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January rumours ( the big damp squib)

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  • jams
    jams Posts: 1,219
    Can't believe no one has mentioned the old favourites...

    I hear were in for a double swoop on Darren purse and Hayden mullins
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,225
    Alan Nixon ‏@reluctantnicko 1h1 hour ago
    Bristol City. Likely to lose a player this week ... off elsewhere.

    Wagstaff coming home
  • superdulvertonred
    superdulvertonred Posts: 1,139
    I would prefer Waggy to Danny Green
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,350
    edited January 2016
    Confirmed: Lawrie (lil Bo Peep) Wilson .. Notlob to the Posh on loan .. good luck to him with a promotion seeking club
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,765
    superdulvertonred said:

    I would prefer Waggy to Danny Green

    Danny Green has a nicer house though.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    Callumcafc said:

    superdulvertonred said:

    I would prefer Waggy to Danny Green

    Danny Green has a nicer house though.
    That thread still brings a smile to my face when I think back on it, one of the classics :smiley:
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,406
    Appreciate Meire is damned whatever she does, but there doesn't seem a coherent strategy here, simply a blind panic to try and get us out of this mess before another summer of piss-poor signings. And given the people signed are ones they have previously discarded and who we are not having to fight off other clubs to get, it makes you wonder if the whole scouting system has imploded.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,350
    mogodon said:

    Appreciate Meire is damned whatever she does, but there doesn't seem a coherent strategy here, simply a blind panic to try and get us out of this mess before another summer of piss-poor signings. And given the people signed are ones they have previously discarded and who we are not having to fight off other clubs to get, it makes you wonder if the whole scouting system has imploded.

    there is some logic: cheap, experienced players on short term deals or loans and a big prayer that they all stay fit despite some injury concerns ..
    all areas have been strengthened .. Johnson & Williams at the back, Poyet in the middle and Vaz Te up front along with the recalled Harriott .. a little patience will be required to see how the new pieces fit the puzzle
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    mogodon said:

    Appreciate Meire is damned whatever she does, but there doesn't seem a coherent strategy here, simply a blind panic to try and get us out of this mess before another summer of piss-poor signings. And given the people signed are ones they have previously discarded and who we are not having to fight off other clubs to get, it makes you wonder if the whole scouting system has imploded.

    But we have strengthened in exactly the places most needed, not including the manager of course..
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,406
    Shrew said:

    mogodon said:

    Appreciate Meire is damned whatever she does, but there doesn't seem a coherent strategy here, simply a blind panic to try and get us out of this mess before another summer of piss-poor signings. And given the people signed are ones they have previously discarded and who we are not having to fight off other clubs to get, it makes you wonder if the whole scouting system has imploded.

    But we have strengthened in exactly the places most needed, not including the manager of course..
    Not disagreeing with that, but some of these are players who RD/KM etc decided not that long ago were not good enough. It's not as if they have been turning in outstanding performances in the time since they were jettisoned. I would be fascinated to know the strategy to what we are doing. Which, of course, as a mere customer I have no right to know.
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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,225
    Hopefully people will see that is just a repeat (literally in the case of Johnson) of last Jan where we panic buy the older more experienced players we should have added to the squad in the summer.

    If we had we'd have had cover for all the injuries and might be higher in the table.

    But come next summer they will revert to buying unknown and untested cheap players from abroad.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    edited January 2016
    Henry Irving said:

    Hopefully people will see that is just a repeat (literally in the case of Johnson) of last Jan where we panic buy the older more experienced players we should have added to the squad in the summer.

    If we had we'd have had cover for all the injuries and might be higher in the table.

    But come next summer they will revert to buying unknown and untested cheap players from abroad.

