Latest Rumours Transfer Rumours Thread (Potential New Signings)

[Ricey]

A few, when he was eventually able to by hook or by crook with the chairman out of action for most of January, by then it must have been very difficult to attract players being bottom of the league.

Our general strategy of failing to prepare for the season and then hoping we could get ourselves out of it by January was obviously totally idiotic by Ron and left us with no margin for error.

So to suggest MM had a level playing field in January just because he managed to bring in scraps nobody else wanted is hugely disingenuous.

Anyway, what's done is done, it just grates when people let Ron off the hook by blaming his fall guy.

I’m not letting Ron off but you can’t just put all of the blame on him.

Anyway I like where the signings are going and think we should have a decent squad of players come the start of the season. Not saying we are going to go straight back up but to be fighting will be something we haven’t been able to do for the past two seasons.

 

[Jasrod]

A few, when he was eventually able to by hook or by crook with the chairman out of action for most of January, by then it must have been very difficult to attract players being bottom of the league.

Our general strategy of failing to prepare for the season and then hoping we could get ourselves out of it by January was obviously totally idiotic by Ron and left us with no margin for error.

So to suggest MM had a level playing field in January just because he managed to bring in scraps nobody else wanted is hugely disingenuous.

Anyway, what's done is done, it just grates when people let Ron off the hook by blaming his fall guy.

Didn’t know Lee Majors was a mate of Ron’s?

 

[Jai]

I’m not letting Ron off but you can’t just put all of the blame on him.

Anyway I like where the signings are going and think we should have a decent squad of players come the start of the season. Not saying we are going to go straight back up but to be fighting will be something we haven’t been able to do for the past two seasons.

Agreed, I think we've looked to address a flimsy spine and added a bit of much needed quality up top. If we can get Dennis and another striker I'll perhaps upgrade my expectations to outsiders for a playoff place.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

I’m always amazed that nobody spots Ron’s been moonlighting for years as an MP under the nom de plume Michael Fabricant. No wonder we’ve been so rubbish.

 

[sufc4life21]

I’m not letting Ron off but you can’t just put all of the blame on him.

Anyway I like where the signings are going and think we should have a decent squad of players come the start of the season. Not saying we are going to go straight back up but to be fighting will be something we haven’t been able to do for the past two seasons.

Majority of last season shocker was Ron doing, but MM was out of his depth! To many games where MM was scared to release the handbrake, instead settling for draws.....

We got proper manager in brown now so we should see a few more wins and maybe play off push.

 

[Holy Joe]

Work being done on outgoings too. Sim has impressed PB massively, and as Moley said, is at the front of the running (along with Atkinson before his injury).

If PB gets who he wants in and out, the squad will be a lot more balance then it’s been for quite sometime.

So is Sim staying? And who is on the permanently out list, ANG +¿???

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

How many signings did he make again? I forget

Permanent signings
Hobson - morning of season
Akinola - arranged over the summer; announced September; embargoed until December
ANG - joined mid-season
Walsh - late December
Ferguson - 29th Jan


Also signed on a "permanent" basis but less than one year deals the desperation signings of Halford, McCormack, Ranger, Holmes, Hart - all free agents without a club for a reason - and, after Gills did a bait and switch on deadline day, Mellish but I can't see how those can be held against him as we were just desperate for players.

Also worth noting that it is much easier to recruit close-season before you are marooned at the bottom of the league.

 

[bluesfansince1952]

Majority of last season shocker was Ron doing, but MM was out of his depth! To many games where MM was scared to release the handbrake, instead settling for draws.....

We got proper manager in brown now so we should see a few more wins and maybe play off push.

When was the 'proper' manager's last successful season?
Just wondering.

 

[sufc4life21]

When was the 'proper' manager's last successful season?
Just wondering.

Well, he didn't do bad job with us before.

 

[Tilson_Blues]

Have I clicked the wrong thread ? Thought was summer transfer window now about last season or mm?

 

[overseas shrimper]

How many signings did he make again? I forget

I think this has been done to death in all seriousness.

 

[Callum]

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Let the speculation commence! Mike Fondop?

Big John Akinde

 

[JB Shrimper]

Well, he didn't do bad job with us before.

Yes he did, under achieved with what he had at the time

 

[Medway Blue]

Big John Akinde

Interesting.

 

[flangejackrabbit]

I doubt we would want to talk to Akinde now after the events of January unless he has changed agent?

 

[Jasrod]

Wasn’t Paddy Madden playing in L1 last year

 

[Ricey]

Wasn’t Paddy Madden playing in L1 last year

Plays for Stockport and will no doubt continue his streak of scoring against us!

 

[RHB]

Plays for Stockport and will no doubt continue his streak of scoring against us!

You're a little ray of sunshine sometimes @Ricey.

 

[Jasrod]

You're a little ray of sunshine sometimes @Ricey.

In defence of @Ricey hes the only one that ever gave me the ? emoji

 

[RHB]

In defence of @Ricey hes the only one that ever gave me the ? emoji

He's desperate for mates