According to Richard Cawley club is optimistic that Jordan Cousins will sign four year deal, posted in SLP. Hope to wake up to more good news tomorrow. Good night all.
Was getting confused with all the rumours of incomings, and with the Bite size thread missing in action, I have gone through a few threads and have compiled a list of those we have been lined with/have had on trial! My info is all third hand/from Wikipedia so feel free to correct anything...
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James Henry - 26yr old winger from Wolves
Wylan Cyprien - 20yr old Attacking mid (can also play on the wing) from lens. Reported that he is going straight out on loan to STVV.
Clement Lenglet - 20 yr old CB from AS Nancy ( can cover RB)
Chris Herd - 26yr old CB ( can also play as a defensive midfielder) unattached. Was at Villa last year. Reported he was on trial but not sure if he has featured in any games..
Stephen Kelly - 31 yr old championship experienced RB ROI international. A free agent after refusing a contract with reading. Again reported he has been on trial here but not sure if he has featured in any games.
Michael Siegfried - a 27 year old Swiss CB
On trial
Jake Sinclair - 20 yr old striker/winger released by Southampton. Younger brother of Scott. Has played and impressed in friendlies..
Joe Aribo - 18 yr old Attacking midfielder from staines town. Has impressed on trial Euell hinted in an interview that he could go into the first team squad!
Josh Staunton - 20 yr old RB/CB released by Gillingham
Peter/Peta?? A defender, not sure who or from where.
Griffiths also a defender. As above not a clue...
Marcel Barrington -19yr old striker from Guyana. Has spent time in Stoke and Leicesters academies.
Martin Netzer - winger
Browne
Ferguson
I expect those on trial bar maybe Sinclair and Aribo are meant for the youth teams...
Don't honk Rhoys will be keen on a move to Sheffield tbh, could see Ipswich perhaps though. He'd still be backup to Parr though.
Parr. Is that the ex Palace player? Wiggins (if fit and firing) is a lot better from what I have seen.
I will be very sad to see him go. A player I have really enjoyed watching over the last few years, excellent ability and gets some very harsh criticism on here IMO.
I am intrigued by our acquisitions this summer and delighted JBG (and now rumoured Cousins) have signed up long deals but do feel continuity and Championship experience is very much a key ingredient for success, especially on a smaller budget (see Ipswich last season).
Ps. Before BobCAFC7 lols me for being negative i used the word intrigued as I struggle to be excited by a player I literally know nothing about. My gut feeling is a positive one however.
Ipswich would be a good move for him. Hope he gets a deal sorted as he seems a good egg.
I think he's been great for us. Was real class and a cut above in the league 1 title winning season. Although I wasn't there that cross he put in for Kermorgant to score away at Oldham when we were down to 9 men. I can imagine going mental if I were there that day.
I think he's easily held his own in the champ and but for the 2 recurring injuries he would still be mine and our first choice!!!!
If you want to talk about wishing someone like Church well upon leaving (which I do) then this man gets it multiplied by 100 if he does go. A decent player who will be remembered as a key component of the great league 1 title win
Ipswich would be a good move for him. Hope he gets a deal sorted as he seems a good egg.
I think he's been great for us. Was real class and a cut above in the league 1 title winning season. Although I wasn't there that cross he put in for Kermorgant to score away at Oldham when we were down to 9 men. I can imagine going mental if I were there that day.
I think he's easily held his own in the champ and but for the 2 recurring injuries he would still be mine and our first choice!!!!
If you want to talk about wishing someone like Church well upon leaving (which I do) then this man gets it multiplied by 100 if he does go. A decent player who will be remembered as a key component of the great league 1 title win
Sadly he didn't really push on since League One. Injuries haven't helped, but I remember Zaha tearing him a new one against Palarse and we've barely seen him since that game. I'd wish him well if he left, but I think he's stood still in the last couple of years and we'd not miss him as much as we once might have.
Ipswich would be a good move for him. Hope he gets a deal sorted as he seems a good egg.
I think he's been great for us. Was real class and a cut above in the league 1 title winning season. Although I wasn't there that cross he put in for Kermorgant to score away at Oldham when we were down to 9 men. I can imagine going mental if I were there that day.
I think he's easily held his own in the champ and but for the 2 recurring injuries he would still be mine and our first choice!!!!
If you want to talk about wishing someone like Church well upon leaving (which I do) then this man gets it multiplied by 100 if he does go. A decent player who will be remembered as a key component of the great league 1 title win
Fully agree. Sadly though, since his injuries he simply has not been the same player and I suspect would be 3rd choice for next season if he stayed. As we have seen in the past, there is no room for sentiment in a RD squad and so his departure was perhaps inevitable. I wish him well and hope that he can show his undoubted ability elsewhere.
I'd be gutted if he went. May have injury troubles now, but that League 1 season he was one of the best players in the league. Hartlepool away sticks out for me when he just flying up the left wing all afternoon.
I'd be gutted if he went. May have injury troubles now, but that League 1 season he was one of the best players in the league. Hartlepool away sticks out for me when he just flying up the left wing all afternoon.
Agree he was great in League One, but that was three years ago, in a division below. Harsh as it sounds I don't think he has or will make the step up to Championship level on a consistent basis and therefore it's right to try and move him on.
