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January 2024 Transfer Rumours (D/day starts pg.263)
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Short term contract please. He's obviously our z-list option so let's not have him for 4 years and us to try shipping him back out for 2 years.2
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Do we have the capability to scout "abroad" eg Ireland and France and others?Braziliance said:
There's 92 professional clubs, there's clubs in the national league that have recently been professional, not to mention players abroad.fenaddick said:
It’s L1, players with 6 months left on their contract leave for free all the time. They might need to offload his wages or have someone else lined up. They also have 3 other strikers and usually play 1 up top from what I can see.Braziliance said:
If it was free it would be for next season, I can't imagine why Port Vale would be willing to lose one of their only strikers for free tbh.fenaddick said:
The implication from that Sky paragraph is he’d be free. I’d imagine cheap wages tooBraziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
Cheap wages but still wages, could potentially be another one we have sitting their wasting wages and blocking other transfer activity.
Because we have been heavily linked with one of the best strikers in the league, it's quite underwhelming to go from that to a player who's probably not even top20 material.Scoham said:
I don’t get the way of thinking (the last bit) - if we don’t get him what makes you think we’d get better? The longer we wait the more risk we end up with someone further down the list or worse, no new striker at all.Braziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
This could also be one of those situations where we have a few possibilities, but we have to keep some moving along to ensure we get the type of player we need, even if we have to go with a short term option.
Just don't think it's a good signing is all
I get what you’re saying but what’s the alternative? JCH doesn’t look like he wants to sign Humphrys must be a non starter and we know Ladapo is. It’s clear we need a striker and we’re working our way down our shortlist. He’s not perfect but I’m not sure who else we go for
I'd really like to hope we have more imagination than just gradually looking at the strikers of every team in this league.
We allegedly bid a sizeable fee for Abbey, 500k or so for JCH, 400k for Goodwin.
Ali Al-Hamadi is probably going to go for around 1-2 million. I understand his likely destination will be a championship gamble, but if we have this kind of money now, why would we sign stop gaps. That's what the loan market is for imo.
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Sometimes. 🙄Croydon said:Vfrf said:Don't have a good feeling about this one to be honest. Gives us a new dynamic in terms of striker profile, but a complete journeyman who has only featured 11 times with 1 goal for Port Vale this year, seems a very different profile to Goodwin who we were in for yesterday.
Especially if we lose CBT, who is our second highest scorer and only player with the ability to create something out of nothing.0 -
This reminds of a Josh Parker kind of signing4
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Carl Leaburn mark2?0
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Kind of hope he would be a little better than Josh. But yes, I guess that's the kind of thinking.CH4RLTON said:This reminds of a Josh Parker kind of signing
If he can keep himself fit. Make a bit of a nuisance of himself and tap the odd one in that will do for me
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Max 18 month deal if we do go for him please.
Would still need another striker though IMO, especially if going 2 up top1 -
Wouldn't mind him at all. A foil for May is clearly what we need - look at what happens when he's isolated up top. If Parker can be a decent albeit bit-part player in a promotion side, then in the short term you'd hope Ikpeazu can do similar in terms of how we can generate results or passages of play. And for that one lovely season we had Paolo di Canio, he scored 4 in 31, all of which were pens, but we weren't writing him off as a striker/forward player (admittedly he was a bit of a CAM) as a result, were we? (Obviously not a direct comparison of course!)2
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Absolutely, Football Manager ticks all the boxes!KingKinsella said:
Do we have the capability to scout "abroad" eg Ireland and France and others?Braziliance said:
There's 92 professional clubs, there's clubs in the national league that have recently been professional, not to mention players abroad.fenaddick said:
It’s L1, players with 6 months left on their contract leave for free all the time. They might need to offload his wages or have someone else lined up. They also have 3 other strikers and usually play 1 up top from what I can see.Braziliance said:
If it was free it would be for next season, I can't imagine why Port Vale would be willing to lose one of their only strikers for free tbh.fenaddick said:
The implication from that Sky paragraph is he’d be free. I’d imagine cheap wages tooBraziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
Cheap wages but still wages, could potentially be another one we have sitting their wasting wages and blocking other transfer activity.
Because we have been heavily linked with one of the best strikers in the league, it's quite underwhelming to go from that to a player who's probably not even top20 material.Scoham said:
I don’t get the way of thinking (the last bit) - if we don’t get him what makes you think we’d get better? The longer we wait the more risk we end up with someone further down the list or worse, no new striker at all.Braziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
This could also be one of those situations where we have a few possibilities, but we have to keep some moving along to ensure we get the type of player we need, even if we have to go with a short term option.
