Rumours Rumours - Summer 2021 edition (Deadline Day from p814)
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Chunes said:What an absolute twat.19
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blackpool72 said:Chunes said:What an absolute twat.25
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We didn't actually buy Charlie Kirk, we simply gave him a fantastic opportunity to play for us.43
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Tbf Wigan have probably spent less on transfer fees than us this summer.
The have almost certainly increased their wage bill by significantly more than us but their wage bill last season would have been significantly smaller than ours.1 -
Charltonparklane said:Dobson best midfielder this season do me a fucking favour.
Let hope Albie goes on loan now we got Lee
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We didn't buy Watson, we gave him a opportunity to age gracefully with us and see out his career.9
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Those Wigan tweets will look particularly stupid if they hit any kind of run of bad form later in the season and fall away from the top of the table. Very often the case that this setting the pace at the start of the season are not the ones setting it at the end of the season.5
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Cafc43v3r said:It's a fair point about Pearce but playing style doesn't necessarily transfer to coaching.
George Graham the manager would never have picked George Graham the player, for example.
John Beck is one of the FAs lead coaches of the UEFA coaching badges and I haven't seen a team play like his in over 25 years.
Charlton v Cambridge at Upton park is still one of the strangest games of football I have witnessed in my life for tactics.
When Cambridge kicked off, they went for touch. Young Dion Dublin was the small man up front at 6ft 2'' and senior George Reilly was 6ft 5" alongside. John Beck got two Promotions for Cambridge and nearly took them all the way to the newly formed Elitist League called the Premier.
Didn't realized he was teaching Uefa B coaching since 2013. That would have been an interesting Job interview when they asked what is your Philosophy on how the game should be played ?
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soapboxsam said:Cafc43v3r said:It's a fair point about Pearce but playing style doesn't necessarily transfer to coaching.
George Graham the manager would never have picked George Graham the player, for example.
John Beck is one of the FAs lead coaches of the UEFA coaching badges and I haven't seen a team play like his in over 25 years.
Charlton v Cambridge at Upton park is still one of the strangest games of football I have witnessed in my life for tactics.
When Cambridge kicked off, they went for touch. Young Dion Dublin was the small man up front at 6ft 2'' and senior George Reilly was 6ft 5" alongside. John Beck got two Promotions for Cambridge and nearly took them all the way to the newly formed Elitist League called the Premier.
Didn't realized he was teaching Uefa B coaching since 2013. That would have been an interesting Job interview when they asked what is your Philosophy on how the game should be played ?
it didn’t matter where their defenders or midfielders were they immediately kicked it long to the wings - it was all about getting the ball back into the box from throw ins corners etc - worked like a dream !!4 -
Too young to have seen Beck’s Cambridge team live but have read a few articles. Dion Dublin claimed all the stories about them were true.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/sport/every-single-thing-youve-heard-13975380There was, of course, method in the madness, and Dublin confirmed that everything that you heard from that period was true.“Every single thing you’ve heard from that time was true,” he said.
“We were a horrible team to play against. Playing at the Abbey Stadium was so uncomfortable for other teams.
“We used to put loads of sugar in the tea and give them no hot water at all. We put the warm-up balls in the bath so they would be soaking wet. This all got around the other clubs so it was very much a case of ‘oh no, it’s Cambridge United this weekend'.
“They did not like us because we were horrible.”
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Scoham said:Too young to have seen Beck’s Cambridge team live but have read a few articles. Dion Dublin claimed all the stories about them were true.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/sport/every-single-thing-youve-heard-13975380There was, of course, method in the madness, and Dublin confirmed that everything that you heard from that period was true.“Every single thing you’ve heard from that time was true,” he said.
“We were a horrible team to play against. Playing at the Abbey Stadium was so uncomfortable for other teams.
“We used to put loads of sugar in the tea and give them no hot water at all. We put the warm-up balls in the bath so they would be soaking wet. This all got around the other clubs so it was very much a case of ‘oh no, it’s Cambridge United this weekend'.
“They did not like us because we were horrible.”
Our game at Upton Park gets a mention here
https://thesefootballtimes.co/2019/05/08/how-john-becks-derided-cambridge-came-within-90-minutes-of-gate-crashing-the-premier-league-in-1992/
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addick1956 said:FAVADDICK said:In the sun today both Tucker and Dempsey wanted by us let's hope we push the boat out and get them
Who said I believe them, all I said I hope we push the boat out and get them, I don't care what the papers write I know that there 2 players we should be targeting anyway !!!!2 -
addick1956 said:FAVADDICK said:In the sun today both Tucker and Dempsey wanted by us let's hope we push the boat out and get them
Can't wait til the school holidays are over.4 -
addick1956 said:Chunes said:addick1956 said:FAVADDICK said:In the sun today both Tucker and Dempsey wanted by us let's hope we push the boat out and get them
Can't wait til the school holidays are over.
Just stop talking bollox20 -
Thankfully, it should be an interesting and busy couple of days and we can put this thread to bed once and for all.46
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Sage said:Thankfully, it should be an interesting and busy couple of days and we can put this thread to bed once and for all.2
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addick1956 said:blackpool72 said:addick1956 said:Chunes said:addick1956 said:FAVADDICK said:In the sun today both Tucker and Dempsey wanted by us let's hope we push the boat out and get them
Can't wait til the school holidays are over.
Just stop talking bollox
The comment was about the report in The Sun is a loathesome rag IMHO
And who asked you anyway ?0 -
Sage said:Thankfully, it should be an interesting and busy couple of days and we can put this thread to bed once and for all.
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Can I be the first to say NA promised us an exciting weekend for signings, we have nothing so far with only the bolted on Bank Holiday Monday left. Fuming.
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Sage said:Thankfully, it should be an interesting and busy couple of days and we can put this thread to bed once and for all.1
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ForeverAddickted said:Sage said:Thankfully, it should be an interesting and busy couple of days and we can put this thread to bed once and for all.0
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I for one would like to kick off the January transfer rumours early. ANNOUNCE MATT SMITH!
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I see Tom Eaves might be available.
Would he be worth a loan as cover for Jayden?4 -
Bit confused that we suddenly have too many midfielders if we sign Arter? He would be a loan, we don’t know how Gibey will be with long COVID, JFC could come back completely off the boil, Clare and Dobson we aren’t sure on, Albie still raw, less said about Ben ‘the fridge freezer, Watson the better. If we can get Lowery or Dempsey we should. One or two injuries and we are stuffed. Same goes for Tucker, we are all waiting for Innis to get injured despite him being a good player, Pearce is a solid back up but is a bit of a calamity, Deji young and not on a pro contract, may not be our player next season, ditto Akin.Paper talk but if we get Tucker and Dempsey that’s building for the future, grab a striker and we are good for the season2
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Honestly think all the press about Dempsey & now Tucker is coming from the Gillingham side.
Maybe they thought / were banking on Charlton paying good money for them in this window after we enquired about them earlier in the summer....but now we have signed Arter instead they are a bit screwed.
They are under an embargo & need to pay back the loan they took from the EFL so its not suprising to see them trying to drum up some interest...The problem they have is that everyone knows they need to sell so they're not going to get top dollar for these players.7 -
Sage said:Thankfully, it should be an interesting and busy couple of days and we can put this thread to bed once and for all.1
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killerandflash said:Sage said:Thankfully, it should be an interesting and busy couple of days and we can put this thread to bed once and for all.1
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Has Ellis Sims signed for anyone yet?0