Non AMP
Sky Blues Talk
  • Home
  • Forums
  • Coventry City Football Club
  • Coventry City General Chat
This is a mobile optimized page that loads fast, if you want to load the real page, click this text.

Transfer Rumour January transfer window (8 Viewers)

  • Thread starter AFCCOVENTRY
  • Start date Nov 24, 2024
Forums New posts
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • …
  • 223
Next
First Prev 32 of 223 Next Last
P

procdoc

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,086
MikeyMoo said:
Victor Gyokeres to Man Utd this window would release some cash, £4-12 million, otherwise I'd have said forgedaboutit.
Click to expand...
He’s not going to sacrifice champions league football for a relegation battle
 
Reactions: CV3SkyBlue and Skyblue Bangkok

Terry_dactyl

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,087
procdoc said:
Am i the only one that’s not writing Kitching off?
Click to expand...
I think he still might come good but possibly not for us.
 
M

Martw

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,088
procdoc said:
He’s not going to sacrifice champions league football for a relegation battle
Click to expand...
His wage being tripled or increased big time at least might say different! - also they will be in his ear with stuff like, we are going to build a team around you etc etc.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,089
procdoc said:
Am i the only one that’s not writing Kitching off?
Click to expand...
I would pick him before Lati and Thomas
 
Reactions: OldBedrocker and Gibbo

Sky Blue Goblin

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,090
procdoc said:
Am i the only one that’s not writing Kitching off?
Click to expand...
Doesn’t matter if we don’t if the third manager in a row won’t play him.
 
Reactions: AFCCOVENTRY, brizzle and shmmeee

Terry_dactyl

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,091
Terry Gibson's perm said:
I would pick him before Lati and Thomas
Click to expand...
It’s odd that he’s hardly featured at all.
 
S

skyblu3sk

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,092
procdoc said:
Am i the only one that’s not writing Kitching off?
Click to expand...
If you believe some on here we need a whole new squad...
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,093
It’s clearly an attitude issue with Kitching for no one to even come close to picking him.
 
Reactions: Sky Blue Pete and Viktor17

Colin Steins Smile

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,094
MikeyMoo said:
Victor Gyokeres to Man Utd this window would release some cash, £4-12 million, otherwise I'd have said forgedaboutit.
Click to expand...
I would be surprised if that happens during the January window due to:
1. Sporting are still in the Champions league and chasing a 2nd Portuguese league title.
2. MU have a FFP issue and need to offload some players, who are on big wages. Ideally they’d sell an academy graduate…. Eg Rashford , but no one is interested at £60m & his wage bill.

More likely a summer move when a lot of players could be offloaded
 

JSL

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,095
I heard somewhere that the cause of Kitching being out of favour is because he got himself into some bother on a night out with his boxer brother in Barnsley some time back but it was hushed up and It didn't sit well with the management.
 
Reactions: Old Warwickshire lad and Viktor17
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,096
Deity said:
I was referring to last season. We still have fans saying we were wrong to let them go when we did. Which is nonsense.
Click to expand...
Really?
 

higgs

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,097
JSL said:
I heard somewhere that the cause of Kitching being out of favour is because he got himself into some bother on a night out with his boxer brother in Barnsley some time back but it was hushed up and It didn't sit well with the management.
Click to expand...
His brother got 7 yrs seems very harsh

Sent from my SM-A528B using Tapatalk
 

JSL

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,098
higgs said:
His brother got 7 yrs seems very harsh

Sent from my SM-A528B using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Blimey. Must have been a bit of a wild night out
 
P

ptr

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,099
Colin Steins Smile said:
I would be surprised if that happens during the January window due to:
1. Sporting are still in the Champions league and chasing a 2nd Portuguese league title.
2. MU have a FFP issue and need to offload some players, who are on big wages. Ideally they’d sell an academy graduate…. Eg Rashford , but no one is interested at £60m & his wage bill.

More likely a summer move when a lot of players could be offloaded
Click to expand...
3. Man United are shite.
 
Reactions: JoeCCFCPUSB, CV3SkyBlue, Colin Steins Smile and 1 other person
M

Martw

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,100
ptr said:
3. Man United are shite.
Click to expand...
Horrible little club!
 