Just don't think it's a good signing is all
I get what you’re saying but what’s the alternative? JCH doesn’t look like he wants to sign Humphrys must be a non starter and we know Ladapo is. It’s clear we need a striker and we’re working our way down our shortlist. He’s not perfect but I’m not sure who else we go for
I'd really like to hope we have more imagination than just gradually looking at the strikers of every team in this league.
We allegedly bid a sizeable fee for Abbey, 500k or so for JCH, 400k for Goodwin.
Ali Al-Hamadi is probably going to go for around 1-2 million. I understand his likely destination will be a championship gamble, but if we have this kind of money now, why would we sign stop gaps. That's what the loan market is for imo.0 - Sponsored links:
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More than just that, Parker was actually a hugely important signing for us. We had Lyle Taylor playing out of his skin, Aribo, Cullen and Bielik hitting top form and Williams had just come in. We'd lost KAG but we didn't need a goalscorer to replace him, we needed a foil for Lyle and someone for the midfield to play off. We lost 2 games in 2019; the first of those was a game where Parker was on the bench and Taylor was suspended, so it was Reeco on his own up front, and the second was Oxford where Lyle played on his own up front and we were rubbish. Parker wasn't a game changer on his own but we never lost a match where he started because the overall balance he helped bring was essential. A striker with the right profile could make such a difference to our season, I'd rather we bring a bit of a rubbish one in than no-oneJamesSeed said:Bilko said:
Nooooooooo!!!!SCovered End said:We'll be on to Bogle or Dodoo again if we can't get someone slightly better.
Is Josh Parker available?
Actually, looking back, who’d have thought a limited journeyman like him, who hardly ever scored, would play a decent role in our successful play-off final.I think Uche might be (even) better than Josh. 👍7 -
Would he sign for just an 18 month deal though?sam3110 said:Max 18 month deal if we do go for him please.
Would still need another striker though IMO, especially if going 2 up top1 -
Don't mind the Ikpeazu move , big striker that can hold the ball up , if we could add another striker on loan alongside signing him then I'd be pretty content. Would rather not have too much pressure on DK still.0
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Bakinson looked very decent on Saturday. Exactly the sort of player we’ve missed since Pratley left. Not flashy, but does a job.NabySarr said:
Of course it counts, you just need to judge it with realistic expectationsBraziliance said:
The players you mention are replacing outgoing players though in all likeliness.Garrymanilow said:
Not really a fair assessment that though is it? We wanted to get a left sided centre half and we got the one we wanted in Gillesphey. We obviously bid for Abbey but he's got Premier League interest so that was never going to happen. Our top target up front was JCH but if we've had a £500k bid accepted, offered him more than£10k a week and he's said no because he wants more then what can we do? Goodwin is unfortunate but we got done on location, can't help that. We've had to go down our list on strikers but there's not a lot of obvious options out there and JCH sounds like he's been a bit of a penis. Appleton's first choice signing was clearly Fiorini and we got him along with a physical midfielder and Coventry who we beat a Championship team to. If we're changing formation to a shape that doesn't fit CBT and getting money to fund players who do then overall that's a positive. Coventry alone makes a better window than Bonne, Penney and KilkennyBraziliance said:
Because one man's trash is another man's treasure and vice versa.Covered End said:
No one thinks it's a very good signing.Braziliance said:
If it was free it would be for next season, I can't imagine why Port Vale would be willing to lose one of their only strikers for free tbh.fenaddick said:
The implication from that Sky paragraph is he’d be free. I’d imagine cheap wages tooBraziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
Cheap wages but still wages, could potentially be another one we have sitting their wasting wages and blocking other transfer activity.
Because we have been heavily linked with one of the best strikers in the league, it's quite underwhelming to go from that to a player who's probably not even top20 material.Scoham said:
I don’t get the way of thinking (the last bit) - if we don’t get him what makes you think we’d get better? The longer we wait the more risk we end up with someone further down the list or worse, no new striker at all.Braziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
This could also be one of those situations where we have a few possibilities, but we have to keep some moving along to ensure we get the type of player we need, even if we have to go with a short term option.
Just don't think it's a good signing is all
Many people think that if he's the best available to us for this season, then it's better than nothing.
Port Vale are level on points with Charlton and have a game in hand.
If you think Port Vale would be wrong to sell/release him, I don't understand why you can't continue the thought process and think it would be beneficial to Charlton (to help avoid relegation).
I don't believe he would be as important to us as he is allegedly to Port Vale, the reviews seem mixed.
