Transfer Rumour 25/26 Summer Transfer Window (39 Viewers)
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Matt smith
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Ccfcisparks
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People really do not understand the concept of squad depth, it is astounding.
Skyblueweeman
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Strongly disagree but each to their own.
What ? It’s a stronger squad than last season , top scorers and we’ve just made the defence better, we’ll be fine
Ccfcisparks
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Our attacking subs, without injuries, are BTA and Simms.
Matt smith
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Our first 11 is superb I’m not coming on here being critical of that
teams have stronger squads though and they’ll prove beneficial and well run out of steam unless we recruit in January
shame we didn’t get a couple of loans in that we’ve had months to plan
Balli001
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Fortunate then as BTA has 4 goal contributions in 4 games so far
Matt smith
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I fully expect at least one marquee signing in January if we’re serious about getting promotion, ideally a wide forward
Matt smith
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Be great when he’s our only rotation option up front and he might be away in the most congested part of the season
Speedie's Head
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Simmo played 40 odd games last season too. That's an awful lot of time on the pitch just to write off, even if he doesn't score very often.
Ccfcisparks
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OK I'll entertain this. If Sakamoto gets injured, like he has previously, then BTA comes in. Our only attacking substitute is Simms. Is that good enough?
Matt smith
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About time he started delivering then.
Speedie's Head
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He's going to have to or his career is knackered!
Matt smith
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It’s just so frustrating, a couple of season loans would have sufficed and it might have meant we could get through till next summer
They’ve sort of left themselves in a predicament where we have no choice but to recruit
They’ve sort of left themselves in a predicament where we have no choice but to recruit
Ccfcisparks
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People are trying to convince themselves that BTA and Simms are good enough attacking depth, before even considering our depth if we get 1 attacker injured
Matt smith
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Fed up season after season of the trepidation of losing a couple of first team players through injury
Matt smith
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It’s at the stage where I’d seriously ‘panic buy’ a free agent just for a body in the building
Speedie's Head
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I know! Especially the strikers.
Fucking hell, we shat the bed for the first 1/3 of last season and still made the play-offs. We'll be fine
stupot07
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It doesn't matter as Lampard doesn't like using subs anyway
Ccfcisparks
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Thats another excuse they use to cope, youre bang on!
Matt smith
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The money I suspect was there, we were bidding on Woolfenden and Hughes. Come January we need to literally be ready to go on target a or b in positions x y z.
feels like Deja vu from last summer, fully understandable why fans are aggrieved we’re all onboard and I feel on the playing side I expected more I can’t lie
feels like Deja vu from last summer, fully understandable why fans are aggrieved we’re all onboard and I feel on the playing side I expected more I can’t lie
Matt smith
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If we could play the same 11 we’d be top six no doubt, it’s a squad game and we don’t have it.
have a look at Leicester, Ipswich, Southampton, and the other top teams, the bench isn’t great, we’re right up there
stevefloyd
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Especially if you're only 18
Matt smith
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I mean yeah Southampton’s bench only has Adam Armstrong Ross Stewart and Damion downs on it
*no Tom fellows in the 18 either
stevefloyd
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Ive just cooked myself a fry up and I don't know which of my sorces to have red or brown hmmmm
SkyBlueStallion_89
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Brown, without doubt brown
Matt smith
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Definitely brown mate
Ccfcisparks
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Are you joking? Ipswich had Szmodics, Akpom and Jack Clarke coming off the bench on the weekend as well as their new Spanish striker and the most expensive championship player ever
like I said not great, Adam Armstrong, maybe a few seasons ago
Like I said not great is it they haven’t won a game yet ? Where as our poor squad
need to give us more credit, they don’t let us down when they’re needed, Eccles and Allen stepped in last season and were more than good enough,
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Rodders1
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I expected more also.
Wonder if the ground purchase was not planned (though surely that takes more time to sort the funding), and thus the transfer kitty was reduced.
Sheaf however I would also assume wasn’t planned this window which would contradict the above a little.
Which just makes me think we would buy a player if the right one was available, and we simply didn’t identify anyone outside of the ones that got away.
Matt smith
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This contradicts your point sort ofLike I said not great is it they haven’t won a game yet ? Where as our poor squad
our first 11 are winning us games at the moment
depth of squad isn’t so much of an issue thus far