City and Plymouth which I must say surprises me somewhat, but is a good sign. What I would say though is that a lot of the time the defence is making a clearance/tackle to stop an opposition shot before it happens. Which of course is what you want, but means we aren't seeing the full story about the number of loose passes at the back leading to dangerous situations.

I think I did hear on NTT20 or another podcast we had the most passes in our defensive third in the league last weekend..

 

[DuaneDarby18]

There really isn’t any point in judging Walterball right now. He said he wasn’t happy about the backward passes in his last post-match interview so we are clearly nowhere near where it should be.

 

[DuaneDarby18]

Anyway, any transfer news? Preferably strikers or wingers?

It is 20th August after all.

 

[tigerscanada]

You lot need to man up and stop being girls. Calm down pet.

The transfers will happen.

Luck be a lady tonight !

 

[AlRawdah]

We've posted superior xG to both Bristol City and Plymouth which I must say surprises me somewhat, but is a good sign. What I would say though is that a lot of the time the defence is making a clearance/tackle to stop an opposition shot before it happens. Which of course is what you want, but means we aren't seeing the full story about the number of loose passes at the back leading to dangerous situations.

I think I did hear on NTT20 or another podcast we had the most passes in our defensive third in the league last weekend..

David Burns was hinting at this on the 1904 podcast yesterday, I was saying it to my friends at Plymouth on Saturday - I don’t think Walter minds so much about the occasional misguided pass out of the back four or goalkeeper (maybe not the sheer number of occasions in the first half, mind). Firstly, I think he sees it as an occupational hazard of playing his aggressive attacking style. And secondly, if we can quickly close down the player that receives the wayward pass and retrieve the ball, that gives us an even better chance to break into the opposition half with superior numbers. It’s a crazy way of playing in one sense, because it’s genuinely high risk high reward, but it might work once the team gets used to it (we are nowhere near that moment yet).

Walter is far unhappier with passive back passes from midfielders to the keeper, than dodgy passes from goalkeeper to midfielders. Says it all.

 

[HCAFCHangout]

We've posted superior xG to both Bristol City and Plymouth which I must say surprises me somewhat, but is a good sign. What I would say though is that a lot of the time the defence is making a clearance/tackle to stop an opposition shot before it happens. Which of course is what you want, but means we aren't seeing the full story about the number of loose passes at the back leading to dangerous situations.

I think I did hear on NTT20 or another podcast we had the most passes in our defensive third in the league last weekend..

We also had 11 shots from inside their box and about 28 touches in their box. We’re getting into much better areas just the quality right now isn’t there

 

[eimaj]

We also had 11 shots from inside their box and about 28 touches in their box. We’re getting into much better areas just the quality right now isn’t there

Which is bonkers given how instinctive Oscar was in his first season with us.

 

[Benjo]

Which is bonkers given how instinctive Oscar was in his first season with us.

It's two games in and he's scored 50% of our goals.

To be fair to him, most of those box touches and shots haven't come from him, so it's not like his shooting instinct isn't there, if anything this more likely questions his movement. He's come close to getting on the end of a couple of good crosses and had that gilt edge chance against Bristol which he should have buried to be fair.

 

[eimaj]

It's two games in and he's scored 50% of our goals.

To be fair to him, most of those box touches and shots haven't come from him, so it's not like his shooting instinct isn't there, if anything this more likely questions his movement. He's come close to getting on the end of a couple of good crosses and had that gilt edge chance against Bristol which he should have buried to be fair.

One? From the penalty spot?

Let's hope he starts to bury some of those chances.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

One? From the penalty spot?

Let's hope he starts to bury some of those chances.

The chances he isn’t getting
The players need to be feeding Oscar but they aren’t
That’s what he’s there for

 

[SydneyTiger14]

The chances he isn’t getting
The players need to be feeding Oscar but they aren’t
That’s what he’s there for

They try to feed him but he's offside..

 

[Gone For A Walk]

Bar one cross that he should have scored from (or you could say great block from their keeper) and one cross that he was inches from reaching, the 'feeding' to him has been poor so far. It was doing my head in these past games so much that I commented on it during the games.

 

[Tigerite]

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At #Alidou it looks as if things could move quickly with
@HullCity
. A transfer fee of EUR 3 million is on the table.

The Alidou rumour won't go away, I'm sure we were linked with him earlier in the window.

 

[Gone For A Walk]

I don't get this over analysis of our performances. It's mainly bollox.
Last season & Rosenior has been done to death.
This season, the simple fact is, we've been pretty poor all over the park so far. That includes keeper, defence, midfield, attack - all over.
Yes, there's been some promising signs (Millar's performances for example) and I still think things will come good, but to date we've been nowhere near, and will continue to be nowhere near until players a) get the hang of Walter's system (i.e. get 'reprogrammed') or get dropped, and b) partly linked with a), a number of better quality players start across the park (defence, midfield and attack).
Hopefully we see clear signs of both starting from this Saturday.

 

[HCAFCHangout]

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€3m bid for Alidou

 

[HCAFCHangout]

Bar one cross that he should have scored from (or you could say great block from their keeper) and one cross that he was inches from reaching, the 'feeding' to him has been poor so far. It was doing my head in these past games so much that I commented on it during the games.

How much of that is his fault and how much of that is poor service though. We can't just be relying on him solely as a poacher/finisher he's got to contribute in other areas of the game.