I don't know why anyone actually expected us to spend real money this window. There has been a determined effort by CARD and others to reduce his income, which is fair enough. After deliberately attacking his business plan through boycotts and non attendance, we can't then seriously complain about him diverting funds away from squad reinvestment into covering his losses.
RD would only consider lumping in large amounts of cash for players if we had a realistic chance of promotion, he obviously doesn't think we have. He's hedging his bets by spending just enough to keep the squad fairly competitive and KR reasonably content.
Not seen if it has been mentioned before or not but will grigg is available. Get rid of ajose to free up some funds and get grigg in. Proven goal scorer who would link up well with magennis esp as they play together for Northern Ireland. Come on robinson get him in and we will be guaranteed top 6!!!
Mentioned this yesterday cabbie8 but was just laughed at. Don't think it's an unrealistic target at all.
Not a rumour but Craig Eastmond would be a good addition. Saw him play against maidstone last year and he was head and shoulders above anyone else on the pitch.
Not seen if it has been mentioned before or not but will grigg is available. Get rid of ajose to free up some funds and get grigg in. Proven goal scorer who would link up well with magennis esp as they play together for Northern Ireland. Come on robinson get him in and we will be guaranteed top 6!!!
Mentioned this yesterday cabbie8 but was just laughed at. Don't think it's an unrealistic target at all.
Is it likely that he will be interested in dropping down a division, though?
It's not like Josh moving from Scotland to England.
Not seen if it has been mentioned before or not but will grigg is available. Get rid of ajose to free up some funds and get grigg in. Proven goal scorer who would link up well with magennis esp as they play together for Northern Ireland. Come on robinson get him in and we will be guaranteed top 6!!!
Mentioned this yesterday cabbie8 but was just laughed at. Don't think it's an unrealistic target at all.
Is it likely that he will be interested in dropping down a division, though?
It's not like Josh moving from Scotland to England.
It would be a great signing and a good use of our windfall from Lookman leaving. Young with a good scoring record. What sort of money would Wigan want though?. I think they paid a million and I doubt he is on fantastic wages.
Rolly has spent money before, at least he would be getting a decent player this time.
Doesn't really matter what money we have, we are not going to attract proven or current premiership players, championship squad/fringe players and prem reserves at best, I don't know who people really think we are going to sign?
I will admit, we will hold a little more sway than most in this division, but its a fact of life due to being in league one, and our current regime and image within the game.
Could this window be an even bigger road crash than the previous five?
Just be grateful we have no chance of promotion anyway because Aribo and Konsa will be gone in the summer.
How can Gobshite or any other manager forge a team with this level of player turnover.
Nice to see you living up to your username
Player Turnover???
We have released a player who was on a stop gap 5 month contract
We sold a left back, who, judging by most posts on here and boos at games most fans hated. (Not me)
We sold League ones most talented player for a record fee at this level, and I doubt ANY club in this league, and the majority in the championship would have held onto him.
Seen what happen before? Us sell a player for a potential 8 figure sum, and sign 2 players by the end of the following day?
Please remind me when this last happened
They've seen disappointing transfer windows before under Roland. Every time. I admire your optimism. But I think it's a little naive.
It's not optimism, it's not naive, it's fact.
We sold a player for big bucks 36 hours ago, and have already got players in, and people are complaining about those signings.
Who are people expecting us to sign, Alexis Sanchez, James Rodriguez and David Alaba?!
In fact, I'd argue we have acted proactively this window so far, Dasilva announced before Lookman goes, Page before Fox and JFC before Foley, who seemed to be regarded as a central midfielder judging by us moving Chicksen to right back and putting Foley in the middle against Bristol.
So far, in the opening week of the window, the regime have done things differently to how they've gone about business beforehand, and if you can't see that, you're blinded by hatred, and will complain about anything they now do, whatever it is.
Yes, the club has done things differently, but we are weaker than we were before Lookman suddenly got "ill", we still have a misbalanced squad, we now need cover at right-back, and we still need some creativity in the middle. More than that, Ajose and Novak have proved damp squibs so we need to hang on to Watt or we're totally reliant on Big Mac for our attacking threat. And we lose Botaks for as long as DR Congo are in the ACoN.
Well in the absence of Lookman we drew at Southend and put 4 past Bristol Rovers. JFC will surely be the creativity in the centre and Holmes is close to coming back.
There are gaps in the squad, but several weeks to go in the window and a week before our next game. As I've said before, at this level all teams will have gaps in their squads, or players they completely rely on.
Couple of points. Give it time on terms of spending the dough. The investment in caskey looks a good one and he's just the sort of player we should be signing. Let's see what the rest of the window brings. In terms of the comparison with aribo and deli ali. I don't think it's about putting him in the shop window, it's robinsons natural excitability. It might bring the vultures but it might also be designed to give joe a boost. Imagine getting that praise from your boss. You'd be on top of the world.
With that win against bristol and our new signing and Ricky Holmes bag I'm feeling hopeful. A win next week and we can start to feel a even more hopeful. But I don't ever expect to beat them
Couple of points. Give it time on terms of spending the dough. The investment in caskey looks a good one and he's just the sort of player we should be signing. Let's see what the rest of the window brings. In terms of the comparison with aribo and deli ali. I don't think it's about putting him in the shop window, it's robinsons natural excitability. It might bring the vultures but it might also be designed to give joe a boost. Imagine getting that praise from your boss. You'd be on top of the world.
