Summer '24 transfer window

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flandersmackem said:
I get annoyed when people speak on a subject and are accused of “ having a pop” simply isn’t the case..
the 4 windows ( I assume) is mentioned from when Stewart was injured to the time we sold him.. that would be around 4 windows without a recognized striker.
I don’t tend to spend my time having random digs at the club.. but this striker situation has dragged on way too long. As I said it could be the difference between a decent/good season and an average or poor one.. for me it’s that important
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I’m not against people criticising the club mate, have done so many times myself.

Facts are we all hoped Stewart was gonna stay until the point he left, we took Simms on loan. We couldn’t buy a second striker when we had a prolific one of any real standard as when Stewart got they weren’t kicking a ball.

It is not 4 windows, however you spin it. 4 windows ago we signed Simms.

Realistically, this is the second window without a ‘main man’ and it’s not closed yet.
 
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Nads said:
I’m not against people criticising the club mate, have done so many times myself.

Facts are we all hoped Stewart was gonna stay until the point he left, we took Simms on loan. We couldn’t buy a second striker when we had a prolific one of any real standard as when Stewart got they weren’t kicking a ball.

It is not 4 windows, however you spin it. 4 windows ago we signed Simms.

Realistically, this is the second window without a ‘main man’ and it’s not closed yet.
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Fair enough
 
flandersmackem said:
Fair enough
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Believe me mate I’ll be ****ing fuming if we don’t get one this window cos it’s likely cost us the season.

I’m remaining serene for now, and I’m certainly not gonna embellish the truth for it.

The 4 windows thing was likely started by some gobshite and jumped on by a load of ‘X fans’, and somehow became seen as fact.
 
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Fully stand by my belief that a sum in the ballpark of 17m-20m coming into the club is too good to turn down and is nothing but an opportunity to push on, especially for a team that doesn't have too many holes in the squad.

Two forwards, a DM, a CB and a RB alongside a loan winger signed with the Clarke money would improve us.
 
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SourPatch2 said:
Fully stand by my belief that a sum in the ballpark of 17m-20m coming into the club is too good to turn down and is nothing but an opportunity to push on, especially for a team that doesn't have too many holes in the squad.

Two forwards, a DM, a CB and a RB with a loan winger signed with the Clarke money would improve us.
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17-20 million coming into the club is a 25-30 million transfer fee
 
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Nads said:
I’m not against people criticising the club mate, have done so many times myself.

Facts are we all hoped Stewart was gonna stay until the point he left, we took Simms on loan. We couldn’t buy a second striker when we had a prolific one of any real standard as when Stewart got they weren’t kicking a ball.

It is not 4 windows, however you spin it. 4 windows ago we signed Simms.

Realistically, this is the second window without a ‘main man’ and it’s not closed yet.
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This window, last January, last summer and arguably the previous January are the four referred to. Simms was the one before that. We have since signed Geldhart and Burstow on loan as well as Rusyn Hemir and Mayenda permanently. Obviously they haven’t really been good enough although Geldhart did a job. The frustration and time period people refer to are fair to be honest but the idea we haven’t tried and that it’s just penny pinching isn’t IMO.
 
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Late goal Scorer said:
This window, last January, last summer and arguably the previous January are the four referred to. Simms was the one before that. We have since signed Geldhart and Burstow on loan as well as Rusyn Hemir and Mayenda permanently. Obviously they haven’t really been good enough although Geldhart did a job. The frustration and time period people refer to are fair to be honest but the idea we haven’t tried and that it’s just penny pinching isn’t IMO.
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Simms was summer window 22. So winter 22, summer 23, winter 23…. This one is open.

Agree with you though. Any one of those COULD have come off and folk be whinging about a back up corner flag or summat.
 
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It is getting close to being too late to sell Clarke now for me. I agree money coming in is needed, but we have little time to spend it this window. It would also need to be a big % up front, not staged, or we are likely to be worse off this season. Tricky timing for me. Once we are into last week of window it would be a no sale situation for me.
 
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Chucky Puddin said:
Surely they’ve been successive planning and that would include Clarke or other players leaving and signing better with the money recouped, whether he’s available and would come I’d go after Abdullah Sima from Brighton but not sure if he’s going back to Rangers!
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I think they would just put mundle in there TBH
 
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Nads said:
Simms was summer window 22. So winter 22, summer 23, winter 23…. This one is open.

Agree with you though. Any one of those COULD have come off and folk be whinging about a back up corner flag or summat.
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Absolutely but it is the 4th window and the mythical senior striker hasn’t appeared yet. I get the frustration, just think it’s a bit disproportionate. If we don’t do something in the next two weeks though I think it would be justified.
 
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