Call this cope or whatever but May is not a 'guaranteed' 20-goal striker. Three seasons running doesn't 'guarantee' a fourth. Also, he just isn't our best player (Leaburn probably is)
Plus what people are not seeing is he can’t score 20 goals if he not in the team
Ronnie's decided to end me I see
Whatever you 2 do together in your spare time is a matter for you
As per The Udders forum; "Heard May will be on 11k a week at Birmingham, can’t compete with that, should have gotten the deal over the line sooner"... Sounds like a good offer from Brum...if true...🤷♂️
Once we'd accepted an offer from him his mind was made up to leave so it was clearly then going to be about money. Short career and all that. If he can pick up half a million a year for a couple of years he goes a long way towards securing his future I guess.
Accepted an offer from him, or for him?
One letter (then rearranged) can make quite a difference here!
We received an offer For him. My mistake.
Give us some good news @Swisdom we need some good signings in now , you must know something.
All I know is I'm going to have a new neighbour.
Deathly silent on the rumour front. The club have worked hard to keep everything under wraps. I know we were keen on Etete, Ahadme, Davies. We did look at Lolos formerly of Crawley but we went off him fairly quickly. There's a trialist over from Mount Pleasant apparently but no idea who that is And one other mystery player who has a lot of rave reviews but who is very raw at the moment. I'm sworn to secrecy on him so as not to jeopardise anything but I wouldn't think he's necessarily lined up as a starter just yet anyway.
Call me cynical, but that is the most Charlton transfer rumour mill possible.
I am going to assume, we went off him because Bolton were interested and he would rather have gone there? That's usually what happens unless it's outside football reasons I.e. they want to live nearer family.
A trialist from Mount Pleasant, who let's be honest, likely won't be good enough to make an immediate impact, and then a mystery player that won't start, when we already have talented players that shouldn't quite be starting anyway, along with selling our best player.
Just have to laugh sometimes.
The signings so far have all come from nowhere so nothing to say there aren’t a few more up the sleeve.
the “other player” - if he joins - might settle really quickly and go straight into the team. He’s an unknown quantity at this time but I’ve heard good stuff about him so he could be a real coup
so we’ve lost cbt, Dobbo and May now - small has the potential to be as exciting as cbt and hasn’t refused to play for us yet or feigned injury.
We’ve brought in a player from West Ham’s academy who is a lot younger than Dobbo. Just because he doesn’t smash into tackle like Dobbo did doesn’t necessarily make him less effective. weve also brought in a guy who was a premier league player 3 months ago - how many league 1 teams will be saying that this year. Like Berry is A real leader of men. Alex Mitchell was massively popular and important for Lincoln last year and should fit in nicely with a bit of steel and serial threat.
It’s not all doom and gloom - yes we need some attackers but maybe, just maybe, the club know this and are working on it!
Maybe all will be revealed when the unknown quantity gets a run out at Dartford this weekend.
I’m sure every manager would love all their signings done and dusted before pre season starts. Maybe NJ was a bit naive to actually come out and state it or maybe he actually believed it was possible….we’ll never know. Pretty sure though there’s masses going on behind the scenes to get bodies in (and not just squad players)
the fact now is that pre season has started and the squad isn’t all there, all the posts constantly fucking banging on about Jones stating he wanted all his business done by now are really boring…
I’m confident we’ll see 3/4 first XI starters walk through the door over the next few weeks
2 weeks into the window and while it’s not the fastest start to a window the level of panic is unbelievable. Mitchell and Berry look like cracking signings, Edwards and Mannion, could yet turn out to be great. Nobody wants to see the top scorer go but it’s going to happen. Move on and hope we get the deals done that we need
Don’t think it’s panic but when your manager says on numerous occasions that he wants his squad in place for the start of pre season, maybe just one or two off that, then we are a million miles from that and to boot have now just sold May. I’m not panicking yet but I’m mightily concerned.
We have seen in the last four/five seasons what impact late recruitment can have. We need to hit the ground running and to do that the squad needs pre season to gel and take onboard what NJ wants to do. League One is going to be a lot tougher than it was last year and seemingly a few teams are willing to spend relatively big (Brum, Hudds, Bolton to name three) and we are already starting from a very low base. I trust NJ but I’m not sure I trust the SMT/Owners to back him sufficiently.
We’re not a million miles away, we want 5 signings I’m guessing 6 with May going , there’s still 2 months to go of the window and over a month until the first game.
If I had £1 every time this is trotted out & subsequently on Sept 1st our squad is half baked & injured then I could buy Alfie May myself !!
I’m sure every manager would love all their signings done and dusted before pre season starts. Maybe NJ was a bit naive to actually come out and state it or maybe he actually believed it was possible….we’ll never know. Pretty sure though there’s masses going on behind the scenes to get bodies in (and not just squad players)
the fact now is that pre season has started and the squad isn’t all there, all the posts constantly fucking banging on about Jones stating he wanted all his business done by now are really boring…
I’m confident we’ll see 3/4 first XI starters walk through the door over the next few weeks
3 or 4 in the next few weeks wont be enough I'm.afraid.
As for Nathan Jones' utterings I will say the following -
If he truly believed in what he said then he was either deluded or not backed by the owners (ie, there was no hope of him getting the players he wanted)
One thing that’s a little concerning is we seem to be waiting for May to be sold before bringing in Ahadme/whoever. Aren’t we suppose to have a decent budget regardless of whatever Birmingham hand over for May?
Looks more like we are further away in negotiations than brum are with May, but we won't let him go without getting someone in, which sounds sensible to me
January 25 seems more sensible to me !!!
Yeah, but then we'll have to replace Leaburn as well, so back to square one.
I got a message yesterday saying we're in for Joe Lumley from Southampton. I thought it was bull as I thought we were going to sign Davies but maybe it's true. Unreliable source to be honest but thought I'd share.
I assume his wages would be crazy now but maybe a loan possibility on subsidised wages if he has no chance of making the Burnley team.... Lawrence Vigouroux?
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the fact now is that pre season has started and the squad isn’t all there, all the posts constantly fucking banging on about Jones stating he wanted all his business done by now are really boring…
I’m confident we’ll see 3/4 first XI starters walk through the door over the next few weeks
As for Nathan Jones' utterings I will say the following -
If he truly believed in what he said then he was either deluded or not backed by the owners (ie, there was no hope of him getting the players he wanted)
Or
He was just saying it to please the fans.
All Bill Gates' fault I imagine...
Would love Jensen but I can’t see us spending a big fee on a keeper.