No emergency loan window next season

Covered End

I see in the "Bolton thread", that there's no emergency loans next season.

Does RD know this ?

His "football strategy" so far has been to start the season with a threadbare squad.

Wait until January when you're desperate, but have saved money not paying salaries for a competitive squad.

Trawl around for any players still available with 2 legs. Even though they are unfit.

Presumably, he'll just plan for relegation by February next season.

MrLargo

I noticed that as well. All is not lost though - even if you can't make emergency loan signings, you can still pick up players who are unattached. Come January, when your threadbare squad has once again slipped into the relegation zone, you just get on the phone to a few agents, put the word out that you're looking for players who are too old, too injured or too shit for any other clubs to be interested in signing them, and there you go - not only is Bob your Uncle, but also Roger Johnson is now your new centre-back.

Leeds_Addick

Interesting you picked up on it as well.
Essentially every thing we've heard on how RD & co plan for a season is based on January. When talking of potential promotion to the PL I remember them saying something like "We'll see how the first bit of the season goes and if we're doing well we'll go for it in January". As we've seen this has also applied to us not doing well and having to get out of the relegation zone.

I imagine we'll be doing the same thing but not relying on emergency loans means that we'll have to do all of our business in the same month. It's going to be a whole different game to when we were in L1 last time and it's going to be a whole lot worse.

ricky_otto

We can probably re sign Vaz Te - no doubt he'll be unattached.

Henry Irving

The other side of the coin is that clubs have to loan out their players in the transfer windows.

So the richer clubs wanting to give their players game time will have to do deals in August and Jan and for the longer periods ie no one month deals.

But with no chief scout we won't be able to take advantage of that.

soapy_jones

That's ok our player recruitment is pretty tight...

Garrymanilow

To be honest every signing we make is an emergency. We're a club that only recognises we need more than one right back for the whole season in February. We should be sanctioned by the Football League on principle

Rizzo

Garrymanilow said:

To be honest every signing we make is an emergency. We're a club that only recognises we need more than one right back for the whole season in February. We should be sanctioned by the Football League on principle

If only the Football League had any principles!

AddickFC81

Are we as an FL club going to be in a position that we have to name a squad of 25 players like in the Prem to select from?

SDAddick

We don't currently have any players on emergency loans, do we? Did we have any last year? (can't remember).

addick1965

soapy_jones said:

That's ok our player recruitment is pretty tight...

I think you will find that it's Roland who is pretty tight!

killerandflash

SDAddick said:

We don't currently have any players on emergency loans, do we? Did we have any last year? (can't remember).

Any loan outside the summer and January windows is an emergency loan. Fanni, Sanogo and Yun would all come under this category, as would the likes of Coquelin last year

SDAddick

killerandflash said:

SDAddick said:

We don't currently have any players on emergency loans, do we? Did we have any last year? (can't remember).

Any loan outside the summer and January windows is an emergency loan. Fanni, Sanogo and Yun would all come under this category, as would the likes of Coquelin last year

Right. Fanni and Sanogo were signed on the last day of the Jan Transfer window, but you're spot on about Yun. I can't believe I forgot Coquelin, sheer class that young man.

killerandflash

SDAddick said:

killerandflash said:

SDAddick said:

We don't currently have any players on emergency loans, do we? Did we have any last year? (can't remember).

Any loan outside the summer and January windows is an emergency loan. Fanni, Sanogo and Yun would all come under this category, as would the likes of Coquelin last year

Right. Fanni and Sanogo were signed on the last day of the Jan Transfer window, but you're spot on about Yun. I can't believe I forgot Coquelin, sheer class that young man.

Ah yes, we signed so many defenders around that time I forgot which ones were in the window (Fanny, Sanago), outside the window (Yun) or free agents (Motta)!

SDAddick

Right, and also the January transfer window ended on Feb 2nd this year. Don't know how you got confused.