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Transfer Rumour Chris Willock (1 Viewer)

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  • Start date Jul 14, 2023
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Grendel

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #36
San Francisco said:
Simms, Tavares?
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He said senior so that’s not Tavares
 
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Alkhen

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #37
Would be a great signing. Despite getting Tatsu and this link I really can't see us switching to winger. We'd need 4-6 and we currently have 1. I recon we'll keep the box but with Vik gone the plan will be for players to drift out wide and cut in. Vik was all power where as these guys are tricky, should be fun.

Need to sort the centre back situation next. Lot of holes to fill there. The radio silence makes me feel like there is still hope with McNally. Holding on to see if that deal can be made rather than chasing lesser targets.

This could be a great window if it all comes off. And we still have up to 5 loan options when Prem teams start releasing youngsters from preseason training.
 

Matt smith

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #38
San Francisco said:
Simms, Tavares?
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Tavares I don’t class as senior striker, but that’s just my opinion

Maybe 3 senior strikers if we’re planning to play one up a lot

if we’re playing 2 we need 4 with Tavares as a 5th choice
 
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Torquay Sky Blue

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #39
Grendel said:
He said senior so that’s not Tavares
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He's 22
 

skyblueelephant76

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #40
Mr Panda said:
I seem to remember there being rumours of a bust up between Willock and Gareth Ainsworth, so if it’s not us I can imagine he’ll be moving somewhere this summer.

Year would have been exercised to scrape a fee
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There were a lot of links with Middlesbrough a couple of weeks ago but that seems to have gone quiet now.
 

Matt smith

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #41
Torquay Sky Blue said:
He's 22
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He’s not a senior striker is he
 

Corrado

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #42
Matt smith said:
He’s not a senior striker is he
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Yes
 
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Matt smith

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #43
Corrado said:
Yes
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I disagree , well he can be a 5th Choice one then, maybe 4th at a push
 

Corrado

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #44
Matt smith said:
I disagree , well he can be a 5th Choice one then, maybe 4th at a push
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If not for his injury I could of seen him of making an appearance in most games last season, if not only the final 5-10 mins
 

Matt smith

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #45

We might need him

hopefully this isn’t true
 

San Francisco

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #46
Matt smith said:
Tavares I don’t class as senior striker, but that’s just my opinion

Maybe 3 senior strikers if we’re planning to play one up a lot

if we’re playing 2 we need 4 with Tavares as a 5th choice
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Well let’s hope we keep hold of Godden then.
 
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San Francisco

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #47
Matt smith said:
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We might need him

hopefully this isn’t true
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“Someone told me”
 

Matt smith

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #48
San Francisco said:
“Someone told me”
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I didn’t say I had any clue

just a repost
 

San Francisco

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #49
Matt smith said:
I didn’t say I had any clue

just a repost
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Of course. Just the amount of nobodies making up rumours on Twitter.
 
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SkyB

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #50
Saddlebrains said:
IF this is true, it does seem a change of formation is on the horizon doesnt it


Wilson
RB
CB
CB
Bidwell
Hamer
Sheaf
Tats
Ohare
Willock
Simms
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If we include rumours, could we expect...

Wilson
Latibeaudiere
McNaly
CB
DaSilva
Hamer
Sheaf
Tats
Ohare/Palmer
Willock
Simms
 
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Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #51
shmmeee said:
Last couple of times Robins has had a blank slate he’s gone for 4231 or 433. 3421 only really came about when Jobello got injured, the squad we’d built that season was for Jobello and Kasta to play wide. I don’t think he’s ideologically attached and we have a grand total of one CB so if ever there was a time to change…

Would also explain why we’re signing from the front as who we get could determine the shape of the back.
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You regularly talk about us changing formation, it isn’t happening.

We tried to play 3-4-3 in League 2 and I do feel it’s a system that Adi Viveash favours from his time at Chelsea. I vaguely recall Adi talking about Conte’s impact on him as a coach.

Da Silva being signed as a WB and Sakamoto being touted as a WB doesn’t suggest a formation change to me.

Our success has relied on absorbing pressure and hitting teams on the counter with direct passing. The 3 centre backs was key to this. Injecting speed and dribbling to our attack, particularly in wide areas seems more of an evolution of the 3-4-2-1/3-4-3 rather than a formation/system change.
 

shmmeee

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #52
Mucca Mad Boys said:
You regularly talk about us changing formation, it isn’t happening.

We tried to play 3-4-3 in League 2 and I do feel it’s a system that Adi Viveash favours from his time at Chelsea. I vaguely recall Adi talking about Conte’s impact on him as a coach.

Da Silva being signed as a WB and Sakamoto being touted as a WB doesn’t suggest a formation change to me.

Our success has relied on absorbing pressure and hitting teams on the counter with direct passing. The 3 centre backs was key to this. Injecting speed and dribbling to our attack, particularly in wide areas seems more of an evolution of the 3-4-2-1/3-4-3 rather than a formation/system change.
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Not sure I do, but OK. I just don’t think it’s as set in stone as some seem to think and if we’re gonna change formation the summer we sign an entire new squad pretty much is the time to do it.

