Transfer Rumours Summer '23 Transfer Thread

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If Allahyar and Longman were to leave this summer, we’d need a huge overhaul to our wingers. Sinik isn’t even fit to get 20 minutes in pre-season so that leaves Vaughan and Lokilo as our only first-team wingers. We do need more wingers but I wouldn’t get rid of Allahyar just yet. Let Longman leave if we get someone else in, if anyone would take him.

One would think that these additions are largely going to be wingers. Maybe a CM as well. Bar the GK of course
 
To be fair it was mentioned we need to sell some players to move. Nothing has changed. Our wage bill is in the top 6/8 this last season and we massively overspent compared to our income. The gamble didn’t pay off due to poor recruitment.

We spent the KLP so poorly, if you look at Coventry in comparison they are spending their windfall of Gyorokes brilliantly. Simms and that RWB they signed from the Dutch league amongst a few others. Unfortunately our chairmen went for higher ended foreigners on huge wages, with little or no re sale value.

Anyway, we are in a better position than last season in a highly competitive league with a style of play and a young upcoming manager. We all need a reality check and will need to over perform to be anywhere up in the top 7/8 clubs.

Why?

They were 4th best defensively and 9th overall in the 28 games Rosey was in charge. That's with last year's poor recruitment and having no strikers for the last 9 games.
 
I think we still need a GK, CB, LB, CM, winger and striker in so another 6 at least regardless of who goes. If any of the expected strongest 11 leave they would need replacing too.
 
One would think that these additions are largely going to be wingers. Maybe a CM as well. Bar the GK of course

The 3/4 currently being touted would probably be a GK, another winger, no 10 and another forward.

If Greaves goes then we need another left back and another centre back.

Then there's the probability of Longman, Woods, Fleming and perhaps doc leaving. Wouldn't rule out Allyor Sinik for a price either.

If Oscar goes then we need at least another 2 forwards, and a marquee signing amongst them.
 
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The 3/4 currently being touted would probably be a GK, another winger, no 10 and another forward.

If Greaves goes then we need another left back and another centre back.

If Oscar goes then we need another 2 forwards, and a marquee signing at that.

Well Connolly is going to be the forward beyond that who knows
 
Connolly and Delap up front will wind up opposition defenders something chronic…they are two thugs and I absolutely love it.

I was at the Scunthorpe game in the Scunny end (due to business) and Delap is definitely not frightened of putting his weight about. Their RB (Ogle) got aggressive with Vinagre and a couple of minutes later Delap absolutely nailed him. Brilliant.
 
What's your take on reducing senior squad numbers to 23/24?

We're about 26/27 now and we're bringing 3-4 in.

Woods we know can leave and I'd be surprised if we didn't accept decent loan offers for Longman, Fleming, Doc if he's fit, but there's been a suggestion we might listen to offers for Allahyar - and it still sounds like we're willing to field offers for Greaves and Oscar if the price is right.

There's potentially a lot of outs before deadline day.
Question.... if they're not good enough for us, the one's mentioned, what makes you think clubs will be battering on our door to take them. And above you said the full backs are sorted and you have Flemion gin the out pile when we have given up on Cox..
 
I think there an element of your 1st&3rd point in all this. But as I've said, I've no way of knowing 100% as I can only go on things I'm told.

My question to LR/the club would be, if we are getting our first choice targets then why haven't we got them in? Because if we are still working on first choice targets then it seems to be taking a hell of a long time. The LR/the club will have identified their first choice targets months ago.

My experience tells me very few "first choice targets" come in the later part of the window and if we are leaving it late to get in our first choice targets and they don't come off, where does it leave us?
The other thing with this leaving it late bit is, Rosenior wants to play a particular way, if we're already into the season proper by the time they arrive, they will have to get up to speed physically, try to learn the play, then be drip fed into the first team. It could be October/ November by the time they're 'with' the programme.
 
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The other thing with this leaving it late bit is, Rosenior wants to play a particular way, if we're already into the season proper by the time they arrive, they will have to get up to speed physically, try to learn the play, then be drip fed into the first team. It could be October/ November by the time they're 'with' the programme.
I’m just waiting for him to use the excuse ‘he didn’t have a full preseason’ when a player is playing poorly in March. He loved using that last season.
 
There's a month of the window left, even a player signed of the final day of the window will only miss four league games and anyone we sign will have had a full pre-season, just not with us.

There seems to be a lot of glass half empty types on here at the moment.

Did the players we signed last summer also have a full pre-season, just not with us?

A lot of them supposedly didn't have a proper pre-season.

I think there's a lot looking with blind optimism.
 
There's a month of the window left, even a player signed of the final day of the window will only miss four league games and anyone we sign will have had a full pre-season, just not with us.

There seems to be a lot of glass half empty types on here at the moment.
Got to admit I'm one of them ATM and I'm normally extremely positive, I'm just not getting a good feeling ATM, something just doesn't feel right.
 
We're a week out from the season and they still haven't told us how to subscribe to Tigers+. Getting pretty pathetic at this point.