Transfer Rumours Winter 2025 Transfer Thread

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Jezz511 said:
Annoyingly this feels like a potential playoff squad with a playoff manager... If the season started tomorrow.

However good feeling that from that squad the loans are Burns, Lincoln, Bedia, Zambrano, Puerta, Gelhardt and Barry.

Burns and Bedia wont be missed, Lincoln i have no idea if he's even any good and the others there's a chance are all here at the start of next season.

Add to that a full selles pre-season and no scrambling around and we're seemingly in good shape to be back to be better off than we were at the start of this season.
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Think burns is improving with each game he plays and he is still young.
 
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HCAFCHangout said:
Playoffs is beyond our reach. Assuming it takes the same points as last year (71) we’d need 2.4 points per game

on a side note. This was posted today about centre back play. All the Macca is poor comments really come to be shown up

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I think people sometimes get sucked in by these graphs too easily. It's just what one person decides to plot on a graph, out of any number of available metrics, but because it's presented as an image on social media people think it's official proof of who is good and bad. All this graph actually says is what percentage of aerial duels a player wins and the frequency of progressive passes they make. For our defenders, progressive passes will probably be inflated a bit by the fact that in the first half of the season we had so much possession of the ball, usually against a team defending a lead. That probably affects Hughes more than the other two because he played most of his minutes during that time. Another stat is that he's almost never won a game (in fact has he won one at all with us?).

None of which is to say that Hughes and Macca aren't good players. I'm not saying that at all, just that we should think critically when looking at these graphs.
 
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1MoreAgain said:
Which is a point I mentioned in an earlier post building a foundation for next season instead of all the chopping and changing players all the time, but you don’t spend that kind of money on a loan when you already have a team and manager that proved what they are capable of already to stay up, there are far worse teams above us that we will overhaul now and they most likely think they can now go on a winning run and possibly accomplish something special it’s probably crossed their minds so that’s why they are bothering if it was just survival on it’s own then I do not think they would have laid such a large loan fee out because they would have stayed up without Barry.
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Yes you do if there's a chance to get him back.
 
PLT said:
I think people sometimes get sucked in by these graphs too easily. It's just what one person decides to plot on a graph, out of any number of available metrics, but because it's presented as an image on social media people think it's official proof of who is good and bad. All this graph actually says is what percentage of aerial duels a player wins and the frequency of progressive passes they make. For our defenders, progressive passes will probably be inflated a bit by the fact that in the first half of the season we had so much possession of the ball, usually against a team defending a lead. That probably affects Hughes more than the other two because he played most of his minutes during that time. Another stat is that he's almost never won a game (in fact has he won one at all with us?).

None of which is to say that Hughes and Macca aren't good players. I'm not saying that at all, just that we should think critically when looking at these graphs.
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They’re pretty important for analysts looking for possession based centre backs though. Maka and Hughes would be able to control a game, because when we force them to go long they’ll win the headers too. Whilst also being very comfortable on the ball
 
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PLT said:
I think people sometimes get sucked in by these graphs too easily. It's just what one person decides to plot on a graph, out of any number of available metrics, but because it's presented as an image on social media people think it's official proof of who is good and bad. All this graph actually says is what percentage of aerial duels a player wins and the frequency of progressive passes they make. For our defenders, progressive passes will probably be inflated a bit by the fact that in the first half of the season we had so much possession of the ball, usually against a team defending a lead. That probably affects Hughes more than the other two because he played most of his minutes during that time. Another stat is that he's almost never won a game (in fact has he won one at all with us?).

None of which is to say that Hughes and Macca aren't good players. I'm not saying that at all, just that we should think critically when looking at these graphs.
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Macca has actually improved since Walter left. This is the graph from November. I don’t think there’s much to analyse other than it’s showing he’s a fairly progressive passer of the ball whilst also being very aerially strong.
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SydneyTiger14 said:
Yes you do if there's a chance to get him back.
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And how much do you think a full season and a pre season will that loan cost on top of the million that has just been paid out when that could have got a perm player in just because you think the only reason they brought him in was to stay up does not mean that they did not bring him in now because they think something could still be on if we keep playing the way we are or improving further still.
 
1MoreAgain said:
And how much do you think a full season and a pre season will that loan cost on top of the million that has just been paid out when that could have got a perm player in just because you think the only reason they brought him in was to stay up does not mean that they did not bring him in now because they think something could still be on if we keep playing the way we are or improving further still.
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Needs more full stops. About ten.
 
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1MoreAgain said:
Enough games left to still compete for a top 6 and a few results helping on the way so not all bad,stopped thinking about relegation after the game Friday and just thinking about if we can do a Forest with the last 17 games,unlikely but opportunity is still there.
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Forest were 8th after 29 games, 6th after 30. Too late for us, I'm afraid.
 
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