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Any more signings?

Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:56 am

Apart from jazz richards, providing no more of our players get sold do you think we will even sign any more new players? Things seem dead out there with us in the transfer market im beginning to think that this season we are gonna be going with what we got and blooding the youngsters.

Re: Any more signings?

Sat Jul 16, 2016 9:13 am

BlueMagic wrote:Apart from jazz richards, providing no more of our players get sold do you think we will even sign any more new players? Things seem dead out there with us in the transfer market im beginning to think that this season we are gonna be going with what we got and blooding the youngsters.


Trollope will be able to bring in more players on virtually free transfers once more City players have gone out.

Re: Any more signings?

Sat Jul 16, 2016 9:15 am

think we may need to sell more players before bringing people in, hence malone out richards in.
dont think tan is happy with wage situation yet. i do believe any fees we get will go towards new players tho

Re: Any more signings?

Sat Jul 16, 2016 9:17 am

saying that it wouldnt suprise me to see a few belgian trialists today (cheap wages it seems)

Re: Any more signings?

Sat Jul 16, 2016 9:48 am

If this is correct which it probably is ,it kinda makes a mockery of choos target of the play offs ..in this division you have to keep improving year on year , won't be able to keep flogging this overpaid squad year on year and expect success.

Re: Any more signings?

Sun Jul 17, 2016 5:10 am

This will be a tough championship this year most sides spending big

Free transfers and the current squad will see mid table at best

Re: Any more signings?

Sun Jul 17, 2016 9:20 am

Forever Blue wrote:
BlueMagic wrote:Apart from jazz richards, providing no more of our players get sold do you think we will even sign any more new players? Things seem dead out there with us in the transfer market im beginning to think that this season we are gonna be going with what we got and blooding the youngsters.


Trollope will be able to bring in more players on virtually free transfers once more City players have gone out.


Yes Annis, Macheda, Alf, Dikgacoi definatly need to go, imho.

Also if we loose Marshal? Manga? Pilkington? Fabio? Noone?

Maybe a few others. Every one has a price.

Re: Any more signings?

Sun Jul 17, 2016 6:46 pm

boyosback wrote:If this is correct which it probably is ,it kinda makes a mockery of choos target of the play offs ..in this division you have to keep improving year on year , won't be able to keep flogging this overpaid squad year on year and expect success.


The club's only real target is to avoid relegation and recoup as much money as possible until Tan can work away to get rid of the toy he's lost interest in.

Choo and Dalman will spout the same bollocks each year about top 6 finishes but surely even those two and Tan, who's collective football knowledge can be written on the back of a postage stamp with room to spare, realise that a team spending nothing on players and cutting back so drastically can't really be expected to mount a serious challenge for promotion.

All of which is fair enough - cutbacks are still needed and we have to live within our means, but can anyone think of a team that's won promotion from a similar financial position as we find ourselves in?

Choo and Dalman think their "customers" are genuinely stupid enough to believe that the club is investing sufficiently to compete with clubs like Newcastle, Villa and even Leeds.

Unfortunately many of those customers believe what the club wants them to believe.

Re: Any more signings?

Sun Jul 17, 2016 7:30 pm

davids wrote:
boyosback wrote:If this is correct which it probably is ,it kinda makes a mockery of choos target of the play offs ..in this division you have to keep improving year on year , won't be able to keep flogging this overpaid squad year on year and expect success.


The club's only real target is to avoid relegation and recoup as much money as possible until Tan can work away to get rid of the toy he's lost interest in.

Choo and Dalman will spout the same bollocks each year about top 6 finishes but surely even those two and Tan, who's collective football knowledge can be written on the back of a postage stamp with room to spare, realise that a team spending nothing on players and cutting back so drastically can't really be expected to mount a serious challenge for promotion.

All of which is fair enough - cutbacks are still needed and we have to live within our means, but can anyone think of a team that's won promotion from a similar financial position as we find ourselves in?

Choo and Dalman think their "customers" are genuinely stupid enough to believe that the club is investing sufficiently to compete with clubs like Newcastle, Villa and even Leeds.

Unfortunately many of those customers believe what the club wants them to believe.

if he wanted to get rid he wouldn't of wrote off all the monies

Re: Any more signings?

Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:01 pm

wez1927 wrote:
davids wrote:
boyosback wrote:If this is correct which it probably is ,it kinda makes a mockery of choos target of the play offs ..in this division you have to keep improving year on year , won't be able to keep flogging this overpaid squad year on year and expect success.


The club's only real target is to avoid relegation and recoup as much money as possible until Tan can work away to get rid of the toy he's lost interest in.

Choo and Dalman will spout the same bollocks each year about top 6 finishes but surely even those two and Tan, who's collective football knowledge can be written on the back of a postage stamp with room to spare, realise that a team spending nothing on players and cutting back so drastically can't really be expected to mount a serious challenge for promotion.

All of which is fair enough - cutbacks are still needed and we have to live within our means, but can anyone think of a team that's won promotion from a similar financial position as we find ourselves in?