I'll just wait and see (all we can do), either way, this is firmly starting to look like a typical January if it wasn't for Conor Coventry, especially if CBT does go and potentially Dobson.
Failed to get out top targets (except Coventry)
Failed to keep our prized assets (likely)
Added stop gaps and unproven players to the ranks to tide us over. Gillesphey will be Hector's replacement likely, so we still need another centre back.
I'll get stick for it, as anyone who doesn't praise them does, but we are miles off it still and a striker that doesn't score (I understand he has more to his game) and a third choice goalie isn't going to cut it.
I think it's fair, but that's my view. I genuinely just shouldn't post about it as it just ends up being a case of people arguing over what they do when it's all irrelevant and they're going to do what they want in the end and we just have to watch it.
Good luck to Uche
Yes first January transfer window of course.NabySarr said:
Is this your first January transfer window? Can’t expect them to fully rebuild the squad in January!Braziliance said:
Because one man's trash is another man's treasure and vice versa.Covered End said:
No one thinks it's a very good signing.Braziliance said:
If it was free it would be for next season, I can't imagine why Port Vale would be willing to lose one of their only strikers for free tbh.fenaddick said:
The implication from that Sky paragraph is he’d be free. I’d imagine cheap wages tooBraziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
Cheap wages but still wages, could potentially be another one we have sitting their wasting wages and blocking other transfer activity.
Because we have been heavily linked with one of the best strikers in the league, it's quite underwhelming to go from that to a player who's probably not even top20 material.Scoham said:
I don’t get the way of thinking (the last bit) - if we don’t get him what makes you think we’d get better? The longer we wait the more risk we end up with someone further down the list or worse, no new striker at all.Braziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
This could also be one of those situations where we have a few possibilities, but we have to keep some moving along to ensure we get the type of player we need, even if we have to go with a short term option.
Just don't think it's a good signing is all
Many people think that if he's the best available to us for this season, then it's better than nothing.
Port Vale are level on points with Charlton and have a game in hand.
If you think Port Vale would be wrong to sell/release him, I don't understand why you can't continue the thought process and think it would be beneficial to Charlton (to help avoid relegation).
I don't believe he would be as important to us as he is allegedly to Port Vale, the reviews seem mixed.
I'll just wait and see (all we can do), either way, this is firmly starting to look like a typical January if it wasn't for Conor Coventry, especially if CBT does go and potentially Dobson.
Failed to get out top targets (except Coventry)
Failed to keep our prized assets (likely)
Added stop gaps and unproven players to the ranks to tide us over. Gillesphey will be Hector's replacement likely, so we still need another centre back.
I'll get stick for it, as anyone who doesn't praise them does, but we are miles off it still and a striker that doesn't score (I understand he has more to his game) and a third choice goalie isn't going to cut it.It’s just about making some good signings, not being silly and overpaying, and leaving ourselves with less to do in the summer. I think we are doing a reasonable job at that so far, with 2 good permanent signings, and 2 loans that cover a short term need and could be potential permanent signings in the summer
So just for some clarity, this window doesn't count in the future when we discuss how many windows this regime has had? Cause so far the summer didn't count as they arrived too late, allegedly, and now January is a write off as it's a sellers market?
Anyway yeah good signing, real strong lad, I'm sure he'll do a job at his 14th club. Can't wait to travel up and down the country to watch Uche do a job.
We’ve probably made the best signing in league 1 so far (Coventry), and a regular in a promotion winning team of last season (Gillesphey). That’s 2 very good permanent signings, how many other league 1 teams have even made 1 permanent signing of that calibre?I’m less thrilled about the 2 loans, but we clearly needed bodies in central midfield in the short term (like we do up front)5 -
Mendonca on record that Carl was the best strike partner he ever played with, which is saying something considering he played with Andy HuntSoundAsa£ said:Carl Leaburn mark2?6 -
I think he would do until the end of the season.
It would need to be a short deal though to allow us to move him on easily. Perhaps an 18 month contract.
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Thing is, would he sign on such a short contract...maybe 2 years with a years option on our side, but he would def do a job for us in that physical hold up play we have been missing...covered_end_junior said:I think he would do until the end of the season.
