James Olayinka is an interesting one , spent last season on loan at Southend in L2 , appears he can also fill in at RB too according to the Arsenal site.
Stats don't look great. If the link is true I imagine this will be a cheap back up for Morgan.
Yeah I'm not overly convinced by the stats either . Strikes me as squad filler
Not a rumour but a premier league loan I'd like to us to go for would be Tony Gallacher LB at Liverpool. I understand he was close to signing for Sunderland a few weeks ago but it fell through.
James Olayinka is an interesting one , spent last season on loan at Southend in L2 , appears he can also fill in at RB too according to the Arsenal site.
Stats don't look great. If the link is true I imagine this will be a cheap back up for Morgan.
Yeah I'm not overly convinced by the stats either . Strikes me as squad filler
Even the person actually reporting it isn't exactly convinced it's true so I'm not putting much stock in this one either way right now.
Cullen went on loan to Bradford in League Two when he was slightly older than Olyinka was last season. Arsenal obviously feel like he’s good enough to retain on their books. Stats aren’t everything at 20 years old, especially on loan at a struggling League Two side.
Cullen went on loan to Bradford in League Two when he was slightly older than Olyinka was last season. Arsenal obviously feel like he’s good enough to retain on their books. Stats aren’t everything at 20 years old, especially on loan at a struggling League Two side.
Loads of people struggle in their first loan, some in their second as well, for multiple reasons. Most improve from the experience.
Beilik didn't set the world a light at Walsall. The 1st Matt Smith did well enough at Doncaster last season to get a championship loan this season. Cullen was shocking in an awful Bolton side before we first got him.
Cullen went on loan to Bradford in League Two when he was slightly older than Olyinka was last season. Arsenal obviously feel like he’s good enough to retain on their books. Stats aren’t everything at 20 years old, especially on loan at a struggling League Two side.
Loads of people struggle in their first loan, some in their second as well, for multiple reasons. Most improve from the experience.
Beilik didn't set the world a light at Walsall. The 1st Matt Smith did well enough at Doncaster last season to get a championship loan this season. Cullen was shocking in an awful Bolton side before we first got him.
Exactly. And let’s be honest, he won’t even need to be that good to be an improvement on Morgan at the moment.
James Olayinka is an interesting one , spent last season on loan at Southend in L2 , appears he can also fill in at RB too according to the Arsenal site.
Blimey! We are shopping in stores even Roland dared not go in!
Roland didn’t shop in stores, hence the duck tape on the shoes!
For what it's worth (not much) my theory: We are leaving everything to the last few days. Plan is to find available, unttached, whatever, L1 or Championship Players without a club. We then offer them L1 wages within our budget - but a big promotion bonus if we go up (and maybe a smaller bonus just to make the play offs). That way we get players that fit the budget - who accept lower wages as better than nothing...with the added incentive to aim at promotion. In addition a few loans from (ideally) prem clubs that want to get some experience in some of their fringe or lower age players.
Very risky approach how often have we seen them try and get some decent signings on deadline day and then fail or fall back on 5th or 6th choice. If you want to mount a serious top 2 promotion challenge, rather than aim for the play-offs, then you need the squad sorted in close season not 3 defeats into the season. Also I don't accept the excuse that prem lge teams don't sort out their loans till end of August as that's clearly not true as plenty of other teams have secured decent prem loans throughout the summer.
For what it's worth (not much) my theory: We are leaving everything to the last few days. Plan is to find available, unttached, whatever, L1 or Championship Players without a club. We then offer them L1 wages within our budget - but a big promotion bonus if we go up (and maybe a smaller bonus just to make the play offs). That way we get players that fit the budget - who accept lower wages as better than nothing...with the added incentive to aim at promotion. In addition a few loans from (ideally) prem clubs that want to get some experience in some of their fringe or lower age players.
Great theory - but where are they & where all the premiership loans ? 8 days to go and its tumbleweeds. Its the opposite to the record breaking points strategy of the Chris Powell promotion year that did actually sweep the league away. Personally, I think that this is a case of wishful thinking & that Thomas Sandgaard, as much as we all love him, doesn't have the money or wishes to put the budget in.
I would love to be proved wrong and there be a number of decent signings and loans this week.
Something appears to have changed from the initial bravado. I am wondering whether Thomas Sandgaard needs a new investor.
On the current squad - its League One with an outside historic L1 relegation battle if there are unfortunate injuries to an already depleted squad.
Very risky approach how often have we seen them try and get some decent signings on deadline day and then fail or fall back on 5th or 6th choice. If you want to mount a serious top 2 promotion challenge, rather than aim for the play-offs, then you need the squad sorted in close season not 3 defeats into the season. Also I don't accept the excuse that prem lge teams don't sort out their loans till end of August as that's clearly not true as plenty of other teams have secured decent prem loans throughout the summer.
I don’t think anyone has suggested that Prem league teams don’t sort out any loans until the end of August, it is more that there will be youth players close to being selected for the main squad. By definition these are, or should be, the better players.
When the squads get announced it becomes clear who is available. Obviously Championship clubs will also be interested, but that does not mean that they are the automatic choice. Style of play, quality of coaching and likelihood of playing all play apart. There is also a knock on from Championship clubs who will loan out players. One can only hope we are in for a full quota.
Would love to be proved wrong but I'm resigned to another 2 seasons in the 3rd division in keeping with past experience when, with the exception of the Mike Bailey season, we've taken 3 years to get out. Squad looks nowhere near being able to compete for promotion.
Unbelievable talent but not "oven ready" not what we need right now. Saying that you need to look at it as a whole, it depends who else we are looking at.
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Beilik didn't set the world a light at Walsall. The 1st Matt Smith did well enough at Doncaster last season to get a championship loan this season. Cullen was shocking in an awful Bolton side before we first got him.
Which is not to say I am especially happy or impressed as this could backfire when we really really need everything to work perfectly.
There is also a knock on from Championship clubs who will loan out players.
One can only hope we are in for a full quota.
Unbelievable talent but not "oven ready" not what we need right now. Saying that you need to look at it as a whole, it depends who else we are looking at.
Played in a promotion winning side though, more than any of the other midfielders we've got can say.
For example, Chelsea have so far loaned 15 players out already, including 3 to the PL, 5 to the Championship and 2 to L1
Arsenal have loaned out 11 players, including 3 to the Championship and 1 to L1