Our success in L1 was about dominating games, at this level it’s been fast counter attacking because it has to be to punch above our weight and because we had two exceptional talents to enable it. The squad won’t be so imbalanced in terms of quality this year.

We could well keep the same formation, I’m not in the Sakamoto is a forward camp, but equally we could not. We have the freedom this year to work from a blank page.
 

Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #53
I've been thinking about the 3-4-3, and, the 3-4-2-1 systems, and in the end I think that supporter who attends most of the pre-season games has it about right with his suggestion of 'Forward'
 

SBAndy

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #54
shmmeee said:
Not sure I do, but OK. I just don’t think it’s as set in stone as some seem to think and if we’re gonna change formation the summer we sign an entire new squad pretty much is the time to do it.

Our success in L1 was about dominating games, at this level it’s been fast counter attacking because it has to be to punch above our weight and because we had two exceptional talents to enable it. The squad shouldn’t be so imbalanced in terms of quality this year.

We could well keep the same formation, I’m not in the Sakamoto is a forward camp, but equally we could not. We have the freedom this year to work from a blank page.
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Fixed.
 

slowpoke

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #55
SeaSeeEffCee said:
Can’t really see it. Not a position we desperately need strengthening in.
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If you can get better players in any position get them.
 
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ccfc_Tom

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #56
SkyB said:
If we include rumours, could we expect...

Wilson
Latibeaudiere
McNaly
CB
DaSilva
Hamer
Sheaf
Tats
Ohare/Palmer
Willock
Simms
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Kalas was an early rumour too
 

Saddlebrains

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #57
ccfc_Tom said:
Kalas was an early rumour too
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Yea forgot that, wouldnt be averse tbf
 
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SkyB

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #58
Saddlebrains said:
Yea forgot that, wouldnt be averse tbf
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Liam Kitching? We need a left sided CB, not sure if either of these guys are?
 

slowpoke

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #59
SkyB said:
Liam Kitching? We need a left sided CB, not sure if either of these guys are?
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I’m sure I read he is.
 
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blunted

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #60
Skyblueweeman said:
Doesn't matter if we concede 10. We'll score 11.

Kevin Keegan and Newcastle early/mid 90s vibes.
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bazball
 
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SkyB

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #61
slowpoke said:
I’m sure I read he is.
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Wilson
Latibeaudiere
McNaly
Kitching
DaSilva
Hamer
Sheaf
Tats
Ohare/Palmer
Willock
Simms


Wow, a team full of players we would own and a bloody good one at that!
 
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Saddlebrains

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #62
SkyB said:
Wilson
Latibeaudiere
McNaly
Kitching
DaSilva
Hamer
Sheaf
Tats
Ohare/Palmer
Willock
Simms


Wow, a team full of players we would own and a bloody good one at that!
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That team gets play offs easily
 
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covcity4life

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #63
We stil need to see how well that's does. Really hoping he does well though as looks like an entertaining player.

Hopefully we get some of these names over the line soon.
 

Skybluedownunder

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #64
Otis said:
How much is that in inches?
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You mean stone.

10.5 stone


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

TomRad85

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #65
SkyB said:
Wilson
Latibeaudiere
McNaly
Kitching
DaSilva
Hamer
Sheaf
Tats
Ohare/Palmer
Willock
Simms


Wow, a team full of players we would own and a bloody good one at that!
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Yep, would take that line up for the opening day for sure. Reckon the bench will look pretty nice when we're done too.
 

Torquay Sky Blue

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #66
Skybluedownunder said:
You mean stone.

10.5 stone


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Remember being 12.5 when I was 21. Slightly north of that these days
 

Manchester_sky_blue

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #67
shmmeee said:
Not sure I do, but OK. I just don’t think it’s as set in stone as some seem to think and if we’re gonna change formation the summer we sign an entire new squad pretty much is the time to do it.

Our success in L1 was about dominating games, at this level it’s been fast counter attacking because it has to be to punch above our weight and because we had two exceptional talents to enable it. The squad won’t be so imbalanced in terms of quality this year.

We could well keep the same formation, I’m not in the Sakamoto is a forward camp, but equally we could not. We have the freedom this year to work from a blank page.
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Would be a valid argument except that Robins directly described Sakamoto as an attacking midfielder
 
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Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #68
Manchester_sky_blue said:
Would be a valid argument except that Robins directly described Sakamoto as an attacking midfielder
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We’ll see how we line up in preseason. I think he’ll start the season in the box but may be tried at WB when Palmer and COH are fully fit.

The more options we have and the more interchangeable the squad is, the better.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #69
Manchester_sky_blue said:
Would be a valid argument except that Robins directly described Sakamoto as an attacking midfielder
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is that a midfielder who is attacking or an attacking midfielder? I reckon first friendly he lines up at RWB. Let’s see.
 

Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #70
shmmeee said:
is that a midfielder who is attacking or an attacking midfielder? I reckon first friendly he lines up at RWB. Let’s see.
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I can see this escalating until another ridiculous SBT charity bet…
 
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