    Why would Peter Varney do that ? ;0)

  • ateamofcorygibbs
    ateamofcorygibbs Posts: 1,193
    Don't know if this has been posted elsewhere but: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/tony-watt-wants-stay-cardiff-10687089 ('Tony Watt wants to stay at Cardiff')

    Looking forward to getting over-excited about re-signing him on a 6-month loan in 2018...
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,406
    I know we are now the (very low) summit of RD's network, but surely there is some dross one or two of his other clubs want to offload to a CEO without any knowledge of footballers? It's January 5 and we haven't signed a single Belgian.
  • cafc_harry
    cafc_harry Posts: 3,360
    Ryan Kent has been recalled from Coventry by Liverpool. Not sure what their plan for him is and this isn't a rumour, but I'd definitely take him.
  • Leeds_Addick
    Leeds_Addick Posts: 4,700
    ateamofcorygibbs said:

    Don't know if this has been posted elsewhere but: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/tony-watt-wants-stay-cardiff-10687089 ('Tony Watt wants to stay at Cardiff')

    Looking forward to getting over-excited about re-signing him on a 6-month loan in 2018...

    Was a done deal a month ago. The most shocking transfer decision we'll have all season. And that's including handing Roger Johnson 18 months.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,042
    Essex_Al said:

    Talksport just said Lookman could be going to Spurs and loaned back to us for the rest of the season!

    Could see him doing a similar job to Defoe, he'd do well there.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,319
    cafc_harry said:

    Ryan Kent has been recalled from Coventry by Liverpool. Not sure what their plan for him is and this isn't a rumour, but I'd definitely take him.

    Would prefer his brother Clark
  • NL_Addick
    NL_Addick Posts: 19
    According to an account on Twitter, Charlton and Wolves are interested in obtaining Dorian Dervite.
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    Fraeye will be hopeful of adding at least one more player to his squad before the weekend.

    Not bad, brought in 3 new(?) players, 2 youth players back from loans, he made this statement above, and yet when he joined us he said the squad was good enough.
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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,350
    Grant Holt? .. another old warhorse .. loan to Wolves finished 2/1 .. hasn't played that often, might be rusty but still a possibility for a short term deal ?
  • Cordoban Addick
    Cordoban Addick Posts: 5,448
    ross1 said:

    Fraeye will be hopeful of adding at least one more player to his squad before the weekend.

    Not bad, brought in 3 new(?) players, 2 youth players back from loans, he made this statement above, and yet when he joined us he said the squad was good enough.

    I don't think that Karel is the man to take us forward but he had to say that. He couldn't say 'I intend to bring in six first-teamers in the window' with a dozen games to play (until the window).
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,406
    Fraeye will be hopeful of adding at least one more player to his squad before the weekend.

    Issues here. His squad? Really? One he was handed and has little say in, more like.

    And I am hopeful of dinner with Natalie Portman before the weekend as well. Suspect I will get as much say in that as Fraeye will in who he signs, if anyone.
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,738
    mogodon said:

    Fraeye will be hopeful of adding at least one more player to his squad before the weekend.

    Issues here. His squad? Really? One he was handed and has little say in, more like.

    And I am hopeful of dinner with Natalie Portman before the weekend as well. Suspect I will get as much say in that as Fraeye will in who he signs, if anyone.

    I think the one thing we have all agreed on is that the final irony with Fraeye slagging off the players is that they are all "his". Open secret that he has done all the network scouting.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,765
    Most of the signings in the past two years are Fraeye's men.
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,406
    Callumcafc said:

    Most of the signings in the past two years are Fraeye's men.

    I bet he swore like a Belgian when he realised the dross he had been sending the way of Luzon etc was now going to be his to work with. Still not convinced he had as much input as was claimed though.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    Callumcafc said:

    Most of the signings in the past two years are Fraeye's men.

    All the more disturbing that we missed out on Doogeiy Pewplescoop from FC Toilet in the Belgian X League then!
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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,849
    Clem_Snide said:

    mogodon said:

    Fraeye will be hopeful of adding at least one more player to his squad before the weekend.

    Issues here. His squad? Really? One he was handed and has little say in, more like.

    And I am hopeful of dinner with Natalie Portman before the weekend as well. Suspect I will get as much say in that as Fraeye will in who he signs, if anyone.

    I think the one thing we have all agreed on is that the final irony with Fraeye slagging off the players is that they are all "his". Open secret that he has done all the network scouting.
    He has a split personality.

    Thus head coach Fraeye can slag off scout Fraeye...
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