It would need to be a short deal though to allow us to move him on easily. Perhaps an 18 month contract.1 -
You're getting more illogical with every post.Braziliance said:
The players you mention are replacing outgoing players though in all likeliness.Garrymanilow said:
Not really a fair assessment that though is it? We wanted to get a left sided centre half and we got the one we wanted in Gillesphey. We obviously bid for Abbey but he's got Premier League interest so that was never going to happen. Our top target up front was JCH but if we've had a £500k bid accepted, offered him more than£10k a week and he's said no because he wants more then what can we do? Goodwin is unfortunate but we got done on location, can't help that. We've had to go down our list on strikers but there's not a lot of obvious options out there and JCH sounds like he's been a bit of a penis. Appleton's first choice signing was clearly Fiorini and we got him along with a physical midfielder and Coventry who we beat a Championship team to. If we're changing formation to a shape that doesn't fit CBT and getting money to fund players who do then overall that's a positive. Coventry alone makes a better window than Bonne, Penney and KilkennyBraziliance said:
Because one man's trash is another man's treasure and vice versa.Covered End said:
No one thinks it's a very good signing.Braziliance said:
If it was free it would be for next season, I can't imagine why Port Vale would be willing to lose one of their only strikers for free tbh.fenaddick said:
The implication from that Sky paragraph is he’d be free. I’d imagine cheap wages tooBraziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
Cheap wages but still wages, could potentially be another one we have sitting their wasting wages and blocking other transfer activity.
Because we have been heavily linked with one of the best strikers in the league, it's quite underwhelming to go from that to a player who's probably not even top20 material.Scoham said:
I don’t get the way of thinking (the last bit) - if we don’t get him what makes you think we’d get better? The longer we wait the more risk we end up with someone further down the list or worse, no new striker at all.Braziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
This could also be one of those situations where we have a few possibilities, but we have to keep some moving along to ensure we get the type of player we need, even if we have to go with a short term option.
Just don't think it's a good signing is all
Many people think that if he's the best available to us for this season, then it's better than nothing.
Port Vale are level on points with Charlton and have a game in hand.
If you think Port Vale would be wrong to sell/release him, I don't understand why you can't continue the thought process and think it would be beneficial to Charlton (to help avoid relegation).
I don't believe he would be as important to us as he is allegedly to Port Vale, the reviews seem mixed.
I'll just wait and see (all we can do), either way, this is firmly starting to look like a typical January if it wasn't for Conor Coventry, especially if CBT does go and potentially Dobson.
Failed to get out top targets (except Coventry)
Failed to keep our prized assets (likely)
Added stop gaps and unproven players to the ranks to tide us over. Gillesphey will be Hector's replacement likely, so we still need another centre back.
I'll get stick for it, as anyone who doesn't praise them does, but we are miles off it still and a striker that doesn't score (I understand he has more to his game) and a third choice goalie isn't going to cut it.
I think it's fair, but that's my view. I genuinely just shouldn't post about it as it just ends up being a case of people arguing over what they do when it's all irrelevant and they're going to do what they want in the end and we just have to watch it.
Good luck to Uche
Yes first January transfer window of course.NabySarr said:
Is this your first January transfer window? Can’t expect them to fully rebuild the squad in January!Braziliance said:
Because one man's trash is another man's treasure and vice versa.Covered End said:
No one thinks it's a very good signing.Braziliance said:
If it was free it would be for next season, I can't imagine why Port Vale would be willing to lose one of their only strikers for free tbh.fenaddick said:
The implication from that Sky paragraph is he’d be free. I’d imagine cheap wages tooBraziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
Cheap wages but still wages, could potentially be another one we have sitting their wasting wages and blocking other transfer activity.
Because we have been heavily linked with one of the best strikers in the league, it's quite underwhelming to go from that to a player who's probably not even top20 material.Scoham said:
I don’t get the way of thinking (the last bit) - if we don’t get him what makes you think we’d get better? The longer we wait the more risk we end up with someone further down the list or worse, no new striker at all.Braziliance said:
But he will also cost a fee?DOUCHER said:
he's not perfect but the difference he'd make to our team would be hugeBraziliance said:
Got to he honest, I'd be a bit underwhelmed by this. Stockton at least has a history of a decent strike rate, Goodwin has potential and JCH is an absolute bagsman that's also a physical presence.
Uche is just a bit of a handful, poor strike rate.
For me this just isn't a good signing, 29 in a month (same age as the 'old' JCH), barely made an impact anywhere he has played.
This just smacks of desperation and not a signing where a plan has been put in place. I don't imagine he would be a part of our build for next season..
Hopefully Wycombe will outbid us on this one.
This could also be one of those situations where we have a few possibilities, but we have to keep some moving along to ensure we get the type of player we need, even if we have to go with a short term option.
Just don't think it's a good signing is all
Many people think that if he's the best available to us for this season, then it's better than nothing.
Port Vale are level on points with Charlton and have a game in hand.
