SUMMER NEWS 2025

He finished last season strongly but so far this year, he’s been back to his unconvincing form prior to that.

I think perhaps his form is very sensitive to which of the three CB positions he gets picked in.

 

Victor Palsson has departed Argyle by mutual consent.....his contract has been terminated for personal reasons.

 

He was an absolute hero at the tail-end of last season I will give him that. When the going gets tough…. True character comes out.

I hope “personal reasons” is just a form of words……

 

"Personal reasons".......might mean.....I need regular 1st team football if I'm going to get in the Icelandic World Cup squad....and I could now be dropping down the pecking order at Argyle now we have two more defenders.....and also the formation that suits me isn't Tom Cleverley's style. ?

 

Yes or regrettably it could mean “my wife’s threatening to leave me” or vice versa.

I speak from experience having had a wife with toddler in my office begging to have her husband brought home from an overseas post.

Don’t always assume life is entirely cynical……

 

Tom Cleverley says in an interview that there was "concrete interest" from Premier League clubs in signing Tegan Finn. Quite a coup for Argyle then to have signed him on a 3-year contract.

 

Awful lot of rumours going around about the possibility of Dan Scarr returning........although we have reasonable coverage in that position....one is out for awhile......one is on loan....and one more has been prone to injuries often.....so is there any truth in it ?

 

I think another CB would allow us to play more traditional, robust full backs, perhaps Szucs, Edwards, Galloway instead of the likes of Mumba and Sorinola.

Where do you count Wiredu though? He seems to be able to play CB or DM to a good standard.

Cleverley has said several times that his remaining priority is a DM.

 

Scarr Scotched

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/sport/football/plymouth-argyle-wrexham-cleverley-scarr-10457873

 

Transfer window closes at 7pm today.......will we entice any players to the furthest extremes of the earth.....better known as Plymouth.

 

You can play Wiredu in any position.....he is a yellow card just waiting to happen wherever he plays.....but a shade better than Ibrahim who is trying to be the first ban in the Football League this season with his mounting collection of yellow cards.

 

Bad news it seems

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footbal...set:14268c61-92e5-472c-a110-df19606b0ef9#post

 

It seems that we are lining up a loan deal for Oxford winger.....Owen Dale...26yr old....5ft 9in.

What is there to say.....so might come to us....as long as we don't let him look at a map.

 

INCOMING

Law McCabe...19yr old midfielder on loan from Middlesboro.

 

https://www.pafc.co.uk/news/law-mccabe-joins-argyle-loan

 

Freddie Issaka has been loaned to Bristol Rovers for the season.

 

Is that it then....McCabe and Dale in..... and Issaka out.

Good grief loaning a player from the mighty Oxford....and letting Issaka go on loan to Rovers.

How are we strengthening the team by these transactions.....have we dropped this low in the pecking order and become no hopers to this extent.

 

Bollocks

 

So without consulting Pasoti, what do you know about either of these and how often have you seen them play Plymborn?

 

Exactly Sensible.

Two very bad mistakes were made at PAFC: the recruitment of Foster and then Rooney as manager. Dewsnip has since departed and you can arrange those three facts in whatever way you choose.

However, you do it, Dewsnip was the senior football person in the club: the CEO and Chairman are businessmen not sportsmen and rightly don't get involved in the technical detail. It's reasonable to surmise they were party to the decisions but not the prime movers in them.

Muslic nearly kept us up by recruiting a bunch of mercenaries and playing the ugliest football I've seen for a couple of decades. I'm not going to lie, if he'd kept us up, I'd have been delighted but he didn't and he, his staff and his mercenaries jumped ship as soon the war was lost.

We have recruited a young manager, committed to playing attractive football, which is going back to the club manifesto. By my count, he played 200 odd games in the Premier League including 50 for Manchester United and another 70 in the Championship. He has 13 full England caps. He was by all accounts well thought of by Watford fans when he managed them and there was disquiet when he was removed from that post.

We are now in League 1 and we aren't going to attract household name players to that division even if there was a bottomless pit of money. We do know we are now paying seven figure sums. Cleverley has said that a shortage of money has not been the cause of potential player recruits going elsewhere.

So I'm not sure what people expect. Miracles presumably.

There have been wholesale changes in the squad and it will inevitably take a while to settle down. Those who have actually seen this new team play, including Sensible and me, must agree that there is no shortage of commitment and some good stuff has been played even when we've lost. I said repeatedly that we don't look bad going forward but have been dodgy at the back. We have a CB who hasn't played yet and a full-back and first choice goalkeeper who isn't unavailable due to injury.

It's not an ideal start but we're supporters, with the emphasis on "support".