Players never used to be honed athletes, with barely an ounce of fat on them. The days of a piss up the night before, fry up for breakfast and fag at half time are long gone.
You've obviously never seen a Charltonlife football match
I get that Southall is in a tricky position, we don't want to offer decent money and then find ourselves in League 1, but this is similar to the summer where we are missing out on decent players because we can't offer that bit extra.
We are not in massive trouble ... Lee about to sign, a number of players being looked at, players returning from injury, 5 points clear of relegation and a better goal difference.
I’m confident that we will hit bottom three hopefully before a return to form and safety. We really are skating on thin ice. No guarantee returning players will hit the ground running or not relapse. No certainty that new players won’t take time to settle and perform. This season is very squeaky bum time. Relegation would be an absolute disaster.
I'm confident if we drop into the bottom three we'll stay there.
This is beginning to remind me of the Ben Reeves transfer saga. 2 clubs agree a deal, then the player stalls on signing in case someone else comes along with a better offer and then only when no better deal is forthcoming does the player sign.
From Maddison's point of view perfectly understandable but it doesn't inspire confidence he really wants to sign for us.
This is beginning to remind me of the Ben Reeves transfer saga. 2 clubs agree a deal, then the player stalls on signing in case someone else comes along with a better offer and then only when no better deal is forthcoming does the player sign.
From Maddison's point of view perfectly understandable but it doesn't inspire confidence he really wants to sign for us.
It's all about the money - location, club and the chance of winning silverware are secondary.
This sums up the January window. The agent of every in demand player is telling their clients to wait until the last minute to try to squeeze every penny they can out of the most desperate bidders.
It’s all well and good telling the club / Gallen / Bowyer to give the player what they want but I highly doubt any player takes a good offer right away - they may even push their demands further. After all what’s another 500 quid p/w if we agreed to 1k?
It’s in their interest to wait and see what else develops.
Nothing that CAFC can do but wait.
If that was the case no players would sign for a new club until the 31st Jan......but many clubs have already bought players so what you say doesn't hold water.
This is beginning to remind me of the Ben Reeves transfer saga. 2 clubs agree a deal, then the player stalls on signing in case someone else comes along with a better offer and then only when no better deal is forthcoming does the player sign.
From Maddison's point of view perfectly understandable but it doesn't inspire confidence he really wants to sign for us.
This sums up the January window. The agent of every in demand player is telling their clients to wait until the last minute to try to squeeze every penny they can out of the most desperate bidders.
It’s all well and good telling the club / Gallen / Bowyer to give the player what they want but I highly doubt any player takes a good offer right away - they may even push their demands further. After all what’s another 500 quid p/w if we agreed to 1k?
It’s in their interest to wait and see what else develops.
Nothing that CAFC can do but wait.
If that was the case no players would sign for a new club until the 31st Jan......but many clubs have already bought players so what you say doesn't hold water.
Exactly what do you mean by many?
According to the latest figures the window has been abnormally quiet.
why the excitement over Bostock (age 28 lol) ? .. he's played 3 games in England in the past 7 or so years and if he is so terrific, why are Forest prepared to release him early form his loan period .. we might as well have kept Ledley .. are we at the stage when even the hint of getting in (say) a Macclesfield reserve right back sets us all off in a joyous frenzy ?
why the excitement over Bostock (age 28 lol) ? .. he's played 3 games in England in the past 7 or so years and if he is so terrific, why are Forest prepared to release him early form his loan period .. we might as well have kept Ledley .. are we at the stage when even the hint of getting in (say) a Macclesfield reserve right back sets us all off in a joyous frenzy ?
Bostock is a massive upgrade on Ledley. I admit that's not saying much, but lets not shit on players just because they're not premier league or top 6 championship standard.
why the excitement over Bostock (age 28 lol) ? .. he's played 3 games in England in the past 7 or so years and if he is so terrific, why are Forest prepared to release him early form his loan period .. we might as well have kept Ledley .. are we at the stage when even the hint of getting in (say) a Macclesfield reserve right back sets us all off in a joyous frenzy ?
Bostock is a massive upgrade on Ledley. I admit that's not saying much, but lets not shit on players just because they're not premier league or top 6 championship standard.
Agreed, he changed the game at the valley earlier in the season, replacement for Kayal on loan I’d be happy.
Start of last week I remember posting that Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I reckon they at least had some tools to get started by now.
We are sacrificing two games for the long term, which will be shite if the short term is shite. Surely we want to head into the Barnsley and stoke games without pressure, I’m not panicking but something should have been done before this weekend.
We will now end up rushing back the recovering players, so brace yourselves for more setbacks. However you look at it, we are currently weaker now than we was Jan 1st squad wise.
why the excitement over Bostock (age 28 lol) ? .. he's played 3 games in England in the past 7 or so years and if he is so terrific, why are Forest prepared to release him early form his loan period .. we might as well have kept Ledley .. are we at the stage when even the hint of getting in (say) a Macclesfield reserve right back sets us all off in a joyous frenzy ?
Bostock is a massive upgrade on Ledley. I admit that's not saying much, but lets not shit on players just because they're not premier league or top 6 championship standard.
Agreed, he changed the game at the valley earlier in the season, replacement for Kayal on loan I’d be happy.
the man who really affected that game was Albert Adomah .. I'd welcome him with open arms, even though he is over 30
Remember when Bostock played for Spurs against us in the FA Youth Cup - they won 3-0 and he absolutely ran the show with one goal from distance and another with his left and another with his right.
It all went rather downhill from there from him - if you exclude him finding God that is. As @Henry Irving will confirm "that must have been one hell of a pass!"
why the excitement over Bostock (age 28 lol) ? .. he's played 3 games in England in the past 7 or so years and if he is so terrific, why are Forest prepared to release him early form his loan period .. we might as well have kept Ledley .. are we at the stage when even the hint of getting in (say) a Macclesfield reserve right back sets us all off in a joyous frenzy ?
Bostock is a massive upgrade on Ledley. I admit that's not saying much, but lets not shit on players just because they're not premier league or top 6 championship standard.
Wouldn’t say we are shitting on the lad, just hard to get enthusiastic about a sub for a team that we dominated this season.
Start of last week I remember posting that Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I reckon they at least had some tools to get started by now.
We are sacrificing two games for the long term, which will be shite if the short term is shite. Surely we want to head into the Barnsley and stoke games without pressure, I’m not panicking but something should have been done before this weekend.
We will now end up rushing back the recovering players, so brace yourselves for more setbacks. However you look at it, we are currently weaker now than we was Jan 1st squad wise.
Williams, JFC, Hemed, Cullen and Oztumer all in the squad for Saturday according to Bowyer so I’m sure we’re stronger than January 1st, I was starting to get a bit anxious but I’m a lot more confident that they’ll get this window right after just watching the press conference.
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trouble!!!!!
Nah.
Bring back the double spacing.
The rest of your post is bang on.
Even the tea lady on a extended new deal is more than we would have got under rowland
From Maddison's point of view perfectly understandable but it doesn't inspire confidence he really wants to sign for us.
Christ - I do hope he’s better than that
We are sacrificing two games for the long term, which will be shite if the short term is shite. Surely we want to head into the Barnsley and stoke games without pressure, I’m not panicking but something should have been done before this weekend.
We will now end up rushing back the recovering players, so brace yourselves for more setbacks. However you look at it, we are currently weaker now than we was Jan 1st squad wise.
It all went rather downhill from there from him - if you exclude him finding God that is. As @Henry Irving will confirm "that must have been one hell of a pass!"