With that win against bristol and our new signing and Ricky Holmes bag I'm feeling hopeful. A win next week and we can start to feel a even more hopeful. But I don't ever expect to beat them
Couple of points. Give it time on terms of spending the dough. The investment in caskey looks a good one and he's just the sort of player we should be signing. Let's see what the rest of the window brings. In terms of the comparison with aribo and deli ali. I don't think it's about putting him in the shop window, it's robinsons natural excitability. It might bring the vultures but it might also be designed to give joe a boost. Imagine getting that praise from your boss. You'd be on top of the world.
With that win against bristol and our new signing and Ricky Holmes bag I'm feeling hopeful. A win next week and we can start to feel a even more hopeful. But I don't ever expect to beat them
I'm gonna concentrate on numbers here as the quality of the signings will be revealed in time...
Before any outs I reckoned we could do with 3 in.
1 winger 1 no 10 1 CM (Wouldn't say no to another striker but I don't think it's essential given KR's desire to play 4231)
Since then we have lost Lookman Foley Fox (And Botaka short term)
So we need: 2 wingers 1 no 10 1 CM 1 left back 1 back up right back/utility player
Page is the LB, Dasilva one of the Wingers and JFC the CM. It's a good start but in terms of numbers we need 2 more who are dead certain to start plus one back up/utility player before the end of the window with no more exits.
I'm gonna concentrate on numbers here as the quality of the signings will be revealed in time...
Before any outs I reckoned we could do with 3 in.
1 winger 1 no 10 1 CM (Wouldn't say no to another striker but I don't think it's essential given KR's desire to play 4231)
Since then we have lost Lookman Foley Fox (And Botaka short term)
So we need: 2 wingers 1 no 10 1 CM 1 left back 1 back up right back/utility player
Page is the LB, Dasilva one of the Wingers and JFC the CM. It's a good start but in terms of numbers we need 2 more who are dead certain to start plus one back up/utility player before the end of the window with no more exits.
Agree 100% with this. I personally would also be looking to offload Ajose to enable a new striker to come in as well as the number 10 (reeves), winger and back up RB (byrne) that we need.
If we did the above we'd be in a great place for the 2nd half of the season (plus an extra bonus would be to offload some of the dead wood like Ba and Johnson but there obviously won't be a long list of suitors for those players). Time will tell.
Does seem strange Robinson publicly comparing Aribo to Deli Alli so soon. If I had taken charge of a club I would want to keep my 'best' players out of the limelight as much as possible.
KR likes to talk - "loose lips sink ships" is not a phrase he has come across to date.
Didn't KR say that he was looking to bring in 4 or 5 - so that means we can only expect 1 or 2 more to join and goodness knows how many to leave.
Just about 10 years since he burst on the scene. From memory he didn't feature in the Dartford Sutton FA Cup match, and has now dropped down another division
Slightly concerned that the CL height test is being ignored. Seems being left footed could be the new thing.
A decent left footer is worth their weight in gold................except when they can't kick or tackle with their right foot like Norman (bites your legs) Hunter for England v Poland 1973, don't grass me up to him though .
KR interview on club youtube says another player due in this week, then looking to spend a bit of money to bring 1 more in before the end of the month
Just listened to the interview, also speaks about potentially 6/7 changes for the Millwall match. As @Chrissy\\\'s Army!! said, he will get 1 more player before Millwall match and "splashing the cash" on 1 more before window closes. So he is going to "splash some cash" that'll be interesting to see who he gets!
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RD would only consider lumping in large amounts of cash for players if we had a realistic chance of promotion, he obviously doesn't think we have. He's hedging his bets by spending just enough to keep the squad fairly competitive and KR reasonably content.
Keep 'em peeled!
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/fa-league-cups/sutton-united-vs-afc-wimbledon-arsenal-craig-eastmond-interview-fa-cup-third-round-a7513321.html
It's not like Josh moving from Scotland to England.
Rolly has spent money before, at least he would be getting a decent player this time.
I will admit, we will hold a little more sway than most in this division, but its a fact of life due to being in league one, and our current regime and image within the game.
We have released a player who was on a stop gap 5 month contract
We sold a left back, who, judging by most posts on here and boos at games most fans hated. (Not me)
We sold League ones most talented player for a record fee at this level, and I doubt ANY club in this league, and the majority in the championship would have held onto him.
There are gaps in the squad, but several weeks to go in the window and a week before our next game. As I've said before, at this level all teams will have gaps in their squads, or players they completely rely on.
With that win against bristol and our new signing and Ricky Holmes bag I'm feeling hopeful. A win next week and we can start to feel a even more hopeful. But I don't ever expect to beat them
Before any outs I reckoned we could do with 3 in.
1 winger
1 no 10
1 CM
(Wouldn't say no to another striker but I don't think it's essential given KR's desire to play 4231)
Since then we have lost
Lookman
Foley
Fox
(And Botaka short term)
So we need:
2 wingers
1 no 10
1 CM
1 left back
1 back up right back/utility player
Page is the LB, Dasilva one of the Wingers and JFC the CM. It's a good start but in terms of numbers we need 2 more who are dead certain to start plus one back up/utility player before the end of the window with no more exits.
If we did the above we'd be in a great place for the 2nd half of the season (plus an extra bonus would be to offload some of the dead wood like Ba and Johnson but there obviously won't be a long list of suitors for those players). Time will tell.
Didn't KR say that he was looking to bring in 4 or 5 - so that means we can only expect 1 or 2 more to join and goodness knows how many to leave.
http://www.kentlive.news/ex-charlton-athletic-crewe-alexaxndra-and-bristol-rovers-striker-joins-chelmsford-city/story-30038070-detail/story.html
So he is going to "splash some cash" that'll be interesting to see who he gets!