If you think Port Vale would be wrong to sell/release him, I don't understand why you can't continue the thought process and think it would be beneficial to Charlton (to help avoid relegation).
I don't believe he would be as important to us as he is allegedly to Port Vale, the reviews seem mixed.
I'll just wait and see (all we can do), either way, this is firmly starting to look like a typical January if it wasn't for Conor Coventry, especially if CBT does go and potentially Dobson.
Failed to get out top targets (except Coventry)
Failed to keep our prized assets (likely)
Added stop gaps and unproven players to the ranks to tide us over. Gillesphey will be Hector's replacement likely, so we still need another centre back.
I'll get stick for it, as anyone who doesn't praise them does, but we are miles off it still and a striker that doesn't score (I understand he has more to his game) and a third choice goalie isn't going to cut it.It’s just about making some good signings, not being silly and overpaying, and leaving ourselves with less to do in the summer. I think we are doing a reasonable job at that so far, with 2 good permanent signings, and 2 loans that cover a short term need and could be potential permanent signings in the summer
So just for some clarity, this window doesn't count in the future when we discuss how many windows this regime has had? Cause so far the summer didn't count as they arrived too late, allegedly, and now January is a write off as it's a sellers market?
Anyway yeah good signing, real strong lad, I'm sure he'll do a job at his 14th club. Can't wait to travel up and down the country to watch Uche do a job.
Anyway, back to transfer rumours.0 -
Which makes the summer window incredibly frustrating especially as we left everything till the last minutePWADDICK said:Regardless of whether you think Ikpeazu is a good signing or not, the speed from which we are moving from target to target is impressive, feel like in previous seasons we would wait till deadline day to sign a free agent0 - Sponsored links:
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The ball comes back at us too quickly, anything to slow that down, and give us an ability to get out under pressure would be great21
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It's 12 months longer than his Port Vale contract is for and for no doubt more money. + he's from London so I think he'd be keen.eastterrace6168 said:
Thing is, would he sign on such a short contract...maybe 2 years with a years option on our side, but he would def do a job for us in that physical hold up play we have been missing...covered_end_junior said:I think he would do until the end of the season.
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Anyone know if Port Vale play Ikpeazu as a lone striker or in a front two?0
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What's Josh Magennis up to these days?
Big, physical, quick for his size, not prolific but scores enough and will be a good foil for May.
Has a great long throw as well!
Gotta be worth a short term deal!
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Is how they apparently lined up against usScoham said:Anyone know if Port Vale play Ikpeazu as a lone striker or in a front two?
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Although James Wilson (playing just behind him to the Right) is a Striker.0 -
Spot on (and you’ve got a much better memory than mine). Parker also won that free kick that led to the winner. Always has a soft spot for him.Garrymanilow said:
More than just that, Parker was actually a hugely important signing for us. We had Lyle Taylor playing out of his skin, Aribo, Cullen and Bielik hitting top form and Williams had just come in. We'd lost KAG but we didn't need a goalscorer to replace him, we needed a foil for Lyle and someone for the midfield to play off. We lost 2 games in 2019; the first of those was a game where Parker was on the bench and Taylor was suspended, so it was Reeco on his own up front, and the second was Oxford where Lyle played on his own up front and we were rubbish. Parker wasn't a game changer on his own but we never lost a match where he started because the overall balance he helped bring was essential. A striker with the right profile could make such a difference to our season, I'd rather we bring a bit of a rubbish one in than no-oneJamesSeed said:Bilko said:
Nooooooooo!!!!SCovered End said:We'll be on to Bogle or Dodoo again if we can't get someone slightly better.
Is Josh Parker available?
Actually, looking back, who’d have thought a limited journeyman like him, who hardly ever scored, would play a decent role in our successful play-off final.I think Uche might be (even) better than Josh. 👍If Uche can play a similar role that’d be good. And if we wanted to move him on I suspect there’ll be a few clubs looking for a big target man.5 -
And Coiln Walsh spoke very highly of him, a midfielders / defenders dream always available to receive the ball short or long, high or low holding it up to lay off.Lordflashheart said:
Mendonca on record that Carl was the best strike partner he ever played with, which is saying something considering he played with Andy HuntSoundAsa£ said:Carl Leaburn mark2?0 -
Good friends with Aneke and there are strong similarities in their style of play. That relationship might work in our favour too.
Ikpeazu and May and then from February onwards, Aneke can come off the bench for him for the last 20 minutes (don’t laugh)20 -
Remember the last striker we signed directly from Port Vale.....Andy Jones.
Although to be fair he had a good record at this level.0
