Summer transfer thread

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Well, tempus fugit and all that.

I have no problem with this young prospect from Costa Rica coming in. Heavens knows what contacts brought this about, good on them.

However where are the new, to quote some folks hero, "Oven ready" strikers, CMs and defenders that we urgently need.

D NEIL apparently said of JB, 'one for the future' in others words please get on and bring me the players I need now!
 
Well, tempus fugit and all that.

I have no problem with this young prospect from Costa Rica coming in. Heavens knows what contacts brought this about, good on them.

However where are the new, to quote some folks hero, "Oven ready" strikers, CMs and defenders that we urgently need.

D NEIL apparently said of JB, 'one for the future' in others words please get on and bring me the players I need now!

the club have made it perfectly clear what our transfer strategy is, whether you like it or not they are sticking to it. And Neil can say all he wants in statements that won’t change what the strategy is
 
Well, tempus fugit and all that.

I have no problem with this young prospect from Costa Rica coming in. Heavens knows what contacts brought this about, good on them.

However where are the new, to quote some folks hero, "Oven ready" strikers, CMs and defenders that we urgently need.

D NEIL apparently said of JB, 'one for the future' in others words please get on and bring me the players I need now!
I think A Neil's comments were more one about setting expectations and taking a bit of pressure off the lad. He will know full and well what is needed and what is happening in the background. The delays in the transfer market are not down to Speakman not being active, it's about PL clubs being reluctant to let players go
 
remember just a few short seasons ago when the very first stray pass in a game would have boo's and cat calls from the crown with a very audible change in the atmosphere?

i don't think it is just the recruitment team that has changed (and a sterling job they appear to be doing) but the crowd is much different, harking back to the 'better days' where if there was a stray pass or we went behind they would sing like feck and get behind the team, make no mistake, players do take notice of that and a supportive crowd, especially a large one, is what they obviously prefer to play in front of...while it was never 'the fans fault' there was a time when the SoL was deemed a pretty toxic place to play during and after the years of a badly run club.

i may be wrong but i do feel it is helping to bring lads here, the club in general have a much better reputation now and the fans are showing they are supportive of these younger lads and giving them a chance.

yes i am getting bored waiting for news, just want them all in and the window slammed.
 
remember just a few short seasons ago when the very first stray pass in a game would have boo's and cat calls from the crown with a very audible change in the atmosphere?

i don't think it is just the recruitment team that has changed (and a sterling job they appear to be doing) but the crowd is much different, harking back to the 'better days' where if there was a stray pass or we went behind they would sing like feck and get behind the team, make no mistake, players do take notice of that and a supportive crowd, especially a large one, is what they obviously prefer to play in front of...while it was never 'the fans fault' there was a time when the SoL was deemed a pretty toxic place to play during and after the years of a badly run club.

i may be wrong but i do feel it is helping to bring lads here, the club in general have a much better reputation now and the fans are showing they are supportive of these younger lads and giving them a chance.

yes i am getting bored waiting for news, just want them all in and the window slammed.
I think the Moyes season and the Grayson/Coleman debacle, the place was (rightly) pretty negative - the fans got nothing back from the players for their support. Since then, it's been 95% positive, only straying into negativity during that awful period when Phil F Parkinson was our manager
 
He has a contract he doesn't need to be tied down, if he had a 5 yr contract he could still goto stoke if he wanted to leave
Absolutely. Contracts aren't worth the paper they are written on, although tying AN down to a longer deal would at least protect the club from a financial perspective should someone try to poach him
 
Absolutely. Contracts aren't worth the paper they are written on, although tying AN down to a longer deal would at least protect the club from a financial perspective should someone try to poach him

neil wants to be here he wouldn’t of went to league one if he didn’t!
Strikes me as a man with great ambition and I believe he will want to be the man to get this club back from the brink.