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Transfer Rumour Matty James (1 Viewer)

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RegTheDonk

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  • Jan 7, 2021
  • #596
Great, very pleased with landing this chap. Older head and has top level experience. Its a logical move with Kelly being crocked and glad Robbins has talked him into coming here.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jan 7, 2021
  • #597
I think we should have one ‘b’ per promotion. So if we go up to the Prem he’ll be Robbbins. Obviously lose one for relegation. Back to L2 and he’s Roins.
 
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mark82

Super Moderator
  • Jan 7, 2021
  • #598
shmmeee said:
I think we should have one ‘b’ per promotion. So if we go up to the Prem he’ll be Robbbins. Obviously lose one for relegation. Back to L2 and he’s Roins.
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So he started as Robins, the Roins, then Robins last year and Robbins this year - is that right?

When do we add the 'g'?
 
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Somerset Sky Blue

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  • Jan 7, 2021
  • #599
mark82 said:
So he started as Robins, the Roins, then Robins last year and Robbins this year - is that right?

When do we add the 'g'?
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The g was for the checkatrade trophy!
 
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Voldemort

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #600
Barnsley chose not to extend his loan

VALÉRIEN ISMAËL PRE-TRANMERE ROVERS

The transfer window only opened this week yet the Reds have been busy from the get-go, with a number of deals in and out of Oakwell being announced in the last few days.
www.barnsleyfc.co.uk
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #601
Voldemort said:
Barnsley chose not to extend his loan

VALÉRIEN ISMAËL PRE-TRANMERE ROVERS

The transfer window only opened this week yet the Reds have been busy from the get-go, with a number of deals in and out of Oakwell being announced in the last few days.
www.barnsleyfc.co.uk
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Haven’t you got a wizard to kill?
 
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larry_david

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #602
Voldemort said:
Barnsley chose not to extend his loan

VALÉRIEN ISMAËL PRE-TRANMERE ROVERS

The transfer window only opened this week yet the Reds have been busy from the get-go, with a number of deals in and out of Oakwell being announced in the last few days.
www.barnsleyfc.co.uk
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So they say
 

JulianDarbyFTW

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #603
Voldemort said:
Barnsley chose not to extend his loan

VALÉRIEN ISMAËL PRE-TRANMERE ROVERS

The transfer window only opened this week yet the Reds have been busy from the get-go, with a number of deals in and out of Oakwell being announced in the last few days.
www.barnsleyfc.co.uk
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If it was their decision, I suspect it was because they couldn't afford to keep him rather than the bullshine the manager has given about giving others their chance.
 

Barnsley

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #604
JulianDarbyFTW said:
If it was their decision, I suspect it was because they couldn't afford to keep him rather than the bullshine the manager has given about giving others their chance.
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we’ve spent a million quid this week. I think the major reason will have been we don’t do loans if we can help it. We will have tried for a permanent deal, at an affordable price, once we knew it wasn’t happening we’ve moved on.It’s seen as a waste of a squad place, if we’re not going to get long term benefits for the team, or bank balance. We signed him in the hope he’d help keep us up and I think he as, now it’s time to concentrate on getting a squad together for next season.
 

shmmeee

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #605
Barnsley said:
we’ve spent a million quid this week. I think the major reason will have been we don’t do loans if we can help it. We will have tried for a permanent deal, at an affordable price, once we knew it wasn’t happening we’ve moved on.It’s seen as a waste of a squad place, if we’re not going to get long term benefits for the team, or bank balance. We signed him in the hope he’d help keep us up and I think he as, now it’s time to concentrate on getting a squad together for next season.
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Any insight into why his stats are so poor? Does he just sit in front of the back four and recycle possession?

weord to have such a disparity between fan perception and ability that way
 

Barnsley

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #606
shmmeee said:
Any insight into why his stats are so poor? Does he just sit in front of the back four and recycle possession?

weord to have such a disparity between fan perception and ability that way
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we give up possession, we allow teams have 70% of the ball, but they don’t have many shot or shots on target. We’re grafting all the time, theirs no stats for what he does, closing down and positioning himself so players can’t pass to where they want to, you’ll see lots of sideways and backwards passing just in front of him. He does everything easily and makes everything look simple and effortless.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #607
Barnsley said:
we give up possession, we allow teams have 70% of the ball, but they don’t have many shot or shots on target. We’re grafting all the time, theirs no stats for what he does, closing down and positioning himself so players can’t pass to where they want to, you’ll see lots of sideways and backwards passing just in front of him. He does everything easily and makes everything look simple and effortless.
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Looking forward to seeing him.
 

