25/26 January Transfer Window (137 Viewers)

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Rodders1

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oneofourown said:
This is only fun and not serious, although I wish it was.

Leicester having trouble finding cash to make James' transfer permenant, a £10m offer could get him to us, Then Hughes from Hull, Boro are meant to be interested and again if we offered £15m maybe could get him. Lastly, Léo Scienza from Saints, FL loves him, we offer £15m. There you have it, 3 quality signing who would get us promoted.
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Don’t doubt any of them all very good players. The problem is that’s £40m!

I do wonder if Doug is struggling to fund anything to that level. Part of me understands - he’s bought the club, cleared the debt and bought the ground.

It’s stick or twist - does he / can he afford to gamble. Based on our history and his business sense he maybe only wanting small tweaks or loans now - which is a gamble in itself given the opportunity.

We’ve probably done better than he thought - are really hard conundrum.
 
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JSL

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Tommo1993 said:
There’s absolutely nothing to fall for mate. Where I understand the urgency and fully believe ‘no signings = no promotion’, I’m still pretty shocked that there’s flapping going on on the 5th January.
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Thats because we all hoped for some of his 'oven ready deals' given the noises from Frank all season
 
Ccfcisparks

Ccfcisparks

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lordsummerisle said:
Was due to go 1730, but hadn't turned up when I left.

Think he was delayed by a 10p piece frozen to the ground just outside.

Was calling in someone with an oxy-acetelene torch to get it free.
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He's the sort of character you could have a £10 note on a bit of fishing wire outside the training ground front door and he would chase it round the car park
 
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DT-R

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Ccfcisparks said:
If we don't go up this year I think Lampard walks to be honest.
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Whilst I agree, walks where? Because if he fails to take us up from the position we were in surely his managerial career is done? So many people already had him down as a shit manager, failure would be the cherry on top of the icing on top of the cake surely?

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DT-R

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Rodders1 said:
Don’t doubt any of them all very good players. The problem is that’s £40m!

I do wonder if Doug is struggling to fund anything to that level. Part of me understands - he’s bought the club, cleared the debt and bought the ground.

It’s stick or twist - does he / can he afford to gamble. Based on our history and his business sense he maybe only wanting small tweaks or loans now - which is a gamble in itself given the opportunity.

We’ve probably done better than he thought - are really hard conundrum.
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Surely nobody on here really thinks/believes doug bought the ground out of his own pocket? Yes, he's bought the club and offset the debts, but do you really think he bought the ground out of his own kitty? Come on, get real! Whilst he gets a lot of plaudits for making it happen, saying he cant afford to buy a few players because he bought the ground is way off the mark!

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Legia Sky Blue

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RoboCCFC90 said:
Sorry, but it’s not bed wetting is it really?

As I mentioned earlier in the thread the club has had time to proactively prepare for the moment the window opened. Deals can still be agreed outside the transfer window and if they had targets then I’d be keen to understand why couldn’t secure them ready for Jan 1st.

Lampard knows, and has mentioned several times since the beginning of the season, that we have small squad and injuries take its toll, so then surely the club knows what the manager needs, prepare and get it ready for when the window opens and help out the team(?).

To me what it looks like is a mixture of one or two things, either a reluctance to spend money and wait on the availability of loan players from Premier League sides (likely) or players that they are trying to secure are looking at different moves, but without understanding which players the clubs looking at, and with how the leaks have tightened up we won’t know the answer to this.

My fear if Lampard is not backed this window with players quickly and with the quality he needs, is that this will impact on him staying at the club longer term as he will lose trust in King to back him when the chips are down.
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Getting the players we need in early on in the window will not be as easy as you think it is. It looks like we had lined up Manneh but that he is now going elsewhere for instance. Anyone worth signing is likely to be of interest to other teams, and most PL teams will be unlikely to decide on who they will loan out until nearer the end of the window, after AFCON particularly. Another factor is that selling clubs are likely to prefer to wait closer to the end of the window before committing to sell, hoping to get the highest possible price for their players. I imagine Bristol City & Hull for example will hold out as long as possible on Mehmeti and Hughes, although both might well leave them this month.

We have to bring in players that will make a positive difference rather than just bringing in players for the sake of it. If we can't sign the right players until later in the window then I would rather do that than bring in inferior players. There is a lot of bed wetting going on right now, when none of us know how this window will pan out yet. The bed wetters should at least wait until the end of the window before putting their pampers on!
 
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Bigelvesy

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Whilst I am becoming nervous about Ipswich and the points gap closing. We do need to calm down a bit here. Its not just this season in which we top the table, but also the entirety of 2025.

We had some real stinkers towards the end of last season, Plymouth and Luton spring to mind.

This squad has proven across a full calendar year to be the best in the league.

We need a couple of bodies in to add some depth and a little bit of magic to give us some options when our 1st choice, that got us to this position, either needs resting or to give us something different off the bench to change a game.
Im convinced that will happen, Doug knows this is the chance, the opportunity to get to the Prem.

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RoysterE17

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oneofourown said:
This is only fun and not serious, although I wish it was.

Leicester having trouble finding cash to make James' transfer permenant, a £10m offer could get him to us, Then Hughes from Hull, Boro are meant to be interested and again if we offered £15m maybe could get him. Lastly, Léo Scienza from Saints, FL loves him, we offer £15m. There you have it, 3 quality signing who would get us promoted.
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Would 100% go after james the rest i would leave at those price tags as nothing is guaranteed yet. Think we could get james for alot cheaper than 10 I've read Leicester have an option at 4mil so we could go 5 surely!
 
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Deity

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Legia Sky Blue said:
If Esse is to happen it probably won't be until Senegal are finished with AFCON and Sarr returns to them, so there's every chance that wouldn't be until after the Leicester game by the looks of it.

Of other names mentioned I get the impression that Manneh is not happening. I don't want O'Nein simply because I don't think he's very good, and I don't see where he would fit in. He surely wouldn't displace Thomas or Kitching, or be ahead of Woolfenden either. I'm not over keen on Dan Neill either but if we have to sign a Sunderland player I would rather it be him.

I understand the Huddersfield manager has said Castledine is remaining with them for the rest of the season too, so we can probably discount him joining us.
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I watched him yesterday. Neat and tidy on the ball but not very athletic snd his work rate was low.
 
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Deity

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oneofourown said:
This is only fun and not serious, although I wish it was.

Leicester having trouble finding cash to make James' transfer permenant, a £10m offer could get him to us, Then Hughes from Hull, Boro are meant to be interested and again if we offered £15m maybe could get him. Lastly, Léo Scienza from Saints, FL loves him, we offer £15m. There you have it, 3 quality signing who would get us promoted.
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Leicester have a £4m price option on him.
 
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