Choo and Dalman think their "customers" are genuinely stupid enough to believe that the club is investing sufficiently to compete with clubs like Newcastle, Villa and even Leeds.

Unfortunately many of those customers believe what the club wants them to believe.

if he wanted to get rid he wouldn't of wrote off all the monies


Wez, I think he realises that the only way he can get rid of the club is to make it debt free and therefore an attractive proposition for a potential buyer. There is no way he could get rid of the club in it's current financial position.

If you think that he's happy to stay, what do you think he'll do when the debt is written off? Will he then start investing in the team again or will he keep running the club as he is currently with free transfers and loan sigings? And if sticks to the free transfers does he really believe that is the way to get back to the Premier League?

The fact that he never comes to games is another indication for me that he's just not interested - having confirmed that he would be writing off the debt would have been the perfect opportunity for him to have another walk around the ground shaking people's hands but he's been nowhere to be seen (bar a couple of away games) for over a season now and there's no indication that he'll be back any time soon.

For me he's lost interest completely and wants out as soon as he can.

Re: Any more signings?

Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:44 pm

davids wrote:
boyosback wrote:If this is correct which it probably is ,it kinda makes a mockery of choos target of the play offs ..in this division you have to keep improving year on year , won't be able to keep flogging this overpaid squad year on year and expect success.


The club's only real target is to avoid relegation and recoup as much money as possible until Tan can work away to get rid of the toy he's lost interest in.

Choo and Dalman will spout the same bollocks each year about top 6 finishes but surely even those two and Tan, who's collective football knowledge can be written on the back of a postage stamp with room to spare, realise that a team spending nothing on players and cutting back so drastically can't really be expected to mount a serious challenge for promotion.

All of which is fair enough - cutbacks are still needed and we have to live within our means, but can anyone think of a team that's won promotion from a similar financial position as we find ourselves in?

Choo and Dalman think their "customers" are genuinely stupid enough to believe that the club is investing sufficiently to compete with clubs like Newcastle, Villa and even Leeds.

Unfortunately many of those customers believe what the club wants them to believe.


Bournemouth spent very little if anything and stormed the league with a good manager, good style of football and a hungry hard working group of players who play as a team.

It is possible.

Maybe trollope can be the magic man like eddie howe was come on bluebirds.

Re: Any more signings?

Sun Jul 17, 2016 9:26 pm

Dont think blackpool spent much either when they won promotion

Re: Any more signings?

Mon Jul 18, 2016 12:25 pm

davids wrote:
wez1927 wrote:
davids wrote:
boyosback wrote:If this is correct which it probably is ,it kinda makes a mockery of choos target of the play offs ..in this division you have to keep improving year on year , won't be able to keep flogging this overpaid squad year on year and expect success.


The club's only real target is to avoid relegation and recoup as much money as possible until Tan can work away to get rid of the toy he's lost interest in.

Choo and Dalman will spout the same bollocks each year about top 6 finishes but surely even those two and Tan, who's collective football knowledge can be written on the back of a postage stamp with room to spare, realise that a team spending nothing on players and cutting back so drastically can't really be expected to mount a serious challenge for promotion.

All of which is fair enough - cutbacks are still needed and we have to live within our means, but can anyone think of a team that's won promotion from a similar financial position as we find ourselves in?

Choo and Dalman think their "customers" are genuinely stupid enough to believe that the club is investing sufficiently to compete with clubs like Newcastle, Villa and even Leeds.

Unfortunately many of those customers believe what the club wants them to believe.

if he wanted to get rid he wouldn't of wrote off all the monies


Wez, I think he realises that the only way he can get rid of the club is to make it debt free and therefore an attractive proposition for a potential buyer. There is no way he could get rid of the club in it's current financial position.

If you think that he's happy to stay, what do you think he'll do when the debt is written off? Will he then start investing in the team again or will he keep running the club as he is currently with free transfers and loan sigings? And if sticks to the free transfers does he really believe that is the way to get back to the Premier League?

The fact that he never comes to games is another indication for me that he's just not interested - having confirmed that he would be writing off the debt would have been the perfect opportunity for him to have another walk around the ground shaking people's hands but he's been nowhere to be seen (bar a couple of away games) for over a season now and there's no indication that he'll be back any time soon.

For me he's lost interest completely and wants out as soon as he can.



ive been saying the exact same for a while although i do get a bit of stick for it especially on twitter as that seems to be the home of keyboard warriors

Re: Any more signings?

Tue Jul 19, 2016 9:52 am

I'm sure we'll see a few more once/if the likes of alf, Macheda, Adeyemi are shifted and maybe others.

I personally think If we play in the correct formation we still have a strong squad that needs maybe two additions with room to bring a few youth players through.

I think we need some real pace going forward because if we are to play the Wales style we need to be quick on the break.

Re: Any more signings?

Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:03 pm

Still a lot of deadwood on big wages that need moving on

Re: Any more signings?

Tue Jul 19, 2016 3:18 pm

No way Vinnie the Red will leave until we've had all the parachute payments. Then,and only then, will he look to sell the club. He has definitely lost interest. He didn't like the way his rebrand was defeated at all and would even have changed the club's name if he could have.