Transfer Rumour Christian Doidge..kind of (1 Viewer)

vow · Jun 26, 2019

Bare with me please....

Hibernian have signed him (unfortunately for us) from Forest Green for around only £300k, a snip if you ask me!

Anyhow, does this mean Marc McNulty isn't on their radar anymore and possibly a target for a loan from us!?

PS. I wish we'd have been in for Doidge as he's a finisher.

Thoughts?

SkyBlueCRJ · Jun 26, 2019

We aren't looking to sign a striker this summer according to Badlan

JimmyHillsbeard · Jun 26, 2019

If ever a player deserves a bit of luck it’s Doige after the disgraceful way he was treated by Bolton last year - they signed him on loan with an agreement to sign permanently in January, only to default on the payment and he was then unable to play for a third club so had to return to Forest Green Rovers for the rest of the season on a non-contract.

And speaking of players being treated appallingly. Have you all seen the Chris Stokes interviews abt the Bury players not being paid since March?

vow · Jun 26, 2019

Pps. I don't normally do 'rumours' so please forgive me!
However, logically thinking and if Reading could pay some of his wages, just might happen!!?

torchomatic · Jun 26, 2019

vow said:
Pps. I don't normally do 'rumours' so please forgive me!
However, logically thinking and if Reading could pay some of his wages, just might happen!!?

And, we are the only place he's ever scored a decent amount of goals.

vow · Jun 26, 2019

SkyBlueCRJ said:
We aren't looking to sign a striker this summer according to Badlan

True, he did say that, but that could be a smoke screen perhaps?
Or a bit of a psychology boost for our current strikers!?

SkyBlueDom26 · Jun 26, 2019

We have got to sign a striker this window, not having a 15+ goal a season striker last season was the difference in going up

Jcap · Jun 26, 2019

SkyBlueDom26 said:
We have got to sign a striker this window, not having a 15+ goal a season striker last season was the difference in going up

You did read the Chris Badlan interview right?

SkyBlueDom26 · Jun 26, 2019

Jcap said:
You did read the Chris Badlan interview right?

Yeah of course i read it, he says we aint in for one
Hopefully we still sign one though

Nick · Jun 26, 2019

I wonder if Reading would want to keep McNulty?

mrtrench · Jun 26, 2019

SkyBlueDom26 said:
We have got to sign a striker this window, not having a 15+ goal a season striker last season was the difference in going up

Hiwula scored 12 in the league from just 35 games - most from the wing. It took a while to gel as he was new. It's not hard to imagine that he can score 15+ next season. Maybe still from the wing...

shmmeee · Jun 26, 2019

mrtrench said:
Hiwula scored 12 in the league from just 35 games - most from the wing. It took a while to gel as he was new. It's not hard to imagine that he can score 15+ next season. Maybe still from the wing...

If he’s played 90 mins of every game he’d have got 16, so not hard to imagine at all.

I think we’ll be fine.

vow · Jun 26, 2019

Nick said:
I wonder if Reading would want to keep McNulty?

Quite possible as they have a new manager?

no_loyalty · Jun 26, 2019

vow said:
Quite possible as they have a new manager?

Same manager as last season, will be interesting to see if McNulty is back training with the Reading first team, or still frozen out.

vow · Jun 26, 2019

no_loyalty said:
Same manager as last season, will be interesting to see if McNulty is back training with the Reading first team, or still frozen out.

Looking at the Reading site, Jose Gomes (Manager) came in December and McNulty went to Hibs on loan in Jan 31st, so he had plenty of time to make his mind up on MMc I guess.

They also have 8 first Team strikers too, including MMc. and it will be interesting to see where he fits in, as you mentioned.

SkyBlueCRJ · Jun 26, 2019

vow said:
True, he did say that, but that could be a smoke screen perhaps?
Or a bit of a psychology boost for our current strikers!?

No I think it's as simple as that we've already invested pretty heavily (for our standards) in two strikers and there isn't room in the budget to bring in any more.

Robins will keep the faith in Chaplin/Baka because I think he does genuinely believe both could come good. But at the same time, he needs to cover his own back given the amount of investment that's gone into the pair. As a result makes no sense to offload them now.

So basically I think the reasoning why another striker may not come in (unless someone considerably better comes along) is because 1) He wants to keep the faith as both are young. 2) There's likely to be little room in the budget to accommodate another striker to come in. 3) I think this is minor but I'd hedge my bets he probably feels like he needs to cover his own back slightly given the investment - writing them both off now hardly looks great does it?

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