Summer transfer thread

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BishopSAFC said:
What type of midfielder is Danny Drinkwater and is he without a club does he fit the bill
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Similar to Darron Gibson.

Not very mobile but can ping a 50 yard pass without thinking. Another midfielder who if they looked after themselves and stayed off the booze could have had a very good career. I mean neither are probably all that arsed as they will be multi millionaires at the end of the day but could have achieved so much more with a bit of dedication to the profession.
 
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I know this will make me look like a pure wum for a first post (after looking at the forum for about two year) but been told from a mate who supports Leeds that we are interested in CM Lewis Bate who has been told he can leave on loan this season.

He was signed from Chelsea last season and played a bit part role.
 
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RustyAngel said:
I know this will make me look like a pure wum for a first post (after looking at the forum for about two year) but been told from a mate who supports Leeds that we are interested in CM Lewis Bate who has been told he can leave on loan this season.

He was signed from Chelsea last season and played a bit part role.
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Cracking player, really busy player who is technically really good - has a nasty side about him
 
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steesafc said:
Camara is a strange one, nobody has acted quickly to get him in when it was made public that he was available. I wonder what the crack is there - Plymouth asking too much? Can't see that with one year left on his deal. Wage demands? Again, unlikely for me. I wonder if theres something in his data set that is making people question whether hes capable of stepping up.
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Everything been checked out okay with him, we should be in for this lad no question.
 
Flash Gordon said:
That's a fair point, but then we'll likely have to go without because there's few around who are available, proven and affordable.
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Our issue though is if Evans misses out we’re short of leadership for this level. All of the others are a gamble at this level. We have to have at least one in that group who’ve walked the walk and can take the others forward. Evans will miss games so to me if we don’t get a similar level of experience we might as well stick with who we’ve got.
 
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RustyAngel said:
I know this will make me look like a pure wum for a first post (after looking at the forum for about two year) but been told from a mate who supports Leeds that we are interested in CM Lewis Bate who has been told he can leave on loan this season.

He was signed from Chelsea last season and played a bit part role.
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That's what this forum is all about mate sharing gossip and rumours, so thanks for sharing <cheers>

Can't say I've heard of the lad, so I'm off to Google to check him out :emoticon-0100-smile
 
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Flash Gordon said:
How do we possibly keep 2 more strikers happy in our squad?

Even 1 proven one will be hard to do given that Stewart and Simms will be getting a large number of minutes and we'll mainly be playing 1 up front.
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If you have play 2 up front, you need 4 strikers, 1 inevitably will be injured, you start with 2 up front and have 1 ready to sub when one if them get knackered. Then of course there us the rivalry for a place, no complacency...

Even if you play with one striker, the one on the bench and probably the spare has a knock. To me its good squad management.
Just as you need 3 good keepers and you need at least 3 strikers. Without a good keeper and striker you are not at the races. Most important positions in the team.
 
WorkyTicketFTM said:
Unproven beyond L1 at the age of 25 though why wouldn’t we just throw Matete in if that’s the standard we’re after?
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would expect both to suffer from form first season in championship....but if we had both id hope both didnt suffer from form at same time, presuming he wouldn't daft wages
 
Sunderpitt said:
If you have play 2 up front, you need 4 strikers, 1 inevitably will be injured, you start with 2 up front and have 1 ready to sub when one if them get knackered. Then of course there us the rivalry for a place, no complacency...

Even if you play with one striker, the one on the bench and probably the spare has a knock. To me its good squad management.
Just as you need 3 good keepers and you need at least 3 strikers. Without a good keeper and striker you are not at the races. Most important positions in the team.
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We don't play 2 up front though, we play 1 most of the time, so that 4th striker is unmanageable. How do you convince a top quality player to sit on the bench for the majority of the season?

If we even play 2 up front for a quarter of our games this season (I doubt we will), it's not enough to share around. It's 57 starts and about 25 sub appearances. If you assume Stewart plays 35, being our first choice (and accounting for injury), you then have 22 starts and 25 sub appearances left. Broadhead managed 20 last year and he was injury prone. Assuming he's the 3rd striker, he'd expect the same again as a minimum. That leaves the 2nd striker on 27 games.

Personally, I don't think Simms will be happy to only make 27 appearances (a lot from the bench) and Broadhead 20 (a lot from the bench). I've no idea where you fit a 4th into the mix.

Good squad management isn't about having an abundance of players in reserve, it's about maximising the available resources. Spending a transfer fee and wages on a 4th striker that won't play, plus having an unbalanced squad where people are unhappy at the lack of game time is the opposite of what we should be doing.
 
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