Reactions: LastChance and CV3SkyBlue

AFCCOVENTRY

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,101
Sky Blue Goblin said:
Doesn’t matter if we don’t if the third manager in a row won’t play him.
Click to expand...
Indeed. There’s obviously an issue with him. I expect him to be sent out on loan at least in this window.
 

SlowerThanPlatt

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,102
JSL said:
I heard somewhere that the cause of Kitching being out of favour is because he got himself into some bother on a night out with his boxer brother in Barnsley some time back but it was hushed up and It didn't sit well with the management.
Click to expand...
I mean all this would be irrelevant if he was seen as good enough
 
Reactions: Bova and Sick Boy

David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,103
CovLad94 said:
Nothing happening before Saturdays game then, Lampard straight up said nothing going on at the moment, you'd have thought we'd be straight onto something considering the glaringly obvious deficiencies in the team.
Click to expand...
there's things happening, you don't announce signings before you have them sealed and saturday is 4 days into the window
 
Reactions: torchomatic and Jamesimus

TomRad85

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,104
Would genuinely try and offload BTA to Stoke if Robins wants him, take a loss. I'm generally positive about our players but i cannot see where he fits in. We'd have been better getting a proper right forward to compete with Sakamoto.
 
Reactions: LastChance and Sky Blue Goblin

Flying Fokker

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,105
Has Tavares gone to L1? Reading wanted him in August.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,106
Flying Fokker said:
Has Tavares gone to L1? Reading wanted him in August.
Click to expand...

Didn't that fall through because we couldn't get somebody in or was it Wright's pre season injury? Can't remember.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,107
SlowerThanPlatt said:
I mean all this would be irrelevant if he was seen as good enough
Click to expand...

Just reading a couple of Barnsley threads on him and the consensus seems to be he’s not great at defending but is a good “attacking CB” (whatever that is).
 

Ccfcisparks

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,108
We could do with nabbing the Sunderland scout. He’s made some cracking signings
 
Reactions: Sky Blue Pete
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,109
junglej13 said:
If this lot end up in a dog fight with some relegation six pointers come the end of the season... God help us.
Click to expand...
Great to keep crowd numbers up though?
 

Sky Blue Goblin

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,110
shmmeee said:
Just reading a couple of Barnsley threads on him and the consensus seems to be he’s not great at defending but is a good “attacking CB” (whatever that is).
Click to expand...
Barnsley play with overlapping and underlapping CBs similar to how Sheffield used to play and how I think Mark wanted us to play in possession when we started to build the squad last year.

As such think they’re referring to his passing and dribbling skills and ball retention. Not saying he has them just what I think they mean
 
Reactions: shmmeee

SkyBlue_Bear83

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,111
JSL said:
I heard somewhere that the cause of Kitching being out of favour is because he got himself into some bother on a night out with his boxer brother in Barnsley some time back but it was hushed up and It didn't sit well with the management.
Click to expand...
All this was fairly well known when or not long after we signed him. Remember a thread on the barnsley forum in 2023 saying kitching and his brother were wrong uns

https://www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk/news/crime/top-harrogate-boxer-jailed-after-biting-mans-ear-during-scuffle-in-town-centre-bar-4354125
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,112
JSL said:
I heard somewhere that the cause of Kitching being out of favour is because he got himself into some bother on a night out with his boxer brother in Barnsley some time back but it was hushed up and It didn't sit well with the management.
Click to expand...
How was it hushed up? His brother got sent to prison.
 

junglej13

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,113
Sick Boy said:
How was it hushed up? His brother got sent to prison.
Click to expand...
I think the general view from Barnsley fans was that him and his brother strutted round Barnsley thinking they were hard cases. Might not have related to the same incident that saw his brother banged up.
 

peteCCFC

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,114
junglej13 said:
I think the general view from Barnsley fans was that him and his brother strutted round Barnsley thinking they were hard cases. Might not have related to the same incident that saw his brother banged up.
Click to expand...
Because Harrogate is well known for its gangs and dangerous streets.
 