In League 1 he was brilliant, a Brazilian style fullback rampaging forward and causing havoc. Then the injuries started and he has never been the same, he seems to take a month or so to get back to a decent standard after each return to the side but he still isn't that player he was. He is still good defensively but seems to have lost the cavalier spark that made him the player he was, it maybe that it has been drummed out of him or he fears he can't recover his ground anymore.
Whatever reason if he is surplus to requirements here than I wish him all the best, when he was good he was very good.
I like wiggins but since his injury he has sadly not been the same player. £750k is a good price for him. If he finds his old form prior to injury Wednesday will have a bargain. But I don't think he will because he's had so many problems. Shame though
Don't honk Rhoys will be keen on a move to Sheffield tbh, could see Ipswich perhaps though. He'd still be backup to Parr though.
Parr. Is that the ex Palace player? Wiggins (if fit and firing) is a lot better from what I have seen.
If Wiggins was fit & firing, we wouldn't be moving him on.
If we got £750K for him, I feel that would be unbelieveably good. In fact I can't see it. Even £500K would be brilliant (bearing in mind he can't play more than 10 games, without being injured again & out for months).
If we sold wiggins we'd be short of players again. We need him if Bergy plays left mid and Fox Lb
As I understand Wiggins is on decent money - not sure we can afford for him to be a back up left back.
You're probably right there, and if the figures of 0.75m are correct then its a fair price. Not sure THD is defensively good enough for champ yet though so across the whole back 4 we're looking pretty thin. Guessing this will be strengthened with 3 signings from now if Wiggins does go
Wiggins would have gone on to play in the premiership if it were not for his injuries IMO. Unfortunately, and I know some will disagree, but a big element to his game was pace. It is your get out of jail free card when you are a defender. And I think he has lost some of that. I now put Fox above him for the left back place and with Bergdich now signed, it is hard to justify keeping him when his wages could free up a signing where we are more in need of cover. Having said that, it is hard to see a club paying any money for him.
It feels to me like we need that other centre back, which I think was the big signing mentioned in Belgium. Big in the sense that we will be paying a significant amount for him. Henry would be an excellent signing too. We could be a bit of a handful with him added. I will be at the higher end of my expectation levels if this business gets done. I still hope Luzon patches up his differences sufficiently with Bikey so we can at least have him on the bench like we did at the end of last season. I do think he has something to offer.
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Was getting confused with all the rumours of incomings, and with the Bite size thread missing in action, I have gone through a few threads and have compiled a list of those we have been lined with/have had on trial! My info is all third hand/from Wikipedia so feel free to correct anything...
Linked with
James Henry - 26yr old winger from Wolves
Wylan Cyprien - 20yr old Attacking mid (can also play on the wing) from lens. Reported that he is going straight out on loan to STVV.
Clement Lenglet - 20 yr old CB from AS Nancy ( can cover RB)
Chris Herd - 26yr old CB ( can also play as a defensive midfielder) unattached. Was at Villa last year. Reported he was on trial but not sure if he has featured in any games..
Stephen Kelly - 31 yr old championship experienced RB ROI international. A free agent after refusing a contract with reading. Again reported he has been on trial here but not sure if he has featured in any games.
Michael Siegfried - a 27 year old Swiss CB
On trial
Jake Sinclair - 20 yr old striker/winger released by Southampton. Younger brother of Scott. Has played and impressed in friendlies..
Joe Aribo - 18 yr old Attacking midfielder from staines town. Has impressed on trial Euell hinted in an interview that he could go into the first team squad!
Josh Staunton - 20 yr old RB/CB released by Gillingham
Peter/Peta?? A defender, not sure who or from where.
Griffiths also a defender. As above not a clue...
Marcel Barrington -19yr old striker from Guyana. Has spent time in Stoke and Leicesters academies.
Martin Netzer - winger
Browne
Ferguson
I expect those on trial bar maybe Sinclair and Aribo are meant for the youth teams...
Kids and grown ups love him so, the happy world Joe Aribo
I will be very sad to see him go. A player I have really enjoyed watching over the last few years, excellent ability and gets some very harsh criticism on here IMO.
I am intrigued by our acquisitions this summer and delighted JBG (and now rumoured Cousins) have signed up long deals but do feel continuity and Championship experience is very much a key ingredient for success, especially on a smaller budget (see Ipswich last season).
Ps. Before BobCAFC7 lols me for being negative i used the word intrigued as I struggle to be excited by a player I literally know nothing about. My gut feeling is a positive one however.
I think he's easily held his own in the champ and but for the 2 recurring injuries he would still be mine and our first choice!!!!
If you want to talk about wishing someone like Church well upon leaving (which I do) then this man gets it multiplied by 100 if he does go. A decent player who will be remembered as a key component of the great league 1 title win
Whatever reason if he is surplus to requirements here than I wish him all the best, when he was good he was very good.
If we got £750K for him, I feel that would be unbelieveably good. In fact I can't see it. Even £500K would be brilliant (bearing in mind he can't play more than 10 games, without being injured again & out for months).
Then our squads finished.
Something like
Right Backs - Solly, Herd
Left Backs - Bergdich, Fox
centre backs - Bauer, Lenglet, New Signing, Diarra
It feels to me like we need that other centre back, which I think was the big signing mentioned in Belgium. Big in the sense that we will be paying a significant amount for him. Henry would be an excellent signing too. We could be a bit of a handful with him added. I will be at the higher end of my expectation levels if this business gets done. I still hope Luzon patches up his differences sufficiently with Bikey so we can at least have him on the bench like we did at the end of last season. I do think he has something to offer.