AFCCOVENTRY

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #608
Robins saying Matty James is here with a view to making perm in the summer
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #609
quality
 

higgs

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #610
Barnsley said:
we’ve spent a million quid this week. I think the major reason will have been we don’t do loans if we can help it. We will have tried for a permanent deal, at an affordable price, once we knew it wasn’t happening we’ve moved on.It’s seen as a waste of a squad place, if we’re not going to get long term benefits for the team, or bank balance. We signed him in the hope he’d help keep us up and I think he as, now it’s time to concentrate on getting a squad together for next season.
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Does your manager think your safe now this season and is blooding younger players in as they will be starting next season?

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Barnsley

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #611
higgs said:
Does your manager think your safe now this season and is blooding younger players in as they will be starting next season?

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I’m not sure pal, but I know the recruitment committee are trying to bring in players on contracts in every window 3or4 in January 5or6 in summer, so we’re not having to replace 10 at a time anymore, last summer we brought in 16 players because we’d had to sell half our squad due to contract length, it took until December to get our second win of the season, because they needed to settle in, now we’re trying to blood players throughout the season one at a time we’ve done 3 or 4 in the first half, I’m expecting the same in the second half, Alex Mowatts contract is up in the summer, he’s gone from never being subbed to being subbed most weeks to allow the lads behind him some game time ready for next season.
 

Gibbo

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #612
AFCCOVENTRY said:
Robins saying Matty James is here with a view to making perm in the summer
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with a bit of luck, Kelly and James will do a complete season between them on the pitch and the injury list
 

cc84cov

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #613
Gibbo said:
with a bit of luck, Kelly and James will do a complete season between them on the pitch and the injury list
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With Kelly & James Cdm I don’t think we will need a keeper anymore
 
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mark82

Super Moderator
  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #614
AFCCOVENTRY said:
Robins saying Matty James is here with a view to making perm in the summer
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Makes sense. Assume they want to assess his fitness.
 

JulianDarbyFTW

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #615
mark82 said:
Makes sense. Assume they want to assess his fitness.
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The telegraph article says that's pretty much the case. Assuming he's as good as we seem to think, then from an experience and ability point of view it seems like an excellent piece of business.
 

mark82

Super Moderator
  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #616
Barnsley said:
I’m not sure pal, but I know the recruitment committee are trying to bring in players on contracts in every window 3or4 in January 5or6 in summer, so we’re not having to replace 10 at a time anymore, last summer we brought in 16 players because we’d had to sell half our squad due to contract length, it took until December to get our second win of the season, because they needed to settle in, now we’re trying to blood players throughout the season one at a time we’ve done 3 or 4 in the first half, I’m expecting the same in the second half, Alex Mowatts contract is up in the summer, he’s gone from never being subbed to being subbed most weeks to allow the lads behind him some game time ready for next season.
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Hate the "transfer committee" idea, but really like your model of not having many loans. Part of me thinks I'd like us to go that way, but think we have the balance ok at the moment. Although we have 5 loans, 2 (maybe 3) are with a view to permanent transfers, and one we sold last year and have kept for an extra 12 months so far.
 
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mark82

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #617
@Barnsley do you think you'll be looking to sell Mowatt in this window if he's out of contract? Is he one you'll think will move on/up to a 'bigger' team?
 
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Deleted member 9744

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #618
mark82 said:
Hate the "transfer committee" idea, but really like your model of not having many loans. Part of me thinks I'd like us to go that way, but think we have the balance ok at the moment. Although we have 5 loans, 2 (maybe 3) are with a view to permanent transfers, and one we sold last year and have kept for an extra 12 months so far.
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I am not a fan of too many loan players but the quality of loans we have brought in recent years has improved considerably. I shudder when thinking back to the Mowbray period and after (pre Robins)
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #619
We used the loan system perfectly last season, a couple of key players that we couldn’t have afforded surrounded by our own players. We may be a little loan heavy this season but as has been mentioned one used to be ours, one has been here over a year and two are possible future signings.
 
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mark82

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #620
Liquid Gold said:
We used the loan system perfectly last season, a couple of key players that we couldn’t have afforded surrounded by our own players. We may be a little loan heavy this season but as has been mentioned one used to be ours, one has been here over a year and two are possible future signings.
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I'd say 3 are possible future signings with Ostigard being out of contract at the end of the year. I think we'll be a long shot to keep him but I'm sure the club will make a pitch.
 
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Covkid1968#

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #621
mark82 said:
I'd say 3 are possible future signings with Ostigard being out of contract at the end of the year. I think we'll be a long shot to keep him but I'm sure the club will make a pitch.
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We didn’t t think we had a chance of signing O’Hare and we did. MR does some sort of Jedi mind trick and gets players to sign.....whatever skill it is MR seems to be able to convince players to want to come and play for us.
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #622
mark82 said:
I'd say 3 are possible future signings with Ostigard being out of contract at the end of the year. I think we'll be a long shot to keep him but I'm sure the club will make a pitch.
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I’d love for us to sign him bit I think Brighton would be mad to let him go so not letting me get my hopes up.
 
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mark82

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #623
Liquid Gold said:
I’d love for us to sign him bit I think Brighton would be mad to let him go so not letting me get my hopes up.
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Doesn't sound like he wants to stay there as he won't get game time. Lad seems to have his head screwed on. Wouldn't be surprised if he went off to the German league.
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #624
mark82 said:
Doesn't sound like he wants to stay there as he won't get game time. Lad seems to have his head screwed on. Wouldn't be surprised if he went off to the German league.
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I was about to say that they might use the franchise tag on him. Too much American sports for me.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #625
mark82 said:
Hate the "transfer committee" idea, but really like your model of not having many loans. Part of me thinks I'd like us to go that way, but think we have the balance ok at the moment. Although we have 5 loans, 2 (maybe 3) are with a view to permanent transfers, and one we sold last year and have kept for an extra 12 months so far.
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To be fair, we used them sparingly last season. This season Giles and McCallum are familiar faces while Sheaf will sign permanently if we stay up. Think our 5 on loan looks worse than it is in reality
 
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mark82

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #626
Brighton Sky Blue said:
To be fair, we used them sparingly last season. This season Giles and McCallum are familiar faces while Sheaf will sign permanently if we stay up. Think our 5 on loan looks worse than it is in reality
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Agree, the only issue it leaves is whether it now stops us using the loan market for a striker.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #627
mark82 said:
Agree, the only issue it leaves is whether it now stops us using the loan market for a striker.
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Think Joy really needs to intervene and inject some funds. This isn't the same as us just squandering the budget, it's a horrendous run of injuries and we just cannot enter the next league games with just Max and Baka
 

cc84cov

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #628
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Think Joy really needs to intervene and inject some funds. This isn't the same as us just squandering the budget, it's a horrendous run of injuries and we just cannot enter the next league games with just Max and Baka
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Joy has been more than fair in my eyes regarding budgets we have to work within our limit whay doesn’t help is we have people like Baka,kasta etc using up funds
 

shmmeee

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #629
cc84cov said:
Joy has been more than fair in my eyes regarding budgets we have to work within our limit whay doesn’t help is we have people like Baka,kasta etc using up funds
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Baka will only eat up funds until the end of the season though. Can’t be more than £50k of cost vs waiting until the summer.

Personally I think we’ll be OK this season, even if we don’t sign anyone else this window, so would be happy to wait until we can bring in the right player to move the squad forward if they aren’t available or we don’t have budget right now.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 8, 2021
  • #630
cc84cov said:
Joy has been more than fair in my eyes regarding budgets we have to work within our limit whay doesn’t help is we have people like Baka,kasta etc using up funds
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I didn't say she'd been stingy but more that these are pretty exceptional circumstances.
 
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