Reactions: junglej13 and Sick Boy

JSL

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,115
David O'Day said:
there's things happening, you don't announce signings before you have them sealed and saturday is 4 days into the window
Click to expand...
Fair enough but Saturday is another game that we wont get much from with further delayed reinforcements if they are indeed coming at all. Waiting until the end of the window is too late IMO.
 
Reactions: oakey

Jamesimus

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,116
Ccfcisparks said:
We could do with nabbing the Sunderland scout. He’s made some cracking signings
Click to expand...

Well you say that, but their best players this season have largely been players they had last season and academy products.

Isidor seems to have been a smart signing. As does Mundle.

Personally don’t think Browne or Poveda have been. Poveda looked like a fat mess in his medical video, was actually astounded at that.

The difference is they have a settled squad and have kept the majority of young players that were performing okay last season (with the exception of Jack Clarke).

They went into the season with the fans having very low expectations, but the young players seem to have really kicked on and their squad has a nice balance I think.

I think there’s an important message to our fans regarding player growth and how quickly we can expect results from new / young players. There’s a few we’re not seeing the best of yet for sure.
 
Reactions: CCFCSteve

JSL

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,117
Quoted from Coventry Evening Telegraph today. Interesting last sentence.

It’s been mentioned before that the current crop of young players have a tendency to be mentally weak at times, clearly lacking leaders and one or two older, more experienced heads to lead by example when things aren’t going to plan. Although the head coach has been coy about the club’s plans in the transfer window, he will surely know by now exactly what he needs in terms of the types of new player and qualities to help turn the side into more consistent competitors because at the minute they’re staring mid-table mediocrity in the face, at best.

The January window is now open, of course, and asked if there’s anything in the pipeline, Lampard told CoventryLive: “No, not as we speak now.”
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,118
JSL said:
Quoted from Coventry Evening Telegraph today. Interesting last sentence.

It’s been mentioned before that the current crop of young players have a tendency to be mentally weak at times, clearly lacking leaders and one or two older, more experienced heads to lead by example when things aren’t going to plan. Although the head coach has been coy about the club’s plans in the transfer window, he will surely know by now exactly what he needs in terms of the types of new player and qualities to help turn the side into more consistent competitors because at the minute they’re staring mid-table mediocrity in the face, at best.

The January window is now open, of course, and asked if there’s anything in the pipeline, Lampard told CoventryLive: “No, not as we speak now.”
Click to expand...

Wasn’t Robins always told to say that too? I swear we’d be told no signings then two would turn up days later.
 
Reactions: CCFCSteve
R

Rodders1

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,119
ptr said:
We have got to find someone daft enough, or just desperate for a striker, to take BTA off us. It was an awful miss today. Not seen him come on and perform well once for us, always looked worse once he’s on. Will be on good money as well. We simply do not need him.
Click to expand...
Played well versus Blackburn and Spurs this season I remember. He's a CF not a winger. Needs more opportunity IMO.
 
Reactions: shmmeee

ccfc_Tom

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • #1,120
Rodders1 said:
Played well versus Blackburn and Spurs this season I remember. He's a CF not a winger. Needs more opportunity IMO.
Click to expand...
Agreed. Looked good vs blackburn down the middle and clearly had been told to hold the ball up more and stop trying to take people on. I don't rate dasilva but id actually rather him LW than asante
 
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • …
  • 223
Next
First Prev 32 of 223 Next Last
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 6 (members: 0, guests: 6)
Share:
Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Tumblr WhatsApp Email
  • Home
  • Forums
  • Coventry City Football Club
  • Coventry City General Chat
  • Default Style
  • Contact us
  • Terms and rules
  • Privacy policy
  • Help
  • Home
Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2021 XenForo Ltd.
Menu
Log in

Register

  • Home
  • Forums
    • New posts
    • Search forums
  • What's new
    • New posts
    • Latest activity
  • Members
    • Current visitors
  • Donate to the Season Ticket Fund
X

Privacy & Transparency

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • Personalized ads and content
  • Content measurement and audience insights

Do you accept cookies and these technologies?

X

Privacy & Transparency

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • Personalized ads and content
  • Content measurement and audience insights

Do you accept